South Buttress
South Buttress in Washington has 5 routes from moderate to hard, offering sport and trad climbing on a buttress.
Photo: BLM Oregon & Washington, Public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)- 5 routes
- 5.7 – 5.12
- Sport · Trad
Best time to visit South Buttress
Best months: April–June and September–October. Best months have typical highs of 55–85 °F, lows of 30 °F or warmer (32 °F where the station doesn't record snow), at most one snowy day and no more than 12 wet days.
Jan
34° / 23°
Feb
42° / 26°
Mar
54° / 31°
Apr
64° / 37°
May
74° / 44°
Jun
79° / 50°
Jul
88° / 55°
Aug
87° / 54°
Sep
77° / 46°
Oct
61° / 37°
Nov
44° / 29°
Dec
34° / 24°
Typical high / low (°F) and days with rain or snow, 1991–2020. Measured at Tonasket 4 Nne, WA, 9.6 mi away at 960 ft. The station sits about 600 ft lower than this place, so expect it a little cooler here. This station doesn't record snowfall. Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020.
South Buttress is a climbing area in Washington on Bureau of Land Management land within the Spokane Wenatchee Field Office. It sits among a cluster of other climbing areas, with Gully Wall, McLoughlin Canyon (Tonasket) and the NW End - Honeycomb and Anarchy Walls all about 0.1 mile away. The area has five routes, four of which are sport and one is trad. Grades run from 5.7 up to 5.12, with the hardest route, Pandemic, first climbed by Adam Sinner in 2020. The Tao of Pooh is the trad route at 5.7, and Fantasy and Climate Change are sport routes at 5.10d and 5.11a. For timing, late spring and early fall are the most comfortable. Typical averages from a nearby weather station in Tonasket show May highs around 74°F and September highs around 77°F, while July and August average in the upper 80s. That station sits about 600 feet lower than the climbing area, so temperatures up high run cooler. McLoughlin Canyon Trail is about 0.7 mile away, and Tonasket RV Park is roughly 4.7 miles off.
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