Pyramid Peak

The south face of Pyramid is one of the Adirondacks’ big technical faces. In character, it is similar to Chapel pond Slab, though longer and with a secluded alpine feel. For rock climbing, it has been largely unexplored/documented until recently.

Overview: The recent technical routes to go up are moderate in grade and make use of fixed protection to give safe access to big, blank sections. The rock is south-facing, dries fast, and gets good early and late season sun. It faces away from the popular trails and so you are unlikely to hear or see anyone while climbing in this area. Though isolated with its southern perspective, it sits just 10-20 minutes of moderate bushwacking from a major trail.

A strip of grass and trees runs from the bottom RHS of the face to the top center (the "tree island"), dividing the face into a LHS and RHS. This also provides and obvious and easy descent route, walking down with 2-3 short (~20m) rappels from trees near the bottom.