walking down the decent trail for the amphitheater i noticed a crack on the opposite side of the gully. if you do the first bit of steep, dirty, watery decent then you come to the flat area with a trickling water fall, there is a trail that goes around the gully at the base of the wall. if you keep taking this around then you come under a nice OW looking crack going left, then a short bit later the pretty corner hand crack appears. i looked on here for a route name and description but couldn't find one. Does anyone have any beta the the beautiful one pitch crack im describing?
Edit: I dont think he is refering to open book or turkey beard. Its further up the gully off the first wall you hit. More on the side of the mummy. Could be wrong though, vague description.
i think i know what you are referencing to. If facing the gorge then its on the left. I've seen webbing at the top of the hand crack that you describe. Dont have any info on it. Nathan Brown or some of the other more prolific climbers such as Stegg or Jeep might know. I'd get a hold of them.
Cheers T
sanz
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Nov 20, 2012
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Pisgah Forest, NC
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rock_fencer wrote:Edit: I dont think he is refering to open book or turkey beard. Its further up the gully off the first wall you hit. More on the side of the mummy. Could be wrong though, vague description. i think i know what you are referencing to. If facing the gorge then its on the left. I've seen webbing at the top of the hand crack that you describe. Dont have any info on it. Nathan Brown or some of the other more prolific climbers such as Stegg or Jeep might know. I'd get a hold of them. Cheers T
This sounds right. I was with Will when we spotted it. The line is more or less directly opposite of Open Book, on the Mummy side, to your left if you are standing in the amphitheater and facing the gorge. It had some red webbing up top.
hey Nathan do you remember the grade on "rattlesnake crack" ? that OW ish climb just a bit cliff left, looks hard for the start and possibly kind of wet but that crack looks nice as well. Does any one have a more detailed gorge guide, or is it that i need to just master linville and just figure everything out from trips? I have heard of that Northern blue ridge guide that has the golden coast, linville river, all the stuff on 221 and such. does anyone own this guide?
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