Does any know what grade these spires go at and if there are rap anchors at the top? Two of them side by side, almost in the gulley between Acid and Helens. You can see them on the approach or descent from Acid rock, looks like a single pitch and might be fun.
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if i rememer correctly there is a nice long finger crack, maybe 5.9 ro 10- in that area. maybe in the gulley, kind of northeast facing?
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are these basically north of the north face of helen's dome (below the newer bolted north facing routes)? if so, there is a fist crack on the north side of the west one. i think jim karns my have bouldered it out on the FA(?). it's about 5.9 or 5.10 and pretty cool. you can do an opposing simul rap off the top (ie one climber on one side of the tower, the other climber on the other side).
That's the East Smoking Section. Some crack routes. Also a bolted 130-foot pitch up the lower slab. Below it is the Lower Smoking Section. It has 3 bolted slab routes and a crack route. Peter Brodie and friends put up all those routes. Okay stuff but kind of a long hike for a few short routes.