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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 19, 2015 - 10:07am PT
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hwy 178
It will never be Bishop because some boulders are farther than a stones throw.
Take for example this... just sitting in the open, near a road, undisclosed.
Someone send me the underground topos please! I drive over this road too often not to stop on the regular.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Feb 19, 2015 - 10:09am PT
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Wagon Wheel also seems to have a lifetime worth of problems.
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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Feb 19, 2015 - 10:10am PT
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There's so much rock around there that no one climbs. In case you don't have it and you want to take a look at the Domelands guide I have it (Vernon).
Long drive though from round here though.
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this just in
climber
Justin Ross from North Fork
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Feb 19, 2015 - 10:16am PT
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Haha, when I'd drive to Bishop I always thought of all that rock I'm driving past is a lot closer. Nice pic Munge.
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chipper_shredder
Social climber
outinthecuts
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Feb 19, 2015 - 10:25am PT
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posting a pic labeled "undisclosed "
then want beta ?
ha ,what nerve !
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Psilocyborg
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Feb 19, 2015 - 10:25am PT
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SW riverside county. have fun!
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Feb 19, 2015 - 10:26am PT
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It has to be really steep...overhanging. Nobody does slabs anymore.
I keep hearing that....Can't be true though as I've met a couple slab masters in my wanderings.
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Mungeclimber
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 19, 2015 - 10:31am PT
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posting a pic labeled "undisclosed "
then want beta ?
ha ,what nerve
LOL, are you saying you want to know where that pic is?
Just ask, guy.
:)
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 19, 2015 - 10:33am PT
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thx Kev. I have Domelands. Even climbed a thing or two out that way. Been meaning to get back that direction. Seasonal temps being what they are I'm usually not able to get in when it isn't toasting.
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rincon
Trad climber
Coarsegold
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Feb 19, 2015 - 11:04am PT
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I hope your'e not holding out for topos...Just do it!
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Cragar
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MSLA - MT
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Feb 19, 2015 - 11:06am PT
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Between Bako and Tehachapi??
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Cragar
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MSLA - MT
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Feb 19, 2015 - 11:10am PT
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oops, I was thinking hwy 58...which also has serious potential....
Looks like Lake I is in the area...
Ever been up Erskine Ck in Kern Valley?
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Killer K
Boulder climber
Sacramento, CA
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Feb 19, 2015 - 11:12am PT
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If I'm going anywhere near BF I'd rather go to the needles wouldn't you? Isn't Wagon Wheel closed? Or am I thinking of that other area near Visalia?
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rincon
Trad climber
Coarsegold
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Feb 19, 2015 - 11:13am PT
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Some good stuff right next to the road below Kernville Slab
A kernville local named Spencer Josif recently did a V7 problem on the left side of this face. The right leaning rail is an old classic 5.10. Spencer and his buddies have been doing a lot of FA's around there lately, when they're not kayaking class V rapids or worse.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Feb 19, 2015 - 11:19am PT
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On the way back from Death Valley via Wildrose Canyon with my kids last year, we drove through Trona and had a picnic dinner atop a cluster of rocks at Wagon Wheel. No closures or regulation apparent. It was like the movie Road Warrior or Megaforce with all the off-road vehicles but with heavy metalish music. Boulders everywhere to horizons.
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Feb 19, 2015 - 11:25am PT
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Ha... tons of bouldering every where....
Lots of it in Kern County... ever drive from Weldon to Jawbone Canyon???
Much more in INYO county.... ever wonder just what you cant see???
I can't disclose locations without permission, but if ya do FB the pictures are online.... Lisa Rands and Willis Young can have the overhanging V10s....
Yafer and I have been hunting the good slab action.... a fine pastime for us older gentlemen.
The above is still a project, I think, the top is about 12 inches away, your feet are on dimes, so you can't dyno.... and how the heck did a slick glacer polished boulder find its way into the middle of the untracked desert???
Love you guys, always.
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rincon
Trad climber
Coarsegold
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Feb 19, 2015 - 11:34am PT
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These are all part of a good cicuit below Kernville Slab just steps from your car. Back at Lake Isabella there's another really fun cicuit of boulders right next to the road in Boulder Gulch campground. All along 178 the scattered boulders are numerous and would be quite an effort to document. That sh#t's getting climbed though. Chimney Peak road's seen some action lately. Me and Guy climbed most of the boulders BITD, ha Guy :)
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Friend
climber
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Feb 19, 2015 - 11:37am PT
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^^ Sick shots, all
FA of Nail Bender 5.11+
FA of Caramello 5.10+
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 19, 2015 - 11:51am PT
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hah! Rincon's holding! ;)
Not really serious about the topos, as typically the case, the excited ones just go from boulder to boulder and never document anything.
It will need mags, rags and tags before it gets off the ground in any comprehensive guidebook.
I would guess that this stuff might show up in an area guidebook, but last I heard only a Needles book is being worked on by Kris S.
The overall area guide got pushed back when EC's hard drive died. :(
Hope ya'll are having a blast! If I was solo driving, I would have stopped this last weekend. Temps were perfection and had one of those neo-maxi-zoom-dweebie-pads with me too!
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Feb 19, 2015 - 01:03pm PT
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Rincon.... yes we DID all of them.... :>)
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