Neat looking line that is way more in your face than you might think.  Pro is good but hard to place at times.  Be sure there is no vegetation growing out of the crack as you will need to place pro in those spots.  Pretty fun climbing and if the pro was easier to place I would call it a great climb.  Hanging on to place gear will work you as much as the climbing.

Energized

Guardian's Edge

Tomb Raider

Never Again

Book Of Jon

Force Feeding

Cling to Hope

Neferteenie

Cattywampus

West Face

I Want My Mummy

Cling Tut

Diehedral

West Nile

Start looks a little ugly as a good bit of loose rock fell off.  What is left is solid and the climbing is fun from start to finish.

Classic arete climbing on thin holds.  Just when you think you have it the final bulge will keep you from the temple.

A must do for the Tucson trad climber.  A little fuzzy right now but with a bit more traffic and some buffing by Jimbo ha ha it will be sweet.  Only two bolts on this route, one before and one at the crux.  The gear on this route is great and the climbing really good all the way to the chains.

Bulge about 30 feet up is the crux and a green camalot helps and hurts here.  The 5.8 variation keeps moving left here then follows the main weakness and stays left at the top.

Sustained, fun climbing and a variety of moves.  Moves left into the corner of DIEHEDRAL 5.9 for a body length or so then underclings a flake back right then up the face.

Steep and a little sharp in places.  Bakerized (bolted in a way that encourages you to climb a certain piece of rock) in two places, the middle and the top.  If you don't want to climb over the bolts feel free to wander it will still be 10+.

A couple of bolts lead to the gear protected crux of Never Again then continues right along a weakness that leads to a single bolt protected crux.

Even the Queen of Egypt fell off the tinies at the crux of this route.  

  Technical devious moves with precise footwork.    Technique will serve you better than brawn on this one.

Short hard start to an interesting traverse and a short crack to finish.  More fun than expected.

Moves up a short crack/corner then right to a bolt then back left to shallow corner.  Powerful moves get you past the bolt.  An old school run out gets you to the ledge and a belay.  from here move right and turn the roof.  Modern cams will make this a bit safer or a .5 tricam.

Slab, laybacking, roof, bulge, steep face and more slab.  Everything but jamming.

Start is the same as West Face route but heads left at the horizontal. The crux is at the two bolts in the headwall.  Good pro with a little spice after the two bolts.

A small crag that had only four routes until recently.  The east face is warm on a sunny day in the winter as is the west face later in the day.  Few have climbed here as the approach before the fire was pretty nasty with a lot of Manzanita.  Rock is a little sharp as most rock in the Windy Point area is.  Some of the new routes have some short sections of grainy stuff but that should go away with a little climbing activity.

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