Vie in Arizona

Sustained face climbing on mostly good holds with a distinct crux midway.

Follow an obvious crack

Approach from a small trailhead off of Back O' Beyond Road in Sedona. The hike is 15-20 minutes at a leisurely pace.

P1: Climb up chimney (or the runout face to the right) to a crack through limestone band. Pull a small roof to gain a big alcove with a single eyebolt belay. 5.7.

P2: Head up a handcrack in the back corner of alcove, into a chimney, breaking left at top and continuing up an offwidth crack in the corner. A final corner leads to a single eyebolt belay on top of a small pillar. 5.9.

P3: Clip a bolt off the left side of the pillar and perform an airy traverse left to gain a crack system. Climb this to reach a small triangular belay ledge with another single eyebolt belay. 5.9

P4: Pass through a slot to the west, then move right and climb a crack system to an alcove about halfway up. From here, chimney and offwidth (crux) past a bolt. This leads to the summit of the lower tower and a gear belay. 5.9+

P5: The shortest and most novel pitch you've ever done. Lean across to the higher tower, clip a bolt, and traverse right and climb up to gain an easier slab to the top. Belay off log book bollard.

Rappel on a 70+m rope from the logbook bollard or jump to the first tower. Two straight forward raps bring you to the base of the tower. Follow the skid marks to find the way down.

Easy climbing on big pockets

Starts on a slight bulge. Multiple cruxes and rests. All bolts except the first 4 have perma draws.

Great climbing overall with a high crux. Pumpy.

Chains at top

Fun climbing up a crack with strange moves that get you in weird positions.

Prepare to grip hard on tiny holds

Four pitches. Crimpy start after some loose looking blocks. It follows a white streak up the wall. • 1) 11b** The first pitch is a decent warm-up, 20m • 2) not defined yet • 3) 11b • 4) 11b

Fun 5.11 climbing to a no hands rest. Left-ward cracks lead to a shake and then to thin, defined crux. Rest on another big pod system for the technical, slabby finish moves up and left to anchors. Perma draws after the first anchor (for lowering, good warmup to there). Bring 6 draws.

Big boulder in the riverbed. Left the consensus grade but definitely has a move that feels harder (~5.9)

Many people's first 12! And a decent warm up for the harder climbs as the crux is short, although powerful.

Classic dihedral, finger crack

Lots of sequential crimps to the crux at the 100ft mark. Find the honeycomb in the alcove. Perma draws starting at bolt 5. Share anchor with either Mantis or Homo Faber.

Bolted crack

Great face climbing right off the deck leads to hard moves over a roof.

Starting on a protruding band of dark rock where the rock begins curving around to the left and up the hill toward the Upper Wall. The trail drops down toward the creek

Classic steep feature wrestling on permadraws. One of the best in the region according to the local guide.

Classic photogenic arête to lower-offs, wire is useful to protect the start

The runout to the ledge can be protected with a bomber .3 cam placement.

Follows the white band after the 1st bolt.