donner 10/14-15/06

 
 
 
  

tahoe 09/23-24/06

 

not sure what kind of rattlesnake this was but it was really big.

 

brett ashton flashes its awl dat (V5) at the secrets.

 

this is me doing the lower moves on a very fun V8 at the deli slicer. unfortunately the topout (which is very slopey) was in the direct sun and so i did not get the pleasure of completing this cool line.

 

matt keebler on a really frustrating but awesome arete/dyno that he found at the deli slicer. we gave this thing sooo many tries but none of us were actually able to do this thing.

 

donner/rainbow 06/04/06

develyn sending white lines (V8)



me on ishmael (V7)



zack on unknown moderate


zack and i cruized up to donner, had the bomb breakfast and coffee at wild cherries then drove up the hill where i made some good progress on white lines. a guy named develyn sent it while we were there. what a great line! then we drove down the hill to rainbow, where we let alba play around (she almost died getting swept down a waterfall) in the river. we finished up the day by going up to the powerhouse boulders and i sent ishmael. sweet problem!

10/02/05- me on "evil arete" (V5?) at rainbow. this thing is a lot of fun. 

10/02/05- liane on unknown arete at rainbow. we found these boulders on the side of old donner pass road about a mile and a half north of the pull-off for the ishmael/jawbone boulders. there is this boulder, which has 2+ quality problems and another smaller boulder closer to the road, which has a mantle problem that looks pretty hard. 

09/17/05- this is me on the FA of "moonshadow" at the secrets. matt and i found this boulder while wandering around; the boulder doesn't look like much but there's a great bulge on the downslope side that houses this fun problem. later that night matt and i were trying to come up with an appropriate name for it. it came to me as we were admiring the full moon and making our moonshadows jump up and down. (proposed grade: V5)

09/03/05- cade at the ishmael boulders.

09/17/05- this is me on the second ascent of "flesh wound" at the secrets. very fun dyno to interesting topout. FA by matt keebler. (proposed grade: V4).

09/17/05- this is me working on "clandestino" (V7) at the secrets. very fun powerful problem with hard top out. i 'm hoping to get this one next time!