During my early years of development, I had added two Multi-Pitch routes to the Yambraham area. I knew we could get a lot of climbing on the way up the southwest and have six short rappels to exit off the eastern Yambraham side. The day promised to be hot and we had a big mission planned.
I bolted the first pitch putting in a single bolt for a landmark near the start and then marveling at the high quality gear placements. Liz was on belay and we were away! She managed climbing with both packs on her back to pitch six that day! Every pitch on the route could be described in detail, but I will leave that to the route description. I just kept saying, “we could be climbing in Squamish, the rock is so good up here”. Admittedly there were a few pitches with the typical rockies choss, but all in all this route is extremely high quality.
The final pitch was an incredible 50 metre chimney pitch that finishes at two bolts on low angle terrain. Liz and I walked from here to the grassy glades on the east side of the big step on Abraham Shoulder. We could not believe how good the route was, and enjoyed a late lunch in the sunshine. We eyed the shoulder route but decided to use our extra hardware and add a few more bolts to my mixed route on the Yambraham rappel rather than carrying hardware to the summit of Abraham. This was a great day!