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Anxious Melancholy
Mountain climber
Between the Depths of Despair & Heights of Folly
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Jul 15, 2011 - 02:05pm PT
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Levy
Big Wall climber
So Cal
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Jul 15, 2011 - 05:31pm PT
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Are those last few shots from Valley Of The Moon?
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Anxious Melancholy
Mountain climber
Between the Depths of Despair & Heights of Folly
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Jul 15, 2011 - 07:19pm PT
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Levy,
If I confirmed your query, then I'd remove another veil of "obscura" not that I haven't done that already by posting pictures. Similar to Kevin's previous post, there's a lot of stuff in the San Diego and Imperial Counties, best left for you to discover on your own (not to say that some of these haven't been well recorded elsewhere).
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Jul 25, 2011 - 02:33am PT
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Jonnnyyyzzz
Trad climber
San Diego,CA
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Jul 29, 2011 - 07:50pm PT
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[photo 10 min from the 15 in Escondido. 10 min approach. North facing with plenty of shade and on shore breezes. 40'-80' Sport,Trad, and TR's
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Jul 29, 2011 - 09:20pm PT
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Keith Leaman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jul 29, 2011 - 10:40pm PT
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Hello, Just started reading the forum. Here's a photo of Ray Palmer on what we believed to be a first on the N face of Strawberry Peak ca. 1968
Exhilarating, with some sections of solid rock, but about half was REAL loose. It was a somewhat rightward tending foray of about 4-5 pitches.
Beginning near the first trees at the base. We saw no pitons. I'd rate it somewhere between 5.fun and 5.run out/loose. (5.7?) It took about 3-4 attempts. No bolts.
KL
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Jul 29, 2011 - 11:01pm PT
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really southern and really obscure.
5.0 A0
Colorado river
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Keith Leaman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jul 29, 2011 - 11:18pm PT
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I'll try this again
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Iron Mtn.
Trad climber
Riverside, Ca.
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Jul 30, 2011 - 03:40am PT
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KEITH!!!!!!!!!!! Where the hell have you been?
-Bill
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Keith Leaman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jul 30, 2011 - 12:04pm PT
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Iron Mtn.,
Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. Back in Seattle-finally.
You still climb? Here's a pic of a '66 climb at Big Rock. Paul and I were eventually able to climb free past Harrell's (5.10?) bolted section. I remember seeing the very top above water in the '90's. I read they may be closing Big Rock for a while??
We bouldered a bit on the rocks atop Baldy back then-Late '60's?
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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Jul 30, 2011 - 12:17pm PT
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Keith, you prolly don't remember me. How have you been? It's been a very long time. I hope you are well and still climbing!
Tony Yeary
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Keith Leaman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jul 30, 2011 - 12:54pm PT
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Tony!!
Admittedly there are some cobwebs in the cranium, but luckily I took a lot of ginko biloba thru the years. Yeah- I remember you-Glendora, right??? Fill me in a little please. Apologies if I'm mistaken. Didn't you do some classic on Lone Eagle last time I saw you in the early 70's? I did some climbing at Devil's lake and Taylors Falls and Barn Bluff in the early '80's (during my 4 years on the Sioux reservation in Red Wing). I recently returned from several years in North Carolina and mostly bouldered at Stone Mtn. and Moore's Wall.
I'm always amazed at the abundance of, and my interest in remote, obscure "unclimbed" niches discovered. Climbed fairly regularly in Leavenworth in the '90's. Thanks for remembering.
I'm doing well.
KL
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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Jul 30, 2011 - 01:03pm PT
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Dam Keith it's been a while. Yes Glendora! And you are correct, however one man's classic is another's choss!. Just look at the North Face of Strawberry!
Do you remember taking me, Gary and some others, maybe Rick and Tobin to Chilao and Elder Creek? Had to be about '72. Man time files. I will send you a pm. So glad you are still with us!
Nice pics Kevin. Move along, no climbing there in SD! Did you ever run into Craig Clarence? Is he still active down there?
TY
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Keith Leaman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jul 30, 2011 - 02:29pm PT
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TYeary and others~
Tony-I recall that trip! Nice boulder problem there.
Crags near Cloudburst Summit. Cifra and I found more larger ones on the side of Waterman.
Frazier Mtn has some fun more-solid-than-they-look scattered problems. I hiked to them since they were out my back door.
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Iron Mtn.
Trad climber
Riverside, Ca.
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Jul 30, 2011 - 02:47pm PT
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This thread just got 1000% better-Thanks Keith!
Admittedly I haven't been climbing in quite awhile (injury, weight gain & poverty) but i'm living fairly close to Rubidoux as well as some other obscure problems in the area which I was planning on creating a circuit in the near future.
I haven't seen Cifra in a couple of years but I plan on visiting him soon.
I touched base with Gleason here a couple of times as well, he told me you were back in Seattle.
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spenchur
climber
oak park
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Jul 30, 2011 - 03:02pm PT
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bump for hometown obscurities...
Here is one a couple miles inland from Leo Carrillo on mulholland where the road switches sides of the canyon called the temporal boulders. I put this one up last year called "black fly hell" for the summer climbing conditions in the canyon and checks in around v8.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Jul 30, 2011 - 09:00pm PT
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Keith, did you ever run into a gruff ex sheriff named Bob Koehnen at Taylors falls?
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Keith Leaman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jul 30, 2011 - 11:52pm PT
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Hey Jeff-
Lets see- last time I saw you was at Stony Point,'80's? and I had to rush off to grad studies at CSUNorthridge. Good to hear from you! Really liked the above post by Warbler too. For me, that place looks like it embodies the idyllic "storybook" crag many of us aspired to find.
Mungeclimber: I don't remember Bob Koehner in MN, but that does not mean we may not have met. I climbed with a pleasant ceramics artist (whose name eludes me)for a while there, or out solo.
I like the phrase "hometown obscurities" above.
KL
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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Jul 31, 2011 - 12:41am PT
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Kevin,
I think Craig was very active at Cajon Mtn(sp), among other spots, several years ago putting up new routes and was involved in a scrabble about bolt chopping ect..I new him from Rainier and South America.He used to enjoy suffering and climbing the big hills, but he got smart. I haven't found that enlightenment yet, I guess! Cheers,
TY
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