This climb starts on balancy ramps with two bolts that deposit you at the start of the crack.  A nice hands splitter leads up to the huge boulder that you must surmount. 

  There is a second pitch of 10 something, but we didn't do this pitch.

1999

Andy Kaufman Crack

Rusty Cage

The Stage

Cobra Vision

Fat Bastard

The Raven

The Hurricane

A good route that holds the distinction of being the only free route to the top of North Mesa. Very few have stood atop North Mesa so take your time and have a look around.  Excellent photo ops if your friends are climbing The Pirate. Pitch 1: 5.10+, 110'. Unique face climbing on good rock past six bolts leads into a shallow chimney.  Get creative as the pitch dramatically steepens above.  Gear is good but strenuous to place and a 7th bolt comes at just the right time. Pull through the final bulge and onto a sloping belay ledge with two bolts.Pitch 2: 5.10, 80'. Varied hands and solid laybacks on good rock with great position.  Belay on a good ledge off of two bolts.Pitch 3: 5.9, 80'. All about the first 10 feet! Puzzle your way up the seemingly blank bulge to a long but easy chimney. Bushwhack out the top and hike the last 100' up to one of the best views in Sedona. Rap - Rap the route with one 70m rope.  Find the first rap bolts are across the ravine from the final belay. 

Start up slab with finger crack and enter corner system.  Thin hands to hands to fist to an ow pod.  From the ow pod climb steep hands to the two bolt rap anchor.  This route saves the crux for the last 25'.

Rusty Cage is the "Indian Creek" splitter of Sedona.  This route climbs a sweet hands to large hands crack in a left facing corner for 70ft to a two bolt rap anchor.  To access the corner make a short traversing move past a drilled pin and into the crack. 

  This route is very hand size dependent.  For small hands it could be fists to ow.  For large hands it will probably feel like a ladder.

Good little 2 pitch route in morning/early afternoon sun on the east end of North Mesa just before the end of the hiker's trail to the saddle. 

  P.1: Up obvious bolt line to fingers and stemming. Continuous 5.10. Go left to anchor when it steepens, widens, and turns poorer rock quality. 

  P.2: Up the wide, easier corner with huecos and intermittent cracks to top of tower.

P1: Climb the first pitch of Huricane 5.9 bolted face.    P2: Easy 5.6traverse and up onto block below the corner to the right. P3; 5.11-climb double wide cracks to chimney and belay.    P4: short bolted OW/stem/lieback to the summit.    Descent Options: 

  RAP ROUTE(go back across the traverse) with 1 60m, NOTE: the top anchor needs another bolt.

Hard but fun off-width climbing.  A multi-bolt rap station is on the finishing ledge.

Pitch 1 - Follow a line of five bolts through the limestone band.  Take 1x1 Camalot and 1x2 Camalot to protect the top portion of this pitch.  Belay from two bolts at a nice stance.  (5.9) 

  Pitch 2 - Climb the sweet thin hand to hand crack in a corner which leads to the chimney.  Chimney your way up past two bolts to a short off-width crack.  Surmount this off-width and belay from three bolts at a flat spot in the chimney. (5.10-) 

  Pitch 3 - Chimney straight up off the belay about 15 feet to a ledge.  From here either continue up a low angle wide crack to the top of the formation or walk left to the three bolt rap anchor.  (Top of Fat Bastard) (5.9)  If you continue to the top, there is a fixed anchor from which you may rap back to the Fat Bastard Anchor. 

  Descent - From the Fat Bastard Anchors make one double rope rappel.  (about 140')  From here scramble around to the right and then down to your packs.  Be sure to take a ride on Fat Bastard (5.11- OW) before pulling your ropes.

North Mesa has routes that face nearly every direction.  In other words, sun or shade can be found depending on what the weather dictates.

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