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rich sims
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 4, 2008 - 12:04am PT
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So let's see a list of the top ten or twenty must climb towers in Utarado
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Idaho
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I was tryin', but every tower I've been on has been 'The Best Tower in the Desert'. Even the chossy ones, like the Kingfisher. I wanta go back to that land sometime.
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wayne w
Trad climber
the nw
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The Moses Tower in Canyonlands has to make the list. Particularly via Primrose Dihedrals.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Medicine Man, CNM, for a route on a tower, if not the tower itself.
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Spider Rock, Totem Pole, Titan, Cleopatra, Texas Tower, Moses, Castleton, Standing Rock, Ancient Arts, N. Sixshooter....
Ancient Arts
Totem Pole
Titan
Standing rock
Titan
Moses
Titan
Cleopatra
Standing Rock
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Prod
Social climber
Charlevoix, MI
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Hey TG,
Where is Texas Tower?
Prod.
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rick d
Social climber
tucson, az
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the trilogy, spider rock, cleopatra's needle, and the totem pole but note all are illegal and cleo you might get an ok to do
Mace, sedona
Texas tower (s utah, arch canyon)
the new route on the Pope will clean up real nice
mexican hat
I like Dr Rubo's a lot (sedona)
and some others already said in the moab area
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say-no-to-rap-bolting!
Trad climber
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torre trieste italy dolomites
fantastic!
neverseen the desert towers though.
the tre cime (dolomites) are great towers too, probably the most famous in the world. their north faces are amazing classics, and some are still bolt-free.
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Totem Pole
N. sixshooter
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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The Pole
Cleo
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paganmonkeyboy
climber
mars...it's near nevada...
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todd, i must say those are some of the sweetest pics...mmmm towers...
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TwistedCrank
climber
Ideeho
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Washer Woman Arch. Me thinks it's the only named arch in a national park where climbing is legal.
You get to face climb her, um, face.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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THE Pole, Moses, Castleton, Priest, N. Sixshooter, The Pope,The Titan, Kingfisher, Echo Tower, Shangri La........
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Gagner
climber
Boulder
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Have to add Standing Rock in Monument Basin.
Agree with most others. Also add Pixie Stick in Monument Basin as a real cool, small summit.
Paul
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le_bruce
climber
Oakland: what's not to love?
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Prod
Social climber
Charlevoix, MI
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Great thread bump.
I'm bumping again as soon as I see this hit page 2.
Prod.
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Prod
Social climber
Charlevoix, MI
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Bump!
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Mick K
climber
Northern Sierra
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sweet
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
Fresno, CA
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While all of those are cool and all, I'm gonna have to say this one trumps all of those. Location alone, yo...
Why not another to get people thinking about things off of this continent...
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GOclimb
Trad climber
Boston, MA
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Great thread, great pics!
How about a variation on the theme - best "date" tower in the Moab area. This means: no likely epics, not too much loose rock, no climbing harder than 5.9, no long and horrible approaches, and any offwidth or squeeze-chimney should be of the quickly-gotten-though variety.
I know it's a lot to ask, but any suggestions might help make a day very very special.
GO
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handsome B
Gym climber
SL,UT
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Owl Rock in Arches
from the 25 second approach to the 5.8 vertical face climbing to the free-hanging rap this thing just screams "I am a rock climber! Sleep with me!"
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goatboy smellz
climber
colorado
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More like fins then towers but the Garden should make the top ten for Colotah.
Your lead Christine!
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fgw
Trad climber
portland, or
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not sandstone but memorable for "adventure" feel:
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
Fresno, CA
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Wow! Where's that, fgw?
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fgw
Trad climber
portland, or
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Cascade foothills of Oregon. This is the Turkey Monster.
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John Moosie
climber
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Great thread. Thanks for the pictures everyone.
"Owl Rock in Arches
from the 25 second approach to the 5.8 vertical face climbing to the free-hanging rap this thing just screams "I am a rock climber! Sleep with me!"
hahahaha ...Too funny.
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rich sims
Trad climber
co
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 5, 2008 - 10:08pm PT
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Thank to All
The quest starts the end of the month on my birthday
Rich
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L
climber
Malibu, baby....in a Cheetah shirt
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fgw--That's an amazing photo of the Turkey!
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MZiebell
Social climber
Prescott, AZ
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Bump!
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fgw
Trad climber
portland, or
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Thanks L.
Turkey is an amazing tower. If it were around Moab, it would be classic tic for tower baggers. As it is, it's largely invisible and very rarely climbed.
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andy@climbingmoab
Big Wall climber
Park City, UT
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Castleton is great and is most people's first desert tower. It gets pretty crowded, but everyone has to climb it someday. I personally much prefer the North Chimney to Kor-Ingalls, but both routes are good. Do the Priest just down the ridge to up the adventure factor a bit.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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I made the FA of Owl Rock more than 30 years ago, and as many times as I have climbed it since I have had to resort to alternate aphrodisiacs.
Maybe I'm not screaming it right?
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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My friend called this Airport Tower but I couldn't find it in the Desert Rock book? It's near Moab. we didn't climb it the next morning as Alex had allready done it twice. we did a pretty cool one arround the corner called Waldens Room. It buggs me and I need to get up it someday.....
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Airport Towers (AKA Echo Pinnacle and Aeolian Tower).....Desert Rock (Blue One) Wall Street to San Rafael Swell P. 149-151. And Original Desert Rock p.P. 229. I did the Echo Pinnacle (Window Route III5.10+) with Lori Graf in the early 1980's ....it's a good one with climbing through the window at the top of pitch one, and a cool chimney window section on pitch two.......It's called Airport Towers because you can see them from the Moab Airport.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Easter Island; Alex Spencer climbing
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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All the towers mentioned are good. A little known tower that's had just a couple of ascents, is Arch Tower, which is quite close to Texas Tower. It's a beautiful formation, and one of the most difficult of all the desert spires.
-ArchingJello
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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So Jello says you should drive your 4X4 up Arch Canyon to go do the tower,...
(just kidding, its a touchy subject to some)
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Owl Rock showing it's sex apeal April 2003
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Looks like a woman wearing a giant stumpy diseased penis for a hat.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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That Was Autum and it was her first or 2nd? tower. There was annother short little thing up on Comb ridge that we brought her up that trip. We had to clean up and mind our manners for a few days but it was kind of nice. We got some nice meals and she even did our dishes though I thought that Bella (the dog) had been doing a fine job of that all allong.
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Michael D
Big Wall climber
Napoli, Italy
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Mar 10, 2008 - 05:18am PT
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S-N-T-R-Bolting, right-on dude! Climbed on the Tre Cime di Laverado with Jeffie last spring. Hmmm, there was a real soggy belay halfway up, then an awesome chimney that gave a .75 at about 110 ft, with the belay stance 10 feet further up around the chockstone! No bolts, but rusty pins on occasion.
My fav is Meteora, Heileger Geist. Did it with my wife and daughter for chuckles, the rap descent puts you right into a Hermitage site.
Cheers, Michael
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fgw
Trad climber
portland, or
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Mar 10, 2008 - 03:58pm PT
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Steins Pillar in Oregon - again not sandstone but a pretty cool formation nevertheless:
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Mar 21, 2008 - 10:55am PT
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Jun 14, 2014 - 12:50am PT
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bump
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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May 29, 2015 - 08:38am PT
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Since I've only done five of them I'm probably not qualified to judge the top ten, however four of them have already been mentioned up thread. One that hasn't been mentioned yet and is one of my favorites is The Three Penguins in Arches.
In fact I like it so much I've done it three times. What's not to like? It has convenience, nice views, a killer hand crack, some offwidth all on an undeniably interesting formation.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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May 29, 2015 - 12:17pm PT
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I want to play. Vertigo Mini CobraOf Course Devils TowerSteepleEyetoothSpire Two, Spire One and Balcony PointSouth Tower and Spire 4Inner Outlet and the East Summit of Inner OutletEast GruesomeGrandpa, Grandma, the Wicked Picket, Buttonhole, and the rest of the Picket Fence. about 85 other great summits in the Cathedral Spires I am leaving outespecially Kayyam and Rubyatt
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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May 29, 2015 - 01:09pm PT
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Hey Mike,
I thought they told you to cut that out on company time, ha, ha. Caught you!
Just kidding.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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May 29, 2015 - 01:36pm PT
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What's up Steve? A little lunch time ST never hurt anyone.
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