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Saturday, July 16, 2016

Suce Creek Bloc Party and Carnival Crag

Sam, Cady, Manfred and I were all invited to check out a new bouldering area in Paradise Valley Adam P. found so join-the-party we did! A crew of about 10 hiked up together and thank gosh we did; that place might stump a few adventurers trying to find it. But wow, what a place! The Dolomite Limestone (?) boulders are more than abundant. This massive pile of boulders is going to take lots of people lots of years to get a grasp of. The boulders are almost too big and too hard. Massive, up to 60' tall! If this wasnt a wilderness area, it would become the new sport climbing mecca of 5.13+ routes in MT. We were able to find a few great routes on some of the smaller rocks and had a full day out. If you boulder, find out how to get there. Wowza!
The next day, we were all still wanting to climb but lacked some of the necessary ambition so off to Carnival Crag we went. This sweet little buttress is a 2 minute walk from the parking area in Yankee Jim campground. Its got a couple of really easy routes and a couple intermediate routes. Cady got to do her first rappel (simul at that)! We climbed until our feet started burning. We jumped in the river to cool off. Even Manfred needed a swim on this hot day.
For being a boulder field, the landings are impeccable!
Thats atleast a 30ft crack going up the low angle side of this massive bloc.




The Shiba boulder.
I dont know if this one got a name but there is a super fun, V1 overhanging problem next to a V hard.

The Ocean Boulder has one route going up the climber's left arete.




You can see Livingston from the top outs. 



Me leading Carnival Crag.

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