The Beaver Wall is the impressive, wide, orange, slightly overhanging wall visible southwest of Windy Point vista. It contains several high-quality, hard sport, mixed, and trad routes including Hebe, one of the hardest on the mountain. It also has some moderate, trad classics on the southern end of the wall. New routes have been established recently although first ascent activity dates back to the 70's. Prolific first ascentionists such as Hidetaka Suzuki, John Steiger, Bob Murray, E. Fazio-Rhicard, Scott Ayers, and others have contributed to this classic Windy Point crag. The Beaver Wall faces east and south.
Getting There
Park at Windy Point parking lot. Cross the road and head south along the ridge above Beaver Wall (it may be useful to first identify the wall from the vista). When possible, drop down a steep trail to the east (left) and continue to the base of the Beaver Wall. The approach will place you at the right side of the wall near The Plate (5.12). If the descent to the base requires too much downclimbing, you missed the easiest path. The approach should take about 5 minutes.
Mt. Lemmon's hardest route to date. Has seen very few ascents despite a lot of attempts by some very talented climbers. A lot of very difficult and technical climbing packed into roughly 65-70ft. Bring your power and your skin to play on this one. Best to work on when its nice and crisp or say goodbye to your fingertips. ...[more]
Watch for jerk-off rednecks lobbing rocks around here! Especially around the ultra-hard stuff near Hebe, etc..which you have to hike under even if you're just going down there to do Stems & Seeds.
As we hiked out recently from doing P1 of Stems&Seeds, I saw a watermelon-sized rock sail off and impact right where we were hiking about 30 seconds before...This was then followed by a volley of baseball-sized rocks...I gave this 13 year-old punk a good tongue lashing, but what I really wanted to do was throw HIM off the cliff to prevent him from EVER reproducing..
Beaver Wall
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