Utah 2005
The Fisher TowersFisher Towers
Perhaps the most notorious of all desert towers, the Fisher Towers are a collection of fins backed up against the eastern edge of the Castle Valley area. Were you to continue up the road, you would end up in the tiny, desolate collection of rusty trailers and falling down buildings that is Cisco. I thought it was a ghost town and got out to take pictures. That's when the crazed, barking dogs appeared.
The Fishers are quite different than the other towers in the area, namely because they are composed of mudstone.
They weather into dribbly Dr. Seussian shapes with bizzare bulbuous features. The major drawback, of course, is that they are not so solid. From my understanding, it largely remains the realm of suicidal aid climbers.
The route Stolen Chimney on the feature Ancient Art remains one of the most popular desert summits because it is atypical to the Fisher Towers. It protects well and is easy 5th with the exception of about 10 feet of 5.10 early in the route. Since neither Conor nor I are suicidal aid climbers, we banged off this route and called it a day.At this point, the hot July weather had taken such a cumulative toll on our
bodies and psyches that we pretty much decided that we had to drive until we escaped the heat.
As a last stop and somewhat of a rest day, we took in Island In The Sky of Canyonlands National Park. Always on the prowl, I peered over the edges of lookouts and scanned the vistas for inspiration and towers to climb on future trips...
Corkscrew summit of Ancient Art
The chossy chimney highway
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