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Submitted By: Warren Teissier on Apr 15, 2002

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BETA PHOTO: the tiny tower from the east

Description 

This rock provides a couple of pleasant Flatiron Scrambles including a Flatiron Classic (Roach Guide) on a very remote section of the Flatirons.

The hike is long and the elevation gain is substantial but you will be rewarded with good rock and no lines waiting at the base (we did spot a boulderer working on a "project" somewhere in an obscure section of the approach)

The Rock is a couple hundred feet North and slightly West of the Devil's advocate. It's top sits North and about same level as the base of the Flying Flatiron.


Getting There 

The easiest approach is to hike up the South Shanahan trail and turn South on the Mesa trail. After a couple of hundred yards cut right across a man made meadow heading West South West. This will eventually drop you into a small Canyon. Follow the canyon West eventually exiting it to continue West up the Hill. By now you should have the Devil's advocate to your left and to your right a broken rib of rock runnning West and ending slightly North of Tiny Tower. After a steep couple hundred feet from this point you will be at the base.

It took us 50 minutes a a brisk pace to do this approach


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Tiny Tower:
West Ridge   5.2     Trad   
East Face/Tiny Tower   5.6     Trad, 2 pitches   
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Warren Teissier leads P1 on the Tiny Tower.  The route goes just right of the identified fin, and through the notch in the skyline.

East Face/Tiny Tower 5.6  CO : Flatirons : ... : Tiny Tower
From the base of the East face you will notice a large fin of rock about 2/3 of the way up. This fin forms a right-facing dihedral. The route climbs up the East face slabs slightly left and turns right under the fin and follows the dihedral.P-1 Start at the low point of the rock or slightly North of it. Work your way up and left on somewhat unprotected rock. I placed 3 pieces for the whole pitch. The climbing is easy but punctuated by some 5.4 moves. Once under the fin move right and enter the d...[more]   Browse More Classics in CO


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Tiny Tower lies in the center of the photo, with Devil's Advocate in the Foreground, and Pegasus in the background. The tip of the Sphinx shows in the lower right of the image.  This is as taken from The Apostle.

Tiny Tower lies in the center of the photo, with D...