Turkey Neck Tower  5.7 A3

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Type:  Trad, Aid, 1 pitch, 50 feet Consensus:  5.7 A3 [details] FA:  Jeff Jackson,Duane Raleigh, Pete Takeda. summer 1993 Submitted By:  USBRIT on Dec 25, 2011 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (1) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

Turkey Neck Tower.

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Description 

Turkey Neck is on the east of the alcove up to the right of The Fortress. Climb it from its short side of the tower. There is an attemted line with fixed anchors at the left edge of the spire. Pete Takeda: "It rises out of the hillside like a giant, raspy gizzard with a house-sized capstone overhanging on all sides.

Desent: rap from a single-bolt anchor back to the notch.

Location 

From the Garfield parking area hike for about 15 mins east parallelling I.70 pasted a fence line to an open canyon.

Protection 

Angle pitons (1) each; ice tool (1); hangers 0.5".

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BETA PHOTO: A) The Fortress. B) Turkey Neck Tower.