Crack Thief

This is a really stellar climb that eats up pro and provides steep, straight-in crack climbing on great rock. It can be climbed in 2 pitches: one longer one and one shorter easy one, or 3 to reduce any rope drag issues.

P1. Climb easy rock through broken terrain up and left to the base of a slightly overhanging hand crack in a large boulder. Pull through the overhang on sinker jams, and dance up the rest of the crack to a big ledge below the money crack (optional belay here). Fire the steep crack on hands and thin hands through some pods and a cruxy, very short, leftward traverse, then pull the last thin finger crack onto the arete, 5.10-.

P2. Head up the obvious line on the arete, and break right onto a huge ledge past a gap. Belay here or a touch higher in the boulders.

Either rap off from just below the ledge on tat with a rap ring to the West, or continue scrambling up the broken terrain and walk down Big Blue.

Begin at the left end of the Crack Shack below a huge, right-facing corner with offwidths in it. You will see the stark splitter in the Norht-facing shield above a mid-level terrace.

A singles rack from 0.3-3 with doubles of 0.75-2. A small selection of stoppers are nice as well.