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Wasatch Alpine Areas

Submitted By: Orphaned on Nov 7, 2005
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Description 

Any area that requires mountaineering/ice climbing/rock climbing disciplines.


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Any area in the Wasatch


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Wasatch Alpine Areas:
The Rookie Party   WI4     Ice, Alpine, 1 pitch, 200 feet   American Fork Twins
Everest Ridge   Mod. Snow     Snow, Alpine, 6300 feet   Mt. Timpanogos
South Ridge   5.4     Trad, Alpine   Mt. Superior/Monte Cristo
North Ridge   5.4 Easy Snow     Trad, Snow, Grade II   Pfeifferhorn
North East Face, Regular Route   5.6 WI2 Mod. Snow     Trad, Ice, Snow, 5 pitches, 3100 feet, Grade IV   Storm Mountain
NW Face: Above The Sleeping City   5.7+ M1 Mod. Snow R     Trad, Mixed, Snow, 10 pitches, 1000 feet, Grade III   Storm Mountain
East Face Of the Robert's Horn   5.8- WI3+ Mod. Snow     Ice, Snow, Alpine, 8 pitches, 1200 feet, Grade IV   Mt. Timpanogos
The Central Spur (of the NW Face)   5.10b/c Easy Snow     Trad, Snow, Alpine, 5 pitches, 500 feet, Grade III   Dromedary Peak
Lecherous Leanings   5.11+     Sport, Alpine, 7 pitches, 800 feet, Grade III   Mt. Timpanogos
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Featured Route For Wasatch Alpine Areas
Benny on the ridge

South Ridge 5.4  UT : Wasatch Range : ... : Mt. Superior/Monte Cristo
This classic alpine route follows a long, airy quartz and basalt ridge with a couple of knife edge sections and towers. In warmer weather this is an easy scramble/rockclimb, but with snow and ice it becomes a more challenging alpine climb. Start early as the route gets a lot of sun. Trend right after the largest tower (above Suicide Couloir) to avoid some loose slabs out left. A good view of the route can be seen from the Alta parking lot....[more]   Browse More Classics in UT


Photos of Wasatch Alpine Areas Slideshow Add Photo
Backside of Cascade Mountain (Timpanogos in the background to the right) from the summit of a terraced peak above Rock Canyon.

Backside of Cascade Mountain (Timpanogos in the ba...

Freedom Peak (recently named at the Provo Freedom Festival) from the summit of a terraced peak above Rock Canyon.

Freedom Peak (recently named at the Provo Freedom ...


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By Jake Richens
From: Sl, ut
Dec 29, 2005

Does anyone know if there are any climbing lines on Guert's Ridge? (Guerts is on Mt. Olympus and is the the rock that starts halfway up the mountain and goes to the top.) Guerts is only one line of many that are waiting to be climbed. Anyone have ideas, suggestions or the drive to explore??

By Anonymous Coward
Dec 30, 2005

Guert's ridge does have a route in fact, Guerts Ridge 5.5 (Irene Guert,O'dell Peterson, Harold Goodro 1940's!)!" It's a fun one too, especially in winter for added flavor. Check out the description in the Mt Olympus section. My favorite of the olymps slogs...as it ends right on the summit and has some fun moves interspersed with log, but aesthetic easy sections. a great solo (though you must carry a rope for the raps)