Cranner Rock Roof Crack 

FA:  Greg Collins Type:  Trad Consensus:  5.13a [details] Length:  80 feet Views: 322 page views Submitted By: Tom Rangitsch on Jul 17, 2008 Add Photo  Add Comment

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Sticky situation MORE INFO >>> This place is desolate and dangerous WYO desert with very few amenities nearby, and zero assistance should you find your pretty-little-self in a bind. The people are ornery and the land is mean. I don't recommend coming here at all. If the rednecks, miners, roughnecks vagabonds or land doesn't get ya, some dehydrated whacked-out windblown sunbeaten climber just might. . . . Sweetwater Rocks and adjacent areas require LOW-profiles and LOTS of respect and consideration. Keep all fences/gates as you found them. Do not build fires. Adhere to all posted signs. Do not drive off of existing paths (roads). Do not let your dog run around (chances are great that it'll be shot, bitten, trampled or fed upon). Do not take anything from this land. . . and do not leave anything. Good BLM quads are essential (make sure they're up to date). Granite Mtns (Sweetwater) area closures are adjustable and are done so via ranchers and BLM officiales. Great tracts of this area are privately owned; meaning that they are always closed. For example: Lankin Dome BLM as of last year was closed 04-30 thru 06-31 for public AND private lands; between 03-01 thru 04-31 it was closed on private land. So, sometimes private easements are opened, and sometimes they aren't. . . same with public lands; oh, and mining claims too! Pay particular attention to any signage and postings. Keeping climbing areas open and conserving the climbing environment

Description 

Super steep climbing up a finger and hand crack to a difficult boulder problem pulling over a roof. The first half is mostly slopy jugs outside the crack. Then you do a wicked hard boulder problem using rattly fingers and heel hooking to surmount the roof. The last 20-30 feet is decent but pumpy 5.11 fingers in a corner. This route would be on the cover of Climbing if it were in a less remote area.

Location 

Left of Geophysical. There is a bolted dihedral (possibly 5.14) between the two routes.

Protection 

Small stoppers for the bottom. A 3.5 friend protects the section before the roof. There is a bolt in the roof section that makes the crux feel more secure, if just a little.