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Trip: Utah - Fisher Towers: Kingfisher - Colorado Route

 

Date: 4/4/2008

 

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

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The start: bolt ladder to 5.8 chimney

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Looking up at the 1st chimney...will it be as muddy and bad as 'they' say...???

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Nah... not so bad. and there's actually some, errr, gear.

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whew... out of the chimney and cleaning p2

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Combining pitches is fastarrrr...

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"...i can see my car from here....

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the last anchor before the last chimney pitch(a keen eye will be able to see how i almost fq'ed myself here...)

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i'm stuck... really i was for a while, so i took a picture

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free and on top

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the titan looks bitchin!!

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the trail

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back at the car

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Gear Notes:

you can pretty much do this w/ a single set of camalots, offset aliens, and rivet hangers.

 

Approach Notes:

RAD!

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