Tripple T Buttress Rock Climbing

East facing, one of the lowest buttresses on the approach. Sits under and south of the tallest, primary formation (known as the Toiyabe Fitzroy).

Jared Nielson and I spent a day exploring and climbing in the area on February 24, 2015. I discovered the Wild Granites for myself exactly a year earlier while working in the Big Smokey Valley. I wondered if the formations had been visited by climbers (they had). Explorers and aspiring first ascenders fear not, though, because there is an ungodly amount of stone out here.

We learned a couple of things on that first trip. 1) The damn rocks are a LOT further from the end of the road than they look. 2) They are also a lot higher in elevation than they look...it's a 1,000 foot elevation gain from the foot of the mountains to the first formation. It's close to a additional 1,000 feet to the base of the BIG FORMATIONS and another 1,000 feet to the summit. The scale is AWESOME. 3) There is water, but it is seasonal and a hella-epic to get to it. In February when we were there it was all frozen.

Beware of the locations given on the map for the other walls/formations. I'm not convinced the other contributors were paying close attention to where they were putting the locators.