Best Crack

Mister Clean for best single pitch. Cynical Pinnacle's Center Route for best multi pitch.

Central Pillar of Frenzy for multipitch
Illusion Dweller or Rubicon for Single Pitch. I still haven't sent Rubicon (1 fall), and since I moved away from California I've been climbing that thing in my dreams almost every night. Can't wait to go back and give it another go!

This is all pretty random (and strongly reflects that I really need to climb out of the state):

Flower of High Rank
Igor Unchained
Thin Ice
Airy Interlude
Wheat Thin (does this count as a crack?)
Central Pillar
Sacherer Cracker
New Dimensions
Mr. Natural
O'Kelley's Crack
The Good Book
Oz (4th pitch)

Many more I'm forgetting no doubt.

So many to choose from, but some of my favorites are:
- Yosemite: Rostrum
- Tuolumne: Third Pillar of Dana, Regular
- J-Tree: O'Kelly's or Rubicon
- Needles: Thin Ice (or, for an awesome 5.6 crack try Tree Route!)
- Indian Creek: Well, most of them are better than most cracks on the planet, but I love King Cat
- The Rectory: Fine Jade

This:

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Many have already been stated and my list is Cali-centric, but here goes:
Speed of Life, Tioga Pass
Butterballs, Yosemite
Red Zinger, Yosemite
Take any crack pitch on Sunspot or Positive Vibrations
Serenity-Sons (maybe best 5.10 multipitch crack route anywhere?)

Too many to list in the Creek...

single
1. Japanese Gardens, Index, WA (Refering to linking pitch 1&2)
2. New Traditionalist, New River, WV
3. Terminator, Oak Creek, AZ
4. Critic's Choice, Indian creek, UT
5. Black Angel, Tuolumne, Ca (want this in my back yard)

multi
1. Freeway, squamish, BC
2. Sunspot Dihedral, Bridgeport, CA
3. Astroman, Yos, Ca
4. Silk Road, Calavaras, Ca
5. West Face of El Cap, Yos, Ca (wish I could do harder El CAPS)
6. Alaska Highway, Squamish, Ca (Prolly better if linked with the calling)

All of these routes have a good variety of different styles and pure quality crack.

Lifetime goal -- print out this thread and hit the road...

Wunsch's Dihedral

For me
Single Pitch
Terminator- oak creek, Az...
Lifeline* and Red Planet*-Sedona, Az
Optimator* and Learning to Fly*- Indian Creek

Multipitch
Shangrila- Sedona, Az
Alaskan Highway-Squamish
Rostrum (it's ok compared to Shangrila)-Yosemite

The star denotes routes I've been working on but have not gotten clean

I'm still looking for the crack that is nirvana

Damn all of you that listed great cracks that are out of reach for my ability.

excuse station, reservior wall indian creek
steven carruthers memorial, sacred cow wall indian creek
mexican creek, little cottonwood cayon
gold rush, trout creek

Jtree has some good easier cracks..Lighting bolt crack

Center route-Cynicle Pinicle. In the Splat.

Don't forget the Southeast. You know...like some roofs or multiple tiers. Add another dimension to your crack climbing.

Hands down, Shune's Buttress in Zion. Upper crux pitch is a lightning bolt splitter starting with yellow aliens and ending in a few moves of hands with 700 feet of clean air below.

Yosemite: Astroman, Rostrum, Steck-Salathe
Squamish: Grand wall, Freeway
Index: Godzilla, Japanese Gardens, Thin Fingers
Josh: The Flake
Suicide/Tahquiz: The Vampire

Hard to believe that nobody has mentioned The Line at Lover's Leap, or Pear Buttress at Lumpy...two great routes for us mere mortals.

I climbed The Line ('was dragged up' is more like it) on my very first day of climbing...there are probably still pieces of my skin up there somewhere.

Kevin Volkening wrote:Hands down, Shune's Buttress in Zion. Upper crux pitch is a lightning bolt splitter starting with yellow aliens and ending in a few moves of hands with 700 feet of clean air below.