Sister Superior Group

Location Description

42 photos

On Tuesday morning, we woke up early in Moab, grabbed...
The hike in was amazing: the air was crisp and quite...
The approach was an impossibly steep and winding...
The views on the approach just got better and better....
Castleton Tower and Castle Valley to the right.
Top of Pitch 3 of Jah Man (5.10c) looking down to the...
Monica, having passed the crux 5.10+ traverse on Pitch...
Monica at the top of the 4th pitch of Jah Man, with...
View to the south from the summit of Sister Superior.
Monica, just a few feet below the rounded off summit of...
At the summit, looking north with the Colorado River...
Sort of couldn't take enough pictures up here.
We had run into another climbing party on the approach...
Not a bad place to ponder the yonder.
Looking east toward Professor Valley. See the small...
Lift-off!
View down over the edge, yikes! Our approach trail can...
Stefan and Brendan join us on top.
Enjoying the view.
Monica on rappel from the top of the tower. Check out...
Better shot of the calcite.
Back on (relatively) level ground: Sister Superior's...
Monica at the base of the climb ready to hike back down....
Looking at the path back down to where we had parked the car.
Monica and Sister Superior. We climbed up the face on...
Sister Superior again. Note the calcite varnish.
Wish I hadn't taken this one slightly crooked.
Monica leading the way.
Steep trail!
Colorado River.
Sister Superior Group with the Sister on the right.
Better view of where we climbed... you can kind of see a...
Monica.
Lots of cryptobiotic soil.
Checking out a cliff edge.
Monica.
Monica and Castleton Tower. Castleton Tower has several...
Sister Superior Group.
Some idiot driving a dune buggy through crypto.
Interesting mesa / formation near Castle Valley.
We made it back to the car! Sister Superior group is the...
John back at the car.