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576 Mile Loop Around the Sierra Looking for Blue Skies: 12.1 MPG - Click for details

576 Mile Loop Around the Sierra Looking for Blue Skies: 12.1 MPG
I have a new truck. I love my new truck. But it gets 12.3MPG if I keep the wind at my back. This is a man's truck. Perfect for a road trip in every way. No VW hippie van fo...

by micronut

3,768

Oct 02, 2015

6 Days of Mountaineering in Titcomb Basin, Wyoming - Click for details

6 Days of Mountaineering in Titcomb Basin, Wyoming
After waiting nearly two weeks on a truck repair, our pair finally got their resources together and made the drive from Cody to Pinedale, WY. What was on the list??? Sendin...

by mushroom

5,350

Jan 15, 2014

6 Days off trail in the High Sierra: Ionian Basin, Tunemah and Martha Lakes, Goddard Creek Canyon
Some photos from backpacking for 6 days west of Bishop. We started at North Lake and walk over Lamarck Col down to the Muir Trail for a couple miles and then west to Martha La...

by Chris McNamara

7,644

Aug 31, 2016

6 Easy Trad Pitches on Moro Rock..Seki - Click for details

6 Easy Trad Pitches on Moro Rock..Seki
Sometimes its just for fun. No angst building up during the week about a weekend climb coming up. No worries about partners or pre-dawn starts. Just fun! I got to take 3...

by Radish

2,397

Jun 25, 2015

6 weeks and 7000 miles part 1 - Click for details

6 weeks and 7000 miles part 1
6 weeks and 7000 miles part 1 Los Angeles to Michigan This summer my girlfriend and I took a road trip from LA back to Michigan where I grew up and then to a island ...

by matty

2,299

Nov 02, 2011

6-16-12 Zodiac TR w/pics - Click for details

6-16-12 Zodiac TR w/pics
6-16-12 Zodiac TR w/pics. I had been aid climbing for a short time and I was hooked. I loved it. Stony point bolt ladder, Rocky Peak roof, & Riverside Quarry were ...

by westhegimp

7,115

Aug 27, 2012

6-day San Juan River Workout, rafting, & Lost Tribe of Prehistoric Women Search Epic! - Click for details

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6-day San Juan River Workout, rafting, & Lost Tribe of Prehistoric Women Search Epic!
I saw the way! I could ignore the facts! This nearly impossible rapid at 325 C.F.S. was------No real problem for me! The four other boaters who had pin-ball...

by Fritz

6,394

May 23, 2011

60th Birthday SDIAD celebration TR - Click for details

60th Birthday SDIAD celebration TR
Spent my 60th birthday with a couple of old climbing buddies, Bill McConachie and Frank Baker and climbed Snake Dike. Our combined age = 174. What a spectacular day it...

by tuolumne_tradster

7,691

Nov 12, 2013

64 Years After Salathé, Finishing the First Attempted Route On Castle Rock Spire - Click for details

64 Years After Salathé, Finishing the First Attempted Route On Castle Rock Spire
I was back at the base of Castle Rock Spire again. I wasn't sure why, I’m just a mediocre climber with eyes too big for my stomach. Maybe my mom told me I can do whatever I ...

by limpingcrab

6,459

May 11, 2015

7 day diary, time waits for no one- ANOTHER SIERRA/VALLEY TR
by RyanD

4,914

Mar 10, 2015

7 fun new pitches and too many pictures in Sequoia - Click for details

7 fun new pitches and too many pictures in Sequoia
I was happy to squeeze in one more long day this week before winter takes over at the higher elevations and I'm relegated to playing in the snow or playing on rocks guarded by...

by limpingcrab

6,081

Apr 21, 2016

7 Wonders of the World in 13 Days - Click for details

7 Wonders of the World in 13 Days
I just finished going around the world in 13 days. Here is a trip report at the link below and some photos. See how to do it here - >> 7 Wonders of The World I also...

by Chris McNamara

8,934

Jun 05, 2015

8 days in City of Rocks: the same old stuff everyone else climbs - Click for details

8 days in City of Rocks: the same old stuff everyone else climbs
Got a chance to spend 8 days in City of Rocks, my favorite crag in the USA. Lucky me. I used to climb there frequently 25 or 30 years ago but I haven't been back since. I clim...

by yanqui

2,614

Aug 31, 2016

90 Hours on Half Dome
by erik fischer

2,384

Nov 08, 2010

a 2 months road trip Innsbruck - Pyrenees - Innsbruck - Click for details

a 2 months road trip Innsbruck - Pyrenees - Innsbruck
as it was a complex trip in term of areas visited below one link for all: http://becauseflatsucks.blogspot.co.at/2016/06/spain-pyrenees-road-trip-summary.html clicka...

by stefano607518

1,517

Jun 16, 2016

A 3-way flight over the Scheelite cliff, Bishop area (Speed wings and crazies) - Click for details

A 3-way flight over the Scheelite cliff, Bishop area (Speed wings and crazies)
Another beautiful flight with two great friends, Lori and Armond. The Wheeler Crest is one of the best hike and fly locations around Bishop, with an easy approach up the backs...

by DaveT.

2,703

Oct 27, 2011

A 33 Year Journey to a First Ascent - Click for details

A 33 Year Journey to a First Ascent
Bits and pieces of this trip report are on the "Obscure Rock from Nevada" thread but this frames it into a trip report. http://westcoastflyingadventures.com/2015/05/30/a-...

by Ney Grant

1,648

May 31, 2015