![]() ![]() Then drop down a few feet into a little bowl lying on the W Side of the Spire. Proceed to the Low Horn #6 - Spire Saddle hugging the rock of Low Horn #6 on your left as closely as possible. Eventually you arrive at the rock slabs directly below Low Horn #6. Finding yourself engaged in 3rd Class climbing indicates that you are too far left. ![]() ![]() Follow this trail upward, bearing always to the right to avoid rock obstructions over a series of little saddles. At the elevation of this shoulder, a fairly clear trail, vastly improved by the massive rescue operation on the Spire in 1963, should become evident. Climb onto the welt to the south, a broad meadow of high grass concealing tumbled boulders, and slog upward, passing to the right of the first large rock shoulder encountered. At the proper point to do this, the trail becomes very clear and leads down into a thick bower of scrub oak, where the ground is perpetually coated with a carpet of dead leaves (the "Deer's Trysting Place"). Follow this welt up to where it broadens and becomes brushier, then bear upwards and right, following a faint trail, until you drop into the great arroyo to the south. ![]() Follow this trail southward into the draw which terminates the welt which comes down from Gerch's Folly and mount the welt just to the south. Return to the Top of The Spire Route Descriptionsįrom Topp Hut bear east across the desert (directly toward the Spire) until a relatively prominent trail, running northwest-southeast, is crossed near a small cairn after about 15 minutes of walking. The Spire has many routes and is often climbed. Seen from Topp Hut, the Spire marks a prominent step, some 400 feet high, in the Organ Ridge above the serried ranks of the Low Horns to the north. This beautiful, chisel-shaped needle, rising just north of the long, graceful spiral staircase of Razorback's W Ridge, is the northernmost of the High Horns (the peaks from the Spire to Dlngleberry). Spire Last Change: FebruThis page under construction. ![]()
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