Ascent Notes for: East Buttress - 5.10c Average Rating : 4.40/5

A great day out climbing with Rob. Amazingly, no-one else on route. Smokey due to forest fires all day; made surroundings surreal... Watch the 5.8 sections down low- tricky! I took a short fall here, then fired the 5.9 roof on lead. Aided the bolt ladder. Wouldn't mind coming back to do again (& trying to free the .10c!).

Nearly got bolt ladder fell at last move wahahah

fun route, did the "50 crowded" variation, which everyine says is more fun. Was supposed to be a rest day, so we didn't start climbing til 2. Descent seemed casual, but I'd just done the East Ledges (with haulbags) and the North Dome Gully.

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Very fun route. Aided the bolt ladder. Amzing views of El Cap. Tricky descent!

an exhausting experience

The date maybe a little off, but it was in May!
We had to pass a party after the second pitch and messed around doing the descent, and still made it back to the packs in like 4hrs? That's being generous it may have been less...We took the right hand variation and belayed when the 60M rope ran out. We did do some simul climbing- but only a little. This route is very good and the climbing and gear is very solid. We did the descent after the big rock fall- it is NBD but I'm glad I wasn't around when that thing cut loose!

I did this route in the summer of 1984. After being on the couch since the previous September, this was the first climb I did upon returning to the Valley. It was a bit strenuous for me, given my lack of fitness. The only hard part was finding the descent as dusk approached. Luckily, we met up with another party that had gone too far past the gully, and come back just as be got there. I think the descent trail is better marked now. I read somewhere that someone had scratched a big arrow into the cliff.

12 hours car to car. Blown out leather on the right shoe for the big traverse after the bolt ladder. The bolt ladder can EASILY be aided at A0- by clipping draws and standing on the bolts.