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All of the following areas are within an hour of Tucson and
can be reached via car. There are many area guidebooks which are available on-line
or from area retailers.
| Mount
Lemmon |
| Description: |
A highly accessible climbing
spot with more rock than you can imagine. Numerous top-rope, sport, and traditional
climbing routes with both single and multi-pitched choices are available. Route ratings
start at from 5.0 and go to 5.12, with most climbing on granite and gneiss chickenheads,
cracks and edges. |
| Location: |
Approximately 30 minutes up
the Catalina highway on Tucson's north side |
| Approach: |
From the parking area, you
can walk anywhere between 5 minutes and 3 hours. |
| Reading: |
Squeezing the Lemmon, by Eric
Fazio-Rhicard
Backcountry Rockclimbing in Southern Arizona, by Bob Kerry |
| Cochise
Stronghold |
| Description: |
More rock than you can climb
in a lifetime. World-class granite and back country conditions provide mostly
traditional, multi-pitched climbing. However, there is an excellent sport-bolted
area on the west side. Rating run from 5.0 to 5.12 and are a little stiff as there
are many runouts. |
| Location: |
One hour southeast of Tucson |
| Approach: |
From the parking area, you
can walk anywhere between 10 minutes and 2 hours, with tricky approaches and elevation
changes from 100 to 2000 feet. |
| Reading: |
Backcountry Rockclimbing in Southern
Arizona, by Bob Kerry |
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