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# Half Dome at the Creek
- URL: https://blog.novaugust.net/half-dome-at-the-creek/
- Published: 2017-06-08T22:03:40.000Z
- Updated: 2017-06-09T16:56:03.000Z
- Author: Matt Enlow
- Tags: Climbing, @jaredheathphotog, post, Indian Creek, #Import 2026-06-21 14:43

After the departure of our friends and two days' rest, Jared and I woke up back in the Creek.

Early.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/06/P3500069.jpg)

Breakfast burritos in the van, peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches packed next to heavy bags of trail mix, and then up to the crag before the day had properly started.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/06/P3500082.jpg)

We were going to climb five 5.10s at Supercrack Buttress four times each (lead it the first time, then three top-rope laps), which would put us in the vacinity of 2200' of vertical climbing - Indian Creek Half Dome Day.

### Incredible Hand Crack

We started the day on IHC, knowing that if we left it for the end of the day we wouldn't get to get on it at all. I hadn't done it before, and can attest to the veracity of the name. Very fun. I can see how a friend decided he was going to solo this twenty years ago.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/06/P3500127.jpg)  
*Saying hello to the neighbors*

### 3AM Crack

Next was 3AM crack, a right facing crack that was more 3s than 2s.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/06/P3510268.jpg)

### Supercrack of the Desert

The mega classic. On my first TR lap I asked Hobo Greg to time me from the ledge to the anchors (in other words, on the perfect splitter 3s). Vrooooooooom.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/06/P3510476.jpg)  
*Jared busting out his TR laps on Supercrack*

Jared started feeling it here. This was his first Creek trip, and he was honestly still recovering from four days of going hard the week before.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/06/P3510486.jpg)  
*Jared trying to find the psych to finish off his Supercrack laps*

### Gorilla Crack

Gorilla Crack had offwidth pods and awkward dual crack corner climbing. It was a good climb. After my second lap, I hated it so very, very much. You can tell, because I did not photograph it.

We made friends with a Canadian named Omin (Oman? Omen?) at Gorilla. He took a lap in between ours, and stuck around for our final route. He was terrific company, and I hope we meet again someday.

### No Name Crack

No Name, like Supercrack, was a repeat for me. It was wider than I remembered. At this point, my body - and shoes - were just about done.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/06/P3510492.jpg)

The sun was sending out beautiful orange light by the time I, so very relieved, finished my twentieth hundred foot lap of the day.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/06/P3510494.jpg)  
*Jared rests on top of the fists pillar before committing to another lap on No Name Crack*

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/06/P3510496.jpg)  
*Jared shakes out*

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/06/P3510497.jpg)  
*Jared disappearing into the pain cave*

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/06/P3510502.jpg)  
*Dig deep Jared, dig deep*

We were the first people up to Supercrack, and we may have been the last ones down.

Your body hurts in strange ways after a day like that. And you forget that climbing 2000' means belaying 2000' feet as well..

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/06/P3510504.jpg)  
*Oman digging the sunset*

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