A good adventure on one of the coolest looking spires in Sedona.  The 4th pitch features some steep climbing on loose holds with bad pro 10 feet off a ledge.  Pitch 1 all day shade (starts on the north face), the rest of the route gets all day sun. 

  Pitch 1) 60' 5.7 From the notch between Slingshot and Camel's Head, go up the obvious crack system on the north face to a notch between the east and west towers and a bolted belay. 

  Pitch 2) -40' 5.6 Downclimb a chimney to the south face, then traverse left to the base of a prominent pillar on the south face of the west tower.  Belay takes finger and hand size and big nuts. 

  Pitch 3) 40' 5.8 Climb the right facing corner which turns to a chimney.  At the top of the pillar look up.  If you're scared, belay here so you can use your belayer as a crashpad for pro on the next pitch.  Belay takes hand sized. 

  Pitch 4) 40' 5.9+ Climb the steep, intimidating crack straight up from the ledge at the top of the pillar.  When the crack runs out pull over on loose jugs and traverse left to the base of a hand crack in a left facing corner.  Can be combined with the previous pitch, but watch out for ledge-fall.  Belay takes hand sized.  

  Pitch 5) 60' 5.9 Go up the hand crack thru a bulge to a sloping ledge, follow another short crack to a hand traverse out left (5.9), then climb up between the butt cheeks guarding the summit (5.8).  Careful of rope drag. 

  Descent: 150' rap off a rusty bolt and a drilled angle back to your packs.  The anchor could use replacing. 

South Face of West Tower

Northface

Pitch 1: 5.7 75ft. climb crack in the middle of Slingshot, leading to the left on small column, crack becomes OW, belay in notch 2 good bolts.

 Pitch 2: 5.7 75ft. Down climb 5 ft. and traverse sandy ledge all the way through chimney, climb crack to roof then traverse back right to 6-bolt ladder up face.  Some bolts maybe “manky” and should be replaced.   Free move to 2-bolt anchor w/ webbing and rap rings.

 Pitch 3: 5.7 20+ ft. Traverse sub-summit right and south along ledge, short moves to top-out. Belay from threaded rock and 1-Fixe bolt. Enjoy view!

As with all descriptive names in Sedona, this one seems to be pretty accurate, given the appearance of the formation looks sort of like a... you guessed it... slingshot. Getting up to the formation is a bit of a hump, but not too awful.

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