Start from the water pipe on the 3rd Elephant Buttress.  The triangular roof 20' up in the center has an 8+ running out one side and a 10a running out the other.  A reasonable hand-crack runs between the two, cutting a diagonal line between the lip of the two roofs, on either side of the dihedral. Instead of traversing left or right through either side of the roof, play a new way and jam the sideways handrack- moving out into an thin seam in the middle of the lip of the roof.  Do not chicken out and go to the sides. After pulling the roof (crux, 5.11?) make a bee-line up cracks and edges for the left hand side of the enormous roof above.  A few easy 5.10 moves go past this roof and take you to a large ledge above.  From there, join another route.

The route is difficult, involving very powerful moves.  On the first ascent I pulled 3 ribs off of my sternum doing the crux move.  My partner did not attempt follow the route.

No Mo' Jo'

Ah Maw

Standard Left Start

Mojo Rising

What's Up?

West Face (variation)

Left Wing

Wingtip

Standard Variation

Feathers

Standard Route

Monster Woman

An interesting route on the third buttress with some fun roofs and jamming.  Follow the trail on the N. side of the creek until you can ascend a path below the second buttress.  Then hike on the water pipe until you've just passed the mess of cables attached to the rock (toward the right end of the 3rd Buttress).

This route is normally done in two pitches, but can be lead as one pitch with a 50m without too much rope drag.  Start with

Standard Route

, which moves up on the ramp to the right of the cables and then traverses left into the dihedral.  Scamper up this section at about 5.7 then hike a long slab to the first belay--or--continue straight up the dihedral on the left.  A fixed pin is at the crux, which involves some tricky footwork with a small flair for the hands up to a knob.  Stem up the rest of the dihedral then move right under a roof, up a wide crack, then over a small roof with good holds.  Crank the roof then make another 5.9 move across a slab with a finger tip crack on the right (insert RP here).  Utilize the excellent friction over the second crux, then crank the second roof to a ledge with a good belay.  Scramble off to the left and up to the top.  Descend by hiking North toward the Dome and down a gully to the North of the 2nd Buttress.

A fun route with varied climbing and good moves.

The gear is fairly good, but there is a small runout onto the face at the 10a crux move.  It is a fair route with a few good moves.

This route is same as

Standard Route

, but pitch 1 climbs the juggy crack stuff around the left side of the dihedral ramp and pops up to the easy slab. I find this start more fun and interesting than the canonical start, with some varied, vertical climbing.

This is a fun and exciting route with great crux moves through the roof.  The gear is reasonable for the crux as well, and the fall would be clean.  Take a lot (at least 5) of 2-foot runners to protect this climb, as the tiered roofs of the

Left Wing

start require some, as will the roof crux.

The route ascends a system not very visible on the photo attached, for its bottom half.  For the roof and final dihedral, however, this route is appears on the upper left-hand corner of the photo as a small roof (crux 5.10+) just below a massive trapezoidal roof, which is just the right-hand side of the final dihedral (5.9), to be described.   To climb this route, approach as for "

FM

" and do the opening moves of "

FM

," up past a pin (5.10+) then up and left to a ledge as for the start of "

Left Wing

."  Alternatively, start by scrambling to this same point.  Now, continue up the first 30 feet of "

Left Wing

," to where it goes left on the face - clip the first bolt and then go right to continue upward in the dihedral.  This is insecure 5.10 for a few moves and is sometimes a bit wet.  If it is wet, wait until it is dry, so the route goes full-value on fun. From the dihedral, you will place a few cams (1" and 1.5"-2") in the crack overhead through the roof. This is the crux pro, so set it well, and mind the drag with some long slings if you place one in the back of the corner.  Undercling out to a lie-back move, then jam and heel-hook to swing through the roof and up.  This is solid and powerful 5.10+ but is not sustained.  Once over the roof, establish a rest stance and place gear before making some insecure face-moves up to the left side of a hanging pillar, which forms a roof at its bottom.  Climb on the left side of the roof formed by said pillar, and up into the dihedral on the left of this pillar to the top (5.9).

The route is very fun and sports a wild array of moves.

P1.  Start on the water pipe almost in the tunnel. Sling a pipe anchor, move up on an arete of sorts.  Aim for the right side of the small roof/overlap.  Continue up this face following cracks and lichen. Pass 2 pins.  Choose left or right above the second pin.  From here, you can go up or angle right along a ramp past a small tree to a huge ledge.

P2. You may traverse left and connect with the finish of the

Standard Route

.

Watch for rope drag.  This may feel a bit stiff for the grade.

This route is on the Third Elephant Buttress, on the north side. To access it walk along the pipe till you reach a gully between the Second and Third Buttresses. Scramble about 20 feet up the gully to the base of the climb. This climb follows a left facing dihedral that begins about 40 feet up. The route is to the right of Left Wing and starts up a short face to an obvious, chalked finger crack. Make some challenging moves to gain the finger crack (5.10ish) and follow the crack a few moves to a great rest below the steep part. You can climb up and left to reach higher and get in toprope pro for the start of the crux sequence, then downclimb and fire straight up from the crack. Pull a couple of awkward, strenuous and pumpy moves, mixed in with a few insecure feeling wide stems through the steep bulge. There are a few fixed pins in this section. Where the bulge enters the dihedral is the crux. From a slopey right facing lieback reach around a corner to your left and gain an elusive finger lock. Getting your feet anywhere and shifting into the dihedral is good and balancy, and will have you in doubt until the end. From here, rest and breath and then follow the dihedral up much easier ground to a nice belay ledge. To gain the top climb a short second pitch (5.6). This route has great pro and excellent, challenging moves. I really recommend it to anyone in the area who feels like climbing something harder than what The Dome has to offer.

Cool route with interesting moves.  My limited trad experience kept my evaluation to a modest two stars.

The route starts about halfway up the 4th class gully between the second and third buttresses.  The climb itself is on the third Buttress.  Begin by traversing right across a ledge into the obvious dihedral.  Some small, good placements will get you up to a new bolt that protects a few feet below the roof and the first crux.  Clip this and then a fixed Friend in the overhead crack.  My buddy whipped on this, so the Friend holds, but you may want to back it up with a #0.5 Camalot.  Crank through the crux, and resist placing gear in the shallow undercling crack, as it may not hold anyway.  Once back on good holds, place some gear and traverse left through the second crux, a left, diagonal undercling crack.  The moves on this are sweet and kind of sporty.  Pull through this to a no hands rest below a roof.  Put in a #1 and crank through the 5.9 roof to 20 feet of easy climbing. Protect the top mantle, and once on top you can set up a great anchor and TR some of the other climbs, or this one.

This route ascends a thin overhanging and left-leaning dihedral up and left of the start of "

Left Wing

."

Go up the gully as for ""

Left Wing

," but continue up for about 25 feet more.  Place some gear and get your belayer secured in the corner before starting, as a fall getting into the dihedral (hard) could otherwise send you both for a ride.  Start climbing up and to the right to enter the dihedral above the overhanging section.  Place thin gear as you then ascend the dihedral on some 5.10 moves past gear from "tiny" to 1.5-inch.  Finish from the top of the big flake, as for "

Left Wing

.

This pitch is definitely easier than the like-graded ""

Left Wing

," but you should be solid at the grade or you will get pumped trying to place gear.

This route is actually a link up of the first pitch of The Standard Route and the second pitch of Monster Woman (as described in Rossiter).  Follow the first pitch of Standard Route, belaying at the top of the ramp.  Move through the crux roof of the second pitch of Standard Route (7+).  After surmounting the awkward roof, move left toward the left-leaning cracks and dihedrals (8) rather than right as for the Standard Route.  Finish by passing the final roof on the left.

I did this route on May 31, 2001 with J. Meir.  I strongly suspect it was climbed many times before, but I cannot find any info.  For lack of a name, I refer to this route as "Feathers," as it is just past "

Wingtip

."

Approach as for

Wingtip

, but continue to scramble up past the start of

Wingtip

about 15 additional feet.  There is a hanging, left-facing dihedral some distance above you.  Climb up and right on moderate face to enter the dihedral, and then climb the dihedral to the top.  This is about 10' left of

Wingtip

, and is at a similar left-leaning angle.  The crux is reasonably protected 5.8+ in the upper section of the dihedral.

The route is fun but mighty short.  This can also be easily TR'd.

Start right on the water pipe to the left of a small roof. Scamper up the dihedral to a belay at the end of the ramp. Move right up the roof and right again to the next crack. Follow this to a break, turn left and finish on the last crack to the summit.

Descent: walkoff to the North.

Contine south around the corner from the start of the Standard Route to a left-facing corner leading up to roof fractured by hand-jam size cracks about 20 feet above the pipe.

P1. Climb past the roof to the upper left corner of the ramp belay stance for Standard Route. Rossiter rates that pitch 8+ (which is slightly sandbagged, in my opinion).

P2. The second pitch ascends a right-facing corner past a rusting but solid knifeblade. It's rated 9 but I had an easier time leading this pitch than following the roof.  The gear is a little thin past the pin, but you'll find placements as you make a short traverse right and then head up through overhanging, hand-jamming terrain until the rock lays back for an easy finish.

Recommend doing these two pitches then walking north 100 feet to Classic Finger Crack for dessert. (Rossiter has the second pitch of this route joining Standard Route, but the version I described is more consistent in grade and a more direct line.)

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Routes in Third Buttress