Crack Wars

Crack Wars has some interesting and good crack climbing on the right side of the Grotto.

Climb up the flake (which is apparantly solid) on either the left or the right to a left-leaning slab section. Lieback and stem your way up the crack directly above, with a couple of decent rests and good pro the whole way- except for a short section where there's wobbly flakes in the crack. Don't veer off right following a new bolt line- Ruffles Have Ridges. Some of the lieback sections are pretty strenuous, but there's always good pro- and look for handholds out left and footholds on the right wall here or there. Most of this section is in the 5.10- range.

Just before the top, you reach the offwidth crux of the route, where the character of the rock becomes more featured (unlike the smooth glossy rock below), yet the crack widens to a 5" slot and the face is slightly overhanging. Place big cams in the back, jam and move up, clip the chains.

Crack Wars is climb 20 in the online Diablo guide for this section (however, there are a few new bolted routes not shown in that guide). It is the 2nd obvious crack to climb on the right side of the Grotto, after you enter it. Walk about 20' left of Class Act and Bong Crack (a.k.a. Surficial Scratch) and up a slope to the a large flake, which is at the base of the route.

Nuts, and cams up to a #4 camalot, and a #5 cam might be useful too. (You could probably get away with nothing bigger than a #3 camalot.) A 2-bolt anchor at the top makes for an easy descent with a 50m rope.