Yesterday climbed Tarrant buttress. It's in good shape, totally dry except
for a small snow patch near the top. We didn't bring crampons, the upper
snow patches can be avoided (tricky, loose rubble) and descent was behind
Little Odaray instead of the glacier. Toss the guidebook, none of it made
ANY sense to us from the "7m obvious arch" onward.
I found it strikingly similar to the upper N ridge of Stephen -- long and
challenging with lots of choss but some good climbing. Unlike Stephen it
has excellent positions in the rambly top 1500 ft. We found no signs of
prior passage (maybe because we couldn't find that arch?)
"Almost worth doing" - L. Stanier
Regards,
Tom Wolfe
AAG/ASG
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