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| Hike & Climb | 3.58 Miles |
1,060 AEG |
| | Hike & Climb | 3.58 Miles | | | |
| 1,060 ft AEG | | | | |
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| Lead II G • Sport, Trad • 5.8 Granite Excellent • 1 Pitch | | |
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| no partners | | | Pro: sparse trad on South Crack start, then good bolting to top | We combined South Crack with Silhouette to top out. Car to car in about 4 hours with plenty of summit time. One great thing about this climb is having the entire summit (and route) to ourselves for the entire duration- despite the constant throng of hikers on the trail below. Great summit- several hundred feet above the hikers top-out. We checked in at the ranger kiosk and hiked up the Hiker's trail. The climbers trail start is obvious and marked. It starts maybe a third of the way up the hiker's trail? From there we kept traversing left across class 3 stuff to the base of the South Crack trad route- where we roped up. South Crack felt like 5.5 maybe? Reasonable pro.
The upper sport route, Silhouette felt about 5.8 and was exposed and fun. Real lead moves on excellent rock with adequate bolting. Summit view was unique being in the middle of Scottsdale, surrounded by urban sprawl.
Once on top we took the time to top rope Shalaylay Direct, which was fabulously thin and hard and quite worthy!
Raps were straight forward, hike down was chill. Ginger stayed in the Camper in the lot. |
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