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Moonlight Buttress Area


Zion National Park, Utah, USA


Trip Report
Moonlight Buttress
Wednesday April 13, 2011 5:53pm
Just finished writing my trip report of an ascent of Moonlight Buttress over St. Patrick's day. Here is a link to the write up: http://ghowland.blogspot.com/2011/04/moonlight-buttress.html

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GHowland
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GHowland is a trad climber from Boulder, CO.

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survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
  Apr 13, 2011 - 06:37pm PT
Nice work fellas!
I know it's easy to click a link, but I wish folks would post thier photos here too.

More pix, less text!!

Thanks for sharing!
Captain...or Skully

climber
Boise, ID
  Apr 13, 2011 - 06:49pm PT
Good stuff, Greg. TFPU!!!
Tear it up.
F10

Trad climber
Bishop
  Apr 13, 2011 - 07:24pm PT
Thanks for the TR, brought back some good memories,

The river had to be freezing in March
John Mac

Trad climber
Breckenridge, CO
  Apr 13, 2011 - 07:51pm PT
I was down there at the time but didn't climb due to the forecast. Didn't want to get up on a route and then rain and potentially damage the rock.

Right now the river is running over 700cfs so it will be a while before I go back!

Thanks for sharing.
up2top

climber
Phoenix, AZ
  Apr 13, 2011 - 08:15pm PT
Nice job, guys.
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Photo: Chris McNamara
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