The spoils of the summit!

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The spoils of the summit!

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Topping out.

Wise climber staying OUTSIDE the crack approaching the wide section.

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thehackattacks

Apr 3, 2015

“The spoils of the summit! ”

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Me looking sexy (thought this might be useful for those looking for the start of this climb. Go up, in, and out to the right.).

Topping out.

The spoils of the summit!

Wise climber staying OUTSIDE the crack approaching the wide section.

Route tracing.

End of the flake and climbers below in the meat of it!!

The flake up close.

Kor's Flake - front and center!

For the follower, the "easy face climbing" is more of an option. It is mostly bear-hugging the arete and inside edge, stepping into typical Lumpy Ridge scoops. Really makes the leader resent the 2nd.

Necessary gear.

I didn't think many of the photos really represented the flake. I noticed a lot of comments talking about easy face climbing; totally true. HOWEVER, if you are on it for the first time, I really doubt you will be out there. For the runout though, you can be in the chimney far enough that the only place you will be falling is further IN.

Kor's Flake seen from approach trail.

Picture shows the top of the flake and P3 belay along with the route continuing up the right-facing corner. I combined P2 and P3 with a 60m rope and belayed from where the photo is taken (no worse than slab hanging belay) and from there made it to the ledge on top of P4.

Pitch 1.

Looking up the flake at the beginning of P3.

A#6 is nice to have too!

The widest section on pitch 3.

Climbing the flake.

Pitch 5.

A #5 is nice to have on pitch 3.

Allen Light on the wide crack, P3.

5.easy to the top.

THIS is the start! Don't start in the wrong spot!!

Nowhere to fall except further in.

Andy Maguire following P2.

P3 traverse.

Kor's Flake belay.

Pitch 1.

Chuck racing the rain through p4...a great pitch over solid rock.

Pennie Schwalm starting up the flake. We climbed the route in 3 pitches with 60m doubles.

The proper way to climb the flake.

Mona finishing the 3rd pitch.

Second pitch.

Pitch 5. The last 5.7 move of the route is pulling the roof. From there, 5.easy to the top.

View up pitch 3.

Following THE FLAKE!

Kirril starting up P2.

P4. Kor's Flake. Left-moving traverse beta photo. Just after this traverse, you move up for ~25 feet before moving farther left. <br>
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This was the beginning of our 3rd pitch because we used a 70m and strung the first 2 pitches together.

Can be climbed using the offwidth or the stemming face (exposed).

See, it's not scary.

Tyson Arp on the much discussed traverse, pitch 4.

Austin leading P3.

Looking down at Kor's Flake's namesake - the ramp up pitches two and three (photo from the top of the ramp).

Grand exposure at the 4th belay (Erik Marr working the ropes).