Needle Rock near Crawford - Climbed?
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Yep, it's been climbed. Three different routes on it. Most folks climb the Northeast Gully AKA Brady Gulch, which goes at easy 5th class but is a loose, chossy, and bushy climb up a gully. The Southwest Arete 5.11, 4/5 pitches, is a steep intimidating route. Lastly the North Face 5.7, 1 roped pitch and 75 feet of scrambling. Needle Rock is a volcanic plug. It looks better than it climbs...better off going to the Black to have an adventure! |
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There ain't no walk-up on the Needle boy. |
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This summer two buddies and I tried to find one of the routes which we had previously heard of called, "the Cowboy Route" It was supposed to have a bolt or two and some other fixed pro, somewhere in the 5.9 range, but we never found any evidence of established climbs when looking around the backside of the Needle. As it turns out, we ended up climbing a new line, evidently located somewhere between the "NE Gully, Brady Gulch" and the "5.7 route on the North Face" (as described above) It topped out on the Northeast Finger, a short distance from the summit proper. |
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