Hatcher Pass

Description 

This is a very untouched climbing area or rather unknown, full of FA. The rock is blocky granite with alot of moss because theres steady rain in the spring and fall.

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http://www.morffed.com/guide/index.php

Getting There 

From Anchorage drive north on the Glenn Highway, 30min, To Palmer small town to pass through,30 min, to N. Palmer Fishhook Rd. You will take this for another hour north, Drive parallel to Reed River up to the "Mother Lodge" take the sharp left turn up the switch back, head up the hill for a mile. Take the sharp right up a single gravel road, And see the sign Archangel Rd. Continue on this past a river and then over a bridge.

The Classics

Featured Route For Hatcher Pass

Orangutan Overhang 5.9  AK : Hatcher Pass : ... : The Monolith

Ultra Classic, 5.9 climb the corner 15' to the cruxy roof, pull the small roof up to a fixed nut. Continue up the crack then move on slabish chicken heads up to ledge.Belay out of the crack at top of bushy ledge. Continue up the corner past a loose-looking chockstone but feels stable, slab out right up to another small roof, pull the roof to a very cruxy chimney or out right in a crack, grass at top and finish on two bolts and one piton, rap the ...[more]   Browse More Classics in AK