Prusik Peak, South Face, Der Milkman
Washington, Stuart Range
Author: Matt Hartman.
Climb Year: 2015.
Publication Year: 2016.
In late July, Gaelen Engler and I climbed a probable new route up Prusik Peak’s south face, finding crack systems that led to the top. Our route started far right of other recorded routes, and we were pleasantly surprised by the quality of the climbing. Most of the cracks had a fair to significant amount of lichen in them, and we saw no obvious signs of previous passage. We finished on the final short pitch of the Beckey-Davis Route to the summit. We called it Der Milkman (650’, 5.9). It could be a near classic with some cleaning.
– Matt Hartman
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Nice-looking granite on Der Milkman, Prusik Peak.
Courtesy of Matt Hartman
Right side of the south face of Prusik Peak, the area taken by the new route Der Milkman.
Matt Hartman
Der Milkman climbs the previously untraveled area far to the right of the Beckey-Davis Route on the south side of Prusik Peak.
Steph Abegg