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All Locations > Colorado > Alpine Rock > RMNP - Rock > Hallett Peak > Direct Second Buttress (5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a)
Joe following an off-route variation to P2. After clearing the undercling and handcrack, continue traversing straight right for 30-40ft with well spaced gear. Your feet will be traversing the top a steep headwall. The traverse will deposit you on a sloping ledge with solid gear for an anchor. A great airy traverse...
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Is this the start? If so, I assume the "normal" is the corner on the left and the harder variation is the wet, black streak corner on the right? We started up this but it was covered in moss, wet, and awful. Not sure if we were on the right route.
Tony Bubb summits on the Direct Middle Buttress (5.9) of Hallett Peak. Photo 1998 by Rich (?).
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Guy H.
Aug 20, 2007
“Joe following an off-route variation to P2. After clearing the undercling and handcrack, continue traversing straight right for 30-40ft with well spaced gear. Your feet will be traversing the top a steep headwall. The traverse will deposit you on a sloping ledge with solid gear for an anchor. A great airy traverse...”  

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Coming up the first pitch! We ended up stepping left to a roof then up and traversing left. I would continue past the traverse before building a belay for P1.
Tom C. on the first pitch of the Direct Second Buttress, a perfectly timed alpine start.
Is this the start? If so, I assume the "normal" is the corner on the left and the harder variation is the wet, black streak corner on the right? We started up this but it was covered in moss, wet, and awful. Not sure if we were on the right route.
Joe following an off-route variation to P2. After clearing the undercling and handcrack, continue traversing straight right for 30-40ft with well spaced gear. Your feet will be traversing the top a steep headwall. The traverse will deposit you on a sloping ledge with solid gear for an anchor. A great airy traverse...
Tony Bubb summits on the Direct Middle Buttress (5.9) of Hallett Peak. Photo 1998 by Rich (?).
L variation, 3rd dihedral R of JJ variation.
The real P1.
P3.
Start of P2 before the pin.<br>
Chossy begining of 2nd pitch.