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Blue Collar Crack 

5.9+

   

FA: Clay Watson, Gregg Kirchhoff, Dallen Ward, Bryce Perkins
New Route: Yes
Type: Trad
Consensus: 5.9 [details]
Length: 2 pitches, 250 feet
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Submitted By: Sunny-D on Jun 12, 2008


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Looking down Blue Collar Crack


Description 

This route was cleaned out by Gregg, Clay and Dallen. Climb the corner using the small crack in the wall for gear. At the headwall climb up into the arching crack. Follow the crack up to a set of anchors. Pitch 2 follows a double crack up to a great stance and anchors.


Location 

This Route starts in the corner just West of Zesty. Follow a big corner up and step out on the Shelf 50 feet up.


Protection 

Standard Trad. rack -- nuts, tcu's through 3.5 or 4 BD cam. 3 sets of bolt and chain anchors for the rap. Can be done with a 60 M rope.



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Gregg on the FA

Gregg on the FA

original line in red. (p1 & p2)<br />a more recent and direct version in purple. anchors in green.

BETA PHOTO: original line in red. (p1 & p2)
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By Sir Camsalot
Jun 12, 2008

Great route! The crux upper crack is not your typical crack and will sure have you thinking! Nice work on the gardening.

By tenesmus
Jun 13, 2008

It took us about 40 hours to clean this thing out. Hence the name. The crack is serrated in the middle and under what seemed like thousands of years of dirt and debris. Cool finger, hand and fist jamming and strangely, part of the crack lets you do all 3 at once. You don't really need bigger than a #3 camalot (if you don't have one) as there is optional small gear in the crack where that #4 can go. Might be 5.9.

You can easily TR the really cool unknown slab to the right of this route. This is a fun lead and we gave it some much needed tlc and scrubbing. After scrubbing everything down we even swept that whole face with a push broom.

By S. Gileadi
From: Salt Lake City
Sep 20, 2008
rating: 5.9

Wow, this is not your normal, average crack route.

Nope, not at all.

The serrated crack is crazy, tenesmus is exactly right with his description of it.

Really cool, a nice change from the ordinary.

By Boissal
From: SLC, UT
Sep 22, 2008
rating: 5.9

Weird stuff for sure, really uncommon features in the crack. The crux was at the top for me when it gets steep and the lock/jams get more spaced. Interesting pro the whole way, not as straightforward as I'm used to. I didn't take the #4 and got away with a #3 and micros.
The scrub oak at the end of the wide section has grown back to a pretty hefty size, makes for a bushwack halfway up the route.
I'll go back up to do the second pitch as we finsished on redneck slab.

By zoso
Sep 23, 2008
rating: 5.9+

Glad yo enjoyed. Me and Ten noticed the new plantlife as well. We/Dallen will try to whhaaaacckk it soon. To all: Feel free to clean/remove any vegetation. Let the ethics battles begin :)

By S. Gileadi
From: Salt Lake City
Sep 23, 2008
rating: 5.9

You can only hate scrub oak as much as it hates you... bring the loppers!

By Shaun Greene
From: www.UtahShaun.com
Oct 27, 2008

This crack is so cool...It would be a shame to have the climb ruined by the scrub oak coming back. Nice work on this route, it is my favorite in the area.