Pulling the roof - Photographer: Andrew Pittman

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Pulling the roof - Photographer: Andrew Pittman

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That's the start tree. Love the tree, be the tree, sling the tree.

MadMan and me On the FA of Unimpeachable Groping. Photo by Mike Clifford from Joanne Urioste's excellent supplemental guide

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Stephen Alex Troxel

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Pulling the roof - Photographer: Andrew Pittman

MadMan and me On the FA of Unimpeachable Groping. Photo by Mike Clifford from Joanne Urioste's excellent supplemental guide

View from the Parking Lot

[2021] Top of P7. We used the new rap anchors near the lip/wall to descend to the bowl. Once in the bowl, we scrambled down to the water streak's furthest rap anchor. Four clean raps took us to the ground.

Alex leading up to the big comfy ledge.

Route finding photo taken from halfway on the Oak Creek trail which we used to hike in. Pic shows Unimpeachable Groping route on Rainbow Mountain.

Ledge was still missing a bolt in March 2014, but you can extend your anchor to the first bolt of the next pitch. Sorry bout the ugly mug, it's the only shot I have of the anchor.

Cloud Tower reaching the skyline on the right, Ginger Buttress is the triangular buttress left of center.

View of the Power Failure rap stations. We saw two potential rap stations you could use. Notice all the loose rock up here. Be super careful not to knock rock down. The correct station to use is the one in the top of this pic. It's more direct.

Group of three climbers from Durango on the second pitch. November 2012.

Great climbing on the fifth pitch where the rock becomes more varnished and, thus, more featured and easy.

The tree at the start of the climb.

Route Overlay Unimpeachable Groping

View of the trail up to the base of the climb. There's lot of scrambling till you hit the base where the tree is. Follow the trail markers closely. Especially on the way down if you descend at night or else you'll be bush whacking.

From the top of P7 you do a small rap to the rap sling station. Some people say they scramble down this 10 ft or so but that seems sketch.

Pat on an onsight of the Unimpeachable(pitch 4)

This is the trail we took from the Oak Creek Trailhead. We used Gaia GPS Maps and it was very useful navigating back at night.

Wandering up the second pitch

Our parties meeting at P1 anchors in cooold conditions.

Midway up the wall of the very well protected face climbing of Unimpeachable groping

Finishing in the dark is a bad idea. People like me will take photos of you and post it as a lesson :)

The rappel on the water streak, this is the view from pitch4

a friendly stranger enjoying the last pitch of unimpeachable groping

This is the roof pitch. This is what the anchor looked like a few years ago. I hope its been fixed!

The anchor at the base of pitch 4 (roof pitch) has been fixed. So don't worry about the old photos with a one bolt anchor.

Climbing the tree to start the 1st pitch

Last light (around noon) on the 2/3 pitch. Late December 2018.

First pitch action. November 2012.

Classic upshot photo of pitch 1. Slung the tree and don't regret it.

Bradley Vanbebber following the very well protected p4

Roof of P4

The final fun and easy 5.8 pitch to the top of the tower

Getting started on pitch one!

Getting into the juggy varnished plates high on the fourth pitch. Late December 2018.

Krista on the ledge of P4

James Tortelli on pitch 3 or 4

Top of the climb, getting ready to rap off the back side.

Abram Caldwell on top of Pitch 7

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View of P7 taken from the top of P6 ledge. Easy 5.8 climbing but runout.

Looking down the first pitch at where the approach comes up

James leading the 1st pitch

View of my partner rappelling down to the notch from the rap sling station. Look down while you rappel and make sure your rope doesn't get locked into any cracks.

View of the notch once I rappelled into it. It's actually quite roomy.

View of the Notch which you'll rappel into from the rap sling right behind me in this pic.

Ryan pulling the roof on Unimpeachable Groping

View from the top of P7 is spectacular. Enjoy it!

Butt shot view of the roof. Ridiculously fun and not too strenuous.

View of the buttress from the approach. We're up there on P3/P4.

Looking up at P5 from the hanging belay.

Pic of my buddy reaching the P6 anchor which shares a nice belay ledge (and awesome view) with Ginger Cracks.

Pic of the rap sling station you use to rap down to the notch where Power Line is.

Closer shot of the route as we get further along the trail.

The roof at the start of P4 is amazing! Great holds the whole way up.

That's the start tree. Love the tree, be the tree, sling the tree.

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Stephen Alex Troxel

Seattle, WA

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