Yukon Alpine Qualifiers
Yukon Alpine Qualifiers
The ACC Yukon Alpine Qualifiers (YAQ) is a list of objectives in the Yukon and surrounding regions. It is inspired by other ‘challenge lists’ like the ACC Vancouver Island Section – Island Qualifiers. Rather than a list of peaks, the YAQ is a list of routes or lines meant to represent the necessary skills to be a well-rounded, modern Yukon alpinist. Therefore, the list will change and grow as both the local and global communities do so as well.
The list is broken down into the following categories:
- General Mountaineering
- Alpine Touring/Ski Mountaineering
- Ice Climbing
- Traditional Rock Climbing
- Alpine Rock Climbing
Each category has four objectives. The objectives are not meant to be the ‘cutting edge’ or gnarliest possible lines in the category but rather demonstrative of moderate competency in that particular stream of alpinism. There are likely many published and unpublished routes that could fit into the categories. However, the routes were chosen for their relative popularity and ‘classic’ status.
ACC Yukon Members in Good Standing who have completed at least one route/line per category will be granted ‘YAQ Status’ and have their names placed on the website. Those who complete all objectives will be placed on a ‘YAQ Completionist List’ and added to the club ‘YAQ Plaque’. Email us at ACCYukon@gmail.com with a list of your ascents (with dates) and names of partners to be added.
YAQ List (As of 2024)

General Mountaineering
- Mt Martha Black (Kluane)
- Standard Route
- Taiya Peak (White Pass)
- North Glacier/West Ridge
- Vulcan Mountain (Kluane)
- North Face
- Mt Hoge (Kluane)
- N/NE Face
Alpine Touring / Ski Mountaineering
- Fraser Peak (White Pass)
- Big Kahuna
- The Knee (White Pass)
- Standard Route
- King’s Throne (Kluane)
- King’s Throne Couloir
- Three Guardsmen (Haines Pass)
- Big Y Couloir – Right Branch


Ice Climbing
- Km 8.2 falls (Skagway)
- WI3, 2-3 pitches
- Solar Flare (Conrad)
- WI3, 3 pitches
- Fungaphobia (Mt White)
- WI3, 5 pitches
- Ice Climbing Couloir (Paddy Peak)
- AI2, 400m
Traditional Climbing
- Let Them Eat Cake (Paint Mountain)
- 5.9, 4 pitches
- Persistence (Mt White)
- 5.10a, 4 pitches
- Another One Bites the Dust (Paint Mountain)
- 5.9, 5 pitches
- Chunder Gully (Paint Mountain)
- 5.10-, 4 pitches


Alpine Rock Climbing
- Caribou Mountain
- Gwaihir, 2 pitches, 5.7
- Mt Matheson
- South Ridge, 1 pitch, 5.7
- Pyramid Peak
- West Ridge, 3 pitches, 5.6
- Ark Mountain
- Reflection Ridge, 20 pitches, 5.10c