Will on the first pitch

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Will on the first pitch

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Percy Peaks Trail head. Do not take Percy Loop Tr, which is another mile up the road.

The wet wall on the bushwack. The slab is above. Follow the wall to the right, scramble over when easy and then go left follow the elevation to the slab.

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Andrew Z

Nov 26, 2015

“Will on the first pitch”

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Topo of climb

View from pitch 2.

Brad White starting up the third pitch

Looking down at Matt Peer on pitch one

Percy Peaks Trail head. Do not take Percy Loop Tr, which is another mile up the road.

Will on the first pitch

The wet wall on the bushwack. The slab is above. Follow the wall to the right, scramble over when easy and then go left follow the elevation to the slab.

not a bad place to catch a sunset

Trail takes a right turn here and the bushwack starts straight ahead into the woods here. Next time I will put a cairn there.

Raps and Alternate "Route" in Blue (one can go practically anywhere)

Sheila on our 1st pitch. Arrow points to where we started after 3 x 115ft raps, about 1/2 pitch above the actual base which we could have reached easily with another rap.

Start of Pitch 2 traversing up/left under overlap; then stepping over to a 8m runout easy dike, leading to good pro on flakes, up/left around big bush island.

As Ron Brk showed in his photo, the bottom 20'=6m of pitch 1 are dirty, while the higher belay ledge is very nice

Looking down and across the slab

North Percy, P3

Descriptions/comments discuss a couple of bushwhack options. This is one that starts above the saddle point between the peaks and arrives 20m higher than main slab bottom

Descriptions/comments discuss a couple of bushwhack options. This is one that starts above the saddle point between the peaks and arrives 20m higher than pitch 1 bottom

Once at the saddle point between North and South Percy Peaks there are a few trail bifurcations. (Note: none of them are encoutered if starting bushwhack below the steep wet wall as shown in the picture by Ron Birk)

Branden on p1 of the Southwest Face, North Percy Peak

The bushwhack was a bit... thick and we popped out of the woods a bit too far east and had to traverse west about a 1/4 mile to get to the slab.

A bit up pitch 3 good pro all the way. Belay at small tree at right of another island.

Looking up the slab from the bottom

From the top of pitch 3 it is just a 5.easy scramble. We roped-in anyway planning the rope path to avoid dislodging many loose rocks and belayed at a set of small trees right next to the North Percy Peach trail (walkoff)

North Percy, P1

Descriptions/comments discuss a couple of bushwhack options. This is one that starts above the saddle point between the peaks and arrives 20m higher than main slab bottom

North Percy, P2

Descriptions/comments discuss a couple of bushwhack options. This is one that starts above the saddle point between the peaks and arrives 20m higher than main slab bottom

Cris at the start, from the top of P1. This is a really unique slab with a lot of features.

An unexpected sharp almost U-turn (with a misleading straight non-trail path).

Toe of the slab. The bottom part is dirty. You can avoid it by scrambling up on the right to a nice ledge.

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