Dory Climbing: Moving On

On the road

We no longer reside in Hueco. We left in the afternoon on the I.C.R. what day of March, after Ian worked on his project Terre de Skin which he “almost” did, I say almost because it consists of five or so moves with the first being the hardest. A scrunched explosive very low percentage stab to a minuscule left hand crimp, on top of all that other hard stuff you must also grab it perfectly, on one try he snagged and held it for what seemed like he was going to send it, but the move is, really hard. After that it was time to save the skin for bishop, so we packed up and left for the next place. That my have sounded pretty exiting an’all (and it was) but, in our last days we had lotsa fun playing pocket tanks, ping-pong, golf, and foosball. Yes, golf, tee off and putt in golf, but its all on dirt no grass. Very fitting for a golf course at Hueco Tanks, not something you’d expect either. Enough Hueco for this season. From there we made our way to Joshua Tree. Holed up, I forgot we have a new travel partner, Matty went to another completion to hopefully win some funding, Mogli one of the first to settle in Hueco this season also wanted to go to bishop, so we said he could help with our gas bill for sure. On our way to J-tree we stayed at a friend’s house in Phoenix to cut the driving up a bit. Thank you Gustavo and wife. When we got to J-tree it was very exiting, in the rangers station we learned two thing one, we didn’t have to pay thanks to Mogli, his extractive recycling efforts during his stay in Yosemite earned him free national park entrance coupons, yes that was awesome. And two, we entered the park at the south entrance, the nice lady at the counter told us all the climbing was in the northern part of the park, she did not tell us that it was 34 miles. So when we made it to the climbable region we were way psyched. Everything played out pretty perfectly after that. The weather was nice the first half day we were there, but the day after, which was the day we would have climbed, it was windy, we hiked around Hidden Valley climbed some boulders, well... if it wasn’t windy we would have climbed more, anyways Joshua tree is a beautiful area which we will defiantly return too. Maybe next time we won’t have to pay the ten dollar camping fee in quarters either, I’d like to see someone eles try fit that envelope in that little slot.

(I.C.R= i cant remember)