Buttermilks
Climbing Sections:
- Beehive (7)
- Birthday Boulders (9)
- Boy and Girl Rocks (3)
- Buttermilk Stem Boulder (2)
- Cave Area, The (14)
- Centeral Area (9)
- Checkerboard Area (2)
- Corner Boulders (1)
- Dale's West (4)
- Drifter, The (5)
- Get Carter Boulder (5)
- Green Wall Boulder, The (6)
- Grovel Roof Area, The (1)
- Hagar Boulder-Southwest Face (2)
- Hero Roof, The (7)
- Hueco Wall Area (3)
- Ironman (6)
- Loaf Boulder, The (7)
- Lower Smoking Boulder (3)
- Painted Cave Area (12)
- Peabody Boulders (19)
- Pollen Grain boulders (17)
- Pope s Prow (4)
- Ranger Rock (2)
- Roadside Area (1)
- Robinson's Rubber Tester Slab (1)
- Saigon Area (5)
- Skin Diver Formation (5)
- Slab, The (5)
- Smooth Shrimp - Buttocks Boulder (4)
- Solitare (1)
- Soulslinger Boulders (3)
- South Mount Klieforth (1)
- Stained Glass Area (12)
- Sunshine Boulder (8)
- Tungsten Hills Curcuit (6)
- Tut boulder (9)
- Wavelength (1)
- Windy Wall (7)
- Wrangler Rock (4)
- Y Boulder (6)
- Yeyoi Boulder (2)
- Zeppelin Area (2)
About Buttermilks:
Bouldering playground, over 60 roped routes, and scrumbling too. Some boulders are huge, so shade at those spots in the peak of summer. maps, campgrounds and town info at rockfax.com. climb quality rated as no star or one star as in the Mick Ryan guide |
Nearest town or city: | Bishop |
Directions: | on Eastern Sierra, 20 mins west of Bishop. off of the 395 going through Bishop, turn west onto West Line Street (Highway 168) and head out of town for 7.7 miles. right turn onto unpaved Buttermilk Road and continue west for about 3.5 miles. park roadside along big boulders on the right, or go past cattle fence line and take an immediate right into the Birthday Boulders parking area. porta-potty along uphill trail before the Peabodys |
Latitude, Longitude: | 37.32745, -118.57572 |
Access Issues: | |
Camping: | Yes |
When to Climb: | Winter |
Quantity of Climbs: | Year |
Routes
SequenceSequence numbers indicate the left (L) to right (R) order of the routes. | Rating | Route | Difficulty | Ascents |
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High Plains Drifter | V7 | 4 | ||
0 | Luminance | V11 | 0 |
Forum Discussions (See all 17 posts )
Subject | Author | Replies | Last Post | |
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buttermilks with a baby | climbellaclimb | 13 | Feb 18 2013, 10:28 PM | |
Weather?? | kbarhydt | 3 | Dec 05 2010, 2:49 AM | |
Permanent Toilet in the Buttermilks..VOTE | superbum | 6 | Aug 06 2009, 4:02 PM | |
How tall is Jedi Mind Trick? | 40sclimber | 7 | Jun 30 2006, 1:28 AM | |
Bishop weather | chanceboarder | 2 | Feb 13 2006, 7:45 PM | |
Bishop Bouldering In Early-Mid April | blitzkrieg_climber13 | 3 | Jan 21 2006, 5:21 AM | |
february | climbingbums | 0 | Jan 30 2005, 6:34 PM | |
Bishop Bouldering in Winter | thera | 3 | Dec 22 2004, 4:53 PM | |
Bishop trip | texansherpa | 2 | Sep 29 2004, 7:07 AM | |
Buttermilks in July? | dynamicpanda | 6 | Feb 09 2005, 6:03 AM | |
bishop for spring break | caveman | 1 | Feb 21 2004, 8:00 PM | |
Bishop conditions over President's Day | sidepull | 5 | Feb 12 2004, 7:33 PM | |
Sacramento to Bishop | crackboy | 3 | Feb 06 2004, 9:32 AM | |
Bishop and the buttermilks | layed_back | 5 | Jan 03 2003, 9:47 PM | |
bishop temps????? | mr--duck | 1 | Nov 07 2002, 6:27 PM |