Ascensiones en Dunes Buttress

Led the 2nd pitch and 4th pitch both grade 13

Excellent escapade. Overhung Gr11 (?) p2 got me pumped! Friction book corner p4 in the dark got me hyped up on second!

A decent climb after a very average start. Pitch One is very slippery, slabby moss with little pro. The protection is required as a fall would send you into a gully. Pitch Two was a nice climb with two cruxy chimneys. This was separated by a large scramble. Pitch Three starts with a good 5m crux up a chimney, but again finishes in a large scramble. All in all a lot of effort for Three decent sections.

Very old school 13! Try adding 2-3 grades. First pitch is horrendous, bush bashing most of the way and quite dangerous due to moss and grit/soft rock

Good climb. Was very warm day and climb pleasantly in shade whole way. The scrambling on the first pitch seemed perfectly fine, and had decent gear protecting the any of the tricky parts (including opposed nut placement in horizontal before the choss-crux up the big sloping rock about half way up). Amy led the rest well, after a bit of encouragement to lead the last pitch. Aided through the chimney on last pitch to avoid faff with backpack

Fantastic. Has a little of everything. Some slab, some traverses, some juggy overhang, bit of laybacking.

Had double ropes and linked the last two pitches.

First and last pitch were tricky and fun. And Steve cut his head open on a tree branch on the way there.

Second pitch got me pretty scared for a 12. and last pitch I didn't go far right enough added like 2 grades to a slopey mantle.

First climb out arapiles! Very cruisy climb! Crux of the climb is right as you move of the ground on the first pitch!

Linked p1 and 2 but totes shoulda done 2 and 3. Description doesn't lie, every pitch has something to offer - last pitch going directly through the offwidth was my fav but the flake at the start was spectacular too

Super good fun adventure. Perhaps the crux is getting off the ground. Rapped off and got the rope stuck when pulling from the second rap. Luckily managed to free it after much pulling and shaking from different directions as was going to be involved retrieving it.

This is actually 5 pitches according to the book. The way the pitches are combined here is better than what we did (which is 1+2, then 3, 4 and 5 separate.

Nice route but I would not give it 3 stars. Alpine style. Pathfinding. Very popular.