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Complete list of North American desert towers.

Paul Ross · · Keswick, Cumbria · Joined Apr 2001 · Points: 22,236

Here are a few that I do not think have had a second ascent.Some good some not great ..but all fun. Twin Priests (Swell) Snakes and Arrows spire (Swell) Anubis Tower (Swell) Arch Tower (Swell) The Spinx.(Swell) Resurrection Tower (Swell) Sodizen Tower (Swell) Belfry Tower via "Bats in the Belfry" (Swell) El Sombrero Tower Garret/Ross route(Swell) DIRT The Black Tower (Palisade) Mad Dogs and Englishmen (Palisade)..Things of Beauty !! The 19th Hole! (Palisade) Tombstone. Lost World Butte area "Keswick Lads Day Out" Indian Creek..Haggis Tower second ascent of route on Castleton Tower The Bjornstad Traverse 900'  Yes in 2018 Missing from 1999 Moab Rim Tower Jimmy Dunn Paul Ross and Billy Rothstein

Darin Berdinka · · Unknown Hometown · Joined May 2009 · Points: 267

How about a list of the top 50 big dogs? CO-Plateau towers in descending order by minimum height?

Andrew Gram · · Salt Lake City, UT · Joined Jan 2001 · Points: 3,725

I climbed the Twin Priests in the Swell last weekend, so you can cross that one off the list of unrepeated towers.

Dow Williams · · St. George, Utah; Canmore, AB · Joined Mar 2006 · Points: 240

I have climbed several hundred towers/spires in N. America. The attraction is easy to answer in my opinion, an opportunity to achieve a summit. Whether sitting on top of Washer Woman /Moses in Canyonlands National Park starring out at the incredible landscape to the west or sitting atop the Grand Sentinel in Banff National Park watching ice fall on Mount Lefroy's east face.....anyone who comes from an alpine background and settles and/or retires on rock climbing can't help the euphoria of a summit climb versus a wall climb, even if it is just a 3 pitch route in Sedona ...addicting. If I see a tower, I climb it, choss or not, more often the former .

Grand Sentinel, two routes to its summit believe it or not...the sport one on the right side arete you are looking at (Cardiac Arete) is actually pretty good...you won't find more chossy quartz though....

Steve Bartlett · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jan 2001 · Points: 3,376

Close to 450 Colorado Plateau towers here: https://www.deserttowersbook.com/node/4

EDIT: old link ^^^ does not work. Here: deserttowersbook.com/first-…

This list is by no means complete. Maybe it's all the towers worth doing, ha ha.

Senor Lago · · Santa Clara, CA · Joined Mar 2011 · Points: 20
Steve "Crusher" Bartlett wrote: Close to 450 Colorado Plateau towers here: https://www.deserttowersbook.com/node/4

This list is by no means complete. Maybe it's all the towers worth doing, ha ha.

Dude. Absolutely love your book- read it cover to cover and I look through it all the time (especially since I moved away from Utah). The history, photos, and sheer amount of everythingness in it is a thing of beauty.

If anybody on this thread wants to know about desert towers, you really should get Crusher's book.
Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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