I just had four days off from work and was even more excited to climb than usual, so I met up with some friends who were visiting the Bishop area and we had a jolly good time.

We went to the Druid Stones on the first day - to think, an hour approach hike to go bouldering... quite worth it in my opinion.

My friend Matt brought his fish-eye lens and took some pretty sweet shots.


The bouldering was quite nice. Great rock, nobody up there, perfect weather. We gorged ourselves at Las Palmas and decided to do some night bouldering at the Buttermilks.

Here's Pete looking good on an attempt at everyone's favorite problem.

The Mexican food did me in however, and I was unable to lift my feet off the ground.

The next day, we decided to go scope Tai Devore's new area the "Super Fun Site" at Pine Creek. We got a late start, and there is somewhat of an approach, including 60 meters of 5.8 just to get to the site. Tai and co. have put in a lot of work on the approach, which is a huge improvement over what it used to be.

Matt jugged up a fixed line and snapped some shots of Pete and I on The Gatekeeper (10a).


The climb went up some real awkward moves into a fantastic splitter corner.

Pete looking good on the way up.


We finished up the Gatekeeper and hopped on the appropriately named Keymaster, a project that Tai had a toprope on. Unfortunately no pics of that, but it was really hard, supposedly around 12b. Pete left his helmet, so if any of y'all go up there, drop it off at Wilsons if you could...

The next day we went to the gorge and got pumped out of our minds at the Pub Wall. Pete took his first whipper on Hammered (11b) and we all decided to take a victory whipper or two on some of the other climbs.

Working up Light Within(?)


The last day of my four off was spent at the Buttermilks where there were about 10,000 people bouldering. Kind of a turn-off, so we kicked around town and drank, then went bowling. My best score was a 44. I think I'll stick to climbing.