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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.
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Talus... it goes like this for a long ways |
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Cool sit-start crack feature |
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Par for the course here |
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Crazy bear huggy thing |
After walking through some of it we ended up on an upper bench with some great problems.
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Star Kid Tech |
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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.
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Batholith Shed Hunting Backpack (patent pending) |
Oh yeah at the entrance to this area an amazing boulder with an awesomely difficult crack/seam.
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Seam project |
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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
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