Home - Destinations - iPhone/Android - Gyms - Partners - Forum - Photos - Deals - What's New
 ADVANCED
Dog Town
 more Dirtbag Deals

Routes Sorted
L to R R to L Alpha
Dogs Lounging 
Dogs Must Think We're Crazy, The 
Hair of the Dog 
Isis in Crisis 
No Cats 
Salt and Pepper 
Toofast 
Woofun 

Dog Town 


Photos: Recent | Best | Popular
Page Views: 591. Good page?   
Administrators: Greg Opland, James DeRoussel, JJ Schlick, Tom Erickson
Submitted By: arjunmh on Nov 22, 2011

Make this area a Favorite
What's New
  Print a Mini-Guide with routes

Add Route  Add Photo  Add Comment  Add Event 


BETA PHOTO: Dog Town Routes

Description 

Dog Town is mostly an east-facing wall with two slightly detached buttresses. Climbing is easy to moderate on relatively good rock. Despite is modest appearance from the road, it is an impressive cliff that offers fun climbing. Area gets nice morning sun and not a lot of shade during the day.


Getting There 

See Overview maps for location relative to other areas. Dog Town is the first (farthest north) area in The Refuge. A large cairn marks the approach trail that is directly opposite a sandy camping area in the dry bed of Hackberry Creek. Follow cairns in a meandering way to the base of the east facing wall.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Dog Town:
No Cats   5.7     Trad, 1 pitch, 90 feet   
Dogs Lounging   5.8     Trad, 90 feet   
Salt and Pepper   5.8     Trad, 1 pitch, 90 feet   
Hair of the Dog   5.9     Trad, 1 pitch, 90 feet   
The Dogs Must Think We're Crazy   5.9+     Sport, 1 pitch, 90 feet   
Woofun   5.10a     Sport, 1 pitch, 40 feet   
Toofast   5.10-     Trad, Sport, 1 pitch, 70 feet   
Isis in Crisis   5.10-     Trad, 90 feet   
Browse More Classics in Dog Town

Featured Route For Dog Town
The tricky gear at the bottom is poor -- it's a C3 000 with the 0.3 inch off to the right as backup. Poor gear below the green bush, which is why there's none there.

Isis in Crisis 5.10-  AZ : Central Arizona : ... : Dog Town
Crack located on the left side of the East-SE facing wall (just right of “The Dogs..., and shares the same anchors)”...[more]   Browse More Classics in AZ


Photos of Dog Town Slideshow Add Photo
Looking up at the leftmost routes

Looking up at the leftmost routes

Toofast at Dogtown

Toofast at Dogtown

two dogs hanging in dog town

two dogs hanging in dog town


Comments on Dog Town Add Comment
Show which comments
By Geir
From: Tucson, AZ
Dec 18, 2011

This is a nice, warm crag with good moderate climbs. The mixed climbs are well protected and offer interesting climbing, and the two sport climbs add more fun to the area. The approach is easy on the well-marked trail. Nice work!

By Marcy
From: Tempe/Tuscon, AZ
Dec 18, 2011

Nice area with an easy approach. Fun driving into the Refuge after the recent rains! Thanks for the routes Arjun, David, et al.

By arjunmh
From: Phoenix, AZ
Mar 5, 2012

Found a blue jacket at the base of "Isis in Crisis" yesterday. Let me know if you lost one.