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Arch Crack

Name: Arch Crack
Rating: 3.1

5.11b YDS 6c French 23 Ewbanks VIII- UIAA 23 ZA E3 5c British

Routes in The Vestibule

L › R R › L A › Z

	911 S 5.11c/d 7a 24 VIII 25 E4 6a
	Altar Boy S 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
	Arch Crack S 5.11b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c
	Aurora S 5.12b 7b 26 VIII+ 26 E5 6b
	Brasserie S 5.12a 7a+ 25 VIII+ 25 E5 6a
	Chateau Vert T 5.12 7b+ 27 VIII+ 26 E6 6b
	Cinq Cents S 5.11d 7a 24 VIII 25 E5 6a
	Doctors, Lawyers, and Indian Chiefs S 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
	Dreamcatcher S 5.13c 8a+ 30 X- 31 E7 7a
	Field of Screams S 5.13a 7c+ 29 IX+ 29 E6 6c
	Flail Mary T 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b
	Grand Cru S 5.11b/c 6c+ 23 VIII- 24 E4 6a
	Grand Ol' Opry S 5.14b 8c 33 X+ 33 E9 7b
	Hallowed Rawl S 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
	Hyperdrive S 5.13 8a 29 X- 30 E7 6c
	Inner Peace S 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b
	Jagermeister S 5.9- 5c 17 VI 16 HVS 4c
	Lancet S 5.10d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b
	Like the Good Ol' Daze S 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
	Liquid Crystal Display S 5.11c 6c+ 24 VIII- 24 E4 6a
	Mystery Route (right of The Altar) S 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
	Name of the Rose S 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b
	Psychatomic S 5.12d 7c 28 IX 28 E6 6b
	Quickening, The S 5.13c 8a+ 30 X- 31 E7 7a
	Raised by Wolves S 5.12c 7b+ 27 IX- 27 E6 6b
	Shortening, The S 5.13a 7c+ 29 IX+ 29 E6 6c
	Stand Up Comedy S 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
	Stolen Land S 5.11c 6c+ 24 VIII- 24 E4 6a
	Sunday School S 5.10d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b
	Suspended Animation S 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
	Tabula Rasa S 5.10d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b
	Third Millennium S 5.13d 8b 31 X 32 E8 7a
	Thunderbolt S 5.12c/d 7c 28 IX 28 E6 6b
	Tilted Tower S 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
	Wes Bound S 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Windwalker S 5.12d 7c 28 IX 28 E6 6b

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Access Issue: Area closure - now lifted. Previously: Storm Mt./Cedar Park road is reopened to all Details

Per Kurtz: The Monastery is open again! fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DO….

Per Julie Nelson: the forest is closed due to after fire concerns in this area until June 30, 2021. There is a sign at the trailhead about the closure. See the US Forest Service website for further updates.

Previously: per Bruce Hildenbrand: Storm Mountain Road is open to all.

Per Hank C: the Storm Mt./Cedar Park area is closed to locals-only traffic for the time being due to wildfire concerns. We were turned away by a park ranger this morning (9/12/2020).

Access Issue: Access issue - Monastery, Cedar Park, Combat Rock, etc.? Details

Per JF M: as of May 2022, there is no signage on-site, nor information on the USFS webpage for the Cameron Peak Fire (nor on their published map of closures) that indicates the area is closed.

Per Bruce Hildenbrand: it appears that the Forest Service has closed access to all the climbing areas accessed via Storm Mountain Road (Monastery, Cedar Park, Combat Rock, etc.) until they can clear all the dangerous dead trees from the Cameron Peak fire.

I worked this issue with Eric Murdock at the AF, and it looks like the Forest Service picked Devil's Gulch Road as the southern boundary even though all the climbing areas on MP.com were not burned.

Description

The [second] bolted line up hill from the The Altar starts on a small platform. Arch Crack follows an arching crack for 40 feet and then dumps out onto a short, thin headwall for 20 more feet. This line kicked up interesting moves in the crack at 5.9/5.10 and then switched gears entirely pulling out of the crack (5.11a). Largely very good stone, although quite thin at the top, coupled with interesting climbing make Arch Crack a very worthy endeavour. Its grade was closer to 5.11a than 11b.