P2 (C3) Climb steep red wall, left of the alcove to a hanging belay.
P3 (5.9 C2+) Continue up crack (C2+) to a bolt ladder that moves up and right to some bad hooks and a mantle move (5.9) that leads to belay ledge and bolted anchor.
P4 (C3) Start with a right-facing/angling corner (C2) that ends at more bad hooks heading left to another right-facing corner. Climb the corner using blown out pin scars (C3) and then move back right to the belay ledge and bolted anchor.
P5 (5.9 C1) Starts off with more bad hooks that lead to a left-angling crack (C1). Past the crack is a chimney (5.9) that ends before a cool roof (C1). Belay at ledge with bolted anchor.
This is a big sandy ledge and a place to bivy.
P6 (C2+) Follow right-facing corner to a fun OW. Belay at the ledge with bolted anchor.
P7 (C2+) Leave the ledge using hooks (C2+) that lead to a crack (C1+) that goes to the big ledge with bolted anchor.
- (4-5) sets of offset brassies - (3-4) sets of micro cams - (1-2) sets of nuts - (2) sets of Camalots #.5 - #3 - (1) #4 Camalot - assorted hooks (Talon, Cliffhanger, etc...)
Location
Located on a large buttress right of Moonlight Buttress, across the canyon from Spaceshot. Cross the Virgin River near Space Shot and head towards concave, pink face on the buttress.
Higher up the wall becomes a pillar with two dihedrals.
Went clean in spring 2005 to a couple of wall gomers (us), and probably a good number of times earlier than that as well. Try not to use the hammer, this is a route worthy of the challenge.
WTF is up with this description? 5.9 C3. C3. So why is a whole friggin rack of ironmongery listed in the protection section, eh? Not only does it go completely clean, but some rope monkeys from CA did this mutha sans-iron in 3 1/2 hours. If you wanna fuck up the rock and play with your peckers go climb the Streaked Wall.
By Brian in SLC From: Salt Lake City, UT Aug 22, 2007
Easy there. The only reason it even remotely goes clean is from pin scars. Its pretty sketchy as a clean aid route, especially that second pitch. And folks using cam hooks will probably blow out the crack so its completely unusable. Sure, try it clean, but, don't be foolish enough to get hurt or killed on it.
Kinda makes me wonder, though. Just 'cause a classic aid route has gone free, doesn't mean folks should HAVE to free climb it. By the same token, just 'cause some super high end aid monkey (no disrespect to them fellers!) manages to do it clean, with some sketchy high end trickery, and maybe the same skills on pair with a 5.13 or so climber who can free climb Moonlight Buttress, should mean the rest of us hacks, who could do the route with one or two bomber pin placements, should stay away from the route, methinks. Probably deserves its own thread in the forum.
Followed it, not lead it. Even the pins fell right out, though. Man, that's a thin lead.
Yeah, camhooks are a bad idea. They flare the cracks in an unnatural way, and at a downward angle. At least with pins, as long as the rock is not too soft, or the crack isn't too thin, you can eventually use an offset nut.
Route goes clean really easily, I just soloed the route in 16.5 hours on 10/17/09 trip report on supertopo.com. Rack I took: 2 sets brass offsets 2 sets alum offsets 1 set DMM peenut (like big brass offset) 2 set stoppers (1-9) 1 set Lowe Balls (only used #2 once) 2 set alien 1 set offset alien 3 set cam to #1 2 ea #2 camolot-#3 1 ea #4-#5 2 filed bd grapple hooks 1 bat hook This rack got me up the thing, I back cleaned some on pitch 3 and 4. Never felt like I was out there or anything. If soloing you can link 6 and 7 with a 60m but will not be able to haul it (big ledges I jugged with my bag on my back for the whole route) Have fun and the 4th up top sucks, I just free soloed it with ropes on my back then rapped back down in a straight line got my stuff and jugged out. Burt
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