Moonlight Buttress In Zion

According to Mountainproject.com, “This stunning route tackles the namesake feature, a proud prow of rock that juts out from the wall behind it, via a singular, peerless crack that extends for 1200 feet from base to summit and never widens to more than an inch or two... the Moonlight Buttress is a feature of unparalleled perfection.”

This is the story of two climbers who climbed this route in Zion during Easter weekend of this year. They got about halfway up the first day and had to descend because a team of slow climbers was ahead of them. The second day, they had it all to themselves.

Last year, we hiked up to the top of this buttress on a paved trail. That was tough enough.