The Main Vein

This climb follows a long, vertical vein of quartz for two long pitches. You end up on top of

Rowan's Arete

.

Pitch 1: (5.11) Leave everything bigger than a #0.75 with your partner, but bring a #4. Start on some blocky terrain and place a few pieces until you reach the first bolt which is about 30 feet up. From here, used mixed gear and bolts to get to the base of the 4' roof. The next 20 feet is the meat of the route, and how you do it will be height dependent. Move over the roof on the left hand side, traverse a few moves right with the vein clipping two more bolts until the grade eases up and you get to a nice bolted belay on a ledge. (120')

Pitch 2: (5.10+) Traverse slightly right and up aiming towards the bolts. Clip several bolts up fun climbing on great rock. This pitch is long, so bring lots of slings! Continue through some mixed terrain and slowly angle right to where there is one last bolt and an obvious hand crack begins to angle on the left. Follow the hand crack to a bolted anchor on-top of the ledge.(160')

If you still have juice, lower and take a lap on

Rowan's Arete

!

This is the first established route you come upon when hiking to Cave Buttress. It is just climber's right of the new Guide's Route Belay line. The line begins approximately 100 yards climber's right of Lords of Wisdom. Look for the vein of rock and the roof with some bolts.

Nuts, #0 C3 was helpful at times. Doubles from Camalots #0.3-#0.5. Depending how comfortable you are on hand cracks, you could bring a double set of #1-3 Camalots. A single set from #0.75-#4 seemed fine. The #4 can be used both on pitch 1 and 2 but is not necessary.