The Big Piney Towers
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Elevation: 6300'
The Big Piney Towers are located in the heart of a great climbing area. Directions to this area are given in "Squeezing the lemmon II..." by Eric Fazio-Rhicard. The easiest way to find the climbs listed on this web page is to use Eric's guidebook to locate Wicked Indecency (climb #3 on page 115). Labor Daze is immediately to the left (east) of Wicked Indecency and Pairadocs is located around the corner from Labor Daze (see the topo above). Labor Daze and Pairadocs are new climbs and all of the flakes and other debris may not be cleaned off the climbs.
EFR Rating: 5.8+
Wicked Indecency is a gear climb on the north side of the east Big Piney Tower. There is a set of chain anchors at the top.
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A view of Wicked Indecency - with topo. |
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Wicked Indecency and Labor Daze anchors. |
Rating: 5.8+
Labor Daze is a mixed climb on the north side of the east Big Piney Tower. It has three 3/8" bolts, each with Fixe hangers (all are marked with three dots) and there are a set of chain anchors at the top. Ben Burnham put up the climb on Labor Day, 2002. A small black Alien is useful getting to the first bolt.
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A view of Labor Daze - with topo. |
Rating: 5.9+
Pairadocs is a mixed climb on the east end of the Big Piney Towers. It has four 3/8" bolts, each with Fixe hangers (all are marked with three dots) and there are a set of chain anchors at the top. Ben Burnham put up the climb with John McCall and Kurt Schroder on November 9, 2002 and John and Kurt made the first ascent. John and Kurt are both doctors, thus the name.
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A view of the bottom of Pairadocs - with topo. |
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Don Vandergriff at the top of Pairadocs. |
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The anchors on Pairadocs. |