Yellowjacket Area Climbing

Park at the picnic area where Highway 49 and the northern end of Mad River Road intersect. Walk a bit up 49 until you can see an old logging road across the street. Walk up this road until it becomes a trail. You'll see the main stream come in from the right. (The idea is to follow this stream as this stream will eventually lead you directly to the boulders.)

The trail crisscrosses a bunch of cross country ski trails, but keep following the main stream into the woods. After about a third of a mile, you'll end up on the Yellowjacket Ski Trail. Once on this trail, follow it for a couple hundred yards until the stream crosses under the trail at a wooden bridge (this would be the second bridge you've crossed). Once over the bridge, head left into the woods.

Once in the woods, bushwhack up the stream bed, and look for periodic cairns. As long as you follow the stream, you can't get lost. You will come to some average-looking boulders on the left after about 4/10ths of a mile. Keep heading up the stream bed for another few minutes and you'll see the Yellowjacket Boulder. At the average boulders, cross the stream and head left up a trail to access the lower reaches of the Yellowjacket Boulderfield. You'll come to the Skyfall Area first, with the Hive right behind the jumbled boulders of Skyfall.