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drljefe

climber

El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson

Mar 7, 2013 - 08:32pm PT

Definitely!
All these great pics and stories...proud to be a native Zoner.
Thanks for starting the thread MisterE.

ontheedgeandscaredtodeath

Social climber

SLO, Ca

Mar 7, 2013 - 08:37pm PT

Awesome stuff!!

donini

Trad climber

Ouray, Colorado

Mar 7, 2013 - 11:44pm PT

Heading to Cochise with John Bragg in April.....beautiful place with great stone!

pk_davidson

Trad climber

Albuquerque, NM

Mar 11, 2013 - 02:22pm PT

Well Jim, if you do run rotating laps on Abra and Kneed Me, say what ? 5 trips up it, you'll be all set for the Nose adventure ?

Probably more fun climbing the sunlit slabs on the west side though :-)

Manny

Social climber

tempe

Mar 22, 2013 - 05:22pm PT

Another great Burcham route. This one is on Beer Bottle Spire in Sedona.

donini

Trad climber

Ouray, Colorado

Mar 22, 2013 - 07:29pm PT

John Bragg and i will be in the West Stronghold 4/11 to 4/15.....hope to see some of you.

Steve Grossman

Trad climber

Seattle, WA

Mar 23, 2013 - 01:32pm PT

TralfamaBump...

Blakey

Trad climber

Sierra Vista

Mar 23, 2013 - 02:19pm PT

Courtney Phillips somewhere up on the Reef on Mt Lemmon (I think!)

spenchur

climber

Flagstaff/Thousand Oaks

Mar 23, 2013 - 02:20pm PT

Got out to the Waterfall in Oak Creek Canyon for the first time the other day. Pretty awesome climbing but pretty terrifying sitting at the base and listening to small to medium size rocks crashing down every so often. Here is my buddy Danny on the classic looking Black and Tan

drljefe

climber

El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson

Mar 23, 2013 - 02:47pm PT

a fun route.
nothing but quickdraws.
Left of El Cautivo.

donini

Trad climber

Ouray, Colorado

Mar 23, 2013 - 02:51pm PT

Best single pitch climbing in AZ. IMHO is the Waterfall Area in Sedona.

Gal

Trad climber

a semi lucid consciousness

Mar 23, 2013 - 05:30pm PT

Love that Black & Tan climb. And that's the warm-up. I got on the sword and geez/// Waterfall is awesome! Tried to get there last weekend, but it had been raining so much a few days prior the river was too treacherous to cross. It was beautiful, I had never seen the waterfall raging at full force (or at all) until this day. Yes, scary rockfall-that choss band around the top it is interesting, to say the least. AZ climbing is so much fun. Gonna miss it a lot if I end up moving back to CO.

deschamps

Trad climber

Flagstaff, AZ

Mar 25, 2013 - 04:15pm PT

When the river is flowing too fast to cross walk upstream for 5 minutes and you will find a bridge.

3 new routes at the waterfall in the past 2 days by a local Gnarbarian - 2 5.12c cracks and one 5.12c mixed line.

drljefe

climber

El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson

Mar 26, 2013 - 10:38am PT

Leggs

Sport climber

Home away from Home

Mar 26, 2013 - 10:41am PT

Is that one of the photos Eric took this weekend, Jefe?

It's incredible.

drljefe

climber

El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson

Mar 26, 2013 - 11:26am PT

The Wasteland

I can't believe I'd never done this route before.
It's a six pitch voyage that wanders up faces, a chimney, and under roofs with tons of glory climbing on classic Stronghold chickenheads. There is no fixed pro on the whole route, with belays at ledges or hanging off plates.
The old Backcountry guide calls it the best 5.8 in the state. I don't know about that, but it sure was fun.
I climbed with my buddy, who I mentored in climbing, and we swapped pitches. I was super proud of him as he'd never done anything like this before.
Another friend wanted a day out with the dogs and to fiddle around with some nice powerful lenses. He got some cool photos.

The silhouette photo above was pure luck, taken from the trailhead, a 40 minute hike away.