Trip Report: So lazy saturday and the weather's changing - here's some desert stoke from earlier this year. Just a quick photo-TR.
I was living in Salt Lake City earlier this year and I wanted to see the desert towers. I also wanted to see what it took to solo a 'wall'. This was my first time to solo anything beyond just short fixing pitches. The climbing was a lot of rivets and drilled angles but mixed in there was some 5.8 free climbing and some C2 sandstone aid. I think it was about 5 or 6 pitches (grade IV) and leads to a beautiful flat summit overlooking the desert. I managed to get back to the car and not need a headlamp w00t!
Early morning start, but not too early. Kingfisher is on the left
The start: bolt ladder to 5.8 chimney
Looking up at the 1st chimney...will it be as muddy and bad as 'they' say...???
Nah... not so bad. and there's actually some, errr, gear.
whew... out of the chimney and cleaning p2
Combining pitches is fastarrrr...
"...i can see my car from here....
the last anchor before the last chimney pitch(a keen eye will be able to see how i almost fq'ed myself here...)
i'm stuck... really i was for a while, so i took a picture
free and on top
the titan looks bitchin!!
the trail
back at the car
Gear Notes: you can pretty much do this w/ a single set of camalots, offset aliens, and rivet hangers.
