Yellow Knife is an out of the way crag that sees so little traffic that the holds normally don't even have chalk on them...Wow...Very un-Rumney-like....
All the routes here are between 5.10a and 5.11d. Some are very long by Rumney standards, requiring a two rope rappel, but most times a 60 meter rope will get you back to the ground.... Another non-Rumney aspect of this cliff is that the majority of the climbing is less than vertical and more like what you might expect to find on the south buttress of Whitehorse, with crimpy technical face climbing.... The front of the cliff is about dead vertical for the most part and is home to a couple killer 5.11s including Alaskan Arches(5.11d)...along the gully to the right is the more slabby climbing with a few 10s and 11s....
Most areas at Rumney that have high concentration of 5.10s and 5.11s tend to be crowded, but if you want to escape the Rumney rat-race, spend a day this beautiful area, enjoying shade, quiet, perfect rock and long quality technical routes....
Getting There
Follow directions to the Hinterlands and continue left under the gully and you will find it...Or follow directions to Prudential, and it's the next cliff right of that...
The Classics
Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Yellow Knife Buttress:
I've now climbed all of the routes at Yellowknife and I can say for sure that if you like technical face climbing in the 5.10-5.11 range you might want to make a trip out here...
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