Follow a wandering path through the slab and cracks to the anchors atop Thieves in the Temple.

Drop the Hammer

Thieves in the Temple

High Nowhere

The lower right slab on Resort Buttress.  Amble up the left side of the slab to the left end of the roof crack system.  Traverse rightward, following the crack system up and out the roof.  An airy last leftward step brings you to the anchors above the point of the roof.

Rap the route, lowering over the edge will trash your rope.

Really fun long pitch with an involved approach.  Not really for the leader breaking into 5.9.  Can be gritty.  However, the setting and climbing make up for all that.  Like all South Side Classics, it has a different flavor than the standard fare on the other side of the road.

Start with a great thin flake, placing a few pieces below the first bolt.  Switch cracks and follow the seam for a ways, placing gear and clipping bolts.  When the seam runs out, angle rightward, following bolts to the top.

Approach:

Scramble up and left around the corner from Thieves in the Temple.  Don't climb up to the left upper corner of that slab though, bushwack and scramble up broken rock a bit farther left.  Take a goat trail left to a cool little nook below the crazy roof split by an enticing flake and crack system.  Boulder over a chest high rock and over and down, continuing east, below the slab in front of you.  A bolted anchor is next to base of the flake.  Be careful there, parts of the ledge are not too solid.  Stand above the rocks, not on the dirt above the tree.  There is nothing supporting that part.

Descent:

Rap the route with 2 ropes.  Then, either a 2-rope rap to the boulders below, or backtracking the way you came to Goat Gully.  If you choose to rap, throw the ropes carefully or carry them as you descend.  You can duck behind a large boulder below while pulling the ropes, to protect you from the possible rockfall.

Even though it kinda sucks to get there and back, the route is great.

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Routes in Resort Buttress