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Elevation: 7,000'
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Description 

Small concentration of Great problems. North facing so it can get kinda cold up here.


Getting There 

Take primary trail from parking until you reach Pino trail gate. Go through gate and after about 100 ft you should see a small sign on your right, head through grass looking for a cairn. Follow cairns up to ridge and take a left still following cairns and faint trail. From the gate to the boulders should be about 10 minutes. I will post a map soon.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Upper Simms:
Little Drummer Boy   V6     Boulder, 16 feet   
Foam Assisy   V6     Boulder, 10 feet   
Tommy Guns   V10     Boulder, 12 feet   
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Featured Route For Upper Simms
Tom E. standing below the arete of Little Drummer Boy.

Little Drummer Boy V6  NM : Albuquerque Area Climbing : ... : Upper Simms
I think this is the best line in the Sandias for the grade. A tall beautiful arete on great holds. See route description on topo....[more]   Browse More Classics in NM


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This is the view to the south from the trail just past the brown sign. The "trail" starts just to the right of the tree and kind of follows the drainage just beyond until moving across to the right of it then trending back up and left to a rock outcropping with a very dead tree at the west edge of a flat clearing. From here, see the next photo for the location of the boulders

BETA PHOTO: This is the view to the south from the trail just ...

This is the view from the middle of the clearing mentioned in the first picture. Head through the clearing a little to the left to pick up the blunt "ridge" that runs up towards the boulders. Little Drummer Boy sits pretty much right on the ridge while the pair of boulders with Tommy Guns sits a bit to the west.

BETA PHOTO: This is the view from the middle of the clearing m...

Foam Assisy climbs the steep prow from a high start and Tommy Guns starts from the obvious hold on the face to the right.

BETA PHOTO: Foam Assisy climbs the steep prow from a high star...