Climbing Near Haines Junction, Yukon Territory

Gato Buttress is a trad climbing crag with excellent granite and beautiful splitter cracks. Lower Gato includes 6 routes ranging from 5.8 to 5.10 and Upper Gato includes 3 second pitches from 5.9 to 5.10. Routes on Lower Gato offer thin finger cracks, long sections of superb hand and fist jams, and some short sections of offwidth climbing. Two of the routes involve aid climbing on bolts to access the crack systems. Upper Gato is lower angle and involves a mix of cracks, face holds, and slab. A 70 m rope is required to rappel from Upper Gato. About 100 m up the trail from Lower Gato is Dirty Corner which includes 3 more great crack climbs and a chimney route. The Gato area is visible from the parking lot and receives sun until late in the afternoon. Take the western trail that also heads towards Swiss Wall, Chunder, and Buffalo Buttress. The trail to Gato will be the first relatively beaten path to the right. See the area map for a .gpx file. 

TBD Hike up climbers right of Lower Gato to reach this section. 

Gato Buttress is a trad climbing crag with excellent granite and beautiful splitter cracks. Lower Gato includes 6 routes ranging from 5.8 to 5.10 and Upper Gato includes 3 second pitches from 5.9 to 5.10. Routes on Lower Gato offer thin finger cracks, long sections of superb hand and fist jams, and some short sections of offwidth climbing. Two of the routes involve aid climbing on bolts to access the crack systems. Upper Gato is lower angle and involves a mix of cracks, face holds, and slab. A 70 m rope is required to rappel from Upper Gato. About 100 m up the trail from Lower Gato is Dirty Corner which includes 3 more great crack climbs and a chimney route. The Gato area is visible from the parking lot and receives sun until late in the afternoon. Provide some directions to this area.