Tourist Crack 

Despite our guidebook's glaim: "climb the obvious crack behind the bathroom", we couldn't find this route! We found a right facing crack that bent right and turned into a large roof, with a fixed anchor visible above the right edge of the roof. Looked like the most obvious crack to us, and also the only obvious anchor.

However this crack is a bit harder than 10a. We resorted to some aid for the traverse under the roof, an interesting route, but probably at least 5.11. Is the real "Tourist Crack" the one left of this?

George. I went back on 11/23/02 and climbed the route you speak of here and photograhoed. That route is 5.12b, I think. I'll add that to the site as "bathroom unknown right." The climb just left of that goes 5.9+ and I'll add it as "bathroom unknown left." These are both 300' or so left of the Tourist Crack, and not nearly as nice.

My friend and I just recently did this route. I thought it was an excellent line. It is a very clean left-facing dihedral.

We used a 70 meter and really didn't have too much rope to spare. I know for certain a single 50 won't do the job and I remember thinking that a 60 mostly likely would fall short by about 10 to 15 feet.

This climb consumes a lot of #1 camalots. I also took a 3.5 camalot and a 4.5 camalot with me and found them to be extreemly comforting in the off-width pod near the top. You can get by without the 4.5 camalot by placing a few finger/hand size pieces deep in the back of the crack at the bottom of the offwidth(runners?), but the 3.5 camalot(4 friend) is the only piece you can place in the last section of fists(though it is only about 7 feet of fists).

The routes directly behind the toilets are aptly named "Toilet Cracks". Check the visitor center topos or topos at Zion Rock in Springdale. Not sure of the ratings or anything else.

I definitely found #3.5 and #4 cams very useful in the pod. I would have been happier with more than 4 #1s for the main crack. Fun route...excited to do it again.

Also, a 60m rope is not long enough to belay toprope from. A 70m rope would be just enough.

Super fun. We did this with a 70m, pulled up the second, and rapped with no problems. I placed (in order) a #5 peanut for the face moves, .3, 2 #.75's, 3 #1's, a .75, and a #4 (new style Camalot's) in the top of the pod. There is an older #4 BD stuck at the top and I didn't feel like messing with it, but a few chips and I'm sure it'll come out, it is sandstone.

Did this route today. I only brought a 60 m rope and it worked just fine, but just bearly. I also top-roped the climb and it still worked... So disregard Eric's comment.