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| 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 | ||
| RyanS | Route Climbed: Forbes Route Date Climbed: March 24, 2005 | |
| This was my first roped climb. What a beauty of peak for that landmark in my short career of peakbagging! I contend that the approach from the Indian reservation is the more scenic. Despite the incredible views of Babo from the Thomas Canyon approach, I don't see how it can top the views of the amazing cliffs of Baboquivari Canyon and the other spectacular ridges that reach from the range crest into the Babo Valley. This is a very special place, highly recommended!! A trip report is available here. | |
| Posted Mar 27, 2005 2:21 pm | ||
| streeyyr | Route Climbed: Thomas Canyon Date Climbed: Sept 1991 & May 2003 | |
| A truly spectacular desert peak. | |
| Posted Mar 10, 2005 3:55 pm | ||
| Andinistaloco | Route Climbed: SE Arete Date Climbed: 1997? | |
| One of my favorite climbs... great rock and even better exposure. Some 5-6 pitches of 5.6 or so... I would recommend descending the Forbes route after climbing this; you'll probably only have to rap once. Just get off the summit early or you'll never find the way down! | |
| Posted Aug 26, 2004 12:32 am | ||
| Jeff Moore | Route Climbed: West Approach Date Climbed: 1990 | |
| Climbed with my dad and a small group at age 12, my first 'mountaineering'. | |
| Posted Dec 20, 2003 9:34 pm | ||
| asmrz | Route Climbed: SouthEast Arete from Lion's Ledge Date Climbed: April 5th 2003 | |
| Robert Somoano, Penelope May and I climbed the classic SE Arete of Babo on April 5th 2003. Had a great time climbing the 4 1/2 pitches (we had 60 m ropes) and scrambled up the rest. We decided to rap the route, a distinct mistake as it took us almost 5 hours to do so. The strong, cold wind from the south, didn't help. Fortunately, the ropes got stuck only once. We would recommend the route but not the rap. Try the Forbes route down instead. | |
| Posted Apr 11, 2003 1:48 pm | ||
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