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Frigid Air Buttress

After about a thousand feet of high quality climbing you get to the final, darkly varnished headwall, which is split by a solitary, steep crack.

Awesome.

Yeah, the moves are killer, but what I'm in awe of is the whole scenario. Almost to the top and a black shield of perfect sandstone is blocking the progress. But that crack is there. And it's doable. Hard, but not impossible. Totally in tune with the rest of the route. A finger crack crux is exactly what we need after all those wider fissures down there.


		Brief logistics: Ten leads, none of which are overly long and they all end on comfy ledges. Two 5.9 pitches. One is clean and straight forward, but hard. The other is not the one advertised in several guides, but that's our opinion. Gear to #4 Camalot, minimum. The descent is tricky, especially the part dealing with finding the top of Burlesque, the route you rappel. You can't see the first anchor until you peer over the edge. The beta is to continue along the rim, down, down, aiming for a conifer sticking up from a lower ledge. This tree is the first anchor. Sonja and I did the route on March 7th, 2005 in eight and a half hours base to base.
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