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Crack of Noon Buttress Guide

  • Grade context: US
  • Ascents: 8

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Thanks to the following people who have contributed to this crag guide:

Gabe Grayum Jacopo Larcher Barbara Zangerl Jonathan Siegrist Carlo Denali Traversi

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Table of contents

1. Crack of Noon Buttress 10 routes in Unknown

Summary:
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Seasonality

Sport climbing and Trad climbing

Lat / Long: 37.374500, -118.681496

RouteGradeStyleSelected ascents
1 Come Around Sundown

Left line of bolts on the steep face

5.12d Sport
2 Short but Stout

Shares start with Come Around Sundown

5.13a Sport
3 Everything is Karate

Set: Patrick O'Donnell

FA: Ethan Pringle, 22 Apr 2017

5.14c/d Sport
4 High Noon

Bolted crux to 5.10 (small) gear finish

5.12c Mixed trad 6
5 Heady Noon

Same start as High Noon but escape right onto the slab after the 4th bolt.

5.11d Mixed trad 4
6 Crack of Noon

Prominent crack on the left side of the slab. Tricky gear placements.

5.9 Trad
7 What Horn

Same start as OW - That Bites. Take the left line of bolts off the ledge. A bit runout.

5.9 Sport
8 OW - That Bites

Same start as What Horn. A bit runout.

5.10a Sport
9 Ripples Revisited

Reachy clips to a hard slab crux. A bit runout.

5.10b Sport
10 Rewritten

The nice corner. A bit runout.

5.9 Mixed trad 3

2. Index by grade

Grade Stars Name Style Pop
5.9 Crack of Noon Trad
Rewritten Mixed trad 3
What Horn Sport
5.10a OW - That Bites Sport
5.10b Ripples Revisited Sport
5.11d Heady Noon Mixed trad 4
5.12c High Noon Mixed trad 6
5.12d Come Around Sundown Sport
5.13a Short but Stout Sport
5.14c/d Everything is Karate Sport
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