5.12-,
Trad, 80 ft (24 m),
Avg: 2.5 from 2
votes
FA: unknown
Utah
> Southwest Utah
> Zion NP
> Temple of Sinawava
To find this route park at the
Temple of Sinawava and walk to the bathroom area. Behind the bathrooms and to the right 200 meters total is an obvious massive, left-facing dihedral. That is
Tourist Crack (AKA
La Tourista).
Behind the bathrooms and left perhaps 100 meters total is a set of two other cracks. The one on the left is a crack and dihedral with dark rock referred to in another description as
Unknown Left. To the right is a sweeping overhang of a left-facing corner described here.
Climb up a set of cracks just to the right of
Unknown Left on easy moves (5.8-?) to reach the business of this route. You will arrive at a roof/overhang of wild proportion with an "undercling" crack in it. Place pro out right as far as possible (1.5" cam) and start moving out and right where what was an overhang becomes a strange roof.
Stem back, drop knee, smear, undercling, and contort your way out of this while protecting on TCU's to reach the lip of the roof, where some key face holds appear as the crack disappears. Above the roof the climbing eases to 5.10a or perhaps less. This is a good thing because you will probably be massively pumped and can't set gear there.
The start of the route is a little dirty, but all in all it is fun! Finish on good holds to the ledge and rap from the good fixed anchor. This is hard to TR because there is a big swing potential from the crux. The route felt like 12- to me. Maybe I missed something or maybe it is that hard.
UT
UT
Pitch 1. Climb a corner with tight hands into a chimney. Get way inside and jam out to the left into a corner, lie back and finger lock to chain anchors. Hard 5.8
Pitch 2. Wide hands to fist corner to bolted anchors 5.8
Pitch 3. Climb the wide crack. It spits you outs, make some moves, and sucks you in the toilet. Inch your way out, jam and crimp a fun roof problem to a big sandy ledge and build a trad anchor. 5.9+/10a
Pitch 4. Stem and chimney up a corner with boulders stacked inside to a low angle wide crack bolted anchors 5.7
Pitch 5. Climb wide crack to a lie back corner bolted anchors. 5.7
We brought 2 ropes but seems like you could rap the route with a 70m (not 100% sure). Double rack to #4bd, triples in hand size, 1 #5 (2 is nice for pitch 3). May 7, 2010
Around Boulder, CO
The question is who edited it to put the AKA: in there and make this the wrong route?!?!
I just described what I described and called it an unknown. Feb 7, 2011
Salt Lake City, UT
Around Boulder, CO
mountainproject.com/photo/2…
and at the left edge of the tourist Crack beta photo in the lower comment photos. Feb 1, 2018