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 […]
Pics; some old and some new
