0-Bachar Climbing

Reasonable-size high slab which can be top-roped, adjacent to another high face.

Straightforward hike/scramble up from the road.

Unexplored as of 2016.
No fixed anchors or lead bolts as of 2016.

top-roping: Trees at top which could be used to build anchors.
Access to top - (since the short way around left side gets into a thrash, as of 2016) - seems easiest to go way around the right end ... by first going down right to the base of the ramp, then up diagonal right on the wide grassy ramp which rises across the middle of sector 1 Gastlosen . Next bear left and scramble up to the top of the Gastlosen cliff, finally walk down (south) along the cliff edge to the top of Dorenaz.

more: There is also a separate lower part (or two) with decent-looking rock, but much smaller.

name: John Bachar was raised in Los Angeles, learned to climb at Stoney Point. Dropped out of UCLA to climb, then left his marks on JTree and Yosemite and Sierra and the world. Settled in Mammoth Lakes. Most famous for raising the limits of free-soloing and bold ground-up leading. Special contributions to Eastside climbing are sport routes in ORG, bouldering around Mammoth and June.

. . (previous name of this sector: The June Lake Loop has long been recognized as a little visit to Switzerland. "Dorenaz" is a crag of gneiss rock in the Rhone river valley in the southwest corner of Switzerland).

warning: The rock in this sector has not been climbed much yet, and some of the rock is still breakable and loose -- so the belayer and other people should stand far away from underneath the climber.