{"id":2734,"date":"2016-03-06T16:37:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T00:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2017-02-07T20:55:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T04:55:41","slug":"a-climbers-guide-to-planet-granite-cracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/2016\/03\/a-climbers-guide-to-planet-granite-cracks","title":{"rendered":"A Climber&#8217;s Guide to Planet Granite Cracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y-26rbhBi0g?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supertopo.com\/climbing\/thread.php?topic_id=2778036\" target=\"_blank\">My Supertopo Thread<\/a> (which did not receive much love). :p<\/p>\n<p>We climbers in the Bay Area are fortunate to have access to the carefully crafted cracks at the three Planet Granite gyms: San Francisco, Sunnyvale, and Belmont. I&#8217;ve visited gyms outside of the PG Bay Area system. While some of them offer a few interesting ones, they do not have the variety you see here and most of the cracks I see else where are just straight edged crevices that may offer the technical challenge, but lack the aesthetic appeal (to my eyes anyway).<\/p>\n<p>The photos below cover almost all the cracks (missing only three) from all three gyms. The numbers at the top are Grigri numbers. The location names are based on the wall map from each gym. The wall maps are linked in the spreadsheet embedded at the bottom of this post, a log sheet when I did PG Cracks in a Day on a very rainy day. In the spreadsheet, you can find a\u00c2\u00a0brief description of the cracks.<\/p>\n<ul id=\"g-album-grid\" class=\"ui-helper-clearfix\">\n<li id=\"g-item-id-883\" class=\"g-item g-photo\">\n<div class=\"g-valign\">1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/index.php\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0613\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0613.JPG?m=1457310392\" alt=\"IMG 0613\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"g-item-id-884\" class=\"g-item g-photo\">\n<div class=\"g-valign\">2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/index.php\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0664\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0664.JPG?m=1457930800\" alt=\"IMG 0664\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"g-item-id-885\" class=\"g-item g-photo\">\n<div class=\"g-valign\">3. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0663.JPG?m=1457930757\" alt=\"IMG 0663\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"g-item-id-886\" class=\"g-item g-photo\">\n<div class=\"g-valign\">4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/index.php\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0616\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0616.JPG?m=1457310512\" alt=\"IMG 0616\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"g-item-id-887\" class=\"g-item g-photo\">\n<div class=\"g-valign\">5. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/index.php\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0617\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0617.JPG?m=1457310548\" alt=\"IMG 0617\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"g-item g-photo\">6.\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/index.php\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0666\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0666.JPG?m=1457930888\" alt=\"IMG 0666\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"g-item-id-888\" class=\"g-item g-photo\">\n<div class=\"g-valign\">7. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/index.php\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0618\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0618.JPG?m=1457310586\" alt=\"IMG 0618\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"g-item-id-889\" class=\"g-item g-photo\">\n<div class=\"g-valign\">8. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/index.php\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0619\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0619.JPG?m=1457310626\" alt=\"IMG 0619\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"g-item g-photo\">9.\u00c2\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0665.JPG?m=1457930838\" alt=\"IMG 0665\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/li>\n<li id=\"g-item-id-890\" class=\"g-item g-photo\">\n<div class=\"g-valign\">10. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/index.php\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0620\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0620.JPG?m=1457310659\" alt=\"IMG 0620\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"g-item-id-891\" class=\"g-item g-photo\">\n<div class=\"g-valign\">11. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/index.php\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0621\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0621.JPG?m=1457310694\" alt=\"IMG 0621\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"g-item-id-892\" class=\"g-item g-photo\">\n<div class=\"g-valign\">12. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/index.php\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0622\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0622.JPG?m=1457310723\" alt=\"IMG 0622\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"g-item-id-893\" class=\"g-item g-photo\">\n<div class=\"g-valign\">13. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/index.php\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0623\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0623.JPG?m=1457310762\" alt=\"IMG 0623\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"g-item g-photo\">14.\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/index.php\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0662\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0662.JPG?m=1457930715\" alt=\"IMG 0662\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"g-item-id-894\" class=\"g-item g-photo\">\n<div class=\"g-valign\">15. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/index.php\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0624\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0624.JPG?m=1457310799\" alt=\"IMG 0624\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"g-item-id-895\" class=\"g-item g-photo\">\n<div class=\"g-valign\">16. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/index.php\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0626\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0626.JPG?m=1457310842\" alt=\"IMG 0626\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"g-item-id-896\" class=\"g-item g-photo\">\n<div class=\"g-valign\">17. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/index.php\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0627\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0627.JPG?m=1457310880\" alt=\"IMG 0627\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"g-item-id-897\" class=\"g-item g-photo\">\n<div class=\"g-valign\">18. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/index.php\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0628\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0628.JPG?m=1457310919\" alt=\"IMG 0628\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"g-item-id-898\" class=\"g-item g-photo\">\n<div class=\"g-valign\">19. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/index.php\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0629\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0629.JPG?m=1457310958\" alt=\"IMG 0629\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"g-item-id-899\" class=\"g-item g-photo\">\n<div class=\"g-valign\">20. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/index.php\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0630\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/Climbing\/20160305-Planet-Granite-Cracks\/IMG_0630.JPG?m=1457310996\" alt=\"IMG 0630\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nPlanet Granite Cracks in a Day TR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pulled off by the skin of teeth. Started climbing at PG SF at 10:25am, and finished my last crack at Belmont 8pm &#8212; the closing time. The bad: My PGiaD partne badly injured (not knowing when and how) his right ankle at the end of SF session, and after belaying me (thank you!) and pulling off a few impressive ascents using one foot only in Sunnyvale, he had to call it a day. The good: when I arrived at Belmont gym with only one hour 15 minutes left and no partner lined up, a public partner call turned up Brian who was psyched about my mission and cheerfully belayed me in blocks, which enabled the completion of my goal. Still cannot believe my luck.<\/p>\n<p>(Edit: The weekend after, it was raining again, so I did it again, with another partner. With all the climbing area opened up, I got 54 laps in this time adding the fist crack in SF opened up after construction completion and the broken cracks by the Exit door in Belmont. There are a few &#8211;4 or 5&#8211;hangs and cheats, but over all, I felt strong. )<\/p>\n<p>A nerd that I am.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1pLXvnvZu6NtbELF1tOOiHN75aM3E3R79-0ADR8MkL-o\/pubhtml?gid=0&amp;single=true&amp;widget=true&amp;headers=false\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1260\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Touchstone Berkeley Ironworks Cracks<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/index.php\/Climbing\/20160507-Berkeley-Ironworks-Cracks\/IMG_1183\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/Climbing\/20160507-Berkeley-Ironworks-Cracks\/IMG_1183.JPG?m=1462676636\" alt=\"IMG 1183\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Hand and some wide hand and fist. Plenty of constrictions<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/index.php\/Climbing\/20160507-Berkeley-Ironworks-Cracks\/IMG_1184\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/Climbing\/20160507-Berkeley-Ironworks-Cracks\/IMG_1184.JPG?m=1462676624\" alt=\"IMG 1184\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Mostly cup hand and fist. The incline actually makes leveraging easier.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/index.php\/Climbing\/20160507-Berkeley-Ironworks-Cracks\/IMG_1185\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery3\/var\/thumbs\/Climbing\/20160507-Berkeley-Ironworks-Cracks\/IMG_1185.JPG?m=1462676611\" alt=\"IMG 1185\" width=\"61\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Rattley finger and thin hand. Just one short crux.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Supertopo Thread (which did not receive much love). :p We climbers in the Bay Area are fortunate to have access to the carefully crafted cracks at the three Planet Granite gyms: San Francisco, Sunnyvale, and Belmont. I&#8217;ve visited gyms outside of the PG Bay Area system. While some of them offer a few interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2965,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions\/2965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}