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Dec 18, 2023 Los Angeles Basin > Santa Monica Mo… > Echo Cliffs > Alcove > Guillotine (5.10a/b 6a+ 19 VI+ 19 E2 5b) Climbed around this fella chilling in the crack. Definitely added a new spice factor ● Looks like a gopher snake. Had one for a pet as a kid. Still pretty wild to see it squirm its way up ther… View Comment
Oct 21, 2023 Yosemite NP > Yosemite Valley > Valley N Side > B. El Capitan > 3. Southeast Face Pacific Ocean Wall 5.9+ A3+ R ● Glad someone added this. A terrific, historic route and a modern classic. If you can, find the old Greg C… View Comment
Jul 5, 2023 Joshua Tree NP > Pinto Basin > Split Rocks > Split Rocks East > Future Games Rock Disappearing Act 5.11a ● Gratifying to see that this finally got uprated. As I recall, the crux move can be dealt with with a gasto… View Comment
Apr 18, 2023 Joshua Tree NP > Joshua Tree Bou… > Central Joshua… > Ryan Campground Bould… Keith Richards bouldering in the Ryan CG area (circa 1969) ● I remember seeing this shot and others posted on Supertopo. Classic. View Comment
Nov 21, 2022 Inland Empire > Riverside Area Riverside Quarry ● Is it reasonable to presume that the closure is no longer formally in effect? More recent posts report fol… View Comment
May 10, 2022 Yosemite NP > Tuolumne Meadows > Glen Aulin Area Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne ● One of these domes was climbed in the 70s by Dave Bircheff and Alan Bard (aka Bardini) and named Brautigan… View Comment
Mar 8, 2022 Europe > … 1 2 > Ogwen > Cwm Idwal > Idwal Slabs > Idwal Slabs Ordinary Route 5.0 ● I believed I soloed this route as well back in the early 80s (or something else on the slabs). I traveled… View Comment
Dec 3, 2021 Joshua Tree NP > … > Echo Rock Area > Echo Rock > Echo Rock - S Face > Swept Away (5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c) Mat Stein leading Swept Away in 1984 ● In EBs no less. View Comment
Nov 4, 2021 Southern Nevada > … > (01) Calico Bas… > Red Spring Boul… > Cirque Du Solei… > Cirque Du Soleil (V3 6A) What a beaut! ● Incredible stone! View Comment
Aug 16, 2021 Sierra Eastside > Mammoth Lakes Area > Horseshoe Lake… > Horseshoe Slabs Horseman 5.10a ● Just did this climb this weekend. Two comments. One, this is a .10a, if not for the tricky crux at the la… View Comment
Aug 5, 2021 Los Angeles Basin Stoney Point ● So what's the deal with the brown paint, and I'm not talking about the stuff they sprayed ages ago for the… View Comment
Aug 3, 2021 Sierra Eastside > Lee Vining Cany… > Dana Plateau > Third Pillar, Regular… (5.10a/b 6a+ 19 VI+ 19 E2 5b) Roberto and Duke on the approach hike. ● Nice. One of the few photos I've seen of the Dana Plateau. An amazing place. View Comment
May 14, 2021 Durango > X Rock The Boxcar ● I was in Durango back in the day (early '90s) and asked someone at a climbing shop about how to find this.… View Comment
Apr 29, 2021 Lake Tahoe Oak Trees-Foothills. Photo by Blitzo. ● An article about how beneficial oaks are to the environment: nytimes.com/2021/03/31/real… View Comment
Mar 23, 2021 Joshua Tree NP > Joshua Tree Bou… > Central Joshua… > Hall of Horrors… > Hall of Horrors Area Persistence (V2), Joshua Tree NP Photo by Jim Hammerle (1986) ● I remember doing this problem years ago between burns on Cactus Flower. Fun little stemming exercise, espe… View Comment
Mar 11, 2021 Tahquitz & Suic… > Suicide Rock > (n) Rebolting Face Rebolting Development 5.11a R ● Wow, everyone reliving their glory days remembering this route. I tried it back when I was a teen with som… View Comment
Jan 12, 2021 Yosemite NP > … > Valley N Side > B. El Capitan > 3. Southeast Face > Mescalito (5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a A3) Vicky lounging in the ledge January 2, 2014. This is after pitch 10 right before the Molar Traverse ● Wow, this was January?! Not a lick of snow on the ground. View Comment
Dec 9, 2020 Yosemite NP > … > Valley N Side > B. El Capitan > 2. Southwest Face > Shield (5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c A3 PG13) beautiful granite for days! johnny-back-beaks on the triple cracks. ● Best place on the continent right there. View Comment
Dec 3, 2020 Joshua Tree NP > … > Echo Rock Area > Snickers > Snickers - S Face > Snickers - S Face Right Sweet Ginger 5.11b ● Good route, not quite three stars but better than your average two star. Interesting, "what am I sticking… View Comment
Oct 31, 2020 Northwest Calif… > Northwest Calif… > Lost Rocks Pad people ● I like this shot but I don’t get huge pads for nice sandy landings. At The Beach (in Orange County) we’d j… View Comment
Oct 29, 2020 Yosemite NP > Yosemite Valley > Valley S Side > D. Half Dome Half Dome catches some sun during a storm ● Awesome shot. Too bad we can't learn about story behind it. View Comment
Oct 2, 2020 Tahquitz & Suic… > Tahquitz Rock > (f) W Face Bulg… > Upper Bulge Routes > Bat (5.11c 6c+ 24 VIII- 24 E4 6a PG13) When I was young I was inspired by this old photo from Chuck Wilts' guidebook, and the obvious challenge that the "End of the Bat" caption threw down, wondering, will the rest of it go? Photo by William "Dolt" Feuerer ● I remember this photo too. When I started climbing in the late 70s the Wilts guide was still 'the' guide.… View Comment
Aug 26, 2020 Asia > Thailand > S - Islands & B… > Laem Phra Nang… > Tonsai Bay This is Tim Emmit BASE-jumping off Tonsai wall this February. Photo by Matt Robertson. ● Looks like some are getting a bit carried away with the DWS thing. View Comment
Aug 18, 2020 Tahquitz & Suic… > Suicide Rock > (k) Sunshine Face > Sunshine Face - Right… New Generation 5.11c ● I think the second pitch is substantially harder than the first, which has gotten polished, but to such an… View Comment
Jul 31, 2020 Yosemite NP > Tuolumne Meadows > Pywiack Dome Zee Tree 5.7 ● A fun route though a few comments. The starting belay bolts are fairly high up and some might find them a b… View Comment
Jul 4, 2020 Sierra Eastside > Mammoth Lakes Area > Sherwin Plateau The Dreamers ● Has anyone tried these directions (or in the Bishop Bouldering Guide) and actually found this place (or the… View Comment
Jun 22, 2020 Los Angeles Basin > Beaches Corona Del Mar ● Just to be clear, this area is not in LA County, or even the LA basin. It's roughly an hour south in Orang… View Comment
May 12, 2020 Southern-Wester… > Hwy 41: Fresno… > Shuteye Ridge > Chiquito Dome The Acolyte 5.9 PG13 ● Good route. Second pitch is kind of run. The old Southern Sierra guide listed the crux move as .10a. View Comment
Mar 24, 2020 Europe > … > England > Peak District > Stoney Middleton > Wee Doris Wall Medusa 5.10a ● Good route, though not as good as the nearby Wee Doris. I was there so long ago (mid 80s) that I wish I ha… View Comment
Mar 19, 2020 Clint in his dressing room. ● How have I not seen this before? There's got to be some great stories behind these Eiger Sanction photos. View Comment
Mar 18, 2020 Yosemite NP > Tuolumne Meadows > Tuolumne Bould… > Olmsted Point B… > Olmsted Crack Boulder Olmsted Crack 5.8 V1 ● ^^^ Cut the woman some slack. It’s clear that she has to wrestle with it more because she has smaller hand… View Comment
Mar 2, 2020 High Sierra > 14 - Whitney &… > Mt Muir From the John Muir Trail 3rd ● This is fun and a must do if you're already on your way to Whitney. Tricky to find the start though. Ther… View Comment
Feb 19, 2020 Yosemite NP > … > Valley N Side > B. El Capitan > 2. Southwest Face > Shield (5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c A3 PG13) On the headwall of the Shield, El Cap. ● Such an amazing place. View Comment
Jan 29, 2020 Los Angeles Basin > Beaches > Corona Del Mar > Pirate's Cove (aka Th… Diamond Man V4 ● Nice is a really nice little problem with good movement. Always felt like a hardman when I did it. View Comment
Jan 8, 2020 Inland Empire > Riverside Area > Mt Rubidoux > Beach Area > Beach Boulder Haney Wall V1 PG13 ● Named perhaps for the FAist (Phil Haney); same possibly with the problem next door, the Muir Trail (after R… View Comment
Dec 22, 2019 San Diego County > S San Diego County > Eagle Peak Eagle Peak and flowers. Credit Kevin Worrall ● Nice. Love the poppies. View Comment

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