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Further

5.10d, Trad, 180 ft (55 m),  Avg: 3.6 from 8 votes
FA: Mark Geikenjoyner
Arizona > Central Arizona > Isolation Canyon > Main Wall - Center

Description

fURTHER takes you 180ft past a roof then up a blunt arete to a ledge above the great roof. 2nd pitch:80ft: 5.9 finger to hand crack above anchors for "Closer". Rap single rope down Closer's anchors.

Protection

7bolts & trad: stoppers & single set to #3

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Further 5.10d<br> <br> Starts at a bolt under the lower larger roof. Traverse to the visible piton and head straight up. Follow the arete and stay just slightly right of the huge roof. Anchors are on the ledge just above the roof.
[Hide Photo] Further 5.10d Starts at a bolt under the lower larger roof. Traverse to the visible piton and head straight up. Follow the arete and stay just slightly right of the huge roof. Anchors are on…

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Manny Rangel
PAYSON
 
[Hide Comment] I saw someone climb further and they missed the finishing finger crack leading to the top of the ledge above the roof. Instead they stayed in the loose crack to anchors up higher. Go left when you are just next to the roof and get on the clean finger crack. May 21, 2006
Tim Heid
AZ
  5.10d
[Hide Comment] Super fun climbing, a great route for sure! Long, engaging, and sustained throughout. A single set of cams from blue MC to #3 C4 worked well. Make sure you bring lots of slings though! I wish I would have just extended every piece as it would have avoided the awful rope drag I had towards the top.

I didn't know that you could rap left to anchors for Closer. So instead we did a short 40' rap to the right to the anchors for Vertical Addiction. The rap from there took almost every inch of our 70m.

Lastly, if you're headed up this route soon, the bolts on top have webbing that could probably use replacing. I'll bring a few quick-links and rap rings for next time I'm up there. May 18, 2012
Jon.R
Tucson, AZ
 
[Hide Comment] Full value and the climbing on the arete is spectactular! Rap beta in the description / comments was confusing for us. Just do 3 raps (short, short, 35m) starting from the cold shuts climbers right of the top out. It's possible you could link the first two rappels but we didn't test this.

Also, couldn't tell which crack system we were supposed to climb from the big ledge at the top of P1. We climbed the left one and it was fine, but in retrospect the right looked better?

The start is kinda heads-up. I didn't trust my gear backing up the pin and gear failure would result in a deck. A bolt replacement would be nice. Apr 24, 2023