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Aug 13, 2026 Southern-Wester… > Hwy 41: Fresno… > Mammoth Pool > Piyau Domes North Piyau Dome ● Easy access, free camping. Too bad the trees are mostly gone. A high quality, 350’ dome with at least 6-7 m… View Comment
Jul 12, 2026 Southern-Wester… > Hwy 41: Fresno… > Mammoth Pool > Piyau Domes > N Piyau Dome Snake Crack 5.8 ● Quality crack. Face traverse on pitch one to get to the belay below the crack felt at least 5.8. Crack was… View Comment
Jul 12, 2026 Southern-Wester… > Hwy 41: Fresno… > Shuteye Ridge A. Doggy Dome ● July 12 2026 update: access road is clear of trees and goes all the way in to its terminus right below the… View Comment
Jul 12, 2026 Southern-Wester… > Hwy 41: Fresno… > Shuteye Ridge > A. Doggy Dome Sexy Bitch 5.9 ● Climbed it today. Felt even harder haha. View Comment
Mar 20, 2026 Central Coast > San Luis Obispo > Bishop Peak Bunny Slope ● Michael, 805 and SLO Life were posted in May; descriptions are on the page. They're also in the new SLO Cou… View Comment
Mar 20, 2026 Southern-Wester… > Hwy 168:Tollhou… > Shaver Lake Area Dogma Dome ● I got the original route names straight from Mark Spencer in 2008 for the 2009 Nor Cal Road Trip guidebook… View Comment
Jul 30, 2025 Southern-Wester… > Hwy 41: Fresno… > Shuteye Ridge > B. Milkyway Wal… > Milky Way Wall Sons of Thunder 5.8 ● This route holds one of my most desperate moments. While on the FA with a Bosch Annihilator drill around my… View Comment
Jul 30, 2025 Southern-Wester… > Hwy 41: Fresno… > Shuteye Ridge > B. Milkyway Wal… > Milky Way Wall Supernova 5.10d ● For the grade, this route is pretty unique. A rare climb, even for a place like Shuteye. Good slab climbing… View Comment
Jul 30, 2025 Southern-Wester… > Hwy 41: Fresno… > Shuteye Ridge > A. Doggy Dome Peanut & Chubbs 5.9 ● Bravo! Another route! I knew someone would eventually get to it. Dig the name too ;) View Comment
Jul 30, 2025 Central Coast > San Luis Obispo > Bishop Peak > Cracked Wall Layover in Soledad 5.8 PG13 ● Just for the record, I said in my guide that I was not putting in variations... because this wall holds the… View Comment
Jul 29, 2025 Central Coast > Hwy 33/Ojai > Sespe Gorge (Black Wall) Ending Crack 5.7 PG13 ● In my opinion, the best route on the wall. Pitch one is stellar, Pitch two is great until the dubious finish. View Comment
Jul 29, 2025 Central Coast > Hwy 33/Ojai > Sespe Gorge (Black Wall) Tree Root 5.6 ● Always a fun time, although not as fun as Ending Crack. Love the short approach and the river and trees, th… View Comment
Jul 29, 2025 Central Coast > Hwy 33/Ojai > Potrero John Migrating Coconuts (aka Zyzzxx) 5.9 ● Super fun route. My guess is this popular route’s features got a little softer, worn, and smaller over the… View Comment
Jul 29, 2025 Central Coast > Hwy 33/Ojai > Potrero John > Migrating Coconuts (a… (5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a) Chilly outing. Still fun! ● Crazy cool! View Comment
Apr 2, 2025 Central Coast > San Luis Obispo > Bishop Peak > Cube > Faustian Bargain (5.13a 7c+ 29 IX+ 29 E6 6c) Horizontal ● Aaron, nice picture lol View Comment
Mar 27, 2025 Central Coast > Wagon Caves > Newt Rock Newt Wall features hangerless bolts and TR anchors that can be a bit scary to set up ● All bolts have hangers since 2004. View Comment
Mar 12, 2025 Central Coast > San Luis Obispo > Bishop Peak > Summit Blocks - E (Main) Unknown climbers on V-Choss wide cracks ● Where is this? View Comment
Mar 10, 2025 Central Coast > San Luis Obispo > Bishop Peak > Wild, Wild Western Pi… It appears there are several names for this rock. The most common are Great Western Pinnacles and Orange Rocks. All routes are well bolted sport routes that can be easily top roped. You can access these from the BP summit trail just a few minutes up from Cracked Wall. ● 1 is HIGH NOON 2 is HARLOTS SLOT View Comment
Mar 4, 2025 Central Coast > San Luis Obispo > Bishop Peak > P-Wall Impacted Stool Crack 5.9+ ● Respect the way the FA party put up the route. Period. If it’s too hard, get better. If it’s too scary, wor… View Comment
Feb 28, 2025 Central Coast > Big Sur > Slate's Spire > Regular Route (5.5 4b 13 IV+ 11 MS 4a R) Sitting on top. ● Yes!!! View Comment
Feb 28, 2025 Central Coast > Big Sur > Slate's Spire > Regular Route (5.5 4b 13 IV+ 11 MS 4a R) 2021 update on the 2006 anchor: The highest of the 3 bolts appears to have minimal surface corrosion. Perhaps the washer is stainless steel? Older heavily rusted chopped bolt to the left probably from 1995. ● Nah that’s bomber. Seriously. View Comment
Feb 28, 2025 Central Coast > Big Sur > Slate's Spire Regular Route 5.5 R ● Haha loving all the different perspectives. If you are not an adventurer don’t bother. It’s a ridiculously… View Comment
Feb 13, 2025 Central Coast > San Luis Obispo > Bishop Peak > Jamcrack Wall Mark 12:30 5.11c ● Where is this in relation to the older route Fester Finger, which is 5.11 and located left of Sgt. Peppers? View Comment
Feb 11, 2025 Central Coast > San Luis Obispo > Bishop Peak > Shadow Rock Inner Sanctum 5.10- X ● The Gulyash guidebook, 1986, shows 2 bolts. I’ll reach out to Ed to see if he remembers if Tobin placed 1… View Comment
Jan 31, 2025 Central Coast > San Luis Obispo > Bishop Peak > Summit Blocks - E (Main) There and Back Again 5.7 ● The first bolt is high enough to protect the leader and I've never had any difficulties clipping it and kee… View Comment
Jan 31, 2025 Central Coast > San Luis Obispo > Bishop Peak > Summit Blocks -… > There & Back Again (5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b) Backside of East Summit Blocks. M: There and Back Again, P: Sunnyside ● This route has a separate anchor from Ariba. View Comment
Jan 29, 2025 Central Coast > San Luis Obispo > Bishop Peak > P-Wall Revised photo of P Wall. Note the added bolts and unused anchors below Jump For Joy and atop the flake (this was once a natural belay). Also note that the toprope anchors high on P Wall Direct/Hanging Teeth have been removed. I have also corrected Route Canal and Hanging Teeth. 1 - Stage Fright (5.10a), 2 - Indecent Exposure (5.7), 3 - Out of Hangers (5.10a(R)), 4 - Impacted Stool Crack (5.9(R)), 5 - P-Crack (5.8), 6 & 6a - Letterman (5.6), 7 - Black Streak (5.10a(R)), 8 - Jump for Joy (5.9(R)), 9 - Route Canal (5.10b), 10 - Hanging Teeth (5.8(R)), 11 - P-Wall Direct (5.8(R)). ● Gary nice topo but it doesn’t have this route on it ;) View Comment
Jan 26, 2025 Central Coast > San Luis Obispo > Bishop Peak > Owl's Perch Area Knight Moves 5.7 ● There is a bolted route that starts off the dirt on the steeper wall on the right side of this formation. I… View Comment
Jan 18, 2025 Central Coast > San Luis Obispo > Bishop Peak Bunny Slope ● I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of this slab too. It is a great introduction to Bishop Peak climb… View Comment
Jan 18, 2025 Central Coast > San Luis Obispo > Bishop Peak > Bunny Slope Welcome to Bishop Peak 5.8+ ● I just figured it was about time we had a Welcome To Bishop Peak route. View Comment
Jan 12, 2025 Central Coast > Hwy 166/Silly Rock Big Rocks ● Waterfall 5.8 on the left side of the Swiss Cheese Face, Millennium 5.9, Odyssey 5.10, Wild 5.9 are all exc… View Comment
Jan 12, 2025 Central Coast > Hwy 166/Silly Rock Outer Space ● This place is a gem .A fun area for climbers who enjoy 5.8 to 5.10s. Relatively speaking, remember where yo… View Comment
Dec 22, 2024 Central Coast > San Luis Obispo > Bishop Peak Great Guy ● A rare photo of Ken wearing a shirt :) View Comment
Dec 20, 2024 Central Coast > San Luis Obispo > Bishop Peak > P-Wall Dark Side of the Moon 5.8 PG13 ● Motor Mouth: 90’ uphill from Spring Route. Begin under a large overhang by a tree. The route follows the la… View Comment
Oct 28, 2024 Southern-Wester… > Hwy 41: Fresno… > Shuteye Ridge > A. Doggy Dome Living Water 5.6 ● Yes, Matt Shutz and I added a rap route (anchor on top/and mid-way) just left of Living Water so 60's still… View Comment
Sep 23, 2024 Southern-Wester… > Hwy 41: Fresno… > Shuteye Ridge > A. Doggy Dome Munter Bitch 5.8 ● Its official name is Munter Bitch. Someone forgot their belay device cough cough. Apparently Mtn project… View Comment

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