Cracktus Sit Start uses an awesome sidepull jug with a true ass in the dirt sit start which takes an enjoyabke amount of pull and commitment to enter the obvious and clean finger crack in the middle of the Minicrag. Lock them digits or lieback and Topout on the flat shelf with the danger paddles on top. Fun and more thoughtful than it may look - especially if you have sausage fingers!

Cracktus Sit Start

Gym Jug Hug

Cracktus

Fauxpology

Dopplebanger

Cracktus stand starts in the obvious and clean finger crack in the middle of the Minicrag. Lock them digits or lieback and Topout on the flat shelf with the danger paddles on top. Fun and more thoughtful than it may look - especially if you have sausage fingers!

Gym Jug Hug is like the big brother of Gym Jug Thug down by the road.Sit start with your bum on the nice stone rail just above the grass. There are sweet jugs on the right side of the flake which are interrupted by a block you can feel and definitely see if you peek around the lenticular flake. Sit start matched on these jugs below the block. You should feel the impending Barn Door.Figure out the barn door control and control the start. Work up on great holds, hugs, and/or hooks to the slopey mantle and tree-dab topout.This one was so fun we ran multiple laps on it. 

Fauxpology starts on a lowish left hand crimp rail and an obvious and dry-fiery sidepull. Use smears or credit card feet to establish control and figure out the puzzle to access either the razor blade crimps or stuff up higher. Stay off the left arete and wall for the V2 or use it for a V1. Fun moves if you commit to the face climbing or a good warmup with a stronger start than most warmups if you take the easy way. 

Dopplebanger starts matched hands on a sidepull sloper and whatever smear feet you want to use. Establish the start and use the same face features as Fauxpology. At first this one feels silly and harder than it looks but after you crack the code it is fun to run laps on. 

Cracktus Minicrag faces south toward Mt Scott’s Gate and hosts 5 completed lines and 1 V5 project. 

  All the landings are good and the problems require only 1 pad or no pads if you are more experienced and like going UL.  

  Fauxpology and Dopplebanger are both tricky V2s that at first glance look easy as pie but quickly become puzzling tricky and fun once you try to complete them.  

  Cracktus (VB) is a straightforward finger crack that leads into a flat as can be mantling shelf occupied by cute cacti.   Cracktus Sit Start (V0) makes the problem more fun and committing - we couldn’t pass up the awesome jug and if really serves as a winning sit start for newer boulderers. Fun, lower grade sit starts from the dirt are hard to find and this one takes an enjoyable amount of pull and commitment to get secure. 

  Gym Jug Hug (V2+) starts matched in a sidepull flake with fun and awkward barn door liftoff with a true sit start with your bum on a rock shelf just off the grass. Make some big juggy moves and heel hook your way to a fun slopey mantle.  

  Other problems are close by. Prospect Chimney is just uphill and to the the left on the next shelf as is Irish Mile, an adventurous VB highball that starts on underclings and finishes with crack technique 20’ up.  More exploration of nearby boulders will yield more fun volume and projects. A highball V4-5 is in the area as well as a sit start slappy and strong V6-7 on unusually featured rock.

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Routes in Cracktus Minicrag