Climbing

Birdland Trip Report

Avery and Morgan drove into Las Vegas to meet Andrew and Karissa for some rock climbing at Red Rock. Since Andrew and Karissa were flying in from the East Coast, they sent all their gear in the trunk well of Morgan’s Tesla. There was a big storm right before Christmas […]

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Old Original Trip Report

Andrew and Avery planned our first climb for 2021 to be Old Original on Machete Ridge on the west side of Pinnacles. Andrew checked the weather to make sure that the rock would be dry for our first climb of the year. We started out from the parking lot at […]

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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 […]

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Hangboard

Hanging up Morgan’s Christmas present! We wanted to mount the hangboard on plywood and then have some extra T-nuts for random holds. Since the T-nuts need some space on the back, we added some 2x4s behind the plywood.

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Night Hike to Cloud’s Rest

Last minute camping in October in Yosemite means limited options for campsites. Since upper & lower pines were full and white wolf & porcupine were both closed for the season, we ended up camping at Hodgdon Meadows right at the west entrance to the park. I called ahead to make […]

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Joshua Tree

We got to Joshua Tree around 2pm on the Saturday before new year’s. When we checked into the ranger station we found out all the campsites were full. I wanted to go set up camp in the BLM land outside of the park but Morgan said he had been there […]

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Indian Rock

I recently purchased this book: Northern California Bouldering Morgan and I decided to head over to Indian Rock in Berkeley for our inaugural climb with our new climbing pad and book! Our first climb: Embryonic Journey V1 *** You start out on the slab. Then we got a little confused. […]

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