Escape Buttress  Photos:  Recent | Best | Popular Lat, Long:  40.4511, -111.6701 Map Page Views:  8,204. Good page? (1 like)    Administrators:  Kristine Hoffman, Andrew Gram, Perin Blanchard, grk10vq, Tom Erickson Submitted By:  richard magill on Aug 13, 2004 Make this area a Favorite What's New   Print a Mini-Guide with routes Add Route  Add Photo  Add Comment  Add Event

Located in a National Forest Fee Area MORE INFO >>> See the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest Service fee page for more information. This information is a public crowdsourcing effort between the Access Fund, and Mountain Project. You should confirm closures, restrictions, and/or related dates. Keeping climbing areas open and conserving the climbing environment

BETA PHOTO: 1 Rock Requiem 5.11c
2 Presidents Day 5.10b
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Description 

Nice, sunny (south facing) area that has some of the best moderate routes in AF.

I am from Colorado, so I road trip to AF. I always thought Escape Buttress was aptly named - we always hit it on the last day, after we are licking our wounds from being beat to death on The Billboard and all of AF's other tough areas.

Side benefit - every time I have been here, I have noticed that there are at least a couple of cute climber chicks cranking away.

The routes are moderate but not super closely bolted, so be solid at the grade and don't get hurt.

Getting There 

Park at the Gray Cliffs Picnic Area parking, 1.7 miles up canyon from the visitor center. Follow the paved trail east, paralleling the road, until the trail reaches a picnic area (with bench) and the trail turns into a dirt trail that goes up the hill to a wall with many bolted routes. This is the Hard Rock area.

Follow the trail upcanyon (along the base of the crags) past a couple of crags to Escape Buttress. After passing Hard Rock on your left you will walk past the White Wave Wall (which you can't miss - it looks like a white wave), and around a corner to the grayish Escape Buttress.

The Classics

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Motherload 5.10b/c  UT : Wasatch Range : ... : Escape Buttress

A short, juggy climb up overhanging rock. Start on ledges and juggy sidepulls to the first bolt, then pockets to the second (including a nifty, smooth, white pocket lined with some sort of quartz-like deposit).After the second bolt comes the crux. You can go right or left of the bolt. Choose wisely....[more]   Browse More Classics in UT

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A summer evening on Escape Buttress.

Getting busy on a sunny spring morning at [[105739...