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Buffalo Shoulder Buttress Rock Climbing

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	Another One Bites the Dust T 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
	Let Them Eat Cake T 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a

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Elevation:	3,047 ft	929 m
GPS:	60.8215, -137.51214 Google Map · Climbing Area Map
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Shared By:	Reid Fink on Oct 13, 2016
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Description

The third buttress from the left side of Paint Mountain as seen from the highway. If you picture the mountain as the profile view of a left-facing buffalo, there are deep gullies separating the head, shoulder, belly, and rear haunches. This buttress forms the buffalo’s shoulder that runs up to the summit hump forming the backbone. An open mind and a nice high perspective may help to visualize this. As with all climbs on Paint this area faces south and gets sun all day. Higher on the buttress gets wind and may be a little cooler.

Getting There

**A GPX trail has been uploaded. You can use the MountainProject app to download it or upload it your favourite GPS app to make the approach much easier

From the parking area follow the well defined trail west beneath the wall as for Swiss Wall and Chunder Gully (Trailhead: 60.81781084743339, -137.48633234235362). Continue further along the trail, passing the Chunder Gully wall, until it begins to disappear, then angle upwards towards the buttress on an open hillside (orange flagging tape, 30 min, approximate location of hillside: 60.81849429170764, -137.5066680711279). The trail is not fully beat in on most of the slope but the flagger should take you where you need to go even if you get off trail. Eventually this will lead you to the edge of a boulder field (Approximate: 60.819701531662645, -137.50790828326996) with the buttress on the other side. Follow cairns across the boulder field to the base of the wall (10-15 min). Be careful on this portion as some of the rocks can be unstable. There is also a heinous amount of spiders stringing webs between them but they're generally good at letting you know a web is occupied by vigorously shaking, apparently this is to dissuade predators.