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Strider
Trad climber
one of god's mountain temples....
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Feb 21, 2009 - 08:04am PT
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Can't tell you about old dads but I have been there and looked around and bouldered some. Nothing really worth the time. The original Bay Area climbing guide from long ago had a page or two devoted to Coyote Hills, though nothing too descriptive or exciting. I think I have a digi copy around here somewhere that Clint sent me long ago when he was digitizing the old BA book.
Coyote is a much better mtn bike area when combined with Don Edwards NWR that you access by biking over a bridge over the Dumarton Toll Plaza, next to an active mine. All pretty cool to look check out. And biking on the evaporation pond dikes is pretty cool as well.
I would also be very interested to hear about anyone who has spent any climbing time out there...
-n
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Feb 21, 2009 - 01:34pm PT
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I ain't that old, but I was silly (and desperate) enough to sample some of those rocks when I was staying in Fremont one summer 14 years ago. I seem to recall one pretty highball thingy and an easy low traverse that kept me interested for a bit. I think there were plenty of spiders, which I abhor. Biked out to Sunol Regional Park to boulder as well...
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
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Feb 21, 2009 - 03:31pm PT
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I bagged this FA in Coyote last spring.
Best climb in the Bay Area, no doubt.
Anything near Ohlone?
Little Yosemite?
Or Arroyo Hondo behind Del Valle?
Any good places to plant The Chronic?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 21, 2009 - 06:54pm PT
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that's a beeyoot!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 21, 2009 - 10:49pm PT
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hey there dr. sprock... say, this looks like part of the mountain side just dropped away.... seems, as a kid, while hiking in san jose area, we saw lots of this where the roads went through, in the hills....
(or similar, as i cant tell really good from the pic, etc)...
but, i am curious:
is this a lot of open dirt, around the rock, here in your pic? would this be stuff that fall off, and send you tumbling, while trying to climb it? just curious...
thanks... still, it looks like fun... :)
(though i do understand, not the full-blown rock climbing heights glory... )
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DonC
climber
CA
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Feb 21, 2009 - 10:51pm PT
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Hey Dr.Sprock - that's my picture that you grabbed from another thread... couple of bored friends and I decided to climb this road cut on the way to Tahquitz
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
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Feb 21, 2009 - 10:53pm PT
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Busted.
Again.
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DonC
climber
CA
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Feb 21, 2009 - 10:57pm PT
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ha ha, no problem. We used ice axes and an old picket we had in the car. Nearly vertical dirt and one of the scariest climbs I've done...
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