Route Overlay SE Buttress.

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Route Overlay SE Buttress.

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The 1st headwall pitch and possibly the first traffic jam ever on the route

Pitch 8.

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Steph Abegg

Jul 31, 2016

“Route Overlay SE Buttress.”

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Pitch 1.

The 1st headwall pitch and possibly the first traffic jam ever on the route

Route Overlay SE Buttress.

Pitch 8.

Looking down Pitch 9. Climb the offwidth or fingercrack.

Pitch 10.

Offwidth on Pitch 9. Most climbers bypass the offwidth for a fingercrack about 4 feet to the right.

Approaching Cathedral SE Buttress.

Pitches 6-7 follow 5.7 blocks and cracks to the base of the headwall.

Pitch 5.

On the summit!

Pitch 4 starts somewhere in here.

Quartz dike at the end of Pitch 4.

Pitch 3.

Pitch 2.

Pitch 1.

The section on the descent that you either jump across or downclimb an exposed section a bit to make an easy step across. In the photo Janet is doing the downclimb rather than the jump across.

Cathedral Peak from Upper Cathedral Lake. SE Buttress on right skyline.

The easy scree descent back to Upper Cathedral Lake. ~40 minutes from summit to camp at the lake.

Chimney on the upper part of Pitch 5.

The ledge traverse to the base of Pitch 5.

The route starts ~150 feet up the Cathedral-Monk gully.