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DaveyTree
Trad climber
Fresno
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 3, 2013 - 11:18pm PT
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That's all the topos I have folks. Thought I had a few more. Someone has to have the others.....
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Davey - very nice!
Here are rotated / slightly cleaned up versions which I'll link to the route list:
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DaveyTree
Trad climber
Fresno
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 3, 2013 - 11:46pm PT
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Tks Clint, My phone keeps posting sideways.
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Paul Martzen
Trad climber
Fresno
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Hey Crab,
pretty sure you can't develop immunity to poison oak while you already have a reaction. It has to be in the off season long after your last reaction.
Hiking up to the base of Patterson Falls is a good adventure in itself. It is mostly on clean slabs, but there is probably some vegetation to deal with. Been a long time for me, so I can't remember exactly. From near the base of the falls, some serious bushwacking is unavoidable, but it is a fairly short distance till you can reach rocks or slabs and then find short clearings separating shorter sections of bushwacking. Once you are near the apron, the hiking along the base was fairly easy. A small team with pruning shears and saws could make a reasonably clear trail in a few hours. One hard part is just trying to see where the best route will be from down in the streambed.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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"We're in a sea of poison oak! I hope I'm one of the ones that is immune to it!" Foreshadowing words from Linda, 2010.....
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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I sent an email to Dave Nettle last night, and he already replied with a great bunch of original topos and maps! Also, Scott Thelen sent me some more details on Under the Knife.
So I updated the route list again, with links to Dave's topos:
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/2106135/Patterson-Bluff-online-guide
Here are the topos and maps Dave sent, so you can see the whole group.
His topo for Eleven has gone missing, though.
Perhaps Paul has a copy in his stash of notes?
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micronut
Trad climber
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This thread is pure gold fellas. Thanks for all the contributions so far. I grew up just off Piedra rd and my childhood was spent up in them parts crawdaddin at Kirch Flat, catchin hog sized browns at Black Rock and even climbing at Patterson a couple times in my early climbing career. Aske me about trying to climb JCA's Wide World of Sports, as teenageres, with a set of borrowed bongs and angles (lent by an old big wall vet) cause we saw that awesome photo of it in the Patagonia catalog.
We were 5.7 climbers. Got about 11 feet off the ground and got two months of roadburn and poison oak.
Anybody got a shot of that old photo?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Proud effort Micro!! Nice!
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Anybody got a shot of that old photo? Yeah, it has been discussed on some of the threads linked.
This one's pretty good, too:
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mike a.
Sport climber
ca
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Hi thanks sooo much on all that beta, my friend kent has been talking about ten for years, i am for sure this season going to petterson and check it out from the top, and not battle all that po and goat trail stuff,this map to ross crossing road looks great! once again thanks a ton for all the info, cheers mikea.
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Cool, Mike.
I just added a google maps version of Dave's map from Shaver Lake to the top of Patterson Left, to see a scaled version:
google map Shaver Lake to top of Patterson Left
The google version makes one detour east/west instead of going south from "(B)" and across the creek; not sure what is going on there.
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Apr 10, 2013 - 12:54am PT
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Ok... One time I took the Wife and Kids to Courtwright for a week of fun, I think they had fun. Anyway we took a little detour on the way home, one that Mark Powell himself said is a fun little drive, down the Kings Canyon.
This was the first big cliff to come into view, as we drove down in the direction of BLACK ROCK RES. This might have been below BR or about the same distance down canyon. It has been a long time.
Any ideas??
At first I thought it was the formation named "Black Rock Dome" in Clint's new guide, but from the photos that are posted I can't tell.
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DaveyTree
Trad climber
Fresno
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 10, 2013 - 01:13am PT
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Guyman, I think those might be above the reservoir further toward Wishon. There is a LOT of rock a long the road and in the river bottom. I know one area is about 1,000' to the river bottom. Haven't driven it in years. Now I am going to have to take another look. Nice pics. Tks.
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Apr 10, 2013 - 02:21am PT
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Guy,
At first I thought it was the formation named "Black Rock Dome" in Clint's new guide, but from the photos that are posted I can't tell. I'm pretty sure your photos are of Black Rock Dome.
Compare DavyTree's photo with your upper photo - they both have the big arches on the left hand side, corners to the right, trees on top, etc.
Your lower photo is a view of the same dome, from further north, so the arches on the left side are not as prominent.
Nice photos!
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Apr 10, 2013 - 02:30am PT
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Looks like black rock dome to me
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Apr 10, 2013 - 02:37am PT
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Me too...
THX.
So no known routes???
Killer, looks like its above the dreaded PO.
And Micronut says there be big browns in Black Rock... Im stoked.
I have more photos from that trip, some are of the formations already identified. will post soon.
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DaveyTree
Trad climber
Fresno
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 10, 2013 - 09:21pm PT
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Guyman, don't know what I was looking at but I think you guys are right about those being BR dome. It is definitely above the PO. Approach might be better from Ross Crossing above. Never fished the lake but heard from others it can be good.
It looked like there was a wall of some sort to the north of BR reservoir when looking from the top of 1-Pitch Wonder.
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Apr 10, 2013 - 10:34pm PT
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So no known routes???
Actually, I hadn't really checked carefully.
There is at least one route, done by Richard Leversee, naturally,
and reported in the 1997 AAJ.
http://books.google.com/books?id=FattUWiYu80C&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&dq=%22Black+Rock+Dome%22&source=bl&ots=xyHZ3bn61n&sig=MA6sUy3DGZ5J_0ZxCZKiJcInYZI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=miBmUYCOAcnKqQG2rIGwDg&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Black%20Rock%20Dome%22&f=false
They described "gnarly bushwhacking along the base" when approaching from the NW via Ross Crossing Road.
I've added it to the route list:
58. Bad Day at Black Rock 5.10+, 4p, in center, 1: knobs and bolted face, then cracks and face climbing next to chimney, AAJ 1997
FA: Jim Zellers, Pete Taylor, Richard Leversee, 8/1996
I also modified the overlay for Black Rock Dome with my best guess at the location of this climb.
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DaveyTree
Trad climber
Fresno
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 10, 2013 - 11:29pm PT
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Nice find Clint. It just keeps getting better and better. I would love to see his notebooks.
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Radish
Trad climber
SeKi, California
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Apr 11, 2013 - 12:29am PT
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I'm curious, has Richard Leversee seen or posted on any of this stuff??
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