Type: Trad, 350 ft (106 m), 5 pitches
GPS: 34.80709, -111.73666
FA: J. Snyder, J. Burcham, C. Tatum
Page Views: 2,500 total · 27/month
Shared By: Zach Harrison on Jan 21, 2019
Admins: Greg Opland, Brian Boyd, JJ Schlick, Kemper Brightman, Luke Bertelsen

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Steep, varied and sustained, Direct Flight should become a classic destination for climbers willing to catch a flight.  While packed with airy exposure, awesome climbing ought to keep your attention to dull the possibility of air sickness. Pack your bags today!

P1  5.10+ 60’ Work up low angle funk corner past wide pod to bolt. Awkward crux quickly eases to ledge. Belay from rap station.  (This pitch is shared with Destination Unknown)

P2 5.11 60’ Step left past bolts up to bulge, crank awesome bolted patina up left then back right to fun finger crack. Bring fingers cams to 0.5. Semi hanging belay.

P3 "5.10+" 60’ Climb the stellar twin tips to thin hand cracks.  Pumpy, gymnastic and rad! Belay on thin ledge.

P4 5.11 100’ Move right and into a pod. Plug up the sweet thin hands crack until traverse right to the spacious “Lay over ledge”.  Can leave a bunch of cams at this anchor. Bring all the fingers and thin hangs cams for this one!

P5 5.10 80’ Squiggle up the wideness past a bolt. At 2nd bolt, move right to short hand and fist crack, when it ends enter the “No Fly Zone”, an airy traverse left past a bolt and the summit. Only need 1x .5-6 cams for the last pitch. 

Rap route with a 60m. 

Location Suggest change

Direct Flight is on the North Side of the tower. Start just right of the NW corner of the tower from steep hillside.  First pitch is shared with Destination Unknown.

Protection Suggest change

2x .2-.4 3x .5- 75 2x#1 1x2-#6 6 draws and 4 runners. 

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