Monday, May 1, 2017

Weekend 5.11+ Sport Climbing / Juniper Creek Canyon; Bishop CA 4/30/17 (Day II)

After a phenomenal day at the Upper Gorge we returned to camp for victory kabobs over the fire and electrolytes.  I never quite realized it, but my belay gloves are evidently bull wrestling gloves, they're not climbing specific at all, and coincidently they are just the right item for grabbing your skewer by the balls!  Sunday we went to Juniper Creek Canyon, a colder cleaner environment entirely when compared to the Gorge.  Jeremy got the lead on a proud looking 10+ bolted crack climb near the dihedrals area.  In standard fashion Greg jumped a letter grade onto an 11+ face climb with crimpy sidepulls the entire way up.  I pulled down on the route on a top rope but soon found my forearms and biceps in a state of pain.  Later that day Greg lead a recently developed route called Mustache Ride, taking a whipper into the wall near the top.  No injuries to report.  After cleaning this route we called it a weekend, but not before a well-deserved dinner stop at Walker Burger, definitely beta if you are making the home stretch drive from Bishop to Reno.  Because this particular location seemed beyond me I have not done a review of the area, but if you send solid 5.11 this is world class granite in a beautiful setting, see for yourself below.





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