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Routes / Colorado / Gold Butte / West Side - Lower Buttress / Scales
Route SL-R-078917 · OpenBeta · sport

Scales

Sport Safety · UNSPECIFIED
Grade
6a+ French
YDS
5.10b
Only systems recorded for this route are shown · conversions are approximate at grade boundaries

Description

Pull and step on soft Gold Butte sandstone to a slot at half height. Style, or thrutch, through the slot to a testy foot traverse. Easier climbing leads to the anchor.

First ascent

Harvey T. Carter; modernized by Bob Wade & Dave Clark
Source · OpenBeta

Protection

Style
Bolted
Bolts
Length

About 7 bolts (plus a couple of Harvey Carter's drilled pins for optional clipping) and a two bolt anchor with 'biners.

It is the farthest route on the left of the buttress with glue-ins.