PRINT: Rock Climb Tither's Jam, City of Rocks

Tither's Jam

5.11-, Trad, 150 ft (45 m),

Avg: 2.3 from 4 votes
FA: Stan Caldwell 1985
Idaho > S Idaho > City of Rocks > Flaming Rock

Access Issue: (1) Weather Wall, Yellow Wall, & all the crags north of Twin Sisters are CLOSED. (2) There are no longer trash cans in the park. (3) Highlining ban in place for CIRO and CRSP Details

(1) The area, crags, and routes just north of the Twin Sisters are on private land and the landowner posted no trespassing notices at the gated road/trail to the area. Any access of these areas and routes is trespassing. The area was closed by the landowner due to trespassing, illegal camping, fires & trash, and disregard of owner's privacy.
Please be respectful of the land owner's wishes and do not climb or hike here. This includes White Lightning, Skinner Roof, Weather Wall, Yellow Wall, Larry's Annihilation, Needle Rock, Mississippi Fred's, and Secret Tom's.
(2) In 2024 CIRO implemented a no trash cans anywhere policy. Be prepared to take your trash home with you. facebook.com/CityOfRocksNPS… and nps.gov/ciro/planyourvisit/…
(3) HIGHLINING IS PROHIBITED
Highlining at City of Rocks National Reserve and Castle Rocks State Park is prohibited as of August 28, 2019.

Here are Google Drive links to the closure and the updated Code of Regulations for CIRO. drive.google.com/open?id=1y… and drive.google.com/open?id=1Y…

Description

This is the overhanging jam crack to the right of Firewater. We approached via the small roof for the first pitch. Climbing it as multiple pitches allows for a tighter belay at the cruxy second pitch start.

Location

Left of Firewater, you should be able to see the old slings at the top of the first pitch.

Protection

Single rack to #5 camalot with a #3 and #2 for an anchor.

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The crack. Crux comes when getting into the pod above the ledge

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Brent Barghahn
Flagstaff, AZ

May as well be called Tour de Bird Poop. Obviously not traveled as much as its crisp edged neighbors. A fun challenge if you like the wide and dirty. You'll be more than happy to grab that bird poop flake after wiggling into the overhung off-fist pod. A #5 can be avoided using finger sized horizontals at the top. We used the Raindance anchor then walked to Tribal Boundaries to rappel. Sep 7, 2016

Jeff Giese

Stan Caldwell got the FA on this beast. He graded it .11c and it was considered slightly sandbagged at that grade. I would say .11c is an honest grade for this route. Go do it, I guarantee nobody will be on it and you'll get your gas moneys worth out of it. Jun 6, 2019