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All Locations > California > Yosemite NP > Tuolumne Meadows > Cathedral Range > Tenaya Peak > Northwest Buttress (5.5 4b 13 IV+ 11 MS 4a)
Follow the edge up. Stay left.
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Looking up the route. If you choose to rope up this is about where you want to do it.
Kim (her first solo) making the last vertical moves on the final pitch.
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Dark Bird
May 22, 2013
“Follow the edge up. Stay left. ”  

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