Rock Creek: Patricia Bowl, Ruby Wall
August 21-22, 2010
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On Saturday, we went to Patricia Bowl and climbed 6-7 climbs,
the most memorable of which are "Orange Pillar" and "Sons of
Liberty". What an amazing place, wish this was in my backyard!
On Sunday we got an early start, targetting Ruby Wall, Center Route.
Unfortunately we got offroute, Pavel took a whipper and we ended up bailing
from about 1/3 of the way up. The rock was pretty horrible too, we knocked
off two huge blocks, and had to garden some of the cracks... Needless
to say, there is a lot more to the whole story. :)
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Waking up to a beautiful day on the east side, after a late night drive. Mt Dana |
Entering Patricia Bowl, probably my favorite crag anywhere |
Weather is undecided :) |
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The amazing Orange Pillar straight ahead (5.10a splitter for 100 meters) |
The lake at the base of the crag |
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Close up of the amazing second pitch of Orange Pillar |
Drool |
Starting up the amazing Orange Pillar |
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On the spectacular 2nd pitch |
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Perfect granite goodness |
Orange Pillar |
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Pavel on a 5.10d that has a really hard thin crack at the end |
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The business is right above |
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Falling off Sons of Liberty, 5-start 5.10d (except for excessive bolts at the start) |
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Pavel running up the route next to it |
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Ominous clouds over Bear Creek Spire |
Descent from Patricia Bowl |
Ruby Wall |
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Bear Creek Spire inthe morning light |
Sweet. |
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Close-up of Ruby Wall. Center route goes just left of the big sunspot/yellow rock |
Ruby Lake |
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Looks like good rock, but it was super flakey/grainy |
Pavel on top of the first pitch (55 meters) |
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Start of the 2nd pitch |
Higher up, looking up the 2nd pitch (60 meters) |
Where we bailed |
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The complex first half of the face |
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Beta shot where not to go (if you zoom in you can barely see the black rap sling) |
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