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Crack climbing boulder areas in Southeast

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Patrick M · · Greely Hill, CA · Joined Jul 2015 · Points: 10

Can anyone suggest any areas with a high number of crack climbing boulder problems?

Westry Whitaker · · Cumming · Joined Apr 2013 · Points: 146

Boat Rock (outside ATL) has a few.

Chris Watford · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jun 2011 · Points: 11

Funny, Ive never really thought about it, but crack climbing boulder problems are a bit more scarce for some reason. Seems like the way that sandstone boulders form, there just seems to be more faces than cracks I guess. Boatrock is granite, and as the previous poster said, it has some cracks.

Anonymous · · Unknown Hometown · Joined unknown · Points: 0

I would assume they are rarer because boulders are probably formed from cracks splitting rocks apart so if there was still a crack there it would more likely still be a wall of rock.

Chris Watford · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jun 2011 · Points: 11

yep, good point.

Sean Barb · · Moores Wall, North Carolina. · Joined Nov 2008 · Points: 440

Stone Fort in TN has some really nice finger crack problems.

Patrick M · · Greely Hill, CA · Joined Jul 2015 · Points: 10

Thanks for all the input. I figure the same logic as y'all with the boulders originating from cracks in the larger rock walls, I was just hoping there might be some areas that I can keep fresh on crack climbing while my partner is in Africa this winter.

Russ Keane · · Salt Lake · Joined Feb 2013 · Points: 447

Plus they are usually not long enough to offer any true technique practice.... (although a move or two is better than nothing I suppose)

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