Saddle Up Climbing

This digital Saddle Up climbing guidebook gives you GPS navigation, verified topos, and beta for hundreds of climbs. Explore classics and hidden gems with offline access to maps, directions, and beta videos. Whether it's your first visit or fiftieth, KAYA makes your Saddle Up days smoother, safer, and more dialed.

In the fall of 2012, just months before the first edition of this book went to the printers, Warren Digness and Dave Fichter took a hike above the Saddle Boulders and discovered yet another amazing bouldering spot. It’s an easy 30 minute hike from the Saddles to this zone and it’s well worth it. The rock is perfect granite and the views are spectacular. The highlight is The Dispensary, which is a mini version of the Saddle Boulder. It’s not as tall and the problems are more moderate and enjoyable for the average climber. There are also many other great boulders all within a fe... Show more

This digital Saddle Up climbing guidebook gives you GPS navigation, verified topos, and beta for hundreds of climbs. Explore classics and hidden gems with offline access to maps, directions, and beta videos. Whether it's your first visit or fiftieth, KAYA makes your Saddle Up days smoother, safer, and more dialed. In the fall of 2012, just months before the first edition of this book went to the printers, Warren Digness and Dave Fichter took a hike above the Saddle Boulders and discovered yet another amazing bouldering spot. It’s an easy 30 minute hike from the Saddles to this zone and it’s well worth it. The rock is perfect granite and the views are spectacular. The highlight is The Dispensary, which is a mini version of the Saddle Boulder. It’s not as tall and the problems are more moderate and enjoyable for the average climber. There are also many other great boulders all within a few minute walk of The Dispensary. APPROACH: From the parking lot for the Saddle Boulders walk to the Black Wall. Cut uphill past the Sombrero Traverse to Satellite #1 which has the classic line “Nitiri” on it. From here walk straight uphill, SW for 3 minutes to the top of a bench. Continue in the same direction for 200 yds until you see a boulder called the Welcome Boulder. From the Welcome Boulder continue SW for 200 yds until you arrive at Saddle Up Boulders 1 & 2. These boulders are fun and this is a good place to warm up. From here walk in the same direction, SW for 100 yds until you hit a road. Again continue SW for another 100 yds until you run into a small cliff band. Scramble through a notch in the cliff band and you will pop up on some slabs. Traverse the slabs up and right for 5 minutes until you see The Dispensary on your left. The rest of the circuit is up and left from The Dispensary a few minutes away.