[TR] Yak Crack- 8/9/2004

[Winter]

Climb: Yak Crack-

 

Date of Climb: 8/9/2004

 

Trip Report:

Jeff Alzner and I climbed Yak Crack yesterday after running all over BC over the last week looking for good weather. He picked me up in Seattle on August 3rd and the weather gods promptly unloaded on us. We tried to get Yak on the 5th, but it was pooring up at Falls Lake. We ended up driving east to Skaha and got in a day climbing in the rain on the Doctors Wall. It still looked shitty so we drove all the way back to Squish to get the sunny weather.

 

We finally got some decent climbing in with St Vitus the day before yesterday and then drove back to Yak Peak. Ugghh.

 

We had perfect weather but got off route at the end. After a scary 25 ft. traverse where we thought the route went down and around we ended up in vertical granola. Alzer put his years of Oregon climbing to work and led up the 5.7 and 5.8 choss. We topped out and enjoyed the solitude of having an entire mountain to ourselves. Prolly should have done Yak Check, but we were working of Kearney's book. A great capper to a solid week.

 

Approach Notes:

There's a big cairn on the side of the highway where the trail starts.

[Otto]

Nice description of the desperate search for a good climb. I've done it in Washington a few times, it's cool to hear the BC version. Do you have any pictures of Yak by the way? Thanks for the good earth-tone article.