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There and Back Again, 5.8 [ Sizes: Orig | Large | Med | Small | Thumb ]
There and Back Again, 5.8
Scramble off to climbers left and you will have a view of the Painted Bowl. Descend down past one tree to a large tree (relative). We left tat (2008) on one of its solid limbs. Rappel off of the tree, but be extremely aware of the loose blocks between the tree and the edge of Black Arch Wall. Once on the wall, angle your line just slightly to the right and land on a small ledge below some large bushes. There was good tat (2008) wrapped around several of these bushes. A double rope 60m rappel from here gets you to the ground. There is another precarious single rappel based on a large block about half way down. Rappel over a small arch towards the end. You can scramble down slabby terrain and move left to reach your start of the route. Descending back down to the canyon floor involves scrambling of sorts. I have never really found a common trail between the start of these routes on Black Arch Wall and the bottom of Oak Creek Canyon.
There and Back Again, 5.8, 5 Pitches, Black Arch Wall, Oak Creek Canyon, Red Rocks, November, 2008


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Submitted by Dow Williams
on Dec 2, 2008 11:13 am

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""You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.""   --Rene Daumal   

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