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: Agina Sedler, Nathan Fitzhugh, Sheila Romane, Jennifer Hopper 2011, Alan Bartlett, […]
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 […]
Pics; some old and some new
Tahquitz: Coup de Grace
Mark Goldfield, John Stiansen and Kevin Graves climbed COUP DE GRACE, 5.10B at Tahquitz on Saturday. Great new climb to the right of GRACE SLICK on the North Side. 4 pitches and a rap off so no need to scramble and walk down. We also climbed the first pitch of WONG Climb. Great weather, great […]
LONE PINE PEAK SOLO
The body easily overcame the mind once again. What happened to needing less sleep as you get older? I slept way past the alarm. I set it for 3:30 thinking that if I got out and started hiking at 4:00pm; I’d have daylight when I hit the slabs to the ridge. This would give me […]