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rincon
Trad climber
SoCal
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Sep 22, 2012 - 10:35am PT
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Hey, anyone know if this slab on Pine Mountain in the San Gabriels has ever been climbed on?
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Sep 22, 2012 - 12:15pm PT
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bump for rincon's pine mtn pic.
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ec
climber
ca
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Sep 22, 2012 - 09:36pm PT
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Look at that crown fracture!
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rbolton
Social climber
The home for...
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Sep 26, 2012 - 08:09pm PT
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Holy sh#t! I just got called the "consummate derelict" by Van Belle! That's like being called "kinky" by the Marquise de Sade. I HAVE ARRIVED!
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SpeedyTaco
Mountain climber
Baldy
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Sep 27, 2012 - 07:54pm PT
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I have scouted it out and looked up at it from the base of the gully a bunch of times. FWIW that's Shale I think. The same rock makes up a lot of the area north of Baldy. The only shale solid enough to hold pro I've encountered was deep in Fish Fork.
I was geared up to climb that slab this winter, but I moved to the Ditch from LA so that's no longer on the menu. I don't think it would be very safe, but it would be nifty.
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SpeedyTaco
Mountain climber
San Gabes & Yosemite Village
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Sep 27, 2012 - 07:56pm PT
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If you would like some beta on the approach and all that, I'll trade ya for pics and a TR when you do it.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Sep 27, 2012 - 08:41pm PT
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From blue ridge road?
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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Sep 28, 2012 - 08:31am PT
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haha--i did that pine mountain face back in the 80s. saw the sunset flash on it on a baden-powell hike and just had to check it out.
we approached via the dry creeks below--quite a lengthy approach. the rock is some kind of metamorphosed stuff. gneiss or schist, very grainy. it's pitched at an angle which doesn't quite make it very challenging climbing--not much harder than middle 5th slab. the challenging part is the protection, especially with the chock rack we were using. the best stuff to protect would have been knifeblade pitons, and not much else. very tight seams you could hammer something into, but too friable for wired nuts and the like, and nothing wide enough for chocks or large cams.
all in all, a nice little adventure, but not very challenging climbing.
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rincon
Trad climber
SoCal
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Sep 28, 2012 - 09:59am PT
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Yeah, I thought it was probably chossy, not to mention a bowling alley, but I figured someone must have checked it out.
Thanks for the info you guys.
I think taco has the right idea, to do it as a ice climb. Only it would be hard to access that time of year, with the Blue Ridge Road under snow. Too bad too, cuz that face has some of the steepest lines in the San G's, and would be badass for skiing.
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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Sep 28, 2012 - 11:29am PT
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it's not chossy, just not terribly hard. because it's grainy, it's pretty easy friction.
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rcguy
climber
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Sep 30, 2012 - 05:03pm PT
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On the way to Saddle Peak in the Santa Monicas. Needs some gardening at the base. Small but the ocean view is incredible.
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spenchur
climber
Flagstaff/Thousand Oaks
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Sep 30, 2012 - 05:12pm PT
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^^^thats the Black Flower crag^^^^ total choss pile!
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Cracks underneath the 210 freeway. Early training ground for the Sheepbuggers
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Sredni Vashtar
Social climber
Far West LA & UK
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Biotch:Where is that thing Reilly?
Wasnt a question for me but i know the answer, viewable from mishe mokwe trail
it's somewhere around here 34.131567, -118.921680
but hard to tell from google earth
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Biotch:Where is that thing Reilly?
Wasnt a question for me but i know the answer, viewable from mishe mokwe trail
it's somewhere around here 34.131567, -118.921680
but hard to tell from google earth
2nd clue.... Walk out to ECHO Cliffs.... its on your right.
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Tfish
Trad climber
La Crescenta, CA
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Just put up a 5.10d ground up.
Heres my buddy rick TRing another line.
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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TFish..... nice flash dude!!!!!!!!
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Tfish
Trad climber
La Crescenta, CA
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I've been eyeing this pile of choss off of Angeles Crest Hwy for awhile now and finally decided to scope it out. It's off to the right just before you get to the clear creek station/Angeles Forest hwy turn off. It looks like a mini Texas Canyon.
But it looks some kooks beat me too it.
Every hold would crumble in your hand or under your feet.
I found a decent line on another formation in a water grove that only had one hand hold break. Over all it was a pile. And the station fire messed up the rock too.
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rincon
Trad climber
SoCal
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I hiked out to that pile about 20 years ago, decided it wasn't worth it and never went back. Last few years I've been wondering if I was wrong and have been very close to going over there again just to make sure. Thanks for saving me the trouble. It's not easy to get to those rocks even though they look so close.
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Nov 22, 2012 - 01:30am PT
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