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Sunshine Buttress

Routes:

- Brown Haired Lady (5.7, 3p)

Region: Colorado
Elev: ~9,000 ft
Rock type: Granite
Type: 
Date(s): April 4, 2021 (Sun)
Partner(s): Nate Arganbright

This page contains trip reports for routes I've climbed on Sunshine Buttress (just one so far).

Route Overlays

Overlays for the routes I've climbed on Sunshine Buttress (just one so far). Trip reports for these routes can be accessed from this page.

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Climbs I've Done

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Dates I've climbed this route:
Date: April 4, 2021 (Sun);  Partner: Nate Arganbright

Intro

Brown Haired Lady is probably the best route on the formation and climbs corners and cracks and an exposed arete to the top.

We climbed this as the second of a two-route link-up of Sunshine Buttress (Brown Haired Lady, 5.7, 3p) and Observatory Dome (The Telescope Gate, 5.8, 2p). Sunshine Buttress and Observatory Dome were two of the few big formations that Nate had not yet climbed on at Lumpy, plus they were unaffected by the bird closures. There was very little in the guidebook about these two formations, with just vague references to routes. So this was a rather adventurous day of climbing, probably not routes I'd recommend but fun nevertheless.

Pitch-by-Pitch Photos

Approach

Hike to base of Pear and continue up and around left, a little bit of off trail towards the end. ~1 hours on trail from parking lot to base of Sunshine Buttress.

Pitch 1

~5.7
Climb up a water groove to a belay at a tree.

Pitch 2

~5.7
Continue up a hand crack system to below an arete.

Pitch 3

~5.7
Climb the exposed arete. A bit exciting.

Descent

Walk off
Walk off northwest. We continued up the hill towards Observatory Dome. 
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