Elevation: 8,314 ft
GPS: 40.628, -111.688 Google Map · Climbing Area Map
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Shared By: Chad Ambrose on Aug 11, 2019
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A secluded west-facing beautiful buttress, with steep hanging quartzite slabs

Getting There

Pull off the road up Big Cottonwood Canyon for the Mineral Fork trail head. Take the trail approximately 1 mile up and begin looking to the east. You will see a lone buttress that looks like a tooth with pronounced clean slabs. We have built a cairn marking where you should begin you march up to the base of the buttress. You will hike on talus and up through semi-thick brush but many game trails will help the short hike.

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5.9- 5c 17 VI 16 HVS 4c
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5.9- 5c 17 VI 16 HVS 4c Trad, Alpine 5 pitches
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On the right side of the buttress look for the clean slab and directly in the middle of that slab is the alcove and hand crack (pitch 2). To the left of the top there is a flying fin, that is pitch 4. Approximate belay locations of FA.
On the right side of the buttress look for the…
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