2. 2006

Tahquitz and JTree, CA

We climbed Tahquitz rock, and then one boulder problem in JTree before it got too hot.
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Kelsey reaches the fourth pitch belay ledge on <i>Whodunit 5.7</i>.
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Kelsey reaches the fourth pitch belay ledge on Whodunit 5.7.

CaliforniaIdyllwildRock ClimbingKelsey Gray2006

  • We found a friend at the base of Tahquitz Rock in Idyllwild, and spent some time enjoying his company before we hiked up to the climb.
  • Kelsey checks out this baby rattlesnake from a bit of a distance.
  • An ancient shell of a former tree stands out against the evening sky on the side of Tahquitz Rock.
  • A light smog fills the lower valley around Los Angeles, perhaps due to fire activity in the area.
  • Kelsey basks in the glow of the evening sun.
  • We climbed <i>Whodunit 5.9</i> on Tahquitz Rock, a five-pitch route of rather sustained difficulty first climbed in 1957. As the story goes, the first ascent party ran across a single piton pounded in a crack high on the route, and posed the question "Whodunit?" as nobody was aware of a prior ascent, and a climb of this magnitude was really something at the time.
  • Kelsey reaches the fourth pitch belay ledge on <i>Whodunit 5.7</i>.
  • Five and a half hours on the wall leaves Kelsey a little drained on the summit. We packed up, hiked out, and moved on to someplace we were not.
  • One morning spent in Joshua Tree, CA in the middle of the summer was quite enough. We located the boulder problem <i>White Rastafarian V3R</i> and worked it a bit, and as temperatures rose over 100 and kept climbing, we left the place behind and kept moving. We'd come back sometime when it was cooler.
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