Unnamed, Tortilla Slab crack 

FA:  Type:  Trad, TR Consensus:  5.7 [details] Length:  1 pitch, 45 feet Views: 66 page views Submitted By: Chris Wenker on Mar 3, 2008 Add Photo  Add Comment

You and this route  |  Other Opinions (2) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

BETA PHOTO: Unnamed crack on Tortilla Slab, 5.7, Tortilla Flat...

Description 

This is probably the same route as #4 in Beverly's (2006) Jemez Rock guide, but that guide appears to have the topo slightly wrong (too far to the right). This crack is also apparently noted on the online guide's hand-drawn topo, but it is not identified as a climb in that guide.

This grassy/dirty crack starts thin and angles up left; at which point it then widens to hands and continues up to the right across the slab face. The top of the crack keeps angling to the right until it forms basically a horizontal ledge, from which you must continue either up the face on the left or back to a short crack system. Short and not terribly interesting.

Location 

This crack splits the Tortilla Slab, located near the northern (leftmost) end of the cliffs.

Protection 

Standard cams and nuts.