Joshua Tree

Climbing at Jtree isn't exactly a sport climbers dream. Wandering around Indian Cove, there are probably 30 different areas to climb. Unfortunately, very few are bolted, and even of those that are, they don't have anchors at the top. Almost everyone who was there climbing had some sort of traditional gear. Jtree rock is full of cracks, which are perfect for trad gear, and thus the only bolts tend to be where trad gear wouldn't be safe.

There's this one mound that you can get to the top of from the back called "Morbid Mound". Using all the webbing available we built anchors by wrapping them around boulders. One of them was pretty good, the other was a little sketchy.

On another wall called "The Short Wall", we tried to set up a top rope, but I didn't have enough webbing. However, we did discover a rattlesnake hiding in a key anchor crack.


And whilst hiking in the desert, we came across a cactus that had some very impressive red blooms.