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Ivan starting up P2. Strange but beautiful light in this photo highlights the crystalline granite. This easy start is followed by a lot of deceptively difficult wider crack climbing.
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This is a picture of the turn off for the climber's trail. The trail becomes very easy to follow and is marked further up with cairns- this well established climber's trail will deliver you to the left side base of Wigwam in the "Teepee Tower Crack" vicinity.
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Ivan Rezucha
Nov 1, 2006
“Ivan starting up P2. Strange but beautiful light in this photo highlights the crystalline granite. This easy start is followed by a lot of deceptively difficult wider crack climbing.”  

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John towards the end of pitch 2 of Tee Pee Tower.
Luke getting into it between the first and second ears. The crack on the main face is set just a little inside the wide crack behind the pillar, and this makes it very awkward.
Stewart of the HWDAMF on pitch one of Tee Pee Tower.
Luke laybacking the first "ear", which turned out to be much easier than it looked.
Luke laybacking and jamming on the lower angle start. There are lots of knobs for your feet.
The top of the second pitch (very photogenic!!!); however, I debated on trying to move left into the crack in the center of the photo (this would have required a tiny bit of slab on the traverse into it), and since I was "on-sighting", I wasn't sure how difficult the crack would be since you cannot really see into it from your position.<br> Never fear as you hit the "roof", smaller-medium gear works really well (there was a bomber fixed stopper leading up to the roof as of 4 July 2014). After negotiating the "roof", I place a red Camalot and made the easier than expected traverse across to the new anchors. This was an excellent route.
The luxurious anchor atop the second pitch. (Thanks to those who put in the hard work & effort to install this.) The end of the second pitch is thrilling all the way to the anchors. We used a single 60m & a pull cord to rap with; it seemed you could go with a 50m and a pull cord and have no problem rapping to the ground. Although from the comments, folks have made it down with a single 60m without too much problem....
The top of P1: rock horn has been used as a rap in the past (old tat and leaver-biners). I slung this and back it up with a 0.75 and stopper in the crack to the RIGHT of the next pitch (I also used this as my first piece of pro and led high up into the second pitch before placing an absolute nuclear bomb proof #2 Camalot. The initial 30 or so feet of P2 is good hands.<br> Another option if weather is threatening OR if the first pitch gave you ANY trouble is to bail from here.
A little higher up on P2. Still easy. There are knobs for a while for our feet, but then they mostly run out.
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Ivan Rezucha
Fort Collins, CO
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