Stewart's Crack 

yup, climbed it in 2007 with a buddy when i was working for the appalachian mating club, we climbed two pitches from hands to fists and left nuts to rap, sweet route, i wish it was a bit cleaner (nasty as hell) but then it would be more popular, the approach was easier than I thought coming from sawyer pond. Strandman, did you quote websters second edition there with "stewart green-get it?". Classic.

Ya Ed and I discussed the name a few times, thought it was pretty good.

The starting pitch looks pretty clean, but from the ground the upper parts look clogged with dirt and greenery. Also, I didn't see any trees on the route worthy of rapping off. To my mind the route looks like it could use a cleaning and maybe a couple discrete rap anchors. The hike off is classic heinous thick spruce scruff and windfall, and the route ends near the middle point of a wide cliff

GPS coordinates: N44.03604 W71.39926

I had a chat with Jimmie Dunn and he was in agreement with replacing the old pin/webbing/cord anchors with new bolted ones so I have placed a new 2 bolt anchor at the 1st pitch belay ledge with quicklinks for rapping off and cut out the detritus. We left the pins in for historical purposes. The idea was to also do the second pitch, but it is horrendously dirty so I am putting the effort into other routes first..Maybe later. Amy C has taken on the task of giving the first pitch a sweep and is almost done. I TRed it while it was still dirty and can't wait to lead it. It is really nice.

If the top was cleaned, with modern length ropes, I think this would be a 2 pitch route.

"upper pitches look like turf tugging dirt fests"... LOL! The start pitch looks great. I can't wait to check it out.

Pitch one is clean now.

Pitch one cleaned, with help from Mother Nature. Submitted By: amy colburn on Jul 18, 2010

Technical Vegetation. Submitted By: amy colburn on Jul 18, 2010

i bet the bears could clean pitch 2 ! I can't believe how much has grown in there since i did this route. Of course it has been a while (17 years). I'm pretty sure the dead tree is the one we rapped off !

I led this the past weekend (first pitch) and it has washed up from the rain after the scrub very nicely. It was very fun, much better than when it still had some loose dirt in it. Great handjamming and a little laybacking. Tape on the back of the hands is a good idea. Bring an extra gold Camalot (2.5?) or two. I had to run it out some with only one. I was glad I had brought a few of my offset cams too, but you would be fine without them as long as you had multiples of the red and gold. A finger tip sized offset cam works great for your first piece. I'm bumping this up to three stars now that it is clean. The first pitch is also longer than it looks..not much rope left when rapping with a 60 meter. The first pitch is G rated if you have enough cams.

climbed it again last weekend and the first pitch has dried out quite nicely.

The recently cleaned second pitch is awesome. I found it harder than the first. Looking at the before picture of Amy's the effort to clean this pitch was huge and totally worth it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The new second pitch anchor is now fully in (two 1/2 SS Rawls with fat quicklinks). They were placed just below the lip so the vegetation at the top didn't have to be disturbed. I think Jim may have finished up the right hand corner at the top originally, but I set the anchors up for and cleaned the left hand crack finish. It is good and a little steeper and I didn't want to clean out the top corner as it would kill the big bonsaied pine.

So, the route is now two pitches and can be done with a single 60m. Get out and get on it before it fills back up with vegetation!

There is another anchor down and to the right that you can tension traverse over to if you want to work on that 2nd pitch thin seam/face TR project. I got it mostly cleaned and figured out. It is going to be pretty hard! ..very sustained thin technical climbing.