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Upper Mother's Buttress

Submitted By: Jesse Zacher on Oct 25, 2007
Administrators: Jesse Zacher, Ben Mottinger, Leo Paik, John McNamee, Frances Fierst, Monomaniac
Elevation: 350 feet
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Description 

This is where the longer, high quality routes exist. Steep walls with good rock. Be careful of the rap down the drainage.


Getting There 

Walk past Middle Mother, the routes start in the drainage.


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Questions and Answers   5.10     Trad, 3 pitches, 400 feet, Grade III   
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Questions and Answers 5.10  CO : Grand Junction : ... : Upper Mother's Buttress
One of the best climbs in the canyon. Steep, sustained, and with excellent exposure.Pitch 1: 5.8 120 ft.Start with a short lie back in a right-facing corner and gain good hands in the chimney. Continue up double cracks in the chimney with great jamming until you can exit right to a large ledge and belay.Pitch 2: 5.10 150 ft.To the right of the belay is a beautiful, smooth wall with double thin cracks leading up to a roof. Traverse out onto the...[more]   Browse More Classics in CO


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The prow of Upper Mother's.

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By Jesse Zacher
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From: Grand Junction, Co
Oct 25, 2007

It would be nice if the next person to go do one of the routes on Upper Mother's that tops out to bring a bolt kit and make raps down the gully. The webbing wrapped around the chockstone is looking haggard. Every time I rap of it I can help but think of Aron Ralston.