Left side of Kor Wall.   100ft left of naked prey and few hundred feet left of the start of Kor Route. 

Eroder’s Delight

Hard to Swallow

The Naked Prey

Kor Wall

Getting to the base of the route is an uphill march: from shuttle stop 7 walk back down canyon 100yds to a gully heading uphill for 200yds til it connects with the sabino trail.  Travel uphill @ 1/2 mile to the Phoneline trail, turn right til you get to the Hiker's Gully @ 100yds and walk up it til you get level with the Kor Wall's base.  Walk left to the rocky base and drop your packs.  Climb 3rd/4th class up to the left side of the pillar @ 300' and set your belay inside the chimney.  Climb chimney, work your way to the edge of it up high and then work back inside to top of pillar.  Belay on slung block.  Pitch 2 goes up @ 10-15' then traverses left on incipient cracks for 40-50', trending down on easier ground to the main crack.  Climb a bit higher to set belay.  Pitch 3 goes up small cracks on great rock, stay right of dihedral visible above.  Stay right on good crack with piton to pass crux bulge then traverse left when level with start of dihedral to set a belay.  Pitch 4 goes up remaining dihedral and wanders right to ledge going directly right under a roof.  Go around corner to set belay on ledge where it ends.  Pitch 5 goes up overhung finger crack with great rock and holds to top.  Walk north to descend Hiker's Gully to your packs.

Each pitch has some junky spots you need to avoid and there are a few spots layered with decades of swallow droppings. Other than that, it's a great route!   Definitely some fun, steep sections with great exposure.

So far, this is a work in progress.  The first pitch starts way left in a short steep diheddral and trends up and right passing thin pro and a bolt to the main dihedral.  The crux may be after the bolt, you pass a bulge and use 2 med tri-cams  til you gain a finger-sized undercling (visible from the ground).  Build an anchor and the second pitch goes up a crack in the main dihedral to a bolted anchor at a stance right of the crack.  We were going left in the dihedral but it turns out to be a roof that blanks out.  We bailed and will return to finish around to the right.

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Routes in Kor Wall