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Re: Why is crack climbing more fun than face climbing ?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 3:21 am
by SKI
Not quite hand jams (unless you have small hands, that is).
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Re: Why is crack climbing more fun than face climbing ?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 3:17 pm
by CClaude
Why so much fun, because you can hang out at Indian Creek on things like this

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or in sedona with good friends on cracks like this

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Ok Burcham's photo in the Alpinist (33) is better, but the photo's that weren't published were amazing

or this climb in Sedona, if you fall after the crux its so steep that you lower back to the belay behind the belayer.

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Re: Why is crack climbing more fun than face climbing ?

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:25 pm
by annel05
I am still a beginner (which might explain some of the weirdness), but I can barely climb 5.6/5.7 face and am able to climb 5.9+ crack. Everyone thinks I am crazy, that after being shut down on a face route I choose to take the crack route... but that s the only way I am going to reach the top. I feel that I can get much better hands and feet in the crack than on the face where I am always slipping... Is something wrong with me?

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 6:49 am
by Josh Lewis
Bob Burd wrote:I'm curious - is it possible to crack climb regularly and not tape? If so, what do your hands look like?


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