You can follow the ridge line up to the notch and take the Cathedral Peak climber's trail down the east side as long as you don't have any reason to return to the JMT / north side. Makes for a nice loop and saves you some rough off-trail descent!

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You can follow the ridge line up to the notch and take the Cathedral Peak climber's trail down the east side as long as you don't have any reason to return to the JMT / north side. Makes for a nice loop and saves you some rough off-trail descent!

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Ryan on the route at the 3rd overhanging crux

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Christine Spang

Jul 19, 2020

“You can follow the ridge line up to the notch and take the Cathedral Peak climber's trail down the east side as long as you don't have any reason to return to the JMT / north side. Makes for a nice loop and saves you some rough off-trail descent!”

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The Orange Corner (Pitch 3)

The Original Route, Cathedral Wall

another picture showing the line. Red dots indicating the original belays. Green dot indicating another possible belay to cut down on rope drag on the long first pitch.

Kwyn Meagher following pitch 1. Low snow year in 2020—this was a rope stretcher without the snow and starting on flat ground. That's Fairview Dome in the background!

Rappelling the first few pitches, this route is steeper than it looks from afar!

Final pitch, the summit is up and right of the grin.

Ryan on the route at the 3rd overhanging crux

You can follow the ridge line up to the notch and take the Cathedral Peak climber's trail down the east side as long as you don't have any reason to return to the JMT / north side. Makes for a nice loop and saves you some rough off-trail descent!

the wall

The Original Route, Cathedral Wall

Gorgeous view from the summit!

Padding up the long slab ramp that awaits you after surmounting the difficulties of the Orange Corner.

Final moves of pitch 2 from the only bolted anchor on the route. (Don't miss it, take off your crack goggles and look right!) Up next is the Orange Corner.

Cathedral Wall, Tuolumne

view from the small lake before the talus fields

The belay before Pitch 4

Ryan high on route

We summited at sunset and this was our view. If you don't mind a down climb in the dark, I highly recommend it.

looking back at the wall from the descent ridge

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Kwyn Sunagawa

Oakland, CA

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