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Paul minault
Trad climber
Mill Valley CA
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Jul 30, 2015 - 02:28pm PT
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Puppy Dome behind the wilderness office. Popular with the boy scouts.
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used to be hard
Trad climber
Portland, OR
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Jul 30, 2015 - 02:40pm PT
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The Guppie Wall, across the street from Tenaya parking lot has a handful of top-ropes on nice rock that doesn't see many crowds.
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Rosamond
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Jul 30, 2015 - 03:43pm PT
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That whole Eunuch/hermaphrodite flake thing is good, and the pitches above have new bolts now, so you can get several pitches of easy climbing in with great views, and the walk down/Guide belay down under the Death crack so the kids can stare at that is good.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Jul 30, 2015 - 04:27pm PT
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Yep. Puppy Dome. Not in some of the guidebooks. Take the turnoff for the Lodge and park there in the trail head parking lot by the little ranger station where you register to backpack.
Go South toward the creek and scramble up the right side of the little hill there. Some sweet little 5.6 TRs on top with nice views of the nearby landscape.
Great for kids and n00bs.
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doghair
Mountain climber
San Jose, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 30, 2015 - 08:07pm PT
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We top-roped Pothole Dome on Friday evening. Saturday we managed up Northwest Books. Sorry to everyone stuck behind my tearful child on the second pitch… She was pretty frantic at the time but somehow thought it “wasn’t too bad” once she got to the top. On Sunday the girls were stoked to see the sunset atop Tenaya Peak.
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cliffmama
Trad climber
Gunks
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Jul 31, 2015 - 01:23am PT
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I second the Puppy Dome. Easy approach. Easy lead on Puppy Crack (5.6) or set up top ropes. My petite 8 and 10 year old kids climbed it easily in their swim shoes.
I wrote a blog post about climbing with kids you might find helpful:
http://cliffmama.com/blog/climbing-with-kids-family-climbing/
My little kids are 18 and 21 now, and they both still love climbing. The older daughter leads 5.10 sport and the younger one is getting into trad leading now.
Have fun!
Jannette
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DWB
climber
Madison
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Jul 13, 2018 - 09:46pm PT
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Puppy Dome!
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