Climbing at Mt. Diablo


LEFT: Amazing Face (5.10), about 75 feet tall. RIGHT: Butt Face (5.9), about 65 feet.

Amazing Face was perhaps the most enjoyable climb I've done in California so far. It's a beautiful 75-ft pitch of steep sandstone, interlaced with tiny drainage cracks which make for some excellent hand- and footholds.

Butt Face is also a decent route, though not as rewarding as Amazing Face. It has a shallower slope, and tends to be much more of a classic slab climb than a true sandstone face climb. But hey, after a long, cold, wet winter, I wasn't about to complain too much.


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