Cloud's Rest  Photos:  Recent | Best | Popular Elevation:  9,926' Lat, Long:  37.7691, -119.4942 Map Page Views:  7,516. Good page?    Administrators:  M.Morley, Sam Vanderhyden, Tom Erickson Submitted By:  TylerW on Feb 11, 2010 Make this area a Favorite What's New   Print a Mini-Guide with routes Add Route  Add Photo  Add Comment  Add Event  Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu 68° | 34° 72° | 36° 72° | 36° 64° | 32° 61° | 32°

great views from the bushy knoll ledge at pitch 10

Description 

Long routes up the huge ~3000 ft slabby face of Cloud's Rest. Although roughly north facing, it gets sun in the summer. Routes have been climbed since the 60s, but I personally only know of one "established" route. The face is more than a mile wide so there are potentially many more. Tenaya Canyon is the last real "remote" place in the park so please tread gently!

Getting There 

Park at Sunrise Trailhead & parking area in Tuolumne. Hike along the normal cloud's rest trail and then cut off right following Tenaya Creek to Pywiak Falls. Then simply contour along the slabs. Sticky rubber approach shoes help. The approach is approximately 6 miles.

The Classics

Featured Route For Cloud's Rest

My Favorite Things 5.10a  CA : Yosemite National Park : ... : Cloud's Rest

Every Tuolumne climber has eyed the huge face of clouds rest. Then, one day I found a description on the internet (myweb.cableone.net/tomharper/FTTop.html) of an awesome sounding route right up the middle. With 2700 feet of 5.9ish climbing, it sounded too good to be true. Finally in 2009 we went out and did the route and it has become one of my favorite climbs in Yosemite.Tom Harper has a great topo here: myweb.cableone.net/tomharper/FTTopo.htmlThe pitches are almost all 55-60m ...[more]   Browse More Classics in CA