Cal Dome Magic

Search
Go

Discussion Topic

Return to Forum List
This thread has been locked
Messages 41 - 51 of total 51 in this topic << First  |  < Previous  |  Show All  |  Next >  |  Last >>
Aki J

Trad climber
Placerville, CA
Oct 3, 2014 - 07:44am PT

For those of us more moderately inclined, the Mexican flake pitch is a 70m stretcher of 5.9!
M Carville

Trad climber
Nevada City, CA
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 3, 2014 - 11:04am PT
Hidden Wall, CA. These routes are too good to keep secret.
looks easy from here

climber
Ben Lomond, CA
Oct 3, 2014 - 11:09am PT
Aki J, that corner is GORGEOUS (and, more importantly, in my pay grade :p)! Love the contrast of the friction on the right and with all the features on the left.
rincon

Trad climber
Coarsegold
Oct 3, 2014 - 11:13am PT
Keep posting up the goods on spots such as this old time favorite and the crowds will/do come.

I hear this about a lot of places like Cal Dome and I really haven't seen it happen and it doesn't look like it will anytime soon.

Share away everyone, this thread is cool!

Yeah, and with all that 5.12 trad climbing, I doubt the Hidden Wall will ever be crowded.
dhayan

climber
los angeles, ca
Oct 3, 2014 - 02:30pm PT
Holy sh#t that looks good! but hard...
rick sumner

Trad climber
reno, nevada/ wasilla alaska
Oct 3, 2014 - 02:39pm PT
Mike, I remember gazing up from the base at that leaning tower steep wall and thinking here is some real challenges for the next generations. I noticed all those bolts next to the cracks in your pictures. Were the routes aided originally to get those in and is that what is considered trad these days? Sort of like first free ascents?
M Carville

Trad climber
Nevada City, CA
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 3, 2014 - 05:02pm PT
rick - right of rainbow arch? no bolting cracks.
Gobie

Trad climber
Northern, Ca.
Oct 8, 2014 - 05:23pm PT

Ive seen all of the above mentioned at Cal Dome. Stay Away!
bonin_in_the_boneyard

Trad climber
Oak Land, California
Oct 13, 2014 - 11:27am PT
First time I went to Cal Dome, we discovered that someone had left an unspent round in the fire pit when our fire set it off and it whistled past my ear. Faaak.

Fast forward a few trips and I held my bachelor party there. For some reason we thought it would be a good idea to break out a bucket of balls and a driver and start whacking into the darkness around the campsite. (Yes I'm a d!ck and I totally regret that and should never have done it and I totally didn't enjoy it at all especially when invisible balls ricocheted off trees and back at us in the dark.)

Good times, good times.

But Cal Dome sucks and if you even make it there without your car axles giving out you'll be stung to death by wasps or kidnapped by the cartel. No one should ever go there. And definitely don't bring your fishing rod...
ground_up

Trad climber
mt. hood /baja
Oct 13, 2014 - 02:43pm PT
As anyone can see from the pics , the place is total choss and
one should go elsewhere. That being said some of us locals
working for Kirkwood back in the late 70's made regular jaunts
to that area . I remember doing some of the best climbs and f/a's
I've ever done..and no one was there c'ept us.
Hickicick

climber
NV
Nov 12, 2014 - 05:47am PT
BUMP. Anybody got any info on november/december conditions? Snowy wetness, access, too cold to climb?
Messages 41 - 51 of total 51 in this topic << First  |  < Previous  |  Show All  |  Next >  |  Last >>
Return to Forum List
 
Our Guidebooks
spacerCheck 'em out!
SuperTopo Guidebooks

guidebook icon
Try a free sample topo!

 
SuperTopo on the Web

Recent Route Beta