landscape

BLK1021

desert, landscape, rivers
Natalie and I made a day trip out to the Idyllwild area to climb at Black Mountain. Black is one of my favorite places to climb, and Natalie had never been, so I was looking forward to sharing it with her. It was a beautiful day and the area wasn’t that busy. We mostly worked on Tour and Cracker Boy (redacted haha). It was a nice day – glad to get outside before I leave for Japan. After the Utah trip and the road to Black, I need to wash the truck.

ZION1005 II

desert, landscape, rivers
For our anniversary trip, Natalie and I took a week off of work and drove east to southern utah. The plan was to climb at red rocks, moe’s valley in st. george, and also visit zion. we camped the first night at red rocks, but got a late start so drove straight to moe’s. we climbed until sunset and then headed to our abnb in la verkin, which we later had to evacuate because of a strange gnat problem. we spent the next two days at zion hiking angels landing (natalie was too scared to make it to the top so we stopped after the first chain section), riding e-bikes around the canyon, and we rode horses along the river trail to the court of the patriarchs. the next day we spent at moe’s and then drove to vegas to climb the last day, although it was a little too hot. natalie got device ignitor and made some really good progress on huntsman. I got the goose, and a handful of other stuff, and made some progress on whiskey rail.

ZION1005 I

desert, landscape, rivers
For our anniversary trip, Natalie and I took a week off of work and drove east to southern utah. The plan was to climb at red rocks, moe’s valley in st. george, and also visit zion. we camped the first night at red rocks, but got a late start so drove straight to moe’s. we climbed until sunset and then headed to our abnb in la verkin, which we later had to evacuate because of a strange gnat problem. we spent the next two days at zion hiking angels landing (natalie was too scared to make it to the top so we stopped after the first chain section), riding e-bikes around the canyon, and we rode horses along the river trail to the court of the patriarchs. the next day we spent at moe’s and then drove to vegas to climb the last day, although it was a little too hot. natalie got device ignitor and made some really good progress on huntsman. I got the goose, and a handful of other stuff, and made some progress on whiskey rail.

MM1/2

landscape
During the Utah trip last week, VJ, Kristian, Mandy, and I made a quick trip to Marioland on Friday. We weren’t there for long but I somehow managed to send Toadstool (V5). We spent Saturday late morning/early afternoon at Moe’s on Hong Kong and Huntsman. Kristian was able to send Hong Kong (V4), and we both made progress on Huntsman. Rushed these edits (copy/paste settings in LR) so they’re a bit dramatic – I just don’t have the time to process them well.

    RR1

    landscape
    I decided to drive up to nevada this week to explore red rocks. The first day I explored the Kraft area for about 6 hours. I arrived around 1230 and it was still pretty warm out (mid 90’s) – luckily quite a few of the rocks had a variety of north facing routes that were shaded in the afternoon. I was there until sunset and became very familiar with the area completing most of the v0-v2 on the rocks. Took it easy as I was going to be there for a few days; my skin was not ready. I realized I lost a lot of strength in not climbing for the past 6 months. The self photos were timed interval shots.

    太陽と火

    forest, landscape, mountains
    ‘Surely from time to time, for its vestiges never depart, it floats through our atmosphere.’
    We ventured up the 395 to Lone Pine this past holiday weekend to explore some bouldering routes West of Rovana near Pine Creek.  We initially wanted to go a little further North around Mammoth area but due to the Creek Fire we were limited in how far we could safely go.  We camped across the road at Pleasant by the reservoir on Sunday night and then headed to Alabama Hills for some sport climbing.  The fire season this year has been among the worst California has seen, and it was somewhat surreal to be able to climb in a landscape that was painted in such a brightly de-saturated orange hue. All photos taken with my Fuji X100T