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Description
COVID climbs the broken buttress above
Swine Flu
Pitch 1
Link Swine Flu's 1st and 2nd pitch. 150' 5.8 13 bolts
Pitch 2
Climb the 3rd pitch of Swine Flu and from the 3rd anchor you can see the 2 bolts up and hard left that protect you while tip toeing across the grass gully and onto the broken buttress, belaying higher on a nice stance atop a boulder. 150' 5.7 10 bolts
Pitch 3
From the belay atop the boulder, hike the 80' grass slope above up to the base of the bolted dihedral. Optional belay here. Continue up the dihedral and around the roof (5.8). Higher, watch for the traverse out left onto the exposed belay stance on the arete. 150' 5.8 9 bolts
If you use the optional belay off the single bolt at the base of the dihedral you can link the next two pitches, extend the first couple of bolts once on the arete to reduce rope drag.
Pitch 4
8 bolts up the blunt arete of the buttress to the top of the formation. 85' 5.6
To descend;
The rough trail down the South Ridge is not far from the top out to the west.
Otherwise 2 rappels down the COVID Buttress to the grass slope, walk that east ~150' to the top of The Toe and do 2 double rope raps or 4 singles down that.
Protection
Bolts. Bolted belays.
Routes in The Toe
- 15COVID5.8Sport