125m, 3 pitches.
Start 25m up and left from the start of Stonethrower's Buttress below a vague rib right of an offwidth flake-crack.
1. 40m. climb the fault right of the rib to a point next to the gully next to Stonethrower's Buttress, step left, then follow a snow ramp to a steepening.
2. 35m. Climb the short wall (crux) to gain a hanging slab. Climb the slab trending left, then continue up the snowy ramp line to below a deep chimney.
3. 50m. Continue more easily trending left up a snowy ramp below a prominent jutting block to gain the summit cairn.
(SMC new routes 2005)
1. 40m. climb the fault right of the rib to a point next to the gully next to Stonethrower's Buttress, step left, then follow a snow ramp to a steepening.
2. 35m. Climb the short wall (crux) to gain a hanging slab. Climb the slab trending left, then continue up the snowy ramp line to below a deep chimney.
3. 50m. Continue more easily trending left up a snowy ramp below a prominent jutting block to gain the summit cairn.
(SMC new routes 2005)
D.Ritchie & M.Shaw 21/Dec/2004.
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