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Tank Canyon

Submitted By: John Ross on Mar 25, 2008
Administrators: Andrew Gram, Perin Blanchard
Elevation: 6,000 feet
Latitude: 40.4469  Longitude: -111.6881 
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Looking north up Tank Canyon from above Membrane W...


Description 

Tank Canyon is a quiet side canyon in American Fork Canyon located within the Lone Peak Wilderness. You will find shaded climbs on isolated limestone walls in variety of difficulties. Many climbs are short but challenging. A creek flows through the canyon during spring runoff but is mostly dry during hot summer months.

No camping is allowed in Tank Canyon. Please do your part to help keep this area clean.


Getting There 

Trail: Park at the gravel Hell Cave pull-out exactly 1 mile from the TCNM visitors center. Cross the road (north) and find the Tank Canyon trail.

Direct: Park at the Membrane pull-out 1.1 miles from the TCNM visitors center. Walk across the road and up the steep bank into Tank Canyon.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Tank Canyon:
Small Fry   5.4     Sport, 1 pitch, 30 feet   Miscellaneous Scattered Rou...
Tank Trap   5.10c     Sport, 1 pitch, 70 feet   Visionary Wall
Dag Nasty   5.10d     Sport, 1 pitch, 90 feet   Visionary Wall
Gunner   5.11b     Sport, 1 pitch, 30 feet   Two O'Clock Rock
Gemini   5.11c     Sport, 1 pitch, 40 feet   Visionary Wall
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Featured Route For Tank Canyon
Starting the crux.

Gemini 5.11c  UT : Wasatch Range : ... : Visionary Wall
A devious line with thin holds, balancy moves, and a strenuous iron cross-like move. Start up on the smooth face below the small roof, working the small crimps, sidepulls and footholds. The second clip is balancy and a bit thought-provoking. Find a way to get past the roof, rest a bit, and then wonder where the holds went.A bit of desperate arete-pinching later, come to a couple of (relatively) larger holds and figure out the next bulge problem. ...[more]   Browse More Classics in UT


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By Toby Hazelbaker
Jul 31, 2009

Very sad to see orange spraypaint arrows every 10 ft. along the trail and over to Small Fry and Unnamed 5.7, along with a terrible new (and definitely useless) plywood bridge. Use cairns and existing trails, people! Or a simple map posted is all that is needed. This is terrible ethics and is a great way to get an already rough looking area (illegal fire rings, camping, paintball and Airsoft) closed by the Forest Service...

By Perin Blanchard
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From: Orem, UT
Jul 31, 2009

Annoying indeed. However, the perpetrators almost certainly weren't "climbers" ("climbers" use a drill).

Tank Canyon is used more often by groups other than climbers, as evidenced by the paintball marks, spilled Airsoft pellets, etc. A couple of weeks ago, I encountered a guy setting up a makeshift pulley system up the steep, loose stuff across from Membrane. He said he was hauling up folding chairs. I didn't ask him why. This was a day or two after we first encountered the paint...

Anyway, kick out the paint in the trail, turn over the rocks; the paint will wear away eventually.

By Toby Hazelbaker
Jul 31, 2009

I contest "climbers" use trad gear! :)