start up the olympiad (5.10 crack) then stay right up steep bolted face (optional gear placements for the less bold)

50meter Dash

Peter's Ladder

Training is training for training

Ice Cream Cone Route

Michael Bolton

Acropolis - North Face

Yanni Live !

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Flight of the Anasazi

Rad OW

Zephyr's Stairway

East Face

Olympiad

Right heading ramp system, 1st pitch 5.7, 2nd pitch 5.9, 3&4 ? continue up and right...

P1    5.11.   Climb slab past 3 bolts into loafy left facing corner, exit right when it ends past bolt to ledge. P2    5.12    Blurch off ledge into pod, ride skeletal lightning for 20 feet of vexing crux. Once established in the fingers, enjoy quality rock past hands into odd pod. Step left past hueco to fingers to hand crack. Maybe let your 8 year old sister lead it first.

Fun facts: While working on this route, Matt Swartz and I broke two cams, core shot a rope in a lead fall and blew out two pairs of shoes. Have fun kids!

This is an interesting way to reach the summit of the Acropolis. One challenging old-school pitch followed by lots of scrambling. 

P1: Climb the clean left-facing corner (5.8) utilizing the plethora of features on the left wall. The final 20 feet of this pitch are quite interesting: one must squeeze through the "Coke Bottle" (5.10), a bottle-shaped offwidth/squeeze thickly coated in fine coke dust. Unspeakable maneuvers required to get past this physical crux. The mental crux of the route comes immediately after the Coke Bottle, with a stark transition from offwidth to tricky fingertip roof crack. Pull this roof (5.10) on holds and gear that together leave much to be desired. Careful you don't grab a cactus up there. 

Belay from the big obvious tree. As of Oct 2016 the sling needs replacing. This pitch could use a proper bolted anchor to avoid the current rope-dragging-over-cactus-infested-lip situation.  

P2-P4: From the top of P1, three rope-lengths of blocky 5th-class climbing lead to the summit of Acropolis. There are a few spicy sections up to 5.8 in difficulty.  

Rappel: Scramble down from the summit toward the south until you see the top of the rappel line. Make a total of 4 single-rope rappels down the chimney system, and then rappel the full 100' of P1 to the ground.

Starts same as Yanni but moves up left past additional bolt to left arcing crack.  Good rests makes this a better warm up. Fun laybacking up high leads to a hilarious move to clip anchor. Crustier then its immediate neighbors, but still excellent in this empire of junk.

I do not remember much but it followed a lower angle crack line in the middle of the north face for 5 or 6 pitches then gaining the summit ridge which was followed to the top block.

Virtuoso new age classical, just like Yanni himself. Why isnt’t he the mayor of Sedona? Tricky start past 2 bolts, then step right to fingers in a tight flare to short finger splitter. Another flare to a hands and fist finale, bow to the applause.

Traverse to the left clipping two drilled baby angles (first one is tested!) and a few gear placements to a bolt and pin anchor below the crack. P2: climb finger tips in a corner to chimney to roof to hands the ow then finger lieback- this is an awesome pitch it has it all! there may be a third pitch- or maybe that would still be an FA.

P1: climb thin face to cracks (mostly fingers), turn an exposed roof to a corner and belay. Then P2 continue up through ow pod then fingers thru a bulge ending at an anchor on Peter's Ladder. Then P3 follow the diagonal of Peters Ladder for a few moves then pull up left on varied cracks to the higher of two caves.

as per the "better way to die" climb finger to hand and finally some radical OW!

Wild 1st pitch with multiple cruxes: thin and balancy past the first bolt, then pinch a rail and pull down (not out!), clip the second bolt with a long runner and traverse left on huge huecos. 2nd crux is a mantle past the huecos then a thin flared crack leads to 4th bolt and crux (5.11-). Up and right to the 5th bolt at a bulge gets you to a wide crack then further right to a thin and steep layback corner for the final crux of the pitch. Using many techniques on this varied pitch will keep you engaged. Despite the bolts you still need a light rack on this pitch!2nd pitch is mostly OW and chimney with a bit of hands (5.9) FA Ivan Cross3rd pitch exits the left side of the ledge to a long right facing corner utilizing some big gear (5.9) belay on another pleasant ledge. FA Derek Fields4th pitch continues up the long corner (about 100ft) passing two large roofs (5.10)! 1 bolted added 1/2022.5th pitch is like none other. Climb easy terrain up from anchor to the imposing roof crack. This feature starts in a cave but the real climbing starts out horizontal hands with a down sloping lip. Then highly improbable climbing (5.10+)thru OW pod to fist crack with massive exposure leads you to summit.Rap each pitch with a 60m. The first rap overhangs so you might have to kick off and swing in to reach the anchors. Watch your ends on 2nd rap!

Climb a corner up to where it arches left.  Finish up another pitch or so until you can hike for the summit. 

  Good 1-2 pitch kinda of climb.    Stemming and lie backs on solid red rock.   Rarely gets done ?     Scott recommened it and I found it to be a real fun outing.     Acropolis is a great summit to end up on.   Descent as per the NF route.

The Acropolis is a big formation found just north of the Steamboat Rock/Tisha Spire/Princess Spire cluster.

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Routes in The Acropolis