Twu Wuv
Notes from Zach Lovell on a new route: Twu Wuv climbs the southern-most/looker's left buttress of Pyramid's east face. Ian McEleney and I made an attempt on April 4, 2025 but ran out of time to complete the buttress, making it approximately 800 feet up before bailing to the south. The first ascent was made on April 9, 2026 and climbed in 10 pitches over the course of a full day. While this could become a summer route, a decent amount of loose blocks and chossy (by Sierra standards) gullies makes ice and snow a welcome glue. The steeper climbing is all on excellent rock and is some of the best-protected mixed climbing I've seen. As is often the case with "skatey" granite, rock shoes would likely decrease the difficulty one or two notches, but as a mixed route it's fairly sustained in the M3-M4 range with brief stretches of M5 depending on the conditions found and the exact path climbed. Endless, small variations exist. Mixed grade equivalent (thou...