Split Rock Wyoming

Anybody have information on Split Rock? Recommended routes? I was checking it out on the drive back from Wild Iris last weekend and can't get it out of my mind.

Thanks John. It's the first time I've driven through there in daylight and I liked what I saw. I plan on checking it out in the near future.

The Collins Lander Rock book has some pretty good beta in there. What's on here is a little sparse, but not bad.

Sweetwater Rocks has a lot of good climbing. The Collins/White guidebook describes the main developed areas fairly well, but it's a huge area with a lot of remaining potential. The easiest accessed area is Cranner Rock. There are maybe 50 routes on the formation, with most or all being single pitch crack climbs. Some are pretty short. A standard rack should suffice. My favorites are Geophysical (called "Cranner Crack" on this site) which is a superb 5.11c hand crack. It has a weird pod at the bottom which you can avoid by lybacking, but is kind of hard to protect. U234 (or maybe 232?) is also good, a short 5.11a finger crack that is in an alcove to the right of Geophysical. The Cranner Rock Roof Crack is amazing, but is 5.12d or 5.13a and burly at that. Most of the climbs on that side of Cranner are pretty good. The Owl Crack (5.9 and on the other side) is short but fun. There are two good 5.10s just around from the Owl in a corridor which share an anchor.

There is also an area nearer to Jeffery City called the Soapstone that has another burly 12d/13a finger crack (the Soapstone Crack) that is not in any guide that I know of, send me a PM and I can give you beta if interested. The longer routes on Lankin dome are mostly slabby face climbs, but good if you like that kind of thing.

It's pretty adventurous in general as the area doesn't get too much traffic and there is a lot of private land. The beta here on MP is pretty accurate in general.

Hope this helps...