Tripple T Buttress

LAT,LNG 39.06820, -117.21171
CREATED May 2023
UPDATED Jan 2024

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East facing, one of the lowest buttresses on the approach. Sits under and south of the tallest, primary formation (known as the Toiyabe Fitzroy).Jared Nielson and I spent a day exploring and climbing in the area on February 24, 2015. I discovered the Wild Granites for myself exactly a year earlier while working in the Big Smokey Valley. I wondered if the formations had been visited by climbers (they had). Explorers and aspiring first ascenders fear not, though, because there is an ungodly amount of stone out here.We learned a couple of things on that first trip. 1) The damn rocks are a LOT further from the end of the road than they look. 2) They are also a lot higher in elevation than they look...it's a 1,000 foot elevation gain from the foot of the mountains to the first formation. It's close to a additional 1,000 feet to the base of the BIG FORMATIONS and another 1,000 feet to the summit. The scale is AWESOME. 3) There is water, but it is seasonal and a hella-epic to get to it. In February when we were there it was all frozen.Beware of the locations given on the map for the other walls/formations. I'm not convinced the other contributors were paying close attention to where they were putting the locators.

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Tripple T Buttress
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