Last Gasp

This is truly Sundance Buttress's 'last gasp' in terms of terrain worth climbing. While the route is good for the grade, it won't offer much as a consolation prize to climbers who trekked out to Sundance with a classic 5.9 or 5.10 in mind. That said, this route is one of the longest of its grade at Lumpy Ridge, and will offer a 5.6 leader a bigger day than most of the other routes of that difficulty.

P1: 50 feet left of

Cajun Capers

' start, climb up and left over the slab (I went through some bushes) to a notch with a decent stance near a small tree, 5.5.

P2: climb up to the west edge of Limber Pine Ledge over easy terrain. Blay off trees at the base of a huge, right-facing dihedral, 5.4.

P3: a fun pitch. Climb the massive dihedral, exiting to belay at a tree on a ledge, 5.6.

P4: from the ledge, climb a left-facing corner as it arches up and left past a tree. Belay at a stance near a dead tree, 5.5.

P5: climb up through the left edge of a roof, much easier than it looks. A very short pitch that puts you on top of Sundance without your even noticing, 5.6.

This route begins left of

Cajun Capers

, about as far as you can hike before the slabs drop off to climber's left, and ascends the most westward fifth class terrain on Sundance Buttress.

Standard rack.