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BETA PHOTO: Reference photo for Kosmonauts, Crimp and Crush, 5... DescriptionThis tall buttress has some of the best steep/face/crack routes that the Bald has to offer. The sunny side is great when temps are cool and crisp. On warmer days you can head around to the shady side for a good pump workout. Getting ThereApproach from either the boulder field trail or the Cereal Buttress trail. The ClassicsMountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Test Pilots Buttress:
Rocket Science 5.10c PG13 Trad, 1 pitch, 80 feet
Weight and Balance Check 5.10+ Trad, Sport, 2 pitches, 150 feet
Flakes of Bake 5.10d PG13 Trad, 70 feet
Kosmonauts 5.11b Trad, Sport, 1 pitch, 85 feet
Flakes of Wrath (aka Arch Rival) 5.11b/c Trad, Sport, 1 pitch, 100 feet
Space Monkey 5.11c Trad, Sport, 1 pitch, 90 feet
Kennedy Space Port 5.11+ Trad, 1 pitch, 75 feet
Focus 5.11c/d R Trad, Sport, 95 feet
Test Pilots 5.11d Sport, 1 pitch, 80 feet
Backdoor Man 5.12a Trad, Sport, 1 pitch, 95 feet
Gimme three steps... 5.12a Trad, Sport, 1 pitch, 80 feet
Featured Route For Test Pilots Buttress
 Climb a line of four or five bolts past steep, incut flakes to a stance above a fixed pin. Climb up the left facing arch past good but hard to place gear and pull the lip (crux) of the arch to a stance below a steep, featured headwall. Get tricky gear (nuts) and blast up and right for the top of the cliff. Belay or lower from a cable thread thru. Edge is sharp in spots....[more] Browse More Classics in NC |
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