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Who's been to Indian Creek, UT and what routes were your favorites? Looking at these http://www.rockclimbing.com/photos.php? ... Period=ALL has me itchin' for March to roll around!!

Supercrack.

I've never been there but feel like I've climbed this route since it's Jared's favorite and he tends to talk about this route for hours.

I hear that Supercrack is getting wider. What does Jared say?

ZSpider

i've heard the same news about some of the cracks out there.. anyone know if it's true that the ratings are based on #2 hand sizes?

Ooooooooooohhhh!!!!! If I don't see you out there, try these on for size:
Supercrack 9+
Incredible Handcrack 10
The Wave 10
Generic Crack 9
Chocolate Corner 10a
Battle of the Bulge 11
Coyne Crack simulator 11

Fuck you rabbit! I didn't mean Indian Creek, UT. I meant Indian Creek, UPYOURASSBITCH!

Rabbit's tick list is a great list, especially Coyne Crack. Supercrack is wider then it use to be about 10 years ago, but if you haven't done since before then, you'd never notice. It takes #3 camalots basically the whole way.

Yeah, that place is paradise. The best climbing I've ever done! One of my old climbing partners and I were there in the summer of 1998. We did lap after lap after lap on Supercrack of the Desert to warm-up for a 1,000' day of splitter cracks. I've got some great photos. I'll try to post some here (unfortunately they are not digital and they might need to be scanned first). I don't know if the crack is getting wider or not. It sure gets wider at the top of the first pitch. It started as a short layback to a ledge, then thin hands through a small roof, then widening hands to the anchors about 90-100' up. The last 20-30 feet or so I started punching through to my elbows so I swung into a layback since the wall was offset and ran it out to the anchors. I still have photos framed and hanging up at my parent's house and here. And no Supercrack does NOT take #3 camalots most of the way. #1's down low, #2's, through the middle and then #3's, and maybe a #4 for the rest of it. It's a walk in the park. Very smooth and comfortable jams. That Wingate sandstone is some kind of hard sandstone, not like the crumbly Navaho and Entrada shit. Wingate is dark, varnished, and smooth. Best sandstone anywhere!

Pretty impressive to think that the FA of Supercrack was done in the 1970's without cams. They dropped hexes into the crack until they fell and came to a stop. Just enough to keep the climbers off of the ground. Of course, it's nearly impossible to fall from such perfect jams though!

Yasmeeen's sig line wrote:If the chicken don't cluck then it's a CAT! HAHA!

-Me completely stoned at a party last night

Dammit!! Whoever posted this PROMISED me they wouldn't tell!! Shit.