Pitch One:  From belay at base of drainage, climb 5.easy to a large block below the one bolt triangle face above. Climb up Triangle Face past bolt to crux, 5.7 (R & PG-13) -or- bypass up easy crack then right and up to the belay (no bolts) near top of Triangle.

Pitch Two: Traverse rightward along a horizontal fingertip crack under prominent roof, a few moves to the offwidth that splits the roof at 45°, turn roof/offwidth, 5.10-, left and up.  Then 4th class to no bolt belay at base of obvious offwidth above. (this is a very short pitch)

Pitch Three: Climb offwidth up through bulge, 5.9+ to top belay. (no bolt belay) Descent is a walk off/scramble, generally west, south then back east downslope back to base.

Nightmares

Urban Sprawl

Special Olympics

A 4th class scramble/bushwhack leds to a common belay with Special Olympics. Follow thin 45° crack up and right to straight up medium-large hand crack.  Follow crack past crux, 5.6 to ledge above.

A 4th class scramble/bushwhack leds to a common belay with Urban Sprawl, climb up crack past block, and continue upward, 5.5 fist crack to belay ledge.

Currently, the east facing rockpile has only one known historical area of TRAD route development from 1984, featuring a three-pitch circuitous climb, and two adjacent short moderate 1 pitch routes.  The area is on Tonto National Forest land. The rock is the same as “Pinnacle Peak Granite: a porphyritic biotite granite with large microcline phenocrysts - Middle Proterozoic aged (1.4-1.45 Bya).”

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Routes in Mesquite Wash Rockpile