Keep on climbing

Despite my lack of posting on this blog this summer I actually have been climbing, although not nearly as often as I'd like to be. This summer I've made forays to the usual climbing spots: Lovers Leap, Donner Summit, Sugarloaf, Phantom Spires, and River Rocks. However, I don't have any photos to post. The latter half of the summer I plan on focusing on long trad routes and alpine routes in the High Sierra, so hopefully I'll be back here with some good photos. the last two weekends I've been spending time with Holly. We did a great little backpacking trip in the Desolation Wilderness near Lake Tahoe and spent the last weekend at Yosemite where we did a hike that led from near Tenaya Lake down into Yosemite Valley. Expect a couple of posts on those trips in the near future. I've also been busy doing fieldwork in the Walker River Basin of Nevada and California, usually going for 3 to 4 days at a time and returning home on the weekend. That doesn't give me much of an opportunity to climb during the week, however, I do get to see some great places when I go in the field.

Photo: Wassuk Range located just east of the terminus of the Walker River, Nevada.