Challenging but fun climb with a tough face start to easier crack climbing. Recommended!!

Pinky

Seven-Up

Thunderbolt

Stacked

Xerxes

Dinky

Lightning

Back to the Wall

Starts on left leaning off width crack. Then traverse right, following the crack until it heads up again.

60 ft face with small holds and crimps straight up

20' left of Lightning, short zig-zagging crack.

Start from the right side and climb up through the middle of three boulders. Once you surmount the third boulder step straight across the wall to a single bolt directly in line with the boulder - from there basically climb straight up to a bolted anchor.    15 Meters.

 This climb is rated “5.5” in Mcdowell Rock but felt about the same difficulty as the two 5.7’s to either side.

 The anchors for this climb are accessible by scrambling to the top.  However, the path of the rope makes for a less than ideal rappel or top rope.  

 Descend by rapping on the anchors located climbers left or walk off.

Start in crack lower left side of face. Follow corner up until it dies out and more right traversing. Gain horizontal, pull up onto second face, top out.

Climb to first bolt, then out on face to large Chockstone, crux around below it to more face climbing.

Back in the days before a lot of this area became the McDowell Sonoran Preserve, the McDowell Mountain climbing areas were accessed via various rough dirt tracks that spiked up into the area at a few places, all accessed from the drive south on 128th Street. Once such place was a track that came in from 128th St., crossed some rough washes then traversed the hillside to the west before ending up on the saddle below what became known as the Morrell's Wall Parking Lot." In those days, the approach totaled about 36 seconds. Zoom forward a few decades, the area is saved via creation of the Preserve, and the hike is much longer, but still relatively mellow.The area is near Morrell's Wall (Northeast of it). Boulder piles ranging from 40 to 75 ft. with several one star (according to Phoenix Rock II) routes.The top of the southern crag (with Back To The Wall) is mysteriously pin-cushioned with a plethora of bolts all over the place, and none of the anchors are rigged for a properly safe rappel (note: a single bolt with a quick-link on it is not considered the pinnacle of safety).

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Routes in Morrell's Wall Parking Lot