North Face

Remote, choose your own adventures on an enormous broken wall which forms the left side of Mud Spring Canyon. No doubt about it, you will be alone out here.

The north side of Windy Peak is characterized by complex topography.  The base of the face is a compact drainage known by some as Deathtrap Canyon.  This is separated from the main Mud Springs Canyon drainage by the rocky ridge leading up to the Brimstone Towers.  It is possible to ascend the entire Deathtrap Canyon to the summit ridge via third class scrambling and fairly nasty bushwhacking.

Once you have entered the bottom of Deathtrap, the main features of the wall become apparent.  On the far left (east) is the buttress leading to Nightmare Point. The left section, bordered on the west by Midsummer Night Scheme features steep walls and discontinuous cracks.  The forbidding central wall drops directly beneath the summit area.  To the right of the big gully that is obvious from the approach is the lower buttress with routes such as Dream Within a Dream and Of Mice And Men.