Sunday, December 22, 2013

10_17 to 21_2013 Quinn and Dave in the Desert; Part II Indian Creek

Our next stop on the trip was Indian Creek Canyon - home of the fabulous sandstone splitters. Sight of the Stout Silverbacks!

We decided to go to a wall we had not yet visited and it was creatively called "The Wall". The fun part about The Wall is that almost all of the routes are named after Pink Floyd songs from the album of the same name.

This wall a couple of miles of relatively rough 4-wheel drive roads so we figured it would not be very crowded - and we were right! :)
There are about 30 high-quality routes at this crag so it was easy to find a good route in the sun to start. 
On our first day at The Wall, there was just one other party - here they are a ways away on a very cool crack climb that we ended up doing the next day. 
A late afternoon shot hiking back down to the camper.
Our camp spot near The Wall for two nights. Nobody else was within at least a mile.  Pretty nice!
On the second day we had plenty of choices for quality challenging routes and got plenty of exercise. 
This climb was excellent, but a little over my head lead-wise. So, I had to employ a few devious tactics to get to the anchors but was then able to climb it cleanly. Quinn did a good job and enjoyed it as well.

The next day, we planned to head over to the Bridger Jack Spires to climb a couple of towers.

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