Steel Crazy 

My partner and I tried rapping this route with a single 60m rope and wound up having to reach down to clip anchors while hanging on the end of the rope. Then the rope didn't reach the next anchors so we had to wrap a rock fin with some webbing and lower off that. Then the rope got stuck and I had to reclimb the pitch to free it. All this while the sun was setting and our fingers were getting numb. Walk off the route or bring another rope to double-rope rap.

Warning! The last time I climbed this, one of the hangers on the two bolt belay at the top of the second pitch is missing. Bring a hanger and a wrench (or a small stopper for the bolt). Many heartfelt thanks to the jerk that decided stealing that $3 hanger was more valuable than the safety of my party. This is fun route. It has some long runouts on easy ground, so a good lead head is a must on pitches 1 and 3. The forth pitch, while short and easy, is also quite a head game in a strong wind. Communication is difficult, especially with any wind.

That hanger was missing when I did the route, June of last year. I had put a comment on the tucsonclimbers.org website, for some reason the comment didn't transfer over to mountainproject. (I don't care for hanging belays off a single bolt either)

Probably not a good idea to be posting your climbing activities in this area while the area is possibly closed to climbing.

Hey Vince I found the skeleton of a climber with just shoes and a chalk bag and it had one finger though a hanger. I used the hanger on a new route in the Stronghold but I will give it to you if you want to put it back. Not a bad idea to carry a hanger and not in you chalk bag.

I haven't seen it myself, but I was told yesterday by a reliable source that the missing bolt hanger has been replaced.

Amazing route -- I was tempted to return to the base and run up it again.

The runout sections are on much easier ground with massive chickenheads. I reduced the runout on pitch one by slinging a horn and believe this can be done elsewhere as well. If a 5.9 leader remains calm it isn't as scary as the description makes it.

All belay bolts are in place now, by the way.

Very fun route but only found 3 pitches. It's a little tricky at the top but all you have to do is wiggle down a narrow chimney then climb the 20ft boulder problem to get up the other side. Definitely recommend a 70m rope because climbed to the end of it to reach the third anchor for some reason.

Leave the extra gear near the orifice wall entrance and walk off the fortress for the descent. There's a pretty scary scramble involved but well worth it.

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