Scorning Yosemite yet again, Scott and I headed up into the unknown, looking for adventure, and pushing some hard trad leads (or at least, I was) We turned up at burst rock, just inside the emmigrant wilderness, about 30 minutes east of Sonora, on Highway 108, north of Yosemite. In the SNAC (gear shop in Sonora) we bumped into a Darren, a friend of Michelle, (Who mike and I had met at Big Basin back in March) They were also heading out to somewhere new, and we bumped into them again in the carpark at Burst Rock. They ended up climbing on the same little crag as we were, "Baffin Island" This was a crag recommended to us by one of the guys in Western Mountaineering, so we were all there to do some of the good looking climbs from the book. It sucked. I got spanked off a 5.9 hand crack that was no where near as appealing in real life as the picture in the book looked. Darren and his friend (Adam I think?) climbed the bolted climbs beside us that I had also wanted to do, and said they were "ok" but nothing flash. (Their climbs were all 3 stars, and my hand crack was listed as 2 stars. (For my money, our climb would have been lucky to get 1 star, and they felt their climbs would be lucky to get a second star.)
A very dissapointing little crag, and one that got quite cold given that it was in the shade the entire time, and we were well above 6000 feet.
[Fill in TR from herring creek dome and stuff here]
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