Type: Aid, 150 ft (45 m), 2 pitches
FA: James Garrett and Leonardo Daghani, 5 April 2001
Page Views: 2,147 total · 11/month
Shared By: James Garrett on Jul 21, 2008
Admins: Andrew Gram, Nathan Fisher, Perin Blanchard, GRK, D C

You & This Route


5 Opinions
Your To-Do List: Add To-Do ·
Your Star Rating:
Rating Rating Rating Rating Rating      Clear Rating
Your Difficulty Rating:
-none- Change
Your Ticks:Add New Tick
-none-
Use onX Backcountry to explore the terrain in 3D, view recent satellite imagery, and more. Now available in onX Backcountry Mobile apps! For more information see this post.

Description Suggest change

On the South Face of this roadside attraction: Outhouse Tower. 3M, as expected, would turn out OK with some traffic and is probably free climbed quite regularly these days. Started with Layne Potter (his daughter's name is Mallory) who belayed me for hours, then finally finishing it with Leonardo from the Dolomiti who belayed me an equally long time and was too intimidated by the peeling Utah sandstone (he called it "like Marmolade"!), that I seconded it and cleaned it myself that day. I later climbed it and broke it into two pitches with Layne's son Sheridan who gave it his best at freeing it on a top rope, but maybe it was still too early? So, that's the story on that:

Pitch #1: From the ground, slab and face climb up passing a collector's sampling of fixed protection (some glue-ins) to a hand crack. Follow the hand crack until it ends at a 3 bolt hanging belay. Sandy. 5.9+, A1.

Pitch #2: Move right passing several bolts climbing black patina Navajo to the summit block headwall. Continue straight up to a mantle to the top. 5.9+, A0.

Rappel using the bolts atop the tower top from the route Chopped Sand.

Location Suggest change

South Side of Outhouse Tower. OT is about 2.7 miles toward the San Rafael River Bridge from Scenic Byway Wall. A BLM public Outhouse is just to the north of the "tower".

Protection Suggest change

Set of Camalots. QDs

Rappel Chopped Sand

Photos

0 Comments