This is a 350 foot buttress that overlooks Chicken Point. Sun/shade varies though the afternoons are shady. You will most likely not encounter any other climbers here, though the incessant jeep tours below can be a bit annoying or entertaining... If you are there on a slow day, however, consider yourself lucky and enjoy the peace.
Getting There
Follow directions for the Religion wall past the watchtower. Stick close to the wall and you will encounter some fixed approach lines. Climb up to the limestone band and follow it around to the east between Minister and the Pulpit and the main wall. Once through the notch stick to the main wall and look for faint trail. A hairy move on the limestone band and some scrambling will put you at the base. Approach time- 45 min... It's pumpy.
The Classics
Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Trundlers Club Buttress:
PMT takes the natural line de resistance up the steep front of the buttress. Excpect steep, technical face as well as down home crack slugging. The third pitch offers as much exposure as you can get on the formation.To the right of Trundlers Club. Pitch 1: Climb corners and face past bolts to a two bolt belay. 5.11d. Pitch 2: Climb hand and fist crack into the vag chimney and out the small overhang to the Triangle Ledge of Love. 5.10+. Stan...[more]Browse More Classics in AZ
Yeah...the descent route has proved to be troublesome at times.... John Burcham said he had scoped a more direct descent/rappel line that we had always intended on establishing.... But don't let the possibility of a stuck rope deter you from these routes!!!
Our rope got stuck on the rappel this past weekend, so after years of using this site and climbing in Sedona, I finally have good reason to leave a comment. BTW tremendous thanks to the first ascensionist for putting up a fun, safe (for Sedona) route. It is hard work that is much appreciated. The rappel: Call it luck, but in 35 years of combined climbing, my partner and I had never gotten a rope stuck. Ours got stuck in the rope eating fist crack 2nd pitch of PMT, after tossing it off from the Triangle of Love ledge. Once we dealt with that, it almost got stuck again when we were pulling the rope in the same crack system. Partial solution, stand way out on triangle of love ledge to throw your rope off keeping it out of the crack system. Still there's no way around pulling it through the rope eater crack, so bring a knife. And once enough cut pieces of rope build up in that crack system, it will run smooth like butter.
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