By Rob F From Fort Collins, CO Dec 6, 2011
| So many to choose from, but some of my favorites are: - Yosemite: Rostrum - Tuolumne: Third Pillar of Dana, Regular - J-Tree: O'Kelly's or Rubicon - Needles: Thin Ice (or, for an awesome 5.6 crack try Tree Route!) - Indian Creek: Well, most of them are better than most cracks on the planet, but I love King Cat - The Rectory: Fine Jade |  FLAG |
By Nick Stayner From The Magic City Dec 6, 2011
| Many have already been stated and my list is Cali-centric, but here goes: Speed of Life, Tioga Pass Butterballs, Yosemite Red Zinger, Yosemite Take any crack pitch on Sunspot or Positive Vibrations Serenity-Sons (maybe best 5.10 multipitch crack route anywhere?) Too many to list in the Creek... |  FLAG |
By Abel Jones From Hickory, NC Dec 6, 2011
| single 1. Japanese Gardens, Index, WA (Refering to linking pitch 1&2) 2. New Traditionalist, New River, WV 3. Terminator, Oak Creek, AZ 4. Critic's Choice, Indian creek, UT 5. Black Angel, Tuolumne, Ca (want this in my back yard) multi 1. Freeway, squamish, BC 2. Sunspot Dihedral, Bridgeport, CA 3. Astroman, Yos, Ca 4. Silk Road, Calavaras, Ca 5. West Face of El Cap, Yos, Ca (wish I could do harder El CAPS) 6. Alaska Highway, Squamish, Ca (Prolly better if linked with the calling) All of these routes have a good variety of different styles and pure quality crack. |  FLAG |
By Rich Farnham Dec 6, 2011
| Lifetime goal -- print out this thread and hit the road... |  FLAG |
By Dusty From Fort Collins Dec 6, 2011
| Wunsch's Dihedral |  FLAG |
By chuck claude From Flagstaff, Az Dec 12, 2011
| For me Single Pitch Terminator- oak creek, Az... Lifeline* and Red Planet*-Sedona, Az Optimator* and Learning to Fly*- Indian Creek Multipitch Shangrila- Sedona, Az Alaskan Highway-Squamish Rostrum (it's ok compared to Shangrila)-Yosemite The star denotes routes I've been working on but have not gotten clean I'm still looking for the crack that is nirvana |  FLAG |
By thecornyman From Oakland, CA Dec 12, 2011
| Damn all of you that listed great cracks that are out of reach for my ability. |  FLAG |
By brian hess From Logan, Utah Feb 23, 2012
| excuse station, reservior wall indian creek steven carruthers memorial, sacred cow wall indian creek mexican creek, little cottonwood cayon gold rush, trout creek |  FLAG |
By Ezekiel Thornton From Akron, Ohio Mar 6, 2012
| Jtree has some good easier cracks..Lighting bolt crack |  FLAG |
By American Dankster From Chattanooga Mar 6, 2012
| Don't forget the Southeast. You know...like some roofs or multiple tiers. Add another dimension to your crack climbing. |  FLAG |
By Kevin Volkening Mar 22, 2012
| Hands down, Shune's Buttress in Zion. Upper crux pitch is a lightning bolt splitter starting with yellow aliens and ending in a few moves of hands with 700 feet of clean air below. |  FLAG |
By nelissam Mar 23, 2012
| Yosemite: Astroman, Rostrum, Steck-Salathe Squamish: Grand wall, Freeway Index: Godzilla, Japanese Gardens, Thin Fingers Josh: The Flake Suicide/Tahquiz: The Vampire |  FLAG |
By John Korfmacher From Fort Collins, CO Mar 23, 2012
| Hard to believe that nobody has mentioned The Line at Lover's Leap, or Pear Buttress at Lumpy...two great routes for us mere mortals. I climbed The Line ('was dragged up' is more like it) on my very first day of climbing...there are probably still pieces of my skin up there somewhere. |  FLAG |
By MIYG From Moab, UT Mar 23, 2012
| Kevin Volkening wrote: Hands down, Shune's Buttress in Zion. Upper crux pitch is a lightning bolt splitter starting with yellow aliens and ending in a few moves of hands with 700 feet of clean air below. +1, Try, like, 200 feet of splitter hands, preceded by 100 feet of splitter thin hands, preceded by 75 feet of splitter fingers... oh good gracious. |  FLAG |
By MIYG From Moab, UT Mar 23, 2012
| Or... <<< Invalid image id: 107523410 >>> drool... |  FLAG |
By Chris Duca Administrator From Hinesburg, Vermont Mar 23, 2012
| Jon Moen wrote: White Knight and Drop, Fly, or Die at the Spider's Web, Adks, NY Hell yes! In addition to that, "Thin Fingers" and "Godzilla" at Index, and "Resistance" / "Persistence" at Lost City in the Gunks. |  FLAG |
By Princess Mia From Vail Apr 6, 2012
| Veedauvoo - Horns Mother and Left Torpedo Tube Indian Creek - Big Guy and Low Cholestrol South Platte - Prairie Dog Crematorium Potash Road - Offwidths are Beautiful Yep all are off widths!!!! |  FLAG |
By Keenan Waeschle From Bozeman, MT Apr 6, 2012
| Godzilla, P2 of City Park, and the stoutest 10d anywhere, Sloe Children. Every pitch is progressively harder and classic at the grade. Index is my favorite crag, can't wait to camp out there this summer. If you don't mind cleaning moss there are plenty of classics that don't get done often enough. |  FLAG |
By Trever W. Apr 7, 2012
| Damn, there are some good ones on here. I gotta add the upper pitches of Outer Space in Leavenworth, WA. Splitter hand crack and enough chicken heads that your feet don't hurt by the end of it. |  FLAG |
By Joe Huggins From 666 Rue le Jour-Edge City Apr 7, 2012
| Gotta say, the third pitch of Turfspreader, on the Cynical is a really gorgeous, perfect 5.8+ in a beautiful spot. |  FLAG |
By dirtbag From Bellingham, WA Apr 7, 2012
| MOONLIGHT BUTTRESS .. At least it was the most beautiful crack I hav ever *seen* BY FAR!! Blows rostrum and nose outta the water. Never ending fingers in beautiful rock and location. Even without touching the route absolutely no contest. Go take a look and u will agree. Unfortunately I was training for speed climbing and rapped then jugged the entire route LOL! Favorite single pitch crack - nine lives@ cat wall (indian creek) |  FLAG |
By matt davies Apr 7, 2012
| Strate Raza that hangs out in the Squire Lounge has got some sheeze that will blow your mentalz |  FLAG |
By Ryan Williams Administrator From London (sort of) Apr 7, 2012
| I thought I'd replied to this already, but I guess not. Camhead has already listed the best cracks that I've fallen off of, and the rest of you have listed a lot that would be on my list. Indian Creek, The Needles and The Spiders Web in the ADKs are the best crack venues I've seen. A few routes that are not on the list: The Womb, Looking Glass Shredded Wheat, Rumbling Bald Burning Calves, New River Gorge Spiderwand, New River Gorge Rod Serling Crack, NRG Welcome to Beauty, NRG Pigs on the Wing, Indian Creek (too many at IC to list) Fine Jade, Castle Valley N. Face of Castleton, CValley Hospital Corner, Lover's Leap Tombstone Terror, LLeap |  FLAG |
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