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Tenaya Peak

Submitted By: Greg Barnes on Dec 20, 2006
Administrator: Greg Opland
Elevation: 10,301 feet
Latitude: 37.8302  Longitude: -119.4390 
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BETA PHOTO: Tenaya Peak, October 2006.


Description 

The sweeping peak above Tenaya Lake, known for its easy 5th-class NW buttress.


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Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Tenaya Peak:
Northwest Buttress   5.3     Trad, 5 pitches, 1400 feet, Grade II   
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John Dalbey on Tenaya Peak

Northwest Buttress 5.3  CA : Yosemite National Park : ... : Tenaya Peak
Low down there really is not one best way to go. Just up. From a large ledge halfway up the face, the ridge starts to lead the the west side. Most will simul-climb or solo the bottom 3/4. Up high you can make it easy or hard. We stayed on the right side of the ridge and belayed on great ledges (kept some pitches short because this route has some loose rock). I think that you can find a 5.8 pitch out left just before the summit, but this looked...[more]   Browse More Classics in CA


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Tenaya Peak from Tenaya Lake

Tenaya Peak from Tenaya Lake

Tenaya Peak. Getting closer. Just before crossing snowfield runoff. June 2007. (It was a lean winter.)

BETA PHOTO: Tenaya Peak. Getting closer. Just before crossin...

Above the lower ledge, looking down. Dead center, their raised arms acknowledging the moment, are my two partners. Tenaya. June 2007.

BETA PHOTO: Above the lower ledge, looking down. Dead center,...

The view from the summit. Yellow line shows approach from the parking lot, across the woods, meadow and creek to the toe of the buttress above the lower main ledge. June 2007.

BETA PHOTO: The view from the summit. Yellow line shows appro...

Snow on the line of Tenaya Buttress, June 16, 2008.

Snow on the line of Tenaya Buttress, June 16, 2008...

Bouldring near Tenaya lake

Bouldring near Tenaya lake

Route follows line of least resistance up those sunny slabs.

BETA PHOTO: Route follows line of least resistance up those su...

Tenaya Peak and Tenaya Lake

Tenaya Peak and Tenaya Lake