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Cottage Domes Rock Climbing

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Areas in Cottage Domes

Central Cottage Dome 2 / 12 / 6 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 14 / 14

East Cottage Dome (aka Erratic Dome) 6 / 12 / 2 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 19 / 19

West Cottage Dome 3 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 3

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Elevation:	8,550 ft
GPS:	37.88029, -119.40313 Google Map · Climbing Area Map
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Description

The Cottage Domes are the next domes to the northeast of DAFF. East Cottage Dome is the most popular and offers splendid, steep knob climbing.

Getting There

Park in a dirt pullout 2.7 miles west of Tuolumne store. (the GPS coords are a guess based on this description, please submit a correction if you know the actual spot).

Hike up and slightly left, past a creek bed, then up some slabs to the southwest summit of East Cottage Dome.

Go right, stay high on the slabs below the summit. Traverse around to the face.

36 Total Climbs

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Classic Climbing Routes at Cottage Domes

Mountain Project's determination of the classic, most popular, highest rated climbing routes in this area.

5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a 41 ● Life in the Cretaceous Sport, Alpine E Cottage Dome… > W Face
5.10a/b 6a+ 19 VI+ 19 E2 5b 20 ● Cottage Cheese Trad 2 pitches W Cottage Dome > N Face
5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b 21 ● Flintstone Sport, Alpine 2 pitches E Cottage Dome… > W Face
5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b 12 ● Unknown A Sport, Alpine E Cottage Dome… > W Face
5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b 24 ● Comfortably Numb Trad, Alpine E Cottage Dome… > W Face
5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b 63 ● Knobulator Trad, Alpine E Cottage Dome… > W Face
5.10+ 6b+ 21 VII+ 20 E3 5b 28 ● Mystery Route (Konvicts do Koalas) Sport, Alpine E Cottage Dome… > W Face
5.10c/d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b PG13 54 ● Knobnoxious Sport, Alpine E Cottage Dome… > W Face
5.10d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b PG13 39 ● Knobvious Trad, Alpine E Cottage Dome… > W Face
5.10d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b R 5 ● Old Folks Boogie Sport, Alpine E Cottage Dome… > W Face
5.10d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b 28 ● Disintegration Sport, Alpine E Cottage Dome… > W Face
5.10d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b 4 ● Rover Take Over Trad, Alpine E Cottage Dome… > W Face
5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c 74 ● Orange Plasma Sport, Alpine E Cottage Dome… > W Face
5.11a/b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c 15 ● Liposuction Sport, Alpine E Cottage Dome… > W Face