Dryad Boulders (Round 2)

Dryad Boulders (Lower Talus)
photo: Jeremy Champion

The Dryad Boulders that Tom, Kalah and I checked out last week is certainly quite the find.  It is going to take a long time to figure out exactly how large it really is.  We focused last week mostly on the lower section of the talus field- this weekend with a larger crew we decided to focus on some of the blocks hidden in the forest below.  A little searching revealed a couple really nice boulders with great landings.

Tom on the En Vogue Boulder
photo: Jeremy Champion

I fumbled around on this difficult transition problem that goes from a cool sit start to a very thin slab.  Had to leave this one for another day.  Pretty rare to see these two disciplines in one problem at least of this quality.

Lower section of a proj - En Vogue Boulder
photo: Jeremy Champion

Upper section of proj - En Vogue Boulder
photo: Jeremy Champion

Ladd styling the Bandwagon Crack - En Vogue Boulder
photo: Jeremy Champion

We also found a pretty nice block with tons of moderate possibilities on it with some bomber patinas.  Ladd quickly gobbled up some FAs.

Ladd on the FA - Patina Royale Boulder
photo: Jeremy Champion

Brielle sampling some of granola and doing her part as ground control
photo: Jeremy Champion

Oh yeah I have not forgotten about this bad boy.  It looks so unassuming from so far away.   I will be back!
photo: Jeremy Champion

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L8er,
Patrick

A worthy find for sure...

Enter at your own risk

Tom, Kalah, Bowie and I ventured out on Saturday to investigate a spot that Tom had been thinking about checking out for quite awhile  The theme here is talus somewhat of a rarity in the Batholith.  This locale is loaded with it.  This place is daunting there is so much rock in here and lots of it is climbable.  We did a lot of scoping out and it was pretty obvious that our three measly pads would not be enough for most landings.  Here is just a very small sampling of what we found.

Talus... it goes like this for a long ways

Cool sit-start crack feature

Par for the course here

Crazy bear huggy thing

After walking through some of it we ended up on an upper bench with some great problems.

Star Kid Tech

Star Kid Tech

Bowie found an old shed.  So I stuck it into my fancy shed hunting backpack to fortify the belief in the motocross community that crash pads are super specialized shed hunting packs.

Batholith Shed Hunting Backpack (patent pending)

Oh yeah at the entrance to this area an amazing boulder with an awesomely difficult crack/seam.

Seam project

The aftermath

This area is huge and I feel it will take awhile to even get a handle on it.  There is a lot to be done here.

L8er,
podenbeck

Cinco D' Mayo'd

Some crack work up near Split Pinnacle... Some for the bigger folk... Wide projects for the small... Enjoy the warmer temps and longer days!