Steep, varied and sustained, Direct Flight should become a classic destination for climbers willing to catch a flight.  While packed with airy exposure, awesome climbing ought to keep your attention to dull the possibility of air sickness. Pack your bags today!

 P1  5.10+ 60’ Work up low angle funk corner past wide pod to bolt. Awkward crux quickly eases to ledge. Belay from rap station.  (This pitch is shared with Destination Unknown)

 P2 5.11 60’ Step left past bolts up to bulge, crank awesome bolted patina up left then back right to fun thin crack. Semi hanging belay.

 P3 "5.10+" 60’ Climb the stellar twin cracks.  Pumpy, gymnastic and rad! Belay on thin ledge.

 P4 5.11 100’ Move right and into a pod. Plug up the sweet thin hands crack until traverse right to the spacious “Lay over ledge”.  

 P5 5.10 80’ Squiggle up the wideness past a bolt. At 2nd bolt, move right to short hand and fist crack, when it ends enter the “No Fly Zone”, a long traverse left past a bolt. Keep going left to summit.

 Rap route with 1x 70m.

Direct Flight

Destination Unknown

Flight Path

Flight Path tackles a steep line on the South face of Destination Tower. It has a typical Sedona mixed bag of rock quality in 4 pitches of crack climbing. Don't forget to pack your sunscreen!

 P1 5.10 90’ Head up typically hollow red stuff. Step right to nice splitter twin cracks into a steep hands corner to small stance in chimney.

 P2 5.11 110’ Blast the splitter thin hands crack through flares and mini roofs.  Mega classic pitch! 

 P3 "5.9+"  PG-13 60’ Ugh. Crank a move into the shattered block realm. Tip toe up the corner past hollow features and dance around the moldy mushroom to belay. As bad as the previous pitch was good.

 P4 5.10+ 90’ Sail the nice flake in the black varnished corner. Climb past a bolt into a steep hands flake. Typical Burcham photo finish out the final bulge.

 Rap route with 70m.

Destination Unknown is a fun and sustained tower line up the right side of the North face. Destined to be popular with the jet setting tower crowd at a relatively moderate grade.   

 P1 5.10+ 60’ Work up low angle funk corner past wide pod to bolt. Awkward crux quickly eases to huge ledge ledge. Clip rap station but belay from right anchor. This pitch is shared with Direct Flight.

 P2 5.10- 50’  Walk right on ledge. Bust funky moves up crack.  Belay at 1 bolt stance on right with hands piece back up.

 P3 5.11-  90’ Step left into tips crack that widens to thin hands and changes corners and becomes a hand crack. At the roof, traverse left to breech the bulge and a nice ledge with bolts.  Fun pitch!

 P4 5.10 80’  Climb up past zig zag splitter finger and hand crack. Way fun pitch! Belay on “Lay over ledge”.

 P5 5.10 80’ Squiggle up the wideness past a bolt. At 2nd bolt, move right to short hand and fist crack, when it ends enter the “No Fly Zone”, a long traverse left past a bolt. Keep going left to summit.

 Rap Direct Flight w 70m. This means that you can't rap from the 2nd & 3rd pitches with out leaving bail gear, but both anchors have at least 1 bolt.

A quality tower hidden in plain sight out on SW flanks of Lee Mtn. 350 feet tall and vertical on all sides, Destination Tower features quality rock and climbing worth the journey.

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Routes in Destination Tower