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Routes Sorted
L to R R to L Alpha
Cro-Magnons From Space 
Main Vein, The 
Pleasure Pillar, The 
Rowan's Arete 
Unaweeper, The 
Unknown 1 
Unknown 2 
Unknown 3/ Unknown 3 Variation 

Cave Buttress 


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Administrators: Jesse Zacher, Ben Mottinger, Leo Paik, John McNamee, Frances Fierst, Monomaniac, Tom Erickson
Submitted By: Jesse Zacher on Nov 10, 2007

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BETA PHOTO: Routes are to the right of Lower Mothers

Description 

Only gets sun in the morning to about 12ish. Only a few routes here, but the quality of them is good. The rock here is featured and of good sorts.


Getting There 

Approach the same as for Lower Mother's. Once you reach Lower Mother's take a right and hike up the hill. Best to stay close to the wall on a faded trail until it becomes to vegetated at which time you angle right.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Cave Buttress:
Rowan's Arete   5.12b/c     Sport, 1 pitch, 60 feet   
The Unaweeper   5.13c     Sport, 1 pitch, 80 feet   
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Featured Route For Cave Buttress
At a crux and getting nasty, photo: Jesse Zacher.

The Unaweeper 5.13c  CO : Grand Junction area : ... : Cave Buttress
Climb one pitch of 5.6 to the belay ledge with a 2 bolt anchor and huge belay space. Alternately you can access this from the top of The Pleasure Pillar. Rap from top to the right to the belay space.This is a bouldery, overhanging crimp/sidepull/gaston festival. It is bouldery and sustained from bottom to top. Bring a 0.4 and 4 inch cam for the last 20 feet to the top up the fist crack....[more]   Browse More Classics in CO


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#1-Cro-Magnons in Space <br />#2-Unknown 2

BETA PHOTO: #1-Cro-Magnons in Space
#2-Unknown 2

This guy Jim Beyer rope soloed a bunch of routes in this Mother Buttress area in 2007...might be some of his? With him one day I repeated about four of his routes that seemed around 5.11. He wanted to relead them with a belayer. He pointed out a few more he had done. I know he was also active with single pitch climbs further down the canyon on a previously unclimbed crag. Do not know if he ever wrote up any of these climbs?

This guy Jim Beyer rope soloed a bunch of routes i...

Jim on one of his climbs.

Jim on one of his climbs.

Jim Beyer.... Not sure if these are the same climb?

Jim Beyer.... Not sure if these are the same climb...