Yo folks, Does anyone out there have the topos or any info for the following routeS in ZNP: -Sheer Lunacy -Magic Carpet Ride -Sunlight Buttress (Kolob) -The Golden Years (Kolob)

Any info would be great, and yes I know you can find some of them in the visitors center, but I'd like them in hand before starting out. Thanks, and keep headed up!

Feel

-- This Guy (feeliobabar@hotmail.com), June 25, 2000

Answers

I have always had difficulty findin decent zion topos anywhere besides the visitors center. I usually borrow some paper from the rangers, and trace my topo while my partner registers, or vice versa. About Sheer Lunacy, I have done the first six? pitches. This includes the long ledge traverse and the long "C2" pitch. It does go with clean placements, but it took some serious thrashing and backcleaning to make it happen. One stretch leapfrogged 00 TCU's for what seemed to be forever (20 feet). Better climbers would probably not have my sentiments, but I couldn't help but wish I was on the "harder" but cleaner lunar ecstacy. Also the third pitch could really use hooks, to decrease the terror factor. Strange but true.

-- nathan zahller (nathanzahller@gateway.net), August 27, 2000.