Revenue Village: The CrackHouse and Bolted Boulder Jr.

Finally had some time, some bolts and some hangers to work on the Village. I cleaned and bolted a mixed line to the left of the CrackHouse Original route climbed by Lucas and I 7-8 years ago. A bolt protects the steep start to get you started in a protectable crack. Climb the crack until it becomes choked with raspberry bushes. I didnt have the heart to rip out 10+ft of raspberries so I placed some bolts in their honor. The Raspberry Crack as I guess Ill call it terminates in a large roof, bolt protected then sends the upper face on bolts. I moved around and up the hill and found a huge beautiful boulder that needed to become a sport route. So I bolted it with 4-6 bolts. I dont remember. En route, I also found a UFO or Top shaped boulder that looks like a blast.

Rope line is just right of Raspberry Crack.

Tall enough to walk through that gap looker's left.

Bolted Boulder Jr.

Gallatin Canyon: Skyline Buttress with Emily

I dont climb in the canyon very often, but I should. Emily, Manfred and I hiked all the way up to the Skyline Buttress to climb the Skyline route 4-5pitches of easy 5.6, not sustained. Topping out as the sun goes down makes for a beautiful evening. This was my second or third time up it.

Namaste

!@#$%^ Rocks with Kyler

Kyler took Manfred and I out to his secret limestone sport climbing spot, which I have climbed at before, for a weekend of climbing and bolting. We spent Saturday climbing and Sunday bolting. I climbed a bunch of 5.10s which were all super fun and tried a 5.12 power lieback sport route that I didnt get but flirted with. Kyler spent some time on some 5.13 that he has been projecting. The weather was kind of crummy on Sunday so out came the drills. The night before we had found some new crags to bolt. We went to the first and set up shop. I produced a 9(?) bolt 5.10 and Kyler added a 5.12(?) sport route just to the right. I think the wall is called the White Wall. It got really cold so we spent the rest of the day building a trail across a scree slope to the next buttress on the list of to-dos.

A bad pic of one of the 5.10s I climbed.

Kyler is actually using a backcountry ski probe to clip the next bolt in this pic.

The 5.12 I almost got.

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Excellent limestone. A bunch of fun routes on this wall.

The White Wall

Cant really see the new routes but mine more or less center punches it and Kyler's is a few feet to the right.

Riot Rock climb day

Kyler, Manfred and I planned on camping and climbing at Kyler's hush hush area for the weekend and since Riot Rock is on the way and quickly accessed, we hit it up on the way out of town. We smoked and gopher with my front tires, rear tires and even the camper right before the 35mph corner which inspired the name Gopher Pancake for one of the routes. I lead the right route which I named Gopher Pancake 5.8 9 bolts to chains; extremely fun steep climbing ameliorated by consistent jugs for your hands and feet. Kyler went first on Carnivore Salad 5.9 11 bolts and sailed right through it. I lead it after he did. Another spectacular climb for the area.

Gopher Pancake

Carnivore Salad

Bear Canyon climbs with Emily

Emily, Manfred and I found a couple of hours to get in some quick climbing so automatically we went to Bear Canyon. We lead everything and got some great B12 exposure. We climbed on the Under the Sea (?) wall.

Emily sussing out the moves on the left most route. We also climbed a couple of route immediately to the right.

Climbed the rest of my routes out at Natural Bridge

Kyle and I went out to Natural Bridge (again) and I got to climb the rest of the routes I bolted and Kyler finally sent his Whitewater Project. We climbed Drink Me Pretty, Bold Statement, Spread Eagle and Send Temps but not the easy and already climbed Float Your Boat. Im sure the GreyStone Walls will quickly become Natty B classics.