Hare and Tortoise, 5.10a

7th Pitch- 60m- 5.9/ The money pitch of the route. Follow a few bolts through face moves that lead into the obvious corner. Work your way up the corner as it widens into off width climbing. Ignore a bolt line out right that avoids the off width section. That is not part of the original route and misses the whole point of this trad climb. A bolt on the left followed by large gear will protect a heady move out of the corner to the right wall to clip a bolt. No doubt the crux move of the climb, a physical move for the grade. Continue up right of the main corner into a more shallow one that leads past rubble to the top of Yamnuska. Some small to medium gear protects via several blocks on the ridge. Hare and Tortoise, 5.10a, 7 Pitches, Bottleneck Area, Yamnuska, Canmore, Alberta, September, 2009