You pretty much follow a route that goes just left of the skyline in this photo.

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You pretty much follow a route that goes just left of the skyline in this photo.

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tara nearing the upper vertical pitches

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Chris D

Sep 19, 2011

“You pretty much follow a route that goes just left of the skyline in this photo.”

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Ms Tenaya, charged on 7/5 with attempted murder by chewing through climbers' rope, TWICE.

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the entire route as seen atop the black streaked slabs

We chose to just follow the ridgeline down as opposed to the ledge descent. Parties that took the ledges ended up at the bottom in about the same time as us (and we're old and slow).

Summit view.

View from the true summit, of the walkoff wrap-around out onto the frontside talus slope facing the lake, to connect to the ledge traverse descent option. Aug 2015.

Maidy on the final traverse at the top.

tara nearing the upper vertical pitches

You pretty much follow a route that goes just left of the skyline in this photo.

Ledge

One third up the route.

Descent as defined by Yosemite climbing stewards

Eva Geraghty on the summit of Tenaya Peak

Kim (her first solo) making the last vertical moves on the final pitch.

I suspect many people encountered Ms. Tenaya (as we named her) or her friends on this route.

Follow the edge up. Stay left.

The "open bouldery area" referenced in Supertopo, marked by a big cairn, to drop down and out onto the frontside talus slope facing the lake, to connect to the frontside ledge traverse descent option. This spot is about 20-30 mins below the true summit, after passing the second and bigger rock formation along the way down the ridgeline. Aug 2015.

Tenaya Buttress with the lake beyond.

Looking up the route. If you choose to rope up this is about where you want to do it.

Cruising up the fun terrain, pretending there's an earthquake or something

John Dalbey on Tenaya Peak

View from the approach/decent

Looking down the route up Tenaya midway up the buttress

the perfect photo op (photo by Miguel)

Looking down from the summit.

Tim on Tenaya Peak. 7/2012.

Nate about halfway up the route

Noriko on the lower slabs.

the views on the descent are spectacular...

Top of Tenaya Peak

the views along the way to the summit are so very stunning... so many incredible views of the high country

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