Match Lunules

Match Lunules is a fun multi-pitch adventure that feels more like alpine scramble on both the ascent and descent. The views are spectacular and the rock is surprisingly enjoyable. Bring proper approach shoes for the walk off because you will be dancing across a sharp limestone obstacle course for a couple hundred meters before arriving at carens that will lead you back down to the valley floor.

P1. 5a, 22 meters. Start a few meters right of a water tap and directly behind a large pine tree with fun moves to a bolt. Follow bolts and thread throughs that trend slightly right. Charge through some shrubbery and belay at a large tree.

P2. 5b, 28 meters. Continue up, trending right while going back and forth between the large inside corner and face climbing. Eventually you reach a 2 bolt anchor inside a cave that is hidden from view.

P3. 5a, 27 meters. From the cave pull technical moves as you go straight up before following the bread cam of slings and bolts. When you get to a ledge,  walk right through some bushes to an anchor that will become visible on the aret. 

P4. 6b, 18 meters.  Go directly out onto technical face climbing with beautiful crimps and chert features. Lots of bolts protect this enjoyable section of sustained climbing.

P5. 6a, 17 meters. Follow the first three bolts up technical face climbing before trending left on nice edges. Finish at a triple thread through anchor underneath a medium sized roof.

P6.  5c, 27 meters. Pull steep juggy moves around the left side of the corner and follow big holds up an arete. Stop  at a sloped belay ledge 3 meters below the ridge.

P7. (walk off option) 40 meters of 4th class scrambling. Climb to the top with a couple technical moves, then scramble along the ridgeline until you arrive at a short steep section with a thread through. Belay from here if exposed scrambling is not your thing.

Decent:  continue along the Ridgeline for a  100m until you discover the first caren in a shallow saddle before the summit. Follow a well layed out yet still technical path of karens off the back side of the formation and west until you arrive back in the valley floor.

Is located next to a water tap and behind a large pine tree. Look for a 4 meter tall squeeze chimney at ground level. You begin on the north face before traversing to the steep west face and finish back on the northwest arete.

15 Quickdraws, Slings (2x 60cm, 2x 120cm).