This is the topo from when we climbed Yak Check in October. Route beta was from McLane's Canadian Rock: Select Climbs from the West. <br> <br> Done in 13 pitches at 5.10a.

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This is the topo from when we climbed Yak Check in October. Route beta was from McLane's Canadian Rock: Select Climbs from the West. <br>
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Done in 13 pitches at 5.10a.

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Looking up Yak-Check from base.

10a slab on Pitch 12.

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Patrick Betts

Mar 9, 2016

“This is the topo from when we climbed Yak Check in October. Route beta was from McLane's Canadian Rock: Select Climbs from the West.

Done in 13 pitches at 5.10a.”

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Route Overlay Yak-Check.

Hand crack on Pitch 3 or 4.

Looking up Yak-Check from base.

This is the topo from when we climbed Yak Check in October. Route beta was from McLane's Canadian Rock: Select Climbs from the West. <br>
<br>
Done in 13 pitches at 5.10a.

10a slab on Pitch 12.

Flakes on Pitch 9.

sore feet at the top of the 10a slab pitch near the top of yak check with crispin prahl in summer of 2010

crispin prahl at the base of yak check in the summer of 2010 photo bissell hazen

Due to 2022 rockfall, pitch 6 lost its ledge and is a hanging belay. Bolts intact.

Corner on Pitch 11.

Corner on Pitch 11.

TOPO: Red line shows the line of Yak Check as seen from the base of the face.

me leading the third pitch of think of yak check in 2010 with crispin prahl

crispin prahl at the base of yak check summer of 2010 bissell hazen photo

Rock fall 2022, start of pitch 7 missing holds. Hard, crumbly moves for leader, bad faraway pro for follower.

traversing above the "cave"

LF corner of p6.

View via the descent

a really quite great route - up high on yak check with crispin prahl in the summer of 2010

really fun section of climbing with crispin prahl on yak check in 2010 i think

summer of 2010 crispin prahl on yak check eh?

summer of 2010 crispin prahl and myself on yak check

summer time in 2010 on the lower entry pitches of yak check with crispin prahl

summer in 2010 on yak check with crispin prahl

2010 i think epic day with crispin prahl.

The approach - well marked trail even across the scree field

The first few pitches

Last climbing pitch

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