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Cragar
climber
MSLA - MT
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Jan 19, 2017 - 10:18am PT
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Hey Ksolem, where is that rock? Specifically, how do you get there from K-ville?
Looks pretty frikkin cool!!!
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Jan 19, 2017 - 11:00am PT
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That's Neanderthal, the one discussed upthread. It's plainly visible over Lake Isabella. It's to the north of the lake facing south.
The approach involves driving north from Kernville, going east up towards Sherman Pass, turning south below the pass on Cherry Hill road, and following dirt roads for about 30 miles back south until you're up on the plateau above and east of Kernville. From there it's a good hike out to the crag, which hopefully you come to from above.
If you email me at kristian underscore solem at verizondotnet and give me a few daze I'll scan the relevant pages of the old Domelands guide and send them along. I'll pen in the corrections I can remember, then yer on your own...
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Cragar
climber
MSLA - MT
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Jan 19, 2017 - 11:08am PT
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Thanks Ksolem, I'll get you an email out shortly..
That sounds like the Bartolas plateau country? When I'd go on fires up there I was always rubbernekkin the rock/domes etc. Back then, I had just started climbing and had really only bouldered the pebbles from Rancheria up past K-ville, including the wonderfull Keyesville area.
So much fun to be had out there from a climbers perspective...eastern Kern county could be called Granitistan!
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Jan 19, 2017 - 11:08am PT
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Can't believe none of you crusty old bushwhackers picked up on the wording in the OP....
set new 3-4 pitch routes
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ec
climber
ca
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Jan 19, 2017 - 11:12am PT
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Owl Rock is only (by today's rope std), one pitch high...
I can't believe that you didn't notice that I'd been there, done that...
 ec
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Jan 19, 2017 - 01:58pm PT
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Cragar, were you up there for the Manter Meadow fire? Man I can tell you a story about that. (No, I didn't start it.)
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Cragar
climber
MSLA - MT
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Jan 19, 2017 - 02:10pm PT
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Hey KS-
No I wasn't there for that one, at least i think...the last one on the Bartolas that I was on was in 89 or 90? Can't remember the name but I do remember the ride in a CH57 with the back door dropped. We landed on a micro mesa at a confluence of two dry river/creeks. After the ship split and the prop wash did its thing we found a lot of obdsidian in the form of points and tools. it was kinda surreal as you could make out some type of village in the area.
Anyway, what happened on this little flame event that you didn't start ;^) ?
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ec
climber
ca
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Jan 19, 2017 - 03:16pm PT
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That would be awesome to find a Tübatulabal settlement out there!
Out by Walker Pass is a huge boulder with petrographs that mark the solstice...
ec
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Cragar
climber
MSLA - MT
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Jan 19, 2017 - 03:38pm PT
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Hey EC, you jogged my memory and now I remember my sup mentioning that. Cool country up there
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Jan 19, 2017 - 05:55pm PT
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Any good bouldering around there?
Hi, Jeremy... to answer your question... Yes.
Up by the Church Domes.... one walks by a ton of knobby rocks... on the way to really good climbing.
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Send
Trad climber
Central Sierra
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link^^ man this is sad.
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mooch
Trad climber
Tribal Base Camp (Kernville Annex)
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Hey EC......aren't a ton of those lower Kern routes yours, along with Herb's??
Bolts next to crack at The Mouth area. Looks like Dishpan Hands and Ladyfinger got unwelcome additions......
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Time to do some choppin'. Bolting weenies. Gah!
BAd
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ec
climber
ca
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sh*tty pics do not give much of what we're suppose to be looking at, except for a bunch of shiny bolts!
ec
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chrisnickjoy
Trad climber
Bakersfield, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 25, 2017 - 08:23pm PT
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A few of my friends and I (including Mickey Dunagan) did the long trek to Owl Rock today to check the crag out. We were highly disappointed, minus Owls Revenge. Way too much lichen and moss. Here are the photos I took. And YES, Owl's Anus says it all. We found a bunch of rodent skulls and bones directly below the route.
E.C. Joe, are you still in the area? We'd LOVE to meet up with you!
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chrisnickjoy
Trad climber
Bakersfield, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 25, 2017 - 08:45pm PT
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FYI, a bunch of those bolts at the Mouth got removed by some people. It's my backyard, and I'm glad it happened. I've trad climbed those routes for years until I ventured into Kernvile and beyond, and to see gym rats adding bolts inches from crack is really disappointing.
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mooch
Trad climber
Tribal Base Camp (Kernville Annex)
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Spirit Rock is a deteriorating rock tower! I drive up to it every time I go to Church Dome.
Ummm....not really a tower but more like a dome. And it's not on the way to Church and The Domelands. It's 5 miles up past Cherry Hill Rd, on Sherman Pass Rd. There is an obvious formation on the north side of the road called Ghost Rock. But on the opposite side of the road, down through the drainage of Alder Creek and back up is Spirit Rock. A little licheny but nothing that can't be cleaned up. Rock quality is pretty decent.
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