Salt point and goat rock

Building a jive-ass anchor… Jk! We used a few cams and slung a really big rock. The rock wasn’t wet on the top.

Morgan the guinea pig. Anchor seems solid! You can’t see in the picture, but underneath us is a 20ft fall onto jagged rocks and water. There are also waves crashing as you climb. Pretty exciting! I went after Morgan and two holds in, a jug broke off in my hand! The anchor held on my first real fall on my rope. Pretty happy that the gear did it’s job. I read later that we shouldn’t have been climbing on rock that wasn’t 100% dry. Lesson learned!

Mark’s turn! Unfortunately, after I took this picture, Morgan crashed into the rock in front of him when Mark weighted the rope. The texture of the rock was really sharp and he smashed his finger and bled everywhere. Luckily we had first aid, but unluckily we had an injured member on the first climb of the day :/ .

Overall salt point was beautiful and worth it just for the view. We could never figure out where 80% of the climbs described in the book were. Next time we will make sure we aren’t there at high tide. There were a bunch of climbs we wanted to do but couldn’t because the waves were crashing 40ft in the air right onto the routes.

Mark and I stopped at goat rock on the way home. It was a nice easy rock with good holds. It was much easier to match the climbs with the routes in the book at this location. Fog had rolled in by the time we got there, but I imagine there is normally a nice view of the ocean.