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Falcon closures. MORE INFO >>> Granite Mountain is closed between early February and mid-July for peregrine falcon nesting! More info: www.fs.fed.us/r3/prescott/news/2009/01-22-2009-area-closures>>> This information is a public crowdsourcing effort between the Access Fund, and Mountain Project. You should confirm closures, restrictions, and/or related dates. Keeping climbing areas open and conserving the climbing environment

Description 

Granite Mountain hosts 80+ routes (as per Bill Cramer's guide), generally with two to four pitches each. That's a lot of routes for the small cliff that it is. What makes it even more remarkable are it's traversible horizontal features that allow for an exponential variety of ways to combine pitches and create new adventures. If you think you've climbed everything at "The Mountain", try staring at Cramer's guide for awhile and you will begin to see endless ways to link pitches and follow new lines, potentially 7-12 pitches in length. As you envision, and implement such visions, you will find that there are hidden gems up there that you never would have found otherwise.

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Toe to Head Linkup (or whatever you want to call it) 5.10 PG13  AZ : Central Arizona : ... : Granite Mountain Link-Ups

This is an amazing line and makes use of the tallest part of the wall and some of it's horizontals. It connects the lowest point on the wall at the Sundeck Boulder, to the highest point on the wall...the top of King PinP1) Climb the "Witblitz Direct" pitch off the Sundeck Boulder. Cramer's guide calls it 10a. Be wary of that grade.P2) Here you could go up the off-width chimney of Crisco way(5.8), the beautiful second pitch of Green Savior, which could be soloed or simul climbed by a strong part...[more]   Browse More Classics in AZ