Vertical-Life
Bishop (CA)
66 395
ASCENTS
6 %
OS RATE
5 037
ROUTES IN DB
66 395
ASCENTS
6 %
OS RATE
5 037
ROUTES IN DB
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| Frostbite (7B+) | A quick morning in the ice caves with Kelsey before the sun starts melting our faces. Had a new first. That was nice. Also tried Mecha Streisand again but failed. I think I have the beta for next time tho!!! stay tuned! |
29 May 2024
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| A quick morning in the ice caves with Kelsey before the sun starts melting our faces. Had a new first. That was nice. Also tried Mecha Streisand again but failed. I think I have the beta for next time tho!!! stay tuned! | ||||||
| Feeding Frenzy (7A+) |
29 May 2024
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| N.N. (6A) | Whoa. I did not flash. back corner with transition form good holds to high foot an arete was enjoyable. |
28 May 2024
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| Whoa. I did not flash. back corner with transition form good holds to high foot an arete was enjoyable. | ||||||
| N.N. (5A) | Trav on the back side. Left to Right. Some loose rock toward the end. |
28 May 2024
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| Trav on the back side. Left to Right. Some loose rock toward the end. | ||||||
| N.N. (6A) | Awesome holds directly up to join the beautiful lip trav. That cotton wood jizz on my car is certainly not ideal lol. Can't see anything. |
28 May 2024
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| Awesome holds directly up to join the beautiful lip trav. That cotton wood jizz on my car is certainly not ideal lol. Can't see anything. | ||||||
| N.N. (5C) | The most striking line in this area, long easy aesthetic traverse. I am making up grades. But grades are made up so who cares. |
28 May 2024
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| The most striking line in this area, long easy aesthetic traverse. I am making up grades. But grades are made up so who cares. | ||||||
| N.N. (5A) | The uphill thing with undecling / fin feature. I hear frogs! |
28 May 2024
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| The uphill thing with undecling / fin feature. I hear frogs! | ||||||
| N.N. (5B) | Despite hating unnamed, I actually don't think I want to even PRNF climbs here. Thanks Kyle for showing us this, some beautiful sunset climbing while a bit tipsy was just what we needed. Heavy emotions the last few days. Weeding with some craft cocktails was a highlight of today. Oh also Dennys, that was a loot ending. Anyway, did this climb barefoot for some reason and my foot blew on the flash so SG i guess. West Corner up some cool holes. |
28 May 2024
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| Despite hating unnamed, I actually don't think I want to even PRNF climbs here. Thanks Kyle for showing us this, some beautiful sunset climbing while a bit tipsy was just what we needed. Heavy emotions the last few days. Weeding with some craft cocktails was a highlight of today. Oh also Dennys, that was a loot ending. Anyway, did this climb barefoot for some reason and my foot blew on the flash so SG i guess. West Corner up some cool holes. | ||||||
| Disrythmia (8A+) | Really good line! A proud compression line and on its own in the scree, many beta options of which many will lead you to a dead end. |
27 May 2024
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| Really good line! A proud compression line and on its own in the scree, many beta options of which many will lead you to a dead end. | ||||||
| High Plains Drifter (7A+) |
27 May 2024
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| Expanse (7A) | PRNF. Located here 37°17'12.6"N 118°38'57.7"W just uphill from Gimme Shelter. Start on the south facing over hanging face on obvious head high incut crimps. Big move to the lip followed by a lovely mantle. Don't forget to look to your right at heavenly expanse. Bouldering back drops don't get better than this. I cant believe I had more fun day 2, thought I would have been too beat but it turned out to be such an insane day. I already mentioned jacking off with the boys, Jenny and Paul, sorry drew for getting your frame temporarily stuck, opted to not go the live music thinggy which was probably a good thing considering. Thank you Kelsey for hugs. Those were needed. |
26 May 2024
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| PRNF. Located here 37°17'12.6"N 118°38'57.7"W just uphill from Gimme Shelter. Start on the south facing over hanging face on obvious head high incut crimps. Big move to the lip followed by a lovely mantle. Don't forget to look to your right at heavenly expanse. Bouldering back drops don't get better than this. I cant believe I had more fun day 2, thought I would have been too beat but it turned out to be such an insane day. I already mentioned jacking off with the boys, Jenny and Paul, sorry drew for getting your frame temporarily stuck, opted to not go the live music thinggy which was probably a good thing considering. Thank you Kelsey for hugs. Those were needed. | ||||||
| Gimme Shelter (6A) | Since the V11 broke I guess you just have to do the amazing V3 highball as an amazing V3 highball instead. Amazing rock and big holds up to no hands rest into a surprisingly scary move out of the depression. Wowo i think I was up there for several minutes before I was able to settle my heart and lock in a foot sequence I felt comfortable with. So good. VSad that I was not able to pull the right arete entrance into this top out. Kody has one of the best visions I've ever seen. And Woo has one of the most amazing last minute, focused try hards I've ever seen. |
26 May 2024
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| Since the V11 broke I guess you just have to do the amazing V3 highball as an amazing V3 highball instead. Amazing rock and big holds up to no hands rest into a surprisingly scary move out of the depression. Wowo i think I was up there for several minutes before I was able to settle my heart and lock in a foot sequence I felt comfortable with. So good. VSad that I was not able to pull the right arete entrance into this top out. Kody has one of the best visions I've ever seen. And Woo has one of the most amazing last minute, focused try hards I've ever seen. | ||||||
| Jacked Up Face (7A) | PRNF. The southmost face of the "Gimme Shelter" Boulder AKA "The Orange Slab" Boulder on MP. This has definitely been done before, you can tell bc people at heaven are landing building masters... that being said they got NOTHING on our crew. First time bringing a car jack to the boulders to help clear a landing for those pecky heavy and/or wedged boulders. The roof underneath this climb is RAD and will be a great addition to Heaven now that it can can be climbed pleasantly without dabbing. I am sad for Drew that we wasn't able to put her down, but this experience is a wonderful memory. The team efforts to move those boulders was a highlight of the trip. Don't forget to always bring a Grecian God to manhandle rocks of all sizes. I think this is only boulder that all 5 of us did.. well except Rami's face, butt tits still an apt moment to shout out the crew: Kody, SoCal Royalty, Woo, ImATinyMan and myself. A whole bunch of almost misshaps on this trips contributing to amazing first time to heaven: flat tires, almost empty tanks, stuck foresters. We also so Jenny and Paul which was NUTTS. Fun face moves into a big span to better holds. |
26 May 2024
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| PRNF. The southmost face of the "Gimme Shelter" Boulder AKA "The Orange Slab" Boulder on MP. This has definitely been done before, you can tell bc people at heaven are landing building masters... that being said they got NOTHING on our crew. First time bringing a car jack to the boulders to help clear a landing for those pecky heavy and/or wedged boulders. The roof underneath this climb is RAD and will be a great addition to Heaven now that it can can be climbed pleasantly without dabbing. I am sad for Drew that we wasn't able to put her down, but this experience is a wonderful memory. The team efforts to move those boulders was a highlight of the trip. Don't forget to always bring a Grecian God to manhandle rocks of all sizes. I think this is only boulder that all 5 of us did.. well except Rami's face, butt tits still an apt moment to shout out the crew: Kody, SoCal Royalty, Woo, ImATinyMan and myself. A whole bunch of almost misshaps on this trips contributing to amazing first time to heaven: flat tires, almost empty tanks, stuck foresters. We also so Jenny and Paul which was NUTTS. Fun face moves into a big span to better holds. | ||||||
| Trailside Arete (6A) | PRNF. Constant high alpine elevation headache. Energy almost completely sapped, lots of sun and just heaven is a lot physically emotionally and mentally. Anyway this climb is located here, 37°17'09.6"N 118°38'57.7"W, just to the right of the trail, before you get to the eleventh hour. North east corner of that boulder start on incredible under clings and do a fun arete sequence to get better holds up high. Landing is a bit awk, with the back rock and small rock in the landing but its a good climb. Boys don't forget so scope good logs on the way down!! |
25 May 2024
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| PRNF. Constant high alpine elevation headache. Energy almost completely sapped, lots of sun and just heaven is a lot physically emotionally and mentally. Anyway this climb is located here, 37°17'09.6"N 118°38'57.7"W, just to the right of the trail, before you get to the eleventh hour. North east corner of that boulder start on incredible under clings and do a fun arete sequence to get better holds up high. Landing is a bit awk, with the back rock and small rock in the landing but its a good climb. Boys don't forget so scope good logs on the way down!! | ||||||
| The Ten Eleven (7A) | PRNF. AKA "The Smucking Fear" Project. The vision on this one was one move lower, starting on both under clings with an insanely frustrating smear to gain the good right facing edge. But alas, after stomping the ground enough times gave up and started one move in. The difficulty is more consistent from here anyway. Located on the West side of "The Eleventh Hour" boulder, still on the same north face. Start left hand underling, right hand about head height on a right facing edge. Make some rather techy moves, eventually reaching the obvious jug feature. Another fun reach straight up for there gets you to good enough holds to mantle up. The Eleventh Hour is hard, but one of the most inspiring lines ever. Definitely the king line of heaven. Woo sussing the slab for us, mantle actually wasnt that hard, but of course we were on rope. Seems terrifying sans. Will be stoked to come back here in a year or so with more crimp strength and more pads. If you know the meaning behind this name, you are likely a sandbox member. Could possibly be an FA but I doubt it. |
25 May 2024
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| PRNF. AKA "The Smucking Fear" Project. The vision on this one was one move lower, starting on both under clings with an insanely frustrating smear to gain the good right facing edge. But alas, after stomping the ground enough times gave up and started one move in. The difficulty is more consistent from here anyway. Located on the West side of "The Eleventh Hour" boulder, still on the same north face. Start left hand underling, right hand about head height on a right facing edge. Make some rather techy moves, eventually reaching the obvious jug feature. Another fun reach straight up for there gets you to good enough holds to mantle up. The Eleventh Hour is hard, but one of the most inspiring lines ever. Definitely the king line of heaven. Woo sussing the slab for us, mantle actually wasnt that hard, but of course we were on rope. Seems terrifying sans. Will be stoked to come back here in a year or so with more crimp strength and more pads. If you know the meaning behind this name, you are likely a sandbox member. Could possibly be an FA but I doubt it. | ||||||
| Woosdom Face (6C) | PRNF. Pretty sure most everything in heaven has been climbed, that being said I refuse to log everything as N.N. so I will be making temporary names for the climbs I cannot find. For any regulars to my ridiculous log book I use the tag PRNF to indicate this is a "Pending Real Name Found" Log. Woo with the vision on this beauty while the rest of us threw ourselves at that ridiculous span piece. Great sad that I could not send, was stoked on my ninja kick out of full span toe hook. Anyway, this is an east facing vertical face here (37°17'10.7"N 118°39'01.4"W), It is basically midway between the "Cracked Boulder" and "The Mustache Ride" , but this particular boulder or route is not listed on MP. Start on the right side of the face, stepping / squatting off the other rock. Start is obvious horizontal holds with nice feet. Some nice technical face moves left into an enjoyable crux DP to the good incut. |
25 May 2024
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| PRNF. Pretty sure most everything in heaven has been climbed, that being said I refuse to log everything as N.N. so I will be making temporary names for the climbs I cannot find. For any regulars to my ridiculous log book I use the tag PRNF to indicate this is a "Pending Real Name Found" Log. Woo with the vision on this beauty while the rest of us threw ourselves at that ridiculous span piece. Great sad that I could not send, was stoked on my ninja kick out of full span toe hook. Anyway, this is an east facing vertical face here (37°17'10.7"N 118°39'01.4"W), It is basically midway between the "Cracked Boulder" and "The Mustache Ride" , but this particular boulder or route is not listed on MP. Start on the right side of the face, stepping / squatting off the other rock. Start is obvious horizontal holds with nice feet. Some nice technical face moves left into an enjoyable crux DP to the good incut. | ||||||
| Rami's Face (7A+) | Sendoff climbing weekend for our precious little Drewbie. Stoked to finally check out this area. I wish there was better information on this area, but its also fun to just scope and climb whatever looks the most fun, oblivious of grade. This thing is good with incredible rock quality. Relatively easy for tall folks.. kind of a heaven story. Most things seem reachy lol. The way I did it, the crux was an enjoyable tension move when cutting the left foot. |
25 May 2024
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| Sendoff climbing weekend for our precious little Drewbie. Stoked to finally check out this area. I wish there was better information on this area, but its also fun to just scope and climb whatever looks the most fun, oblivious of grade. This thing is good with incredible rock quality. Relatively easy for tall folks.. kind of a heaven story. Most things seem reachy lol. The way I did it, the crux was an enjoyable tension move when cutting the left foot. | ||||||
| Slunk Left (7A+) |
24 May 2024
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| Green Room (7A+) | I really think I would enjoy living in bishop, even in these slightly off season months. Had a 2 hour window after work and before sauna. Made it from Kelsey's front door to "Less Poetry Please" in 25 minutes. Plus I also love adventuring and would be stoked on some alpine bouldering / exploring. Thank you Kelsey for making this sort of trip possible: your new house is beyond amazing. And just having this mental, physical and emotional break from my normal bubble has been so refreshing. This climb is okay, almost good in a few ways, but its in next to so many all star lines that it feels a bit dumpy. I did like that it tops out on that cool shelf. So close on my longtime project "Less Poetry Please" but this pile will have to do for my Days Climbed Metric. |
23 May 2024
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| I really think I would enjoy living in bishop, even in these slightly off season months. Had a 2 hour window after work and before sauna. Made it from Kelsey's front door to "Less Poetry Please" in 25 minutes. Plus I also love adventuring and would be stoked on some alpine bouldering / exploring. Thank you Kelsey for making this sort of trip possible: your new house is beyond amazing. And just having this mental, physical and emotional break from my normal bubble has been so refreshing. This climb is okay, almost good in a few ways, but its in next to so many all star lines that it feels a bit dumpy. I did like that it tops out on that cool shelf. So close on my longtime project "Less Poetry Please" but this pile will have to do for my Days Climbed Metric. | ||||||
| Groundhog Day (6C+) |
22 May 2024
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