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Trying to find the Drive By Crag my friends and I stumbled upon an area with a number of sport routes not listed any where in the guide book. This area may have been left of the Oil Crack Crag. Most of the climbs are non-characteristic of the Red River however they where pretty good.

We parked beside a non-working oil pump, and hiked up a hill next to a mossy boulder for 50 or so feet. We came across a gravel road with a crag right off the road. Some of the routes were literally 5 feet off the road.

There was a small amphitheater with about 2-4 sport routes, and a bolted slab to the left of the amphitheater. To the right of the theater were two 80-90ft sport routes about 10b/c-ish. Up the hill to the right where 3 more sport routes to the right of a dihedral(natural ac coming out of dihedral cave). The first started in a layback crack to crimpy, sloper climbing about 11d/12a, to the right of that a crimpy 11d, to the right of that a 5.8 sport that had a 10 ft slab start to vertical climbing up flakes.

Even further down were more routes. If anyone knows the area please inform me. More info would be a small abandoned oil pump covered by bushes near the routes that were right off the road.

Thanks in advance.

Sounds like Oil Crack or the Inbetween Wall.

Yeah, that is definately Oil Crack. Most of the stuff up there isn't in the last edition of the guidebook.

Now it makes sense....check the on-line guide. The 5.8 up the hill was Blue Plate Special...the 11d (12a in the guide) was Skinflute, the one to the left of that, next to the natural A/C was Alice Through the Winshield Glass (12c) Then the tall ones right on the road next to the amphithearter were 11a, then a 10b then an 11c...according to the guide. Then the slabs were up hill and to the left of the amphiuthearter. The printed guide only has the routes way on down to the right from where you were...cool tall steep pocketed wall of 12's. Definitely Oil Crack...the on-line guide has all these routes listed.

And pictures!

Cool. I checked the online guide and you're right. The pics here definitely helped. Thanks again.