The Lost World Butte and the Tombstone have about 18 multipitch trad routes both aid and free.
Getting There
Located off Spring Canyon Point Rd, about 30 minutes drive from Moab. Drive 8.5 miles up Rt 313 (Island in the Sky Road) to a road on the right between mile markers 14 and 15. At 1.5 miles take a right on Dudblinky Well and Spring Canyon Bottom Road. Follow for about 6 miles to just before the windmill on the right, and take the road left and pass the Tombstone formation. Take the first right after the Tombstone, and then the second right to a parking area on a flat rock at the end of road, about a quarter mile from the Butte.
The Classics
Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Lost World Butte Area:
The Road Not Taken. III 5.10. AS one reaches the Butte in frount of the parking area the route takes a system of ramps on the east face.The 1st pitch takes a break in the lower wall ,directly below the large Spikey blocks midway on the upper ramp. P1.Traverse right across a flake to a short hand crack to the rocky ledge and block belay 60'.Move belay about 300'left along the ledge to the start of the massive right- diagonalling ramp.Double bolt...[more]Browse More Classics in UT
To Andrew . You picked about the worst section of rock in that area re pitch two Cenotaph Spire.. The other routes in the area are not quite as scarey!!
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