Flag's Crags

Flag's Crags

Ten Sleep, Squamish, Lander, Indian Creek... so many of my climbing destinations are climbing ideals, places of variations on a theme. Two thousand sandstone cracks, or fifteen hundred technical limestone sport routes, or five hundred short and bouldery ones, or granite, grante, granite all around. Flagstaff doesn't fall into this group of mega-crags.

Flagstaff's strength lies in its sheer variety of classic crags in miniature, each of a different nature. None of them have routes on the order of the big boys to the north, but you can climb just about any kind of stone you'd like - and some kinds you've never heard of - within an hour's drive.

Winslow Wall

Perfect sandstone down in the bottom of a slot canyon. As I've said before, Winslow would be worth visiting even if it had no routes. Unbelievably, its amazing atmosphere is accompanied with routes of a caliber to match.

Mark Yamamoto on our mutual project, Slap My Fro.

above the water

mark low down

honnold stretch

whip

stretch

eyein

(Thanks Eric for photos of me, awh yeah!)

pufferfish

clip

Paradise Forks

Rap in columnar basalt, short and nasty.

cameron raps
Cam Dodds

megan Paradise Forks
Megs bringing Dodds back

The Pit

The Pit is a lot of "nice-to-have-nearby" limestone, with at least one wall of impeccable hard routes. Damon, Anthony and others teamed up with me out here to get my hardest redpoint yet.

Damon and Jeff
Damon & Jeff

Damon belaying

Drew
Drew

Damon

Damon whips

The Peaks

It was an early season opening for the peaks - so early that they're closed now due to fire concerns. When they're open again, that dacite will be there waiting for you. So tacky! So techy!

Older guy Giggle Drops
Giggle Drops

Eric Burning Point
Eric, Burning Point

Eric Burning Point 1-hander

Aaron burning point 11d start
Aaron, Burning Point

Aaron dancing

Aaron screaming

Giggle drops

off route
Mike Cano, maybe regretting his decision to go left

Matt Enlow

Matt has a camera, a home on wheels, and this website
Down by the river