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Many Times (a.k.a. Backside Cracks or Crackle Top)
5.10+,
Trad, 2 pitches,
Avg: 3 from 3
votes
FA: FA: Reed Cundiff, Karl Kiser, Cliff Naveaux, Edmund Ward, Paul Seibert, early 1976. FFA: Edmund Ward & Cliff Naveaux, late 1976
New Mexico
> Las Cruces Area…
> Organ Mountains
> Sugarloaf Area
> Sugarloaf
Access Issue: Power drilling is prohibited in the Organ Mountains Wilderness.
Details
Description
1st Pitch: Finger crack up a beautiful left facing dihedral. (Some very wide stemming is possible)
2nd Pitch: Continue straight up past a left trending finger crack with a perfect ramp for your feet. Trend right past an old bolt with homemade hanger to a large obvious dihedral. We stayed on the face just left of the dihedral to avoid a few loose blocks.
This route has obviously had somebody on it in the past due to fixed gear, so if you know any info other that stated here then please comment.
Location
Located on the south side of the Sugarloaf near the rappel. Approach the same as Flea Tree, but continue around until you reach a 5th class slab with rappel anchors on top. Either climb the slab to reach the base of the route or scramble through 3rd & 4th class terrain to the right to reach the base.
Protection
Small gear to #2 Camalot
Hand to fist size gear for first anchor, bolts for second anchor.
Austin, TX —> Fort Collins,…
Sapello, NM
Burbank, CA
I was not on the FA, Reed just thought so because we all climbed together a couple of years later. It was an aid climb and the pins were left but by ca. 1982 when I climbed it with Matt Monagle (established rating then 5.10--name "Many Times", I climbed it 30 years ago and cannot remember exact details other than steep, good pro and stemming) there were only a couple of remaining pins.
It is possible that the route was just right of your route and then went left to the protection bolt and then to the top. Can you mark the old bolt on the photo? But it was an aid climb with a lot of placements and it does appear that the better crack is the line you placed on the photo. Dec 10, 2012
The FA was Reed Cundiff, Edmund Ward, Paul Seibert and Glen Banks early in the year (cold, around 1976). Reed had a lot of pins and aided much of the crack. The followers were able to climb much of the crack free. Later that year the FFA was by Edmund Ward & Cliff Naveaux. Originally the climb was named Backside Cracks but renamed Many Times for the Southwestern Mountaineer's topos of the mid 1980s. Jan 6, 2013