Dirty Crack  5.8

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Type:  Trad, 1 pitch, 150 feet Consensus:  5.8+ [details] FA:  Don Hunley, Jim McEver, Reid Thompson Submitted By:  saxfiend on Mar 12, 2007 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (23) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

One of my friends on dirty crack.

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Description 

At North Carolina's home of scary runout slab climbing, Dirty Crack is one of a handful of routes that's well-protected from start to finish. That doesn't mean it's easy; there's some thin moves midway up that might make you want to grab one of the trees growing out of the crack. "Dirty Crack" may have been an apt name in the past, but in fact this is a clean route that's a worthwhile lead.

Starting at the obvious right-facing dihedral, follow the thinning crack up past a couple of trees to the Tree Ledge.

Location 

Starts below the far right end of the Tree Ledge at a right-facing dihedral. 10' right of Entrance Crack. Rap on two ropes from rap rings at the top of Father Knows Best or any of the other Tree Ledge rap anchors.

Protection 

A good range of gear up to 4" (big pieces mainly near the start); there's also trees to sling. Anchor to trees at the top.

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Breanna seconding me on Dirty Crack. The hard move...	BETA PHOTO: View from Pulpit P1 anchor, showing what the upper...	not a must do for your first time back on slab in ...