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Yellow Cake

5.11+, Trad,  Avg: 3.2 from 5 votes
FA: James Wyland
Washington > Central-W Casca… > Skykomish Valley > Index > Inner Walls > Foodbar Wall

Description

Ascends a wall with yellow streaks with two short left-facing corners below. Yellow Cake goes up the left one.

Go up a splitter hand crack to start, with a crux move past the first bolt, then to a face crack accepts gear to .75" to chains above.

Location

About 200' right of the cave.

Protection

Gear to 2".

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Jake Jones on the sicky icky comp style opening crux.
[Hide Photo] Jake Jones on the sicky icky comp style opening crux.

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Matthew Tangeman
SW Colorado
5.11+
[Hide Comment] The location and description for this route is a bit of a sandbag. Don't read if you want the authentic Index sandbag experience.

200' feet right of the cave - sure, but this ignores the short, steep, loose moss/dirt/rock approach and grungy traverse to actually reach the base of the route. Wouldn't want to step on the wrong square of moss and activate the trapdoor! You might be better off belaying on the trail below and climbing a short right-facing mossy corner to the base, but then you have pretty serious ledge-fall potential past the crux.

"Splitter hand crack" = slightly overhung lieback flake, takes .75s down to fingers.

Bolted crux moves are STOUT, or maybe I have bad beta. 11c seems spot on even for Index.

The face crack after is barely a crack and won't take anything bigger than a .3 - micro cams are useful, it's a face climb. Expect a few sucker holds, veggies, and slightly runout climbing to the chains. Jul 17, 2019