Witches Tower?

[scottgg]

After a few trips through the enchantments, and decents off dragontails south side, I have become interested in a rock tower located south of dragontail, and west of asgard pass.

 

As you descend the glacier behind dragontail, the spire is to your right, and I think its called The Witches Tower... anyone know of any routes/beta? Thanks!

[Gary_Yngve]

See the Beckey guide. They are mostly short routes (1-3 pitches?). I recall a 4th-class way up and a 5.8 crack.

[klenke]

Some information here:

Click the picture...

[still_climbin]

I've done the West Face of the Tower. It was crumbly and not too asthetic. There's a number of route choices. The way we did it was two picthes of about 5.5.

[catbirdseat]

The Mountaineers have a Basic route on it they call the Southwest Corner featuring one pitch of 5.5.

[counterfeitfake]

I climbed this in September, there is an easy scramble up on (I believe) the southeast side, if you just want to get to the top. At that time of year, coming from the lake we went up about 300 feet of hard ice which was a little spicy(we could have instead opted for going up rock), but after that it was pretty much scrambling, ascend a ramp to a couple little chimney-type things. No rope required. On the descent we just walked off toward Little Annapurna.

 

summitpost entry