The Rostrum

A view of The Rostrum (at far right) from the East end of the 120 tunnel above the Cookie Cliff. Bridalveil Falls and the Merced River are in centre of shot. Other marked crags are Reed's Pinnacle, This and That Cliff, New Diversions Cliff, Middle Cathedral, and Leaning Tower.

A view of The Rostrum from the 120 below Knob Hill. The access comes in from Highway 41 above, then walks down the treed slopes on the right, before 4 abseils down the lower tier.

Another angle of The Rostrum, this time from down on the 140 near New Diversions Cliff. . . . . .

A closer view of The Rostrum itself - the Regular North Face Route (*** 5.11c) is 8 pitches (originally 10 pitches) of stellar climbing blasting up the crack systems right up the very front of this awesome pillar of rock!

A view of the first 5 pitches of the Regular North Face Route - it starts just right of centre at the very bottom of shot, then gradually trends R into the obvious dihedral, to gain the sunlit ledge, from where it moves up left to the left end of the overlap/roof at the top of this shot.

And here's a view of the top 4 pitches of the Regular North Face Route. The same overlap is now near the bottom of shot. From the left side of that overlap, it takes the obvious central crack system up to the final roof. It's hard to work out from Reid's guide where the final pitch breaches the roof - the shaded right facing grey corner on the right is said to be a 5.10a finish to a different route, but the listed options left of that are both said to be 5.12b so who knows!!? . . . . .

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