Hand crack with stemming to off-fingers to a heady slab

The Tooth

Mosquitoes in My Mouth

Old Men of the West

Interesting chimney slabbing and hueco stemming but the rock could use cleaning up. Rappel from a slung horn at the top.

Start in the jumbled boulders at the base of the wall at two parallel cracks under a roof. Follow cracks and generous face features to the left corner of the roof, move left and pull onto the face. Follow a fissure/crack up and into patina right of a large dihedral system. Continue up face features to a two bolt anchor. Rappel 35M to the ground.There are truckloads of routes to be done in the Wild Granites, and this route will certainly go to the top of the buttress and link to the formations above and behind it. We simply ran out of time. We intend to return for more new routes!

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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