New route on Yak, taking sustained slabs in between Reality Check and Hole in My Heaven, courtesy of four years effort from Lyle Knight, Gary Wolkoff and Rob Birtles. 17 pitches (some short), 11b if done all free, some cruxes can be A0'ed to reduce the grade to 10c, although Lyle cautions that witho...
The climbers and trials bikers who live in the subdivision where the trees were cut down and the ground was paved, complaining about a tree or two being cut down in the woods?
Trails developed too. Have you tried this yet? Could one hike from the Chief, and then get on those Habrich trails? Sky Pilot, 4 hrs round trip from gondola: http://www.clubtread.com/sforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=61583 Habrich ridge trail to Habrich and return to gondola, 4 hrs http://www.clubtread.com...
From the quarry you reach from the end of Goat Ridge Drive in BB you can traverse into the VoS without major elevation gain or loss along the trials bike trails. Takes about half an hour.
We checked it out in the early 90s. I thought it was 5.9. Kevin McLane told me that it had already been climbed but that he didn't know who had done the FA. I expect that it was originally done in the 1970s, at the same time that several of the routes along the trail down to Starvation Lake were cli...