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Description
This is an extraordinary route on the Sun Devil Wall. It climbs the left skyline of the Sun Devil Tower through perfect rock, 350 feet above the canyon floor, on amazing features, and slightly overhanging rock. The approach pitch is also very good, though at 5.10 its barely a warmup for the climbing on Sundevil tower. Enjoy, it doesn't get much better than this.
Location
Start on the first pitch of either Sun Devil(5.9) or Astro Devil(11c) to get to Sun Devil Ledge. Head straight up a bolt line from the anchors into the first pitch of Seventh through 8 bolts, then head right to bolted anchor near the wide crack (5.10). Step right from the anchor, across the crack, and to the arete for full exposure climbing through 10 bolts to the anchor. 3 easy raps with a 70m rope to the ground. A 60m rope is fine but knot your ends because the bottom rap lets you off at a blocky ledge which is easy to step down to the ground from.
Protection
14 QDs, lots of bolts on first pitch. Bring a few long ones.