Type: Trad, Ice, 700 ft (212 m), 4 pitches, Grade II
FA: unknown
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Shared By: bsmoot on Apr 5, 2008
Admins: Andrew Gram, Nathan Fisher, Perin Blanchard, GRK, D C

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Warning Access Issue: Gate Buttress Area Recreational Lease: Climbs on Church Buttress above vault remain closed DetailsDrop down

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P1 - Climb thick, low angle ice for 100' to the snow. Belay 75' higher on the right at a rock rib.
P2 - Ascend easy mixed snow & ice to a belay at a horn of rock in the gully.
P3 - Follow the gully past a steep bulge of ice, to a belay tree.
P4 - An easier pitch leads to another belay tree.

Rap gully

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This route is the gully formed by the right side of the granite of the Contact Buttress and the quartzite to the west. Approach by climbing the Scruffy Band and diagonaling up and left to the first ice slab below the start of the gully.

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