The Crack
V7+ YDS 7A+ Font
Avg: 3 from 2 votes
Type: | Boulder, Alpine, 40 ft (12 m) |
FA: | unknown |
Page Views: | 334 total · 13/month |
Shared By: | Isaac Kroger on Sep 8, 2022 |
Admins: | Leo Paik, John McNamee, Frances Fierst, Monty, Monomaniac, Tyler KC |
For additional information about raptor closures, please visit the Rocky Mountain National Parks area closures website.
General NPS climbing regulations for RMNP posted here.
Description
Start sitting under the vertical finger crack. Climb up to the roof, then traverse right until you can drop down to an undercling. Pull the roof (crux), trending right on decent holds until you can mantel the tall slab. Finish up a 5.6 slab to the top of the boulder (hint: once you gain the ledge halfway up the slab, you can avoid the loose looking blocks in the corner by doing a 5.7 mantel move onto a ledge out right).
Descend down a low 5th Class slab on the south side of the boulder (note that the bouldering guidebook I saw recommended downclimbing the same slab you topped out on. I would not recommend this as a downclimb, as there is a much easier way down just climber’s right of this).
This could also be climbed as a stand-start from the undercling at V5, though you’d be missing out on some really good movement.
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