By Steph Davis (from Climbing Magazine, Issue #177, June 1998) The crack above you runs forever. You reach and sink your hand up to the wrist, again and again, plugging cams at will. You're a hero. You're laughing. You couldn't fall if you tried. Suddenly the crack gets tigheter. You can't get a hand jam; your feet won't go in. You grope desperately, losing skin. Two hours later you've dogged to the anchors, almost as exhausted as your belayer. The scars are mostly emotional, but there is a lot of blood.
Unfortunately, offwidth doesn't only mean wide cracks. Several brutal sizes lurk from thin hands down. But wait- don't sell your cams to buy more quickdraws. Offwidth thin cracks don't have to be awful. In fact, they're fun, once you acquire the know-how. And technical jams can save you from strenuously laybacking or tenuously face climbing around awkward crack sections almost anywhere. - Read More -
Started in 2006, we were a small group of friends who got together to camp and to tackle small adventures. Now, branching out to both the experienced and the novice, we are a large group out to bring down big mountains, rivers, deserts, big walls, swamps, and whatever challenges the outdoors may have in store.
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