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Salamanizer
Trad climber
The land of Fruits & Nuts!
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Sep 11, 2012 - 10:53pm PT
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Cal Domes is freakin rad. The sheer difficulty and/or severity of the majority of it's routes will always keep the crowds down. The camping is free, abundant and quiet if one knows where to go.
Some of the burliest, most sustained routes in Cali lie here.
Some photos to keep the stoke up.
On the Karakorum Highway. A 7 pitch extension to silk road boasting 3 pitches of hard 5.11, and two pitches of sustained 5.10+ offwidth bringing Silk Road to 16 pitches if you link everything you can. This extension puts this already classic route into the world class category.
5.11 stemming pitch of Silk Road
The never ending dihedral of Laughing Hyena 5.11c/d. No moves are harder than 5.11, but no moves are easier than 5.10d on this 180ft pitch.
Working our way up the Rainbow Arch. A very physical 3 pitch 5.10d full of fist cracks, tips liebacks, and bombay offwidths... all of it overhanging.
The "Kick Out" move on Tsunami.
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socalbolter
Sport climber
Silverado, CA
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Sep 11, 2012 - 10:58pm PT
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Thanks for posting Sal...that's the Cal Domes I remember so fondly...
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Sonic
Trad climber
Boulder, Co
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Jul 25, 2014 - 02:12pm PT
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stoke bump! I pray for snow and cal dome climbing
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Tvash
climber
Seattle
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Jul 25, 2014 - 02:19pm PT
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I ran an aventure race a few years back - one leg of which required us to ju ju up Cal Dome and rap back down (at night, in our case) in that canned adventure AR style.
I'd never heard of the place, and thought WTF, THIS THING IS AMAZING.
What was not amazing was the bushwhacking in the surrounding area. Wow, California. Those acacia. No need to even mention manzanita. Respect.
Someday, I'm gonna go play around on that thing.
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