Surgery Buttress

Description 

Decent limestone crag that features mostly shorter routes on vertical rock. Gets excellent winter sun (noon until sunset).

Getting There 

Park at the Bair Ranch rest stop (exit 129) just east of Glenwood Springs. Cross under the highway to the north side and locate an obvious concrete water culvert. Walk around a barbed wire fence via the left edge of the culvert, then head up along the left side of the drainage and over a second barbed wire fence. From here follow a good climbers' trail up to the right end of the cliffs, and traverse west (left) along a catwalk-like ledge system all the way to the SW end of the cliffs. Just before rounding the corner is a cave with two steep routes, and once around the corner most of the routes are found.

L->R: 

Per Michael Schneiter: Routes, listed R->L, or as approached:

Smooth Operator, 5.10d
Special Gift for Girls, 5.12a
Surgery Buttress, 5.10b
Pre Op, 5.10d
Connective Tissue, 5.10d
The Knife, 5.12a
Post Op, 5.11d
Rehab, 5.12a
Smells Like Victory, 5.11c
Smells Like Pussy, 5.10d
Pussy Pie, 5.11a
Bitchy Bitch, 5.11c/12a
Angel Baby, 5.11b
Smirkin' Smith, 5.9+
Slippin' Sloan, 5.9

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