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Appetite For Destruction 
B-52 
Bucket List 
Cherry Popper 
Chimera 
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Death From Above 
Gila Monster 
Great Northern 
Mustn't Grumble 
Pre-op Therapy 
Prymal Instinct 
Shell Shock 
Short Stop 
So Easy 
Unknown 
Unknown farther left 
Unknown SA 
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North Buttress 


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Description 

North facing = always in the shade. Like the rest of the Rough Rider wall, this wall hosts some of the best and full pitch routes in the canyon. A 70 meter rope may be needed for a route or two and up to twenty quick draws.


Getting There 

From the Rough Rider wall hike left along the base of the wall. Once the wall turns North facing you are there.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for North Buttress:
B-52   5.10     Sport, 85 feet   
Chimera   5.10     Sport, 1 pitch, 100 feet   
Unknown   5.10+     Sport, 1 pitch   
Shell Shock   5.11-     Sport, 110 feet   
Mustn't Grumble   5.11-     Sport, 110 feet   
Appetite For Destruction   5.11-     Sport, 115 feet   
Cherry Popper   5.11a/b     Sport, 90 feet   
Unknownfarleft   5.11     Sport, 65 feet   
Prymal Instinct   5.11     Sport, 115 feet   
Bucket List   5.11     Sport, 50 feet   
Unknown SA   5.11c     Sport, 100 feet   
Cinco De Side-pull   5.11+     Sport, 75 feet   
Pre-op Therapy   5.11+     Sport, 100 feet   
So Easy   5.11c/d     Sport, 1 pitch, 90 feet   
Great Northern   5.11d     Sport, 1 pitch, 110 feet   
Death From Above   5.12     Sport, 90 feet   
Gila Monster   5.12c     Sport, 1 pitch   
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Featured Route For North Buttress
Jesse Schultz getting the coveted second ascent.

Prymal Instinct 5.11  AZ : Central Arizona : ... : North Buttress
70M rope required. This route used to have a hard seam start but now after some thick vegetation died you can avoid this to the right. Above is some steep crack through the bulge above the break, a testy sequence up the orange face and an incredible finish. Unfortunately the big ledge and the easy slab in the middle break it up a bit so it isn't sustained enough for another star. A couple of longer quickdraws are nice to have above the crack bulge section. Once you reach the dihedral near t...[more]   Browse More Classics in AZ