December 7th and 8th Devil’s Punchbowl camping at South Fork. This is cancelled due to rain. Instead we will climb at Fairview Mountain. January 4th, 5th, and 6th Indian Cove Campground Sites 044, 045, and 046. Now climbing at Fairview Mountain due to park closure. February 9th and 10th Horsemans Center in Apple Valley. Camping […]
ROWCC 2017 CLIMBING TRIP SCHEDULE
ROWCC 2017 CLIMBING TRIP SCHEDULE Climbing Area Date Joshua Tree Jan. 13th Fairview Mountain Feb 11th Red Rocks March 17th Moab April 28-30th Zion (St George, UT) May 19th Rendezvous Big Bear June 23rd Shuteye Ridge (So Yose) July 15th Tuolumne Meadows August 19th Lovers Leap (Tahoe) September 16th Tahquitz/Suicide October 21st El Cajon (San […]
121 year old climbs Moonlight Buttress in Zion !
Well, we do have a combined age of 121! I’m 58 and Kenn is 63 and we probably looked our age aid climbing this beautiful line ! We were training to do something larger on El Capitan and I just wasn’t game to do it without a tune up climb first so Kenn chose this […]
New Jack City Guidebook Published
New Jack City finally has a guidebook; included are first ascents by ROWCC’s Pat Brennan and Bob Cable.
New Climbers! SET A NEW GOAL; EXPLORE NEW PLACES; Plan for your 10 Climb Award !!!
10 CLIMB AWARD: One climb 5.5 or harder in each of the following areas. __ Tahquitz __ Sierra’s __ Lovers Leap __ Suicide __ Yosemite Valley __ San Bernardino Mntns __ Joshua Tree __ Tuolumne Meadows __ Sequioia Needles __ Red Rocks Past Recipients: Nathan Fitzhugh, Sheila Romane, Jennifer Hopper, Alan Bartlett, Todd Gordon, Cindy […]
Dream of Wild Turkeys aka Turkey Toes
Great Trip Report from Eric Odenthal; owner of Windgate Adventures in Moab, Utah; climbing, canyoneering and photography guide extraordinaire. More pics to come. http://windgateadventures.com. DREAM OF WILD TURKEYS BLACK VELVET CANYON, 5.10a, 7 pitches and rap or head up another 4-6 pitches to top out and hike down; tons of commentary on mountainproject.com regarding additional pitches. […]
Temple Crag: Venusian Blind 5.7
Johnson worked till 8pm Friday and then we took off for Big Pine. Renegaded a campground at 1:00am and up at 6am on Saturday. Packed in to Third Lake; ate a lunch of beef stick, cheese and cherries and took off for the base of Venusian Blind on Temple Crag. Of course, I couldn’t find […]
Jon Ball; Bad Day At Black Bluff
Black Bluff Climbing Report: Jonathan Ball, Matt Ingle, Jon Ledesma (A Marine should never listen to a civilian when navigating a broken trail) The approach: We returned to park next to the smelliest pit toilet in the San Bernardino Mountains and I knew that we were only about a short, 1.5 mile hike from the […]
Mt. Conness Reconnaissance and Cathedral
Conness Reconnaissance ? Tioga opened up on May 2nd. Seems really early but since it was a light snow year; we thought we’d get in a Sierra trip early. The appearance of a light snow year was way off above 10,000 feet. Benjy Oberman and I agreed to meet up at Sawmill Campground and I […]