Ascent Notes for: Frigid Air buttress (5.9+) - 5.9 Average Rating : 4.62/5

Got on this fine route with a complete lack of endurance training. Got pretty tired towards the end. I was doing most of the leading as my partner wasn't feeling well. At the last crux pitch, she stepped up, dug down and unleashed her grrrl power, complete with animalistic vocalizations on the beautiful finger crack. Our apologies to the hikers 900 feet below if any of them were forever scarred by those noises - it's just how she climbs.
This is a fairly big route, especially when you consider the canyoneering descent (in the dark in our case). Possible to make all the raps with a single 70 if you don't mind the hanging belay from a single bolt. It would be great if someone added a 2nd bolt there. The tree that starts the raps looks small before you get to it. It's about 60 feet from the slot canyon.

It was hot and this was a good route to do. The climbing is fun with good ledges. The crux pitch is very fun.

This is a fun moderate multi with comfortable belays. A few pitches have some really ugly rock that you have to watch out not to send down at your partner. Follows a superb line. The last pitch is a blast.

Had a great time. On the 5.9 chimney pitch though a hand hold broke, which was freaky. Glad my leg jam held. My partner also had a hold break on him, in the same chimney area. Scary, since you'd need #5 and #6s to protect that area.

Most beautiful views and cracks of all sizes. So nice.

The rappel tree above Burlesque seems to be dying though. With the 60mph gusts, it was really scary to go anywhere near, let alone anchor, to that tree. It was swaying something fierce in the gusts. Hope that people can add two rappel bolts for safety sake.

Fun climb, gorgeous view, and pretty breezy (brrr). Descent is tricky.

Frigid it was, fantastic climbing great belay ledges

i did all the odd number pitches, and followed the even ones. It doesn't seem like you are very far off the ground until the 4th or 5th pitch. there are a lot of rappel stations after the first rappel try to go as far as you can on two ropes. Feel free to enjoy the beautiful waterfall out climbers left of the rappel.

Awesome route. It really has a bit of everything, face, hands, fingers, chimney, OW, really tonz o' fun. Don't miss the bolt right before the OW section - it's awkwardly placed on a ledge up and left of a big wide pod - also conserve those 3's for this section. The chimney sections above can be bypassed by face climbing and the last pitch is stellar! We ended up downclimbing the 1st rap through the cave in the dark, which wasnt too bad. Great route overall!

This route throws everything at you...chimney's, face, crack, offwidth, routefinding and a descent that is almost as involved as the climb itself. Classic stuff! I led p's 1(1st half, belayed atop flake), p2, p3, p5, p6. On p2, trend right on the blocky cracks to avoid rope drag, or you will have to traverse through the bushes on the ledge above to gain the corner on the right. I stayed in the corner the whole way up rather than exiting onto the finger seam on the face to the right. The corner was fun w/technical moves and good pro. On p5, the "awkward hand traverse" required to exit the short, wide chimney on p5 hosed me, as I had climbed a little too deep and high(hard to see holds if you go right up the roof on the inside). The traverse moves are totally there, though, so stay a little to the outside of the chimney and have your #4 cam ready to fire in at the cap to protect the traverse. Stemming to the outside of the upper, bottleneck chimney above also works great. Airy and fun. The whole climb flows well. The descent is not obvious and ample daylight should be allowed to sleuth it out. If you don't see it, go up the wall behind you(higher than you think you should go) and then look for rap station under chockstone down and to left. Follow cairns after this, slightly right and then trending far left to large pine tree. Be aware that the first long rap is an ENTIRE rope length. Tie knots and be prepared to downclimb a move or two to next station. Another long rap, then plenty of hearty scrambling down a long gully/wash.

Every pitch is a different style of climbing - keeps you focused all day long, and the final headwall is the icing on the cake.