| Yes I concur, fantastic desert tower route, by anyone's standard. I liked the OW 3rd pitch, but then I drink Coors light beer as well. Either take a #6 or stop at 4". I carried the damn #5 all the way to the summit on lead. Nothing to say about that first pitch, it is just as good and straight forward as trad gets really. The crux of those last two pitches was really the weird, hard to protect on lead, overhanging 2" crack on that meandering 2nd pitch. The story I read somewhere on the net of the young men who thought they were on the North Chimney as they battled the first pitch is kind of stories I sure wish climbing Mags would print more of, versus who the latest climbing jock is. |
La Sal Mountains
