Joshua Tree Day 2 – chossclimbers

Joshua Tree Day 2

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Apparition — Shirley on Apparition.

A one day quick in&out to Joshua Tree during Shirley’s work-related trip to Desert Springs next door. Went with Dow’s recommendations and climbed half a day at Indian Cove. Did the Direct South Face of Moosedog Tower (2P, 5.9) – nice views, decent climbing; followed by the very fun Apparition (5.10a) and finally Scare Way (5.10b) – best route of the day! After hitting up some late lunch, we figured we still had time for one more line and so we chose a normally crowded classic Pope’s Crack (5.9) right at sunset. Very good climbing indeed.

Pics

Moosedog Tower — Moosedog Tower (on the left) with the obvious roof that is passed on the Direct South Face route (Jan. 2015).

Direct South Face — Leading the opening pitch of Direct South Face of Moosedog Tower (2P, 5.9)…5.5 climbing to a 5.9 roof pull followed by more 5.5 to the anchor (Jan. 2015).

Direct South Face — Shirley just above the short crux on pitch 1 of Direct South Face (Jan. 2015).

Direct South Face — Pitch 2 of Direct South Face – a nice if short 5.7 crack (Jan. 2015).

Direct South Face — Shirley on the sub summit of Moosedog Tower. We linked the short pitches 2 and 3 to the summit (Jan. 2015).

Direct South Face — Arriving on the summit (Jan. 2015).

Direct South Face — On top of Moosedog Tower with the Indian Cove campground in the background (Jan. 2015).

Direct South Face — Shirley on the summit of Moosedog Tower with the splendor of J-Tree in the background (Jan. 2015).

Direct South Face — Rapping off Moosdog (Jan. 2015).

Apparition — Starting up Apparition (5.10a) – a series of short bouldery moves leading to a very nice hand crack (Jan. 2015).

Apparition — The nice cruiser hands section of Apparition (Jan. 2015).

Apparition — Shirley on the beautiful hand crack of Apparition (Jan. 2015).

Apparition — Dos Equis Wall as seen from top of Apparition (Jan. 2015).

Apparition — Splitter hands!

Apparition — Apparition top-out (Jan. 2015).

Apparition — Shirley rapping off Apparition Rock (Jan. 2015).

Scare Way — Shirley hiking over from Apparition Rock to Dos Equis – goal is the obvious crack called Scare Way (Jan. 2015).

Scare Way — Starting up Scare Way (5.10b) – the first 20 feet are the crux…a right-leaning groove that is doing its best to push you out (Jan. 2015).

Scare Way — Past the crux on Scare Way – we took the left exit visible above and it had some fun and exposed climbing (Jan. 2015).

Scare Way — Shirley topping out on the very fun Scare Way route (Jan. 2015).

Apparition Rock — Apparition Rock as seen from top of Scare Way route on Dos Equis Wall (Jan. 2015).

Scare Way — Rapping off Dos Equis Wall (Jan. 2015).

Scare Way — Dos Equis Wall rap (bolts).

Scare Way — The arduous hike out…

Pope's Crack — Echo Rock and Pope’s Crack with two climbers on it (Jan. 2015).

Pope's Crack — Unknown climbers on the beautiful Pope’s Crack route (5.9).

Pope's Crack — Leading the classic Pope’s Crack (5.9).

Pope's Crack — Shirley on the dike & slab traverse 2/3rds of the way up Pope’s Crack (Jan. 2015).

Pope's Crack — Brilliant sunset from Pope’s Crack (Jan. 2015).

Pope's Crack — Finishing up Pope’s Crack in the final minutes of the day (Jan. 2015).

Pope's Crack — Rapping off and heading home (Jan. 2015).

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