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| leftfield | Thomas Canyon  Date Climbed: Apr 21, 2012 | |
| A long way from home (Portland, Oregon) climbing with members of the Arizona Mountaineering Club. Peerless weather. Smooth climbing all three pitches. Bottleneck with two other groups of six at Ladder Pitch. Saw a rattlesnake on the way out. | |
| Posted May 5, 2012 12:45 am | ||
| MoapaPk | West-side trail to Ladder Pitch Date Climbed: Mar 17, 2012 | |
| Luck of the Irish! With CP (who led the Ladder Pitch) and EK. What a neat experience. The Tohono O’odham Nation campground on the west side was great. 6.75h RT, with a healthy stay on summit; DPS estimate (9 h) may be reasonable with a large group. We found the trail all the way -- but the trail becomes Hobbit-high about 200' vertical above the top of ladder pitch. | |
| Posted Mar 18, 2012 4:25 am | ||
| Daria | via Born of Water 5.10 Date Climbed: Oct 7, 2011 | |
| Was aiming for SE Arete, but ended up on SW face. Iffy climb, some memorable moves, amazing peak and area. | |
| Posted Oct 22, 2011 9:14 pm | ||
| Sirena | Forbes Route from Thomas Canyon Date Climbed: Mar 15, 2009 | |
| My very first technical climb- what an amazing place! Trip log at http://www.aztrail4fms.org/trailjournalblog.htm?blogentryid=4489035 | |
| Posted Nov 2, 2010 10:43 pm | ||
| Bob Bolton | West route Date Climbed: Oct 31, 2009 | |
| Duane and I did this one on a trip to AZ for working on the Lower 48 4000-foot+ prominences. Duane led the rock pitch and dropped me a belay. Fun peak! | |
| Posted Sep 18, 2010 12:20 am | ||
| Sarah Simon | Forbes Route Date Climbed: Oct 25, 2009 | |
| Ahh, persistence pays off. What a beautiful day on this mountain. The bushwacking, if you ask me, makes for the most difficult going on the Forbes Route. I rejoiced to reach this special summit and take in the views of the desert below. However, I am covered in bruises and scrapes from the bushwack segments and scrambles. Interesting, a previous summit visitor left some "medicinal herbs" on the summit, complete with pipe and lighter. Nope, I did not partake. | |
| Posted Oct 26, 2009 9:03 pm | ||
| imike | My first | |
| Frist time using a rope... and I had to have that rappel.. would not have been able to climb down! that fear of heights thing... | |
| Posted May 14, 2009 12:58 pm | ||
| Bob Burd | Forbes Route from the west Date Climbed: Apr 14, 2009 | |
| An enjoyable day with Rick and Matthew. Trip Report | |
| Posted May 11, 2009 6:36 pm | ||
| goat14er | Forbes Route Date Climbed: Apr 5, 2009 | |
| Unbelievably fun route on great rock, with sweeping views the entire day. That trudge up Thomas Canyon to the saddle was well worth the effort. Babo's a long day no matter how you do it, but my favorite Arizona peak so far. | |
| Posted Apr 6, 2009 11:40 am | ||
| Sarah Simon | Forbes Route Date Climbed: Feb 16, 2009 | |
| Nope,I sure was not successful, but it wasn't for lack of trying. Soon after leaving the saddle, we were post-holing up to our knees and even thighs. After ascending a snow-filled couloir (which is, I'm told, usually a delightful little scamper) we reached the first pitch. Due to ice, we had to do trickier climbing than anticipated and squeeze under a chockstone toward the back of the big crack. The slab pitch - what can I say, water takes the path of least resistance. With all the standard routes slick with ice, the climbing was over my head skill-set wise. After getting stuck in a grotto behind a rock bulge I couldn't surmount, we lowered down the slab pitch, then rapped down the first pitch as well as our slick little desert couloir. I had a blast that day and this was a great way to spend my 35th birthday. I only wish I could have made the summit. I WILL be back! | |
| Posted Feb 19, 2009 5:25 pm | ||
| oldadit | Hiking with Guy | |
| Hiked up from the east side with Guy Cloutier and a group in early 1970's. We were on easiest route, but still had a lead climber place a rope at the spot where the old lookout route had a wood staircase (ladder ?). | |
| Posted Aug 5, 2008 7:04 pm | ||
| Montana Matt | Crystal Line Date Climbed: Oct 16, 1999 | |
| Summited with Josh. Intended to go up the SE Arete, but ended up on the Crystal Line. I had only been climbing for a month or so at the time and a 5.8R was a little out of my league. It scared the crap out of me even though I wasn't leading. Only had a liter of water each, was a very hot day, and since we got on the wrong route, it took much longer than anticipated, so we both were very dehydrated by the time we got back. | |
| Posted Sep 30, 2007 3:50 pm | ||
| hans.schenk | Forbes Route | |
| Climbed this in 2003 with Skyler Rodolph. We did the Forbes Route from the east. We left Tucson at 4am and made it back home around 6pm. This is my favorite mountain in Arizona. | |
| Posted Sep 23, 2007 4:16 pm | ||
| markhyams | Forbes Route Date Climbed: Mar 29, 2007 | |
| Great area and great mountain. Kind of like a desert Grand Teton. | |
| Posted Apr 2, 2007 6:07 pm | ||
| Dan the Jones | Hiked | |
| Hiked in and camped around the base of the mountain. Did some small outlier peaks but nothing hardcore. | |
| Posted Mar 8, 2007 8:58 pm | ||
| Flex | Cloud Man got Angry Nov/03 | |
| We did "Cloud man got Angry" a recently established route at the time that joins with Born of Water 3 pitches from the top. An awesome peak. Anyone have beta on the Spring Route? | |
| Posted Dec 23, 2006 10:30 pm | ||
| Eric Tipton | "Born of Water" Date Climbed: Apr 28, 2006 | |
| I climbed this peak with Brad Singer. This climb was like other Arizona climbs I've done in that you climb in such an awesome setting. The Born of Water route differed from my arizona experiance in that it was well protected. probably to well protected but I clipped all the bolts anyways. Just when we thought we had the route whipped Brad pulled a 100 lb. boulder into his lap and got a little beat up. Stay off the lichen covered rock. Brad surrvived and we made the summit. Decended the "Forbes/Montoya" route. We approached from the west side and it took us 13 hours car to car. Good route, great partner, Awesome Peak. | ||
| Posted May 8, 2006 4:02 am | ||
| tdoughty | SE Arete Date Climbed: Apr 16, 2006 | |
| From the West campground, up good, but overgrown trail. Well beaten-out trail along south side of rock along lion's Ledge to start of route. Worth the couple of minutes to go around the corner, before you head up, just to check out the East face. Some pitches easily linked. Seems like all pitches have a little technical climbing, then lots of scrambling to the belay point. And then more scrambling to the base of the last, short pitch (fixed pin gone?). Last pitch passes easily left of stacked blocks on the arête along a ledge about 6', then up past a horizontal crack (good pro) and ledge (8'), then back right and up to tree. Long scramble to top. Many presents left on top. Down Forbes route. 13 hour day, car to car (recovering from illness) wonderful day. No clouds, light breeze. | |
| Posted Apr 18, 2006 9:23 pm | ||
| Mountain Jim | From the west Date Climbed: Mar 29, 1995 | |
| Nice climb. Very different from what I'm used to in Colorado. | |
| Posted Mar 4, 2006 5:00 am | ||
| LandonQ | Date Climbed: Unknown | |
| Swams of lady bugs at the top | ||
| Posted Nov 22, 2005 2:16 pm | ||
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