During my first trip to Skaha in 2001 I realized that having a rack of cams and nuts would give me so many more options to climb. I was at the Great White Wall on a busy Easter weekend with several friends, none of whom trad climbed, but I’d carried in a hefty rack anyway. With climbers dangling from 5.13 sport routes and line-ups forming on the more moderate bolted lines, I thumbed through the guidebook in search of some crack options.
Skaha has dozens of worthwhile cracks, but I didn’t want to drag a partner too far from the action, so I focused in on the White Walls. There were five or six routes that looked interesting, but it was Eyrily Hanging Out, a 32-metre 5.11a corner crack that…
