Navajo Arete

Route: P1 - from the big ledge climb up and route past 2 bolts to a crack, and then back left on a slabby ledge to a two-bolt anchor (5.8+). P2 – Move up and right past 3 bolts to a slab, zig left to a bolt, then zag right to steeper rock and pass 5 more bolts and huecos to a ledge easier bolts (5.10). P3 – route-find easy cracks to the top. Descent: either scramble up a ways and find the trail to the north towards Gatherer Canyon and hike +/- 2 miles down to the road and back south to the car, or find your way down to the top of pitch 2 and rap the route.

Location: Navajo Arete is a multi-pitch route on arête/buttress located on the north side of the mouth of Hunter Canyon directly above toilet in the parking lot found at 38°30'36.07"N, 109°35'46.45"W

Approach: there is an old undocumented 2-pitch approach route that starts up a crack immediately left of the toilet. First pitch looks good (10-?) and goes up about 40 ft to 2 obvious bolts, second pitch looks chossier and passes a bolt or 2 higher up and leads to the big ledge at the base of the Navajo Arete route. An easier and less chossy approach is to walk back north up the road for +/- 100 yards towards Moab and look for an easy route up to a big ledge that you can use to traverse back right. One bolt up a 5.4 slab (at 38°30'38.75"N, 109°35'46.10"W) gets you to the ledge where you can walk/scramble back to the right and up to the base of the Navajo Arete route.

mostly bolts but also takes trad pro especially on pitch 1, single set of cams should do.