Buttermilks
Climbing Sections:
- Beehive (3)
- Birthday Boulders (7)
- Boy and Girl Rocks (3)
- Buttermilk Stem Boulder (1)
- Centeral Area (8)
- Checkerboard Area (1)
- Get Carter Boulder (1)
- Ironman (5)
- Peabody Boulders (13)
- Pollen Grain boulders (7)
- Pope s Prow (3)
- Ranger Rock (1)
- Robinson's Rubber Tester Slab (1)
- Saigon Area (5)
- Skin Diver Formation (5)
- Soulslinger Boulders (3)
- South Mount Klieforth (1)
- Stained Glass Area (6)
- Sunshine Boulder (4)
- The Cave Area (10)
- The Drifter (5)
- The Green Wall Boulder (5)
- The Grovel Roof Area (1)
- The Hero Roof (7)
- The Loaf Boulder (4)
- The Slab (5)
- Tungsten Hills Curcuit (6)
- Tut boulder (4)
- Windy Wall (6)
- Wrangler Rock (4)
- Y Boulder (6)
- Yeyoi Boulder (2)
About Buttermilks:
| Bouldering playground, over 60 roped routes, and scrumbling too. Some boulders are huge, so shade at those spots in the peak of summer. maps, campgrounds and town info at rockfax.com. climb quality rated as no star or one star as in the Mick Ryan guide |
| Nearest town or city: | Bishop |
| Directions: | on Eastern Sierra, 20 mins west of Bishop. off of the 395 going through Bishop, turn west onto West Line Street (Highway 168) and head out of town for 7.7 miles. right turn onto unpaved Buttermilk Road and continue west for about 3.5 miles. park roadside along big boulders on the right, or go past cattle fence line and take an immediate right into the Birthday Boulders parking area. porta-potty along uphill trail before the Peabodys |
| Latitude, Longitude: | 37.32745, -118.57572 |
| Access Issues: | |
| Camping: | Yes |
| When to Climb: | Winter |
| Quantity of Climbs: | Year |
| Books: | "Bishop Area Climbs" by John Moynier and Marty Lewis, "The Bishop Bouldering Survival Kit, Version 2" by Mick Ryan (ROCKFAX); free download topos at DrTopo.com |
| Click the Update links above to provide data for any blank field of this Area. To modify existing fields, send an Editor Note. | |
Routes
Sequence Sequence numbers indicate the left (L) to right (R) order of the routes. |
Rating | Route | Difficulty | Ascents |
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High Plains Drifter | V7 | 1 |
Forum Discussions (15)
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Permanent Toilet in the Buttermilks..VOTE | superbum | 5 | Apr 26, 8:50 PM |
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How tall is Jedi Mind Trick? | 40sclimber | 7 | Jun 29, 6:28 PM |
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Bishop weather | chanceboarder | 2 | Feb 13, 11:45 AM |
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Bishop Bouldering In Early-Mid April | blitzkrieg_climber13 | 3 | Jan 20, 9:21 PM |
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february | climbingbums | 0 | Jan 30, 10:34 AM |
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Bishop Bouldering in Winter | thera | 3 | Dec 22, 8:53 AM |
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Bishop trip | texansherpa | 2 | Sep 29, 12:07 AM |
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Buttermilks in July? | dynamicpanda | 6 | Feb 08, 10:03 PM |
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bishop for spring break | caveman | 1 | Feb 21, 12:00 PM |
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Bishop conditions over President's Day | sidepull | 5 | Feb 12, 11:33 AM |
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Sacramento to Bishop | crackboy | 3 | Feb 06, 1:32 AM |
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Bishop and the buttermilks | layed_back | 5 | Jan 03, 1:47 PM |
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bishop temps????? | mr--duck | 1 | Nov 07, 10:27 AM |
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Buttermilks info needed | high_times | 5 | Nov 05, 6:07 PM |
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Buttermilks Beta Needed | bobtheboulderer | 1 | Aug 28, 10:55 PM |