The red rocks, sunlit from the car park. Down among them they're not quite so flat.
There are tiger-striped rocks too:
So much spatial confustion. The feature above is probably 100m high, the one below about 1m.
At the dog wall.
Arriving at the gallery.
Warming up on some 5.8/9 thing at the Gallery.
Below is a sequence of Jordan on Fear and Loathing, 5.12a:
In addition to all the sport routes, the area has millions of long trad climbs. We did just one short one, the two-pich 5.8 Great Red Book, which had been looming above us for days.
Jordan following the first pitch (above) and leading the second one (below). The "open book" it's named after is between the two sheets of rock visible below, very big and very red.
You
should take a look at Google's
satelite photo of the area, very nice. (The colours were much nicer a few
weeks ago, have a look a
bit to the NW.)
BTW, we returned the Todd Swain guidebook to REI because it's useless, and got the Brock & McMillen guide instead. It would be worth the $5 extra, but amazingly we made money on the deal, because it was on sale!
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