Way Lake

[pander]

assuming i can find it, what problems should i be checking out?

GPS coords would be awesome...

[TIM]

37.582404,-118.988414 .........should get you there if my shiz is correct

[pander]

I just checked that out an I'm pretty sure it's off by at least 50 miles

[TIM]

dude park at the end of cold water creek campground road.....like a mile hike due south

[TIM]

you pasting that shit into gmaps.......also been hearing that june lake zone is good, no beta though

[stonefiend]

Rock Creek mang.

[actionhero]

Rock Creek is good. Not a huge area, but quality. I was there last August and temps were great in the morning and afternoon.

Whitney Portal also has a bunch of great boulders, but you have to deal with hordes of tourists. But you can also feed the bears.

[pander]

Got rained out at rock creek day before yesterday. Went back yesterdy and got sPANKED. No warm ups anywhere, but killer stone. I got directions to the June lake boulder.. Heading up there after breakfast.

[pander]

5 bars and data AT way lake. Boulders with problems are hard to find, but I did fInd a pad stache.. Still landings are beyond bad.

[pander]

Oh sjit. Massive weather moving in FAST

[effff]

gawd, the drama. just sack up and climb some shit.

besides, dr. natural climbed all that shit way back in the day...

[Lox]

Can we just embed your twitter feed to this thread?

[pander]

Can we!? I'm into that idea.

Way lake sucks btw.

[peck]

No one cares. Show us your tits.

[stonefiend]

yo. rock creek has some good warmups.. it's just long moves between crimps with bad feet. make sure your feet don't slip and you hold on with some skin.

[malachi]

1 - Rock Creek is almost entirely warm-ups when it comes down to it.

2 - Way Lake has a ton of good shit - just requires cojones and/or very good spotters.

[stonefiend]

There's some hard stuff at rock creek. It's just either midrange eazy, v3-7.. or hard as shit (imo) skin abuse.. but high quality in a nice setting. If you get bored, you can chase bears with a rock in your hand yelling "I'M RICK JAMES BITCH!!"

[pander]

I'm sure if you live in the area you consider yourself lucky to have a rock creek and a way lake, but when travelling alone, rock creek is maybe 5 half decent boulders with difficult problems and scary downclimbs.

Even if with the pads I found stashed at way lake, I only saw 5 problems with chalk. I'm guessing a lot of it was still under snow, cus there were huge snow banks under every big boulder. Had to posthole just to get up there..

Other than soaking in hot springs, Mammoth was a waste of time.

Tahoe has been rad tho. Got a killer cirque at the saddle. Gonna go check out bliss today.

[hweight]

I spent a nice afternoon at Bliss; nothing spectacular, but at that point, I didn't really know spectacular when I saw it, so . . .

[malachi]

I'm sure if you live in the area you consider yourself lucky to have a rock creek and a way lake, but when travelling alone, rock creek is maybe 5 half decent boulders with difficult problems and scary downclimbs.

Warm-up


Note the near walk-off downclimb to the left (down the ramp)



Including up in the Talus, there are probably less than 10 good boulders. Def not a destination. But good stone and a good mix of problems.

Prob my GF's favorite area on the eastside.