Ascents in Joshua Tree National Park having Beta

Another line that demands to be climbed

Warm-up for the day.

Really fun tiptoeing up the tiny crystal line up the face

Really nice climb

1st day climbing outside

w/Boojum Folks

great crack/dihedral--one of my faves at JT

good warm up

way cool

We used this climb as an approach to Kundalini Linguini Weenie which my partner led but I didn't complete.

A fun route with lots of variety and a bit of exposure.

Tough start

Great exposure right from the start. A really fun climb.

Nice

Went smoothly and quickly on TR -- a fun route with good moves.

tr'd it to clean th anchors.

easy

I wouldn't want to lead it, but it was fun/interesting and pretty easy

The first few metres is the best part. The rest of it was also excellent

A kinda trickier start, but gives way to some wonderfully frictiony stemming. Good gear throughout. Topped out by going through the tiny cave at the top, pretty interesting manoeuvres. Not too hard, lot of fun.

Good lead practice.

First pitch has really fun, easy climbing with a good mix of face and crack. The second pitch is full of large blocks you can easily pull down on your friends and bad pro options. Be careful. The grade is easy but the danger is potentially high.

Second attempt on top-rope followed the route shown in Vogel book

Would have been fun to lead

Don't get sucked into corner low. Stem!

best approach from NW side

OMG I hate crack. no falls but feet got stuck a lot

Hard for the grade...

Got to 2nd this one. Went smoothly and easily, because I was following rather than leading, though it was at the end of the day.

Latest guide rates this as 5.4.

Mostly not too difficult, though off-width grunty, but with a couple crux sections that played at a lot harder than 5.3.

Also, be prepared the "walk off" is scarier than leading this climb.

Adra led.

First hold is loose. One of the bolt anchors is loose and chain link is cracked

Big hairy spider scared me.

Tiring but not very hard. Very awkward, chimney moves with some crimps, etc.

quite hard moves. Did not climb to the top since it felt hard and had some issues with my fingers that I did not want to make worse. It has quite some sharp crimps

Well it turns out this is the most difficult. I don’t really understand. That being said I did a lot more moves than i expected to, but the ones I couldn’t do I couldn’t even conceive. Wild.

Well it turns out this is very hard! Completely amazing steep finger crack climbing. I did all the moves bar two of the three main crux pulls (albeit probably with some rope assist. It’s probably solid 12+ with some very tricky moves to start you off. So stoked to have tried it and seen what all the fuss is about.

Well this is very hard. Managed all the moves up to the crux at the last bolt which is around V9 and very very reachy. Probably 12+ except for that sequence. Pretty rad.

Very psyched to have tried this. I did quite well up to the crux but i couldn’t figure it out as a complete sequence. Rad intricate climbing the whole way though with a sequence that starts at the ground and doesn’t end until you’re standing on top.

One try to check all the moves, which were all doable. However, to put them together is another story, this would probably have been a week-long project. A lot of endurance on small holds necessary. The moves were quite cool. The rock was glued in some places, one hold was even glued back on after having come off at some point.

This was so so excellent. It’s just like a campus board. Probably a bit of a sand bag, especially if you’re short. My onsight ended at the crux but i did all the moves and had some really excellent linkage. I’ll be back one day for sure. Also the scene of us nearly getting beaten up due to other’s absurd machismo. Hilarious. (x3)

A colossal sand bag but brilliant rock and an improbable line. I put in a fairly worthy onsight effort but was stumped by some very reachy and very very hard moves a bit above half way. Only the one go.

This thing is completely all time! One of the absolute best pitches i’ve ever tried. On my second TR lap i managed to go from below the crux to the top, pumped out of my brains. Stellar climbing up a stellar line in a stellar location. (x2)

Progression and regression. This thing is properly hard! And quite sharp!!! (x2)

Another two burns and the usual somethings feel much better, somethings feel much worse. Very frustrating. It was nice to watch Tom and Fann both float it though.

Arghhh! Couldn’t pull it together. Not enough skin, not enough fitness, too much drive to climb other things. I shall return for you!

This is really fucking cool and really fucking hard. Some heinous crack bouldering after the eponymous baby apes move makes for quite the sandbag i think. Prith added a direct start which was cool.