Evening Climbing; Dinosaur Rock Carson City NV 4/7/16

Early April I made another visit to Dinosaur Rock with my good friend Craig Black of Gardnerville NV ( Finance Major and Rope Access Technician ).  We arrived towards sunset with the hope of flashing the classic 5.9 "Color me Gone" only to find there were other climbers on the route.  We went around the corner (west) to the Dead Man's Rappel for a warm up.  Craig is seen below taking an easy rest mid climb, the upper section presents much more interesting climbing.  After this we went several climbs west around the formation to an unknown unmarked climb we graded between 5.6 and 5.9.  To describe the climb, we ventured up a dirty set of ledges which protected well and then traversed left onto an arete.  The arete protected well with a .5 and a 1, and began as a 5.7 jug ladder finishing with a slightly run out section of more blank looking slab which was protected by a bolt.  There were two bolts with chains to rappel from and the climb was about 60FT tall.  We each flashed the climb and later celebrated with some victory sushi, the aftermath of which is seen below.

Personal Review of Area :  Rock/Climb Quality 5/10  -  Size  3/10  -  Accessibility  10/10

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Exploration; Pie Shop South Lake Tahoe CA 4/2/16

Early April I took a break from a long week of High Rise Window Cleaning to hike and explore a popular trad climbing destination for the Tahoe area known as Pie Shop.  Having never been here before I was concerned about navigating the area, this was compounded by the fact there is no printed material available for these climbs, only a sentence here or there on Mountainproject.  We arrived by noon and spent about an hour hiking from the car to the base of the "Main Wall", though we might have saved 20minutes if we were more familiar with the spot.  The granite looked amazing, the slope of the wall was great for smearing, there was snow melt runoff in spots trickling down the slabs, honestly it seemed like one of the better quality areas I've visited in Tahoe in 5years of climbing.  I plan to return and hopefully to lead the 5.7 center crack by the name of "Crepes Corner".

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