Balanced Rock. Just one more earthquake...

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Balanced Rock. Just one more earthquake...

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Litter recently gathered from the base of Echo Cliffs. Please help keep our crag clean.

Tired climber relaxing after a long day at Echo Cliffs??

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Bill Olszewski

Mar 17, 2009

“Balanced Rock. Just one more earthquake...”

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Map of Echo Cliffs and its climbing areas. April 2017

Nearing the end of another fine day of climbing at Echo Cliffs.

Climbers at Echo Cliffs

Sunrise on the Mishe Mokwa trail. Hiking in early to beat the heat.

Joe Wysznski keeping cool on Crash and Burn, 5.12d

Photo of Echo Cliffs without the map, April 2017

Dudleya pulverulenta, or chalk lettuce, photographed in The Grotto area.

Echo Cliffs, as seen from the Mishe Mokwa trail. The approach trail reaches the Grotto first. The other walls are approached by hiking right (south) along the base of the cliff.

Humboldt Lily, photographed along the trail to Echo Cliffs (listed rare or endangered by CNPS)

Expect to find this rope/rebar ladder after Treasure Towers. After the ladder, you'll find The Alcove, Kamikaze Cave, Dream Street, and Easy Street.

Litter recently gathered from the base of Echo Cliffs. Please help keep our crag clean.

Balanced Rock. Just one more earthquake...

Tired climber relaxing after a long day at Echo Cliffs??

From the main trail, head down the steep gully. Will be wet after the rains.

Echo Cliffs from the Mishe Mokwa approach trail.

The Echo Cliffs

Echo Cliffs closed! 12/02/18

kamakazie cave 12d

Looking down the ladder - now that's an approach!

The final descent to the cliffs.

What wall is this? It appears to have 3 routes on it and it is before the rebar ladder

The streambed of Carlyle Canyon, in the Grotto, at Echo Cliffs in full flow after a week of wet weather.

Looking down Annihilator, 5.11d. The chalked holds (left) are on Immaculate, 5.12a. Both are just past the Kamikaze Cave on the next section of wall called Dream Street. The sharpness of the holds on upper Annihilator made me think Immaculate looked a lot nicer.

Echo Cliffs from Sandstone Peak.

A party of 45 hikers checking out the climbers at Echo Cliffs.

New signage at the Mishe Mokwa Trailhead.

It is a long way from The Grotto over to the Kamikaze Cave. You're getting close when you reach the four rung downclimb.

Looking down the re-bar ladder, en route to Easy Street.

Looking down the valley to the northeast? from the trail. Beautiful country.

Local climbers collaborate with NPS rangers to clean up Echo Cliffs.

VCSAR Copter at Echo - Be careful out there.

The Upper Tier from the Mishe Mokwa Trail.

A busy afternoon on the upper tier. Climber is Cory on Welcome to Echo.

The approach slabs to the Grotto in the rainy season.

What wall is the one at the left?

New NPS signs near the Grotto as a result of a rash of parties camping and building fires at Echo Cliffs.

Wildlife on the Backbone Trail.

Busy Day on the Mishe Mokwa Trail

Be careful of succulents while you are climbing!

Trail sign on the way to Echo Cliffs.

Views from the Wasteland

After the ladder, the trail leading up to the tunnel.

Echo Cliffs, with climbers visible on Easy Street

Sunrise by Yerba Buena Road in the summer.

Where are some serious groves of poison oak surrounding the approach to Echo Cliffs. Be careful out there!!

A view of Echo Cliffs (with Balanced Rock looming overhead), as seen from the descent gully.

After the ladder, go through a narrow tunnel to enter the Kamikaze Cave. Once through the tunnel, I felt we had entered the real climbing of Echo.

Echo Cliffs post fire. Taken May 18th, 2019.

Left end of Echo Cliffs, with some climbs on the Left Flank marked.

Morning mist below the Mishe Mokwa Trail

Ventura County Search & Rescue buzzing the "White Wall."

The right way to go! The sign off of Yerba Buena Rd

On the road to Echo Cliffs. Turn right and up the hill at this sign.

Spring flowers with Easy Street in the background.

The often maligned sign at the junction of the Sandstone Peak connector trail and the Mishe Mokwa/Backbone Trail.

Echo Cliffs parking area 12/02/18

The hanging draw garden of the Kamikaze Cave.

Local wildlife at Echo Cliffs

A really busy day at the parking area for Echo Cliffs and the Mishe Mokwa Trail.