The Details: Possibly the most beautiful place we saw in the US. I'm just doing a skeleton page for now but intend to elaborate significantly on this!!
The rock: Navajo sandstone.
Access:
A view of the massive 250m+ cliffs out towards the mouth of the gorge. Love those beautiful colours.
*** Turista (aka Tourist Crack) 35m 5.9+/20 (OS)
An outstanding corner crack route. Emphasis on the "+", it's bloody hard for 5.9!
The view as you approach. The one pitch corner looks nice, but the 10 pitch walls behind sort of dominate!!
Here's me halfway up with the long crux thin hands jamming section above.
And if you have a 60m rope, it won't quite reach!
And here's 2 views of the best known climb here - the big aid route Spaceshot, with climbers a few pitches up.
Don't ask who makes the local pies.
US National Parks All your logistical essentials. ClimbingMoab.com An excellent site for other Utah crags but with only limited info on Zion. John Middendorf's BigWalls.net A good page of general info on Zion big wall routes. American Safe Climbing Association Info on bolt replacement efforts. Speed Climbing Records. TheCrag.com As always. Record your Zion ticks here, and see what everyone else is climbing.
© 2003 Will