Home - Destinations - People - Partners - Forum - Photos - What's New
 ADVANCED
Old Sandstone
Show routes:
Select route...
"The Nipple" 
Alligator Wall 
American Beauty Crack 
Baker Street 
Chez's Chimney 
Chez's Chimney variation 
Curving Crack 
Dancing Madly Backwards 
Deceptive 
Everleigh Club Crack 
Freaky Face 
Gargantua 
Girls Named Sue 
Has Been 
High Life, The 
Mammalary Magic 
Out There 
Pacific Ocean Wall 
Sepsen Wall 
Seven Seas 
Tarantula 
Team Arturo 
Uberschmidt 
Wave Mechanics 
Wobbly Dihedral 

Curving Crack 

5.8

   

FA: unknown
Type: Trad, TR
Consensus: 5.8- [details]
Views: 1,032 page views

Submitted By: Tom Anderson-Brown on Oct 10, 2001


Add Photo  Add Comment 

You and this route  |  Other Opinions (32)
Your todo list:
Your stars:
Your rating: -none- [change]
Your ticklist: [add new tick]
 Printer Friendly View

Burt Preston near the crux of Curving Crack.


Description 

The Curving Crack is a great moderate climb that requires some tricky jamming towards the top of the route. Start out with some blocky moves and move up along the crack, curving towards the right. About half way up the route have the option of using only the crack (harder) or using a shallow dihedral to the right to stem up. The top of the climb holds the crux where you seem to hit a dead-end.


Protection 

Standard Rack



Photos of Curving Crack Slideshow Add Photo
Curving Crack (8), Deceptive (9), and Out There (10)

BETA PHOTO: Curving Crack (8), Deceptive (9), and Out There (1...

Wes Anderson ascending Curving Crack

Wes Anderson ascending Curving Crack

Wes Anderson setting up for a smear on Curving Crack.

Wes Anderson setting up for a smear on Curving Cra...

Wes Anderson down low on Curving Crack.

Wes Anderson down low on Curving Crack.

Adam Therneau leading Curving Crack. August, 2003.

Adam Therneau leading Curving Crack. August, 2003.

Chris Keller leading Curving Crack <br /><br />photo by: John Knoernschild

Chris Keller leading Curving Crack

photo by: Joh...


Clipping last piece<br /><br />photo by: John Knoernschild

Clipping last piece

photo by: John Knoernschild


Chris Keller topping out on Curving Crack<br /><br />photo by :John Knoernschild

Chris Keller topping out on Curving Crack

photo b...



Comments on Curving Crack Add Comment
Show which comments
By Anonymous Coward
Feb 26, 2002

we use to rate curving crack 5.6

By Bruce Neumann
From: Bountiful, UT
Sep 7, 2007

The moves are a bit awkward b/c you have to go deep for good jams, but good fun and a nice lead. A few lost cams – Wise use of runners is a way to keep your gear.

By John W. Knoernschild
From: Wisconsin
Jul 3, 2008
rating: 5.8

FA??

By BryanR
From: Madison, WI
Oct 26, 2008

felt like a 5.6 on a top rope but i would imagine it a bit trickier on lead.

By Ta-Chi Wang
May 24, 2009

Great route! 5.8 at least by leading. Using layback to pass the top crux makes the route even more enjoyable.