On the 3-hour (plus) descent off Rainbow Buttress. "Just leave me here..."

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On the 3-hour (plus) descent off Rainbow Buttress. "Just leave me here..."

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Dave Holliday on Pitch 2 and the crux corner

The chicken lips descent. From the top of Rainbow Buttress head up and East for a few hundred yards. Go down the gully just left of the climber with the two large pines in it. Two single rope rappels (60m rope required)brings you to the top of Black Orpheus.

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May 2, 2016

“On the 3-hour (plus) descent off Rainbow Buttress. "Just leave me here..."”

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Pitch 3 starts with a short offwidth slot, then moves right on the varnished face.

Eagle Wall from the lower Painted Bowl with routes marked (note that bottom pitches of these routes are not visible due to the "foreground bump")

Overview of the Rainbow Buttress area.

The obligatory feet shot. Top of the 5th pitch of Rainbow Buttress. Yeah, it's a long way down...

P3 squeeze chimney

This is the steep and stout crack on P.2 of Rainbow Buttress. It will give you a taste of things to come! Good jams and wide stems! We belayed using the crack with the bush in it in the lower part of the photo, which allowed Sara to keep some of the bigger cams for later.

The varnished corner on pitch 2 of the Rainbow Buttress.

Eric works his way through the upper chimney on pitch six

working the stem on the start of P2

Dave Holliday on Pitch 2 and the crux corner

On the 3-hour (plus) descent off Rainbow Buttress. "Just leave me here..."

The chicken lips descent. From the top of Rainbow Buttress head up and East for a few hundred yards. Go down the gully just left of the climber with the two large pines in it. Two single rope rappels (60m rope required)brings you to the top of Black Orpheus.

Diana leads the new, bolted last pitch.

slabby approach to Eagle Wall

first 3 belays

final grovely moves on P2

The summit of Rainbow Buttress!

Headed towards Oak Creek Canyon

The view down the upper corner on pitch 3.

From the top of the tower, most people climb up and right to gain the big, left-facing dihedral.

A wide stem in the left-facing corner of pitch 6.

Above the big corner on the dihedral variation, easier rock continues to the large ledge.

Top of Rainbow Buttress. George Washington tower in the center.

looking across Painted Bowl

approaching the P3 belay

through the grovelly part on P3

Rainbow Buttress

looking down P2

The dihedral pitch.

Approaching the top of the pitch 2 corner.

starting up P5

Above the tower looms the sustained, thin 5.8 corner that is on the right-hand variation to the Rainbow Buttress route.

looking back down to Wilson Pimple

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