NEW zone in the backwaters

The warmth over the weekend was absurd. We arrived to blue skies and decided to drive out into the backwaters. We had a bit of time before Moj met up with us, so we took some interesting looking spur roads to see where they took us.

After a few stops we once again found a new cluster of boulders to explore as well as a couple of small buttresses, we called hutch and tried to explain where we were...eventually we all met up and climbed and explored and played in the sun...




after the direct, we decided to work the traverse...











We then ran around to some more close by problems, a couple of cracks, one that starts in a nice overhang, and a patina plate problem that had to have some of the biggest plate features I've pulled on in the boulder batholith...I think/hope Mojede took a couple shots of that stuff. (and here they are...)







Almost by instinct, we dropped down the ridge and crossed a small field to an adjacent ridge line that beckoned us. We found, after just a few minutes of walking another nice cluster...though the day was moving much too quickly...so after talking a walk about the ridge Hutch left us to round the day out on a couple new problems...





Hope y'all are getting out as well...

Cheers!

Tom