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#3 camalot is still considered a hand crack unless you have no technique or are a chick.

 

In that case you must be 1 fat fucker boxing_smiley.gif

 

My technique doesn't suck, and any time I start jamming forearms and throwing in arm-bars, it aint' no f-ing hand crack. I distinctly remember the topsection where I whish I knew how stack hands/fits, and throwing in a nice knee lock to rest on.

 

I'll make you a deal... I'll belay you and you can take anything up to a 3.5 friend, which should be more than sufficient for "hands" hahaha.gif I'd be fun to watch you try and stack cams or hexes to protect the top the_finger.gif

 

Mushmaker is perfect hands the whole way though! fruit.giffruit.giffruit.gif

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The Papoose. Laid Back is 70' of grunty hands and Mushroom is a sustained thin hand crack. Mercury Vapor looks excellent as well. In the Smoke Bluffs these routes would be more popular than Penny Lane, at the Papoose they go begging for climbers. Check them out.

 

although I didnt make it to laid back..Mushroom is stellar and Mercury Vapour was awesome!!!! 10b...highly doubtful..more like 5.9..mushroom was more sustained.

 

I bet Mushroom is the first crack to dry in all of squamish..in the sun, no trees on top, in fact the crack just blanks out at the anchor. I agree with Darren..Mushroom would have a line up and poished to shit..I would do it over and over again..next time ill walk over to laid back

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The Papoose. Laid Back is 70' of grunty hands and Mushroom is a sustained thin hand crack. Mercury Vapor looks excellent as well. In the Smoke Bluffs these routes would be more popular than Penny Lane, at the Papoose they go begging for climbers. Check them out.

 

although I didnt make it to laid back..Mushroom is stellar and Mercury Vapour was awesome!!!! 10b...highly doubtful..more like 5.9..mushroom was more sustained.

 

I bet Mushroom is the first crack to dry in all of squamish..in the sun, no trees on top, in fact the crack just blanks out at the anchor. I agree with Darren..Mushroom would have a line up and poished to shit..I would do it over and over again..next time ill walk over to laid back

 

Mushroom is fuckin DOPE bigdrink.gif I do it whenever I have 30 mins to kill.

 

Hey, how do you get to Laid Back. The new trail seems to just end at Mushroom confused.gif Bash down to the old trail?

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Thought I would revive this thread. I haven't done nearly enough crack climbing lately and hands are soft and weak :(

 

I compiled all the posts into a single listing of grade, name, location, and crux/notes. A few of the climbs I don't know or don't know the grade on so I could use some help!

 

Cheers!

Josh

4488.txt

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