looking for offwidth in all the wrong places: Gallatin Canyon, MT
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Not that anybody really talks about MT climbing on here anyway... but I'm looking for some recommendations for off-width climbing in the Bozeman area. |
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You could always come out this way. There are some good, fierce wide cracks in the batholith. |
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I dont know of anything, but if you find anything i have access to wide gear, hit me up if you do |
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Go to the Batholith. |
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A few that come to mind; |
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Crack of Libido |
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Joe Manlove wrote:A few that come to mind; Diesel Driver - the classic sandbag Orange Crack - the ow section is great, but only about 15ft Mother's Day - fun, the first pitch is a bit vegatated The Joker - scary and hard for the grade, a bit of ow, largely face and struggling Pinnacle Crack- practice rock Go to the batholith for lines of greater purity. Most of these are going to disappoint as the ow is just a part of a larger whole. They are all really good routes, just not really ow.I agree that they are all good routes having been up all of them, but no offwidth on any of them unfortunately. |
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Bud Martin wrote: I agree that they are all good routes having been up all of them, but no offwidth on any of them unfortunately.Agreed. I don't recall Crack of Libido having any offwidth either, but it's been 10 years. |
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Bud, they all had some off width when I did them. Well, the Joker doesn't really have crack so much as groove, but the others have at least a short section of ow crack. |
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Well, I've been on the Joker and Diesel Driver... d.d. has a short off width, the Joker just made me want to take a dump... Crack of Labido ruined me last weekend...no o.w., but plenty of hard jams in pods. |
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Joe Manlove wrote:Bud, they all had some off width when I did them. Well, the Joker doesn't really have crack so much as groove, but the others have at least a short section of ow crack. Also, Pinnacle Crack is a 65ft crack that starts as 4.5's and goes to valley giants. Other than a lie back what else is it?Pinnacle Crack is a good suggestion, but an offwidth-sized crack doesn't necessarily mean the route has "offwidth" climbing on it. Joker-definitely not. Diesel Driver-easily bypassed by giant incut faceholds. Orange Crack- you offwidth for maybe 1 move. All great routes though. But anyway... sounds like the OP knows where to go. |
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Two that I've yet to tick, but would like to are: widefetish.com/simplemachin… There are also lots of OW in the Boulder Batholith as mentioned above... Cheers, Tom |
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Croc's Nose looks great, thanks for posting. |
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Awesome shot. Inspiring as always. |
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I hiked up to Croc's Nose today, too bad it was raining and I couldn't get on it. I was curious if this is the same route listed in the Dockins guide as 9+... maybe it just looks harder to me cause I'm a wuss. |
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is crocs nose that 3 pitch 10d on the gargoyle formation? tom, wait until august before going up to do that one, I need a partner for that when I get back and all my other friends in bozo are too smart to go climbing on the shit they call rock up in hyalite. |
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Croc's Nose is on Croc Rock. Check out the photo above. |
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Yeah, listed as .9+ in the Dockins guide...more like .12 |