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The Cool Kids Buttress

5.8 -- 3p (30m, 15m, 15m) -- 11 bolts

Kyle Lamothe

P1, 5.8 30m 11 bolts

Start up a chonky ramp to a small arête; at the second bolt, trend right into a shallow corner and then up a short friction slab to a crack for a few layback moves. At the top of the pitch, there's a rap station; you can belay from here, but you will need to carry your rope over to the next pitch; it's better to clip it and continue to the first belay at the bottom of the obvious buttress several metres away.


P2, 5.4 15m 4 bolts

From the belay, gain a few ledges to the short slab and then up on huge holds to the top. Walk a few meters to the belay at the base of the 3rd little buttress.


P3 5.4 15m 4 bolts

Start up on big incuts and traverse left on the slabby arête and follow it to the top.


Descent

Walk east off the ridge to the first little gully and then head west between pitches 3 and 2 and walk down to the next bench at the top of pitch 1. From here, you can either rap P1 back to the bottom a 60m SHOULD JUST do it or walk west along the faint trail to kids wall and back down the trail to the base.

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