These are my favorite climbs in Joshua Tree up to 5.9! No distinction is made between sport vs. trad climbs or bolted vs. crack climbs. It’s all fun and games anyway, so I just picked the ones that had me…
Joshua Tree Highlights
Joshua Tree Highlights Winters 2017-20 I’ll be updating this post with descriptions and stories from my favorite climbs in my favorite climbing area! Consider this a more detailed cross-section of my 60 favorite climbs under the “Lists!” category. The real…
Mt Russell — Fishhook Arete
Mt Russell — Fishhook Arete 15 September 2019 Garrett and I climbed Mt Russell’s Fishhook Arete on a cool blustery fall day, one of the best times to find yourself in the High Sierra. There’s probably some latent desire in…
Royal Arches
Royal Arches 29 August 2019 This summer was my second trip to the Valley. (The first trip with Cam and Audrey was QUITE memorable – hopefully I can write about it sometime.) Ting and I climbed Bishops Terrace, Jamcrack, and…
Taboose-apalooza 2019
Taboose-apalooza August 2019 In the past I’ve talked about the clarity that comes with hiking a lot of elevation gain (physical improvement) and simply existing in wilderness (mental improvement), so it only made sense to do both these things, but…
Thunderbolt to Sill Traverse
Thunderbolt Peak to Mt Sill Traverse 14 July 2019 I love long, athletic days in the mountains, covering lots of ground on easier terrain. So essentially peakbagging. Maybe not the most fashionable thing to do these days but I never…
Mt Clarence King
Mt Clarence King 2 September 2018 We got a solid crew together for this trip. The plan was to hang out in Sixty Lake Basin and have a go at Mt Clarence King, Mt Cotter, and Mt Gardiner for a…
Tahquitz — Coffin Nail + Traitor Horn Linkup
Tahquitz — Coffin Nail + Traitor Horn Linkup 20 July 2018 Welcome to the laziest trip report evah. Garrett and I climbed this hella sweet linkup the other day. Funny enough, we had each got wind of it independently and…
Mt Conness — North Ridge
Mt Conness 6 July 2018 This climb really knocked my socks off — I was not remotely prepared for the level of fun we were to have this day. Garrett had come up with the interesting idea to approach the…