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.

Urban Sprawl

Nightmares

Special Olympics

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.

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.

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