Ascent Notes for: pear buttress - 5.8 Average Rating : 4.73/5

We linked p1 and p2, 198 ft. The next pitch has the long perfect crack and the spicy roof. Should have linked the last 2 pitches but was confused on the cave exit. Turned out much easier than expected with the left flake to the chalked left crack edge then the thank god jug. Every pitch was 4 star except p3.

This is a really nice climb, especially the second pitch. Cruised up this leading all the pitches. The start is a little spicy and I personally found it to be the hardest move on the route.

Great climbing on every pitch! First pitch start is spiii-cee! I did the right-hand exit to the last pitch.

Called it good after Pear Buttress 'cuz of rain. Nice route. I would not want to lead the first 30 ft.

Fun

I used the full 60 meters on Pitch 3, pulling the awesome splitter, then taking the variation by moving left around the roof and up over a spicy runout slab (8+ R) that leads to easy climbing and a nice ledge at a large death block below the roof exit.

Onsight disclaimer: I weighted the rope when seconding pitch 1 due to a freak slip of the foot in the lie back. First take on moderate terrain in years... Mulligan...

First time on Granite. Good place to do it. :)

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Seems like you just can't go wrong on The Book! Another memorable climb: the start is not too hard but quite committing as you lean over to the crack with no pro below you.

My partner led p1 of Loose Lips 5.9 to start and I linked short p2 traverse (kind of exposed!) and money p3 of Pear Buttress. Not sure if we did all the belays correctly as he led a short but runout p4 right after that, then I ran up the easy p5 ramp in the rain to The Cave (where we immediately discarded all metal from ourselves due to approaching intense lightning); eventually we hastily did the Cave Exit and did a sketch descent in rain and lightning bolts all around...Thank you, Guardian Angel, for keeping me safe. ;-) I thought this route was great and was psyched I onsighted the quite painful finger crack crux on p3 (painful on the feet, not the fingers!). Also takes tricams very well: I used pink, brown, red and blue sizes all on p3 alone (this includes the belay stations at top and bottom of the pitch).