We have been making our way to Bishop for the last week or so by way of the coastal highway 1 and 101. Sleeping, climbing, and just hanging out on beaches along the way, the way a road trip is suppose to be. First night was in Ventura, we were lost for lack of sleep and in our quest to find a place to sleep we encountered a yellow vested night guard patrolling in his golf kart. He rolled up and asked what was up, he then told us we could sleep there for the night if we left early in the morning. In the morning we made the final push to Mogli does place in Brentwood, but not without stopping at a vineyard to go to a wine tasting. Ya we went to a wine tasting, five bucks each got us (Mogli and I) each more then a couple glasses of nice wine that we could never afford, it was awesome. After that Ian took over the wheel and we dropped the camper cleaned the van a bit and hit the road again for more beach fun. Castle Rock was the first stop, it was all wet, which was a major bummer because the climbing there is very unique the rock is sandstone like no other I’ve seen all green and mossy, it would have been a great day of pebble wrestling but… we didn’t want to break any(more) rock. Moving on, we made our way to Sand Point and Fort Ross, both about 2 hours north of San Fran on Hwy 1. Sand Point was sandstone as well but it had been in the sun for a day and was climbable. We found one problem on this really sloppy arête that was pretty fun. Fort Ross is an old Russian fort (or so I’m told) with boulders right on a black sand beach with one amazing 5 star anywhere boulder, but it was soaking wet from the rain and high winter tide. From there we hit a place called Goat Rock, another interesting area one of the oldest bouldering areas in NoCal with black and white rock with patches as smooth as obsidian in some places. We climbed there for quite a while, meet some locals out top roping, they were very jealous of our life style and psyched that we made a stop at their local pile. After that we decided that it was Bishop time! after multiple quarters and hours in a laundry mat. Many thanks to Mogli’s parents for letting us keep our camper at their place and feeding us while we were there. BISHOP!

Bouldering @ Salt Point





Mogli at Salt point

Ian bouldering at Goat Rock