Ascent Notes for: Coyote Tower - 5.10c Average Rating : 4.56/5

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With JC from Flag. Nice mid-week excursion in Sedona finishing off with Coyote. The 2nd pitch reminds me of Primrose Dihedrals on Moses in Canyonlands. A really good pitch. Four of the pitches offered decent crack climbing. You can descend this with a 70m if you reverse or rap diagonally back to the top of the 2nd pitch vs the fall line which requires doubles.

Awesome line, even better summit! Lead all but the third and fourth pitch and enjoyed every awkward foot of it. Only thing that detracted was the shitty coagulated mud ball at the top of the fifth pitch, tried climbing around the left side at first. It wasn't so intrusive on my cognitive stability once i realized to go around to the right. First pitch felt more like part of the approach and so didn't detract from the climb for me.

Pitch one is out of line with the rest of the route in that it sucks, it is basically part of the approach and it feels sandbag. Second pitch is awesome and includes overhanging jamming as well as technical stemming. The 5th pitch was a sweet corner that is fairly pumpy, bring extra 0.4 sizes. Might want to do three single raps then two double rope raps to avoid getting caught up, we saw another party get caught trying to go from 5 to 3.

Fun climb with some great rock. Found P2 to be the crux, and pitch 6 was definitely not a gimme (had to take the helmet off for the top). There are rap anchors atop P6, P5, P4, P3, and P1. We just did double rope raps from 6 to 4, 4-3, 3-1, and 1 to the ground. I think the only obligatory doubles are 3-1 and 1-ground, but not sure about 4-3.

Swapped leads with Catherine. Perfect day! Even got to hear the coyotes howl while on top.

Toasty sunny day to be hanging out.
Only did first pitch let Mike have the business on the 2/3. woooweee! one of the harder 10's I've climbed in Sedona. Remainder is sweet.

Lead pitches 2,4 and 6. Markguycan lead the rest. Mostly great climbing with a bit of obligatory choss. Perfect weather. Great day!

Love this place! there are a lot of good pitches on not-too-bad rock. The second pitch takes some juice, is good the hard section is not long and protects very well.

Quality route! Crux 2nd pitch has really solid rock and reminds me of East of Eden at the Forks. It's about the same difficulty, I just didn't quite have it this day and burned myself out trying to get into the awkward pod at the top of p2. Didn't have to aid up, but it warn't pretty. To totally sew it up (this IS Sedona), take a double set to #3 with three each of #1's and 2 camalots. Belays all bolted, I don't think you need the 3.5 or 4. Raps have been moved since Bloom guidebook came out to more closely follow the route: Single rope rap from top of 6 to top 5, then pick up yer second rope and do a double rope rap from top 5 to top 3 (can do 2 single raps here) then top 3 down to top 1 (gotta have the second rope here) and then to dirt.