P3 The inside corner is easy on this pitch - the 5.8 crack is just to my right, and 5.6 on the far right of this wall.

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P3 The inside corner is easy on this pitch - the 5.8 crack is just to my right, and 5.6 on the far right of this wall.

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Joe goofing around after a lap up Turk's Head Ridge.

A couple of the good ole boys on a casual Sunday solo of the Ridge. P3 shown here.

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Paul Jones

Sep 28, 2009

“P3 The inside corner is easy on this pitch - the 5.8 crack is just to my right, and 5.6 on the far right of this wall.”

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Summer Evening Lap

The Turks Head Ridge

P7 Magic Ed - most guys his age like to watch golf on a Sunday afternoon - Ed ain't afraid to do a little soloin'

Stew coming up P4 of the Ridge.

Stew nearing the top of Weissner's Crack after yet another HWDAMF summer solo of Turk's.

Stew and the gang starting up P1 of Turks Head Ridge.

Nice spot for a direct belay.

The above topo was written by Joe Block and appeared in Vertical Jones, Issue 10, July/August 2001. Posted with permission.

Stew standing atop a small spire found at the base of P2 on Turks Ridge.

The final pitch if you use the Turks Head chimney option instead of Weisner

Mike

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Joe goofing around after a lap up Turk's Head Ridge.

P3 The inside corner is easy on this pitch - the 5.8 crack is just to my right, and 5.6 on the far right of this wall.

A couple of the good ole boys on a casual Sunday solo of the Ridge. P3 shown here.

Final pitch of Astro TurK attempt 7-28-17. I missed getting on Green Slime, then leading Question of Balance, and then finishing on Weissner Face for the Astro Turk ascent (all the hardest lead option along Turk's Head Ridge). The final pitch I choose for this attempt is the cool over-hanging off-with crack over to the right and a bit above of Green Slime route. It felt 5.8+ on the onsight ground up. My left foot slipped on the crux and I took a fun little 10 foot lead fall.

Turk's Head Ridge

P3 A nice casual solo

P1 The first tower

P6 I like to do the corner left of the 5.4 crack on this pitch - seems like one 5.6 move. You can go further left and do it at like 5.2

P5 Starting out on my favorite pitch, the 40 footer. Take the left crack system up to a big ledge, then an airy traverse right to the right corner

You can do this route as 5.4, or maybe easier, ALL YEAR LONG! Here is the boulderfield at the start - first tower visible top center.

P7 - the double cracks to the left are really fun- I'm doing the face to the right - easier variation

The 5.5 cracks above the alcove make up pitch 6.

THR pitch 4 variation. Nice little well protected and heavily cob-webbed 5.6 right of Zor the Mantle. 7-28-17. Finish buy moving out right at the top.

My attempt at Astro Turk last week. Leading placing gear on pitch 2 of THR 7-28-17. After work end of the work week fun at DLSTP.

Doug eye-balling the final moves of variation pitch 2 or 3 of Turk's Head Ridge.

Turk

If you bring a rope, finish on Weissner's, if not, go North around the base of Turks Head tower, then up this chimney - easy and interesting

Summit of turks

Magic Ed likes the solid rock - been climbin' the Potrero limestone way too much!

P2 The way I like to climb this pitch - very easy and cleaner than the corner, just more exposed

Taken June 7th, 2016, view of the final pitch of THR.

Pitch 2 lead of Astro Turk attempt. Turk's Head Ridge the hard way 7-28-17.

Connecting the ridges with a run

Ground up onsight of a THR pitch 4 variation clocks in at 5.6 - don't use the wall over to the left. This corner is just to the right
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of Zor the Mantle variation. 7-28-17

Doug climbing the right hand option of pitch 1 or 2 of Turk's Head Ridge.

Heinke climbing up into tree branch mayhem on the 20 Foot Tower, first pitch variation of Turk's Head Ridge.

turks head ridge from the east bluff. i scouted it this weekend and am making plans to head there again this month to climb it.

The tower of pitch 1

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