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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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I'm pretty sure I've climbed Otto's route,... And the molar.....
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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I would have to get into my old journals.. there are a few that i don't remember the names. only done a few desert trips so it's not many..
Aicient Art
Easter Island
Sparkeling Touch
Waldens Room. Not shure if that counts as a tower or a butte?
Cleopatras Chair. we freed the shoulder stand April 96 so possibly a first without the shoulder stand?????
Owl Rock
A little tower near or just west of Moab on top of the ridge behind the naked lady campsite? something about a dog?faceing the ridge from the campsite about a mile climbers right?
a cool very crumbly thing up a canyon with a locked gate and only 4 other names in the glass jar on top possibly sort of near mexican hat? on the way to climb Prayer stick which I assume does not count..
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andy@climbingmoab
Big Wall climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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43, with 7 of those being first ascents and 1 more being the first ascent of a route on a previously climbed tower. 4 of the first ascents are good-sized significant towers. There really is no experience quite like being the first on top of a tower.
The asterisks are for first ascents.
Arch Canyon:
Dreamspeaker
Arches:
Dark Angel
Owl Rock
The Pickle
The Three Gossips
Buckhorn Wash:
Outhouse Tower
The Lightbulb
Tiki Tower
Window Blind Peak
Wisdom Tooth
Castle Valley:
Castleton Tower
The Priest
Colorado Monument:
Independence Monument
Potash Road area:
Gold Bar Tower
Desolation Canyon:
* The Siren
Fisher Towers:
Ancient Art
Echo Tower
Kingfisher
Head of Sinbad:
* Allison's Tower
* Annakenna Tower
Worth the View Spire
Indian Creek:
Easter Island
South Sixshooter
Kane Creek:
Devil's Golfball
Lost World:
Cenotaph Spire
Ruby/Hosethief Canyon:
* Forward Lookout
* Surf and Turf Tower
Mexican Mountain:
Thin Man Pinnacle
Moab Rim:
Disappearing Angel
Onion Creek:
Hindu
River Road:
Lighthouse Tower
Isolated San Rafael Swell:
Karma's Castle in the Air
Mother Goose
Phantom Spire
* Trilobite Tower
Eagle Rock
Jack's Tower
Swasey's Secret
* Choss Cross
* Sarah's Spire
Sid and Charley
Mexican Hat/Valley of the Gods:
Mexican Hat
Canyonlands:
Chip Tower
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dang, I'm such a neophyte at this, and I forget sh#t / and my short term memory's Is like what's the question? Are we counting repeats/multiple rtes per formation?
Arizona,
The supes
 weaver needle, solo
-some smaller towers ; pocket calculator, Ganas,red headed rock pecker, the one agent 44 is on, half a dozen or so others
Sedona; the mace :.. Some others I think, what really, is, a tower?
Utah Castelton,(~9 ascents) Moses!x 2 ancient art (x14 in14), lizard, so six shooter,l(5?)some of those bridgetjacks, the ones daphne memtioned... Rhino horn, Elvis hammer,
Colo
Ottos tower x4 , the one wiih fast draw/medicine man, times a few, the defecating monk
Some others
Total =I'm not a counter, a moderate bunch, you could do more, pretty sure there are some I can't talk about...
I like to keep lists,in that they help me recall cool experiences. I've kinda walked away from lists when it seemed like it was a way of keeping score, or worse, a tick list.
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 6, 2014 - 09:01pm PT
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What tower is that BC? I just tagged Cerro Awesomo for the second time today. Exciting lead.
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snowhazed
Trad climber
Oaksterdam, CA
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My list comes from 9 trips to the creek over 6 years.
The BridgerJacks- I was pretty psyched to onsite Thumbelina for my seventh and last
Bridger
HummingBird
Easter Island
King Of Pain
Sunflower
Sparkling Touch
Thumbelina
Both Six Shooters, the North twice
And Moses via Primrose
Big list, small list, no matter, towers are the sh#t
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Edit also did independence mon.
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Reeotch
climber
4 Corners Area
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2 on the hit list, Owl Rock on the far left, Agathla (aka "El Capitan")is the big one in the middle, 1500' of beautiful choss. . .
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Slabby D
Trad climber
B'ham WA
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Since when did the Totem Pole become an easy route that everyone does?? Seems to be on a lot of peeps lists. What's the secret approach beta?
I've been chipping away at the desert slowly but surely. I'd be interested in seeing a list of what the 30 or so classic BIG towers in the Desert are. Got to be some stuff out there I haven't even thought about.
1. Titan x 2
2. Echo
3. Kingfisher
4. Oracle - even with new bolts a classic hairball route
5. Ancient Art
6. Lizard Rock
7. Lighthouse
8. Castleton x 2
9. Rectory
10. Priest
11. Sister Superior
12. Moses - Quality
13. Washer Woman - Quality
14. Monster
15. Standing Rock - Quality
16. Islet in the Sky - pretty full on
17. Dark Angel
18. Three Gossips - N Summit
19. Window Rock - Surprisingly great route in a beautiful setting
20. Independence Monument - meh
21. Fang Spire Zion - big
22. North Six Shooter
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Nobody can touch Ralph's list, but I think I became the first person to bag virgin summits in each of the 3 districts of Canyonlands with the Thracian Mare in '83.
(previous summits include the Conehead and Horsethief Tower)
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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OK, ready to post, but, with comments.
After spraying earlier in the thread I felt compelled to fluff the list a little. Hence, I have included spires from other "desert" areas. I see Mesas are included anyway.
All ratings are old school.
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1. The Titan-Finger of Fate, V 5.9 A3, 11/83 T. Gordon
2. The Arachnid Mesa-Tse’n’tyl, FA, VI 5.9 A4, 11/83 T. Gordon, Brian Povolny
3. Lucky Strikes Spire, A2, 3/84 (Nav. Res.) Jim Angione
4. Mexican Hat, A1 3/84 Gordon, Angione, Reggie, Mike Brown, Doug Smith and Sam
5. Castleton, Kor Rt., III 5.9+ 3/84 Angione, Brown
6. Dead Horse Crag 5.9 FA 3/84 (Nav. Res.) Gordon, Smith, Angione
7. Big Wally, FFA, 5.10 (Fallbrook)6/84 T. Gordon, Scott Gordon
8. Raker’s Blaring Hat Rack, 5.11 (Josh) 1/85 Dave Bruckman, Craig
Fry
9. The Owl, FA, 5.9 (Josh) 2/85 C. Fry
10. Shangri La, aka Castle Butte, 3rd A, III 5.10 A2 (Monument Valley) 4/85 Gordon
11. The Owl 5.8 (Arches)4/85 Gordon, Holly, Steve Swanke
12. Argon Tower III 5.10+ A2, 5th A (Arches NP)4/85 Gordon
13. The Red Obelisk, Boogers on a Lampshade 5.10, FA (Josh)4/85 Margy Floyd
14. The Lost Pencil A1 (Josh)11/85 Margy Floyd
15. Hitchcock Pinnacle 5.7 (Mt. Lemmon)12/85 Margy Floyd
16. Mexican Hat A1 4/86 Margy Floyd
17. Dark Angel Spire 5.8 A1 (Arches)4/86 Margy Floyd
18. Lizard Spire 5.7/8 (Fishers)4/86 Floyd
19. Castleton III5.9, NE Chimney 4/86 (Moab) Floyd
20. The Pope IV 5.10 A3/4, FA (Nav. Res.) 5/86 Gordon
21. The Totem Pole IV 5.9 A3+, 10th A, (Nav. Res) 5/86 Gordon
22. Moses , Primrose Dihedral IV 5.10 A1 (Canyonlands NP) 4/87 Gordon
23. Zeus 5.6 A1 (Canyonlands)9/87 Floyd
24. Standing Rock IV 5.9 A3/4 (Canyonlands) 3/88 Gordon, Floyd, Fry
25. Independence Monument III 5.8 Otto’s Rt. 9/88 (Colo. Nat. Mon.) Floyd, Angione
26. 3 Gossips- West Face-II 5.11 3/90(Arches) Alan Bartlett, John Aughinbaugh
27. Echo Tower- Phantom Sprint- IV 5.9 A3+ 4/90(Fishers) Bartlett, Aughinbaugh
28. So. Sixshooter- Dir. S. Face- 5.8 4/90 (Canyonlands) Bartlett, Aughinbaugh, Sally Moser and ?
29. Seraph- 5.7 A2 4/90 (nr. Hole in the Rock) Gordon, Cyndie Bransford, Floyd, Kelly Carignan
30. Hindu- III 5.8 A2+ 3/91 (Fishers) Gordon, Floyd Bransford
31. Sheep Rock- III 5.9 A2+ 2nd A. 3/91 (Arches) Gordon, Floyd, Bransford
32. Ancient Arts- III 5.10+ 4/92 (Fishers) Floyd, Angione, Gordon, Bransford
33. The Monitor- The Plunge- III 5.10 A2 4/92 (Canyonlands) Floyd, Angione, Gordon, Bransford, John Barbee
34. Round Rock- Anasazi Rt. III 5.8 (A0) 4/92 (Nav. Res.) Gordon, Povolny, Floyd, Bransford
35. Los Gigantos Butte- FA- IV 5.9 A2+ 4/92 (Nav. Res.) Gordon, Povolny
36. Sister Superior- Jah Mon- III 5.10 A1 10/92 (Castleton Valley) Floyd
37. North Sixshooter- Lightning Bolt Cracks- III 5.10 A1 10/92 (Canyonlands) Floyd
38. Artist Tears- V A4 3/93 (Moab area) Gordon, Greg Epperson
39. 3 Gossips- Lyons Rt.- III 5.10 A2+ 3/93 (Arches) Gordon, Floyd, Bransford, Epperson, Lisa Guindon, Barbee, Angione
40. 3 Gossips- The Crystalline Entity- FA- IV 5.8 A3+ 4/94 (Arches) Floyd, Tom Sherman, Angione, John Furlong
41. Echo Spire- III 5.9 A3 4/94 (Canyonlands) Floyd
42. Sari- 5.6 A3 3/95 (Fishers?) Gordon, Floyd, Bransford, Dana Adler, Angione
43. Parriott Mesa- Cowboys Rt. 3/96 (Castleton area) Floyd
44. Barney Rumble Tower-Raven’s Delight 5.9+ 3/96 (Moab area) Gordon, Floyd, C. Bransford, Kevin Bransford, Derek R., Jamie, D. Adler
45. Bullwinkle Tower- 5.7+ 3/96 (Arches) Floyd
46. Off Balanced Rock 5.8R 3/96 (Arches) Floyd
47. Lighthouse Tower- 5.9 R 3/97 (Moab area) Floyd, Gordon, Adler, Richard White
48. Bootleg Tower- A1 3/98 (Moab area) Floyd
49. 3 Penguins Spire- 5.10 3/98 (Arches) Gordon, Floyd, Mary Ann Lohr, Epperson, Schatzi ?
50. Long Dong Silver- 5.9 A3+ 2nd A. 3/98 (nr. Hanksville) Gordon, Floyd, Lohr, Epperson
51. Shiprock- III 5.9 6/98 (4 Corners area) Kevin Daniels
52. Kingfisher Tower-Colo. NE Ridge- IV 5.8 A2/3 3/99 (Fishers) Floyd
53. Space Baby- 5.10 3/99 (nr. Hanksville) Floyd
54. Eddie- 5.8 (nr. Chiriaco Summit) Floyd
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KabalaArch
Trad climber
Starlite, California
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Gee, Dee ee.
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 7, 2014 - 05:58pm PT
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Nice list Dee ee
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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The Larry, I'm sorry I ever slandered you. If I did.
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 7, 2014 - 07:42pm PT
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Ha whatever would you have slandered me about? I'm a pillar of the community.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Toker post up or shut up.
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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My list is being tallied.......stand by.....
(Zenyatta Entrada).......ARches
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Sun Devil....
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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It's dee ee on The Titan........
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