Thunder Child

Thunder Child takes the shoulder of a clean buttress on the south side of Cirque of the Sun. We call this Resolute Buttress. The climb takes crack systems from the bottom to the top. It can be identified by the straight up hands splitter on the second pitch.

P.1 Take a faint finger crack to a stance below two cracks that join together at the hands splitter. 5.9

P.2 We took the left crack here. Follow this crack through a small bulge. Place a blind peice and make an airy step right into the splitter. make perfect hand jams until the crack dies out and make a belay on the top of the right side of a blocky dihedral. 5.10-

P.3 Traverse right to another crack system. Jam fingers and hands to the base of a prominent dihedral capped by a small roof. 5.9+

P.4 Stem up the dihedral and turn the roof on jugs. Follow cracks until it is possible to step right to a small stance at the base of a mossy corner. 5.10-

P.5 Stem up the corner and traverse left out a roof. Cross an easy slab to your left passing a steep dirty looking crack. Climb a flake into a left facing corner. follow this until it tops out on the right shoulder of the buttress. 5.9

P.6 move right up an easy ramp to the base of a short and steep corner. Climb the corner until it ends at a roof. Make a wild hand traverse left to a ledge. Continue left until you see yet another perfect finger crack and follow it to the ledges above. 5.11

P.7 Move right on easy ground to the top! 5.6

This route is on what we call Resolute Buttress. You will see it on the left side of Cirque of the Sun. Walk the wall to the right until a system of awesome cracks can be seen on the west end of the buttress. The route has an obvious hand splitter on the second pitch.

Small TCU's Triple on all fingers to thin hands. double #2 and 3 cams. One #4 cam. Walk off to the west.