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18 October 2012

Yosemite Day 6 - After 6 on Manure Pile Buttress

Day 6 - 13 September 2012

Whew!  Finally some more time to work on this darn thing.  I need to hurry up and finish this before I can't recall things that actually happened.  One climbing adventure seems to blur into the next half the time.

Anyway, back to my Yosemite adventures...

"...Manure Pile Buttress is anything but a heap of shit."  So says the SuperTopo guide for the Valley.  They're damn right.  It's called Manure Pile Buttress because back in the days of horses bringing folks up to the Valley they needed a nearby place to put all that manure.  This is where it ended up!

We got out of camp fairly early, knowing that MPB might be busy, even mid-week.  As we drove past Camp 4 I spotted Arthur out in the parking lot and swung in there real quick for a chat.  We found out about Seth and Simone and knew they were now in the park and were around.  Everyone had gotten a spot just fine in Camp 4.  Cool.

We drove on and found the lot for MPB, pretty close to El Capitan.  Expecting to find the place crawling with people we were once again pleasantly surprised to find we had it to ourselves.