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In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC: Seems like a reasonable place to link to this video of Alex Honnold that someone posted last night:

http://www.bdel.com/scene/video/alex_indian_creek.html

Inspiring place!

In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC:

Very good tip indeed about shoes. He's not wrong.

jcm

In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC:

brilliant, comprehensive article Jonas.

In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC:

Some really good photos there.

In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC:

amazing pics

great article

It's always been on my list, going to be moving higher. Now all I have to do is learn how to jam.
(he makes it sound so easy!)

In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC:

Great article, makes we want to go, not sure I could afford all the cams though!

In reply to galpinos:

Thank you! If you go to a popular buttress during the season you can always borrow a few cams for any particular route from other parties at the crag. Also, the routes are quite hard on the body and most climbers will do as few as 4-5 routes a day so it is not a bad idea to go there in a party of three, and three climbers should have 50-60 cams between them, non?

In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC:

"on a crumbly tips crack I ripped three aliens straight out of the crack and hit the ground. But in a nice way"

Great piece of writing.

In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC:

A superb article. Absolutely in line with my two (brief) visits there apart from Jonas' experience of it feeling easier after a while ....

Staying in Monticello is an interesting choice! Quite a scary place as only remote US desert towns can be. Readers of a certain age may be interested to know that the road that used to be Route 666, immortalised in 'Natural Born Killers' starts there ....

In reply to tobyfk: If you stay there for more than a brief visit it does gets quite a lot easier. After a month in The Creek my onsight level on anything not involving stacking different body-parts was approaching my onsight level for sportclimbing.

In reply to jwi:

Did you get on any towers whilst you were there?

In reply to jwi:

Great article, exactly what you'd want to know about the place.

In reply to tobyfk: Nope. Fell off a highball in Mizugaki a few months prior to my US-trip, and my ankle was still swollen when I was in Utah. So I didn't want to do any approach hikes.

Great article. I think the only way to experience the creek is to camp. There are some spectacular places the desert scenery, the stars, the solitude are all part of the experience. It's a hassle to carry in the water and to pack out the human waste, but this is only a small issue compared with the overall beauty of the place. If anyone's not convinced look at the picture here http://desert-climbing.blogspot.com/2007/10/friends-of-indian-creek.html