California
Climbing / Hiking / Flying Trip Reports
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This page provides links to my climbing trip reports in California. Drawn by the the splitter granite cracks and stable weather, I've made several road trips to California over the years, climbing in Yosemite, Tuolumne, the High Sierra, Whitney Portal, Tahoe area, the Needles, Joshua Tree, and the South Cascades.
You can access the trip reports by clicking on the interactive map below or scrolling to the list below that.
Clickable Map
Click on the locations on the map to go to a trip report.
Alphabetical List by Area
Click on the dated links in the right column to go to a trip report.
Joshua Tree National Park
The Needles
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Sierra
WHITNEY PORTAL
EL SEGUNDO BUTTRESS
Beckey Route (5.9, 5p, 700')
PREMIER BUTTRESS
Premier Route (5.8 A0, 5p, 700')
WHITNEY PORTAL BUTTRESS
Nimbus (5.10c, 3p)
No Country For Old Men (5.10c, 8p, 1250')
- Various pitches: Ghostrider P1 (5.9, 1p), Tanager P1 (5.10b, 1p), No Country for Old Men P1-P4 (5.10c, 4p)
THE WHALE
Bony Fingers (5.10c, 2-3p, 350')
EVOLUTION TRAVERSE
Peak 13,360 - MENDEL - DARWIN - Peak 13,332 - HAECKEL - WALLACE - FISKE - WARLOW - HUXLEY
"TOUR DE PALISADES"
NORMAN CLYDE Peak Firebird Ridge (5.9), NORMAN CLYDE Peak Twilight Pillar (5.9), PALISADE CREST (5.8)
South Cascades
CASCADE VOLCANOS AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY TOUR (WINTER CONDITIONS)
Rainier, Adams, Hood, Jefferson, Three Sisters, Crater Lake, Shasta, Lassen, St. Helens, and more!
Tahoe Area
5 DAYS AT LOVER'S LEAP (10 ROUTES)
10 Routes:
- Surrealistic Pillar (w/ Direct start) (5.10b, 2-3p, 270')
- Traveler Buttress (5.9, 4p, 500')
- The Line (5.9, 2-3p, 400')
- Eagle Buttress, Right (5.10a, 4-5p, 600')
- Hospital Corner (5.10a, 2p, 240')
- Vanishing Point (5.10b, 2p+, 250')
- Tombstone Terror (5.10c, 1-2p, 80-160')
- Eeyore's Enigma (5.10, 4p, 500')
- Scimitar (5.9R, 3p, 300')
- Fantasia (5.9R, 3p, 300')
1-10. Aug'15
Tuolumne
"CATHEDRAL TRAVERSE"
CATHEDRAL Peak SE Buttress (5.6, 700') - EICHORN Pinnacle N Face (5.4) - ECHO Peaks (3rd to 5.7) - ECHO Ridge (3rd) - COCKSCOMB (4th) - UNICORN Peak (4th)
"TMC LINKUP"
TENAYA Peak NW Buttress (5.5, 1500') - MATTHES Crest (5.7, 1 mile) - CATHEDRAL Peak SE Buttress (5.6, 700')
Yosemite
CHURCH BOWL
Cragging:
EL CAPITAN
East Buttress (5.10b, 13p, 1400')
Freeblast (5.11, 8p, 1000')
NIAD: The Nose in 1 day (5.9 C2 or 5.14a, 28p, 2900')
The Nose in 3 days (5.9 C2 or 5.14a, 28p, 2900')
Cragging at El Cap Base:
MIDDLE CATHEDRAL ROCK
Central Pillar of Frenzy (5.9, 5p, 550')
East Buttress (5.10c or 5.9 A0, 11p, 1100')
Ho Chi Minh Trail (5.11, 20p, 2000')
Kor-Beck (5.9, 5p, 600')
Cragging:
PUBLIC SANITATION WALL
Cragging: