Unknown handcrack 

FA:  unknown Type:  Trad Consensus:  5.8+ [details] Length:  1 pitch, 50 feet Views: 310 page views Submitted By: Tony Bubb on May 5, 2003 Add Photo  Add Comment

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BETA PHOTO: Taken from the Saddlehorn CG area. You won't see ...

Description 

Walk to the North Face of Independence Monument, then look toward its left side (East) some distance from the base of Otto's Route. There is a 40 to 50 foot handcrack there with some webbing at the top, from which you can retreat (or, at least I put some there in 1997). This route ascends to a ledge on the "shoulder" of the main rock. This is just left of the first pitch of Slavery, or perhaps (slim chance) is the first pitch of Slavery. It is visible as a faint line on the lower left of the rock in the attached photo.

I know nothing of the history or proposed grade of this route, but scribbled down its location. I remember thinking the grade to be perhaps 5.10b, but I was not and am not presently familiar with the local grades- this is an "Indian Creek" rating, as it were.

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Protection 

A set of cams with perhaps a double around hand size.