I thought I'd lighten up from my usually abrasive comments with this one. I can't think of too many of these in the Gunk's so I'm thinking abroad here (or not). My personal favorite so far has got to be Exasperator crack in Squamish ( in one pitch of course). I think it's about 160ft of absolutely perfect locks to an awesome hand crack traverse with a mellow enough of a pitch that allows you to smear instead of toe cramming. Absolutely amazing!

Well I haven't led many finger crack to be honest, but the second pitch of Monkey Finger in Zion was pretty freaking cool. Also the second and third pitches of Touchstone. I aided them, but they were swEEET!

RR

I keep looking at Straight Shooter in Red Rocks but so far haven't gotten on it.

i know of some that full time locals don't know about and i will not tell where.

Straight Shooter = awesome!!

Straight Shooter: a grotesquely chalked thin Red Rock that arbitrarily ends part way up the cliff...sounds like a Gunks route, except we'd call it 5.7+

Who can get their fingers in that thing anyway?

DL

I guess I owe an answer:

#1 goes to Rubicon (.10) at Joshua Tree: brilliant and obvious natural line to a striking formation's summit, aesthetic, steep, hard thin moves between secure jams.

Honerable Mentions:

Little Finger (.5) at Roger's Rock. Unique, casual, fun, aesthetic obvious line.

Exorcist (.10-) at Josh. Sure, it's only 60 feet ling, but very inch of it is great and the challange is sustained.

Wholesome Fullback at Red Rock (.10-) is pretty legit for the grade, has thin crack down low and keeps getting wider

Vertigo on Cannon (.9), the half moon get the glory but the thin crack on p. 3 is my favorite climbing on the whole route

New Testament (.10-) at Smith, one of the many outstanding overlooked trad routes at this bolted mecca.

Lichen Delight (.11-) and Airation (.11-) are both outstanding, if difficult, with yellow and red alien sized cruxes that fit me so well

Also hard but the showpiece of Rumbling Bald is Shredded Wheat (.11-), very thin, technical at the crux but great finger jammin' until it gets severe

D. Lucander

Now here is a thread that calls for photos; alas, there are none.

Wholesome Fullback left me seriously wondering if I will ever be solid at at .10 crack. I would like to think I was having an off day, but the bit just after the traverse was, well, hard.

Red Zinger and Crack A Go Go on the Cookie Cliff in Yosemite are brilliant, especially RZ with it's striking line. Leave It To Jesus in the New River Gorge is another. Airation at Cathedral. A less well known but just awesome line is at East Peak in Meriden, CT called Thunderbolt. This line crosses a beautiful 5.9 called Thor's Hammer and is about 120' long. Starting with a shallow corner/thin crack up into the big TH corner and then right around the corner at a flake and up the fierce overhanging finger crack above; desperate!