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Saturday, July 9, 2011

Cardinal Pinnacle and the Real Buttermilks

  We decided to do a double header today.  A 5 star route called West Face, 10a was the first objective.  Once again, the rain was threatening.  We managed to knock the route out fairly quickly.  Really cool and very fun.
Cardinal Pinnacle, the biggest pointy thing.

  After that, we took a break.  Did a little snacking, reading, and napping.  It was pretty nice. Not too often do you get to be in a world-class setting like the Buttermilks, and have the luxury of time to wait out the heat to climb.  The only bummer was that the road was flooded.  Not a problem, we decided to do the last 1.5 ish miles on foot.  For all you pebble wrestlers out there, this is a world class strikingly beautiful area.  I would love to come back here.  The climbing is great (hard), the scenery amazing, and the landings soft for the most part.  It turned into a late night, getting home around 11ish.
The Buttermilkies.

The world-class Ironman Traverse, bad-ass problem. I'm only half an Ironman, couldn't make it all the way.
Last problem of the day, the Hero Roof. Cause everyone needs to be a hero! Probably the best V0 I've done.

   The next day turned into a local sport cragging area, and the following day we went to Patricia Bowel.  Cool cracks to be had there.  Now it's off to try to get a Whitney permit and try to get back into the back-country.ss

1 comment:

  1. Yeah for prebble wrestling - cannot wait to get back to it. Looks beautiful.

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