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Unknown by many people, the land, from at the LDS Church record vaults up to and including the Gate Buttress is owned by the LDS Church. The privately-owned areas include The Fin, The Thumb Area, Green Adjective Gully, Schoolroom Area, and Gate Buttress.
Over the past 40 years there have been several closures of this property to climbing.
Currently, climbers are welcome visitors in part because of Utah's Land Owner Liability Law and the work of local climbers to preserve access.
In 1998 through 2000 this area was quarried and is presently under restoration and re-vegetation. The climbers' trail goes through part of this area. Please stay on the trail so that this area can recover.
This area is essentially made up of routes that are continuations of many of the classic routes on the Gate Buttress.
Descent
Scramble left/west to Sky Surfer & Schoolroom Descent or rappel from stations on the routes.
History
Some of these routes may have seen portions of them climbed many years ago but if so they never cared enough to report them. Nobody knew much about them so most people just ignored them. Some formal routes were eventually established and protected.
It seems like there are multiple bolt lines above the last pitch of school room. I climbed what looked to be the longest of the slab lines and could see 3 seperate anchor systems for god knows what from the slab i was on. Non of these climbs seem to be any harder than 5.6 and that would be for one move only.
From what I saw there are:
3 bolt lines all right next to each other and all super easy (why are they even there?)
3 bolted anchors, one at the top of the long slab, one down and to the right, and one to the left halfway up the longer route.
the longest slab is about 35m long as I had about 15-20 feet of rope off the deck when I rapped with my 60m. But I easily stood there pulled the rope and walked down the slab I just climbed!
when you find the rap tree for the school room decent, look up and a little right and you'll see the bolts. Its pretty much at the end of the walk off for tingeys.
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