With the weather getting cooler, we decided that it's time to go back to Joshua Tree, besides, it's a shorter day if you have other important things you need to do back at home, like take a nap.
Hiking in to Echo Rock
Being a creature of habit, we head over to Echo Rock and go for a warm-up climb on Double Dip, always a favorite.
Roy belaying at base of Double Dip 5.6
Looking down from 3rd bolt
The view towards the parking lot
Looking Down at a Dip
Roy at the finish of the climb
After climbing Double Dip we moved down the rock to Stichter Quits 5.8, also known as Black Tide (I think a more elegant name) and climbed it.
Roy Belaying on Black Tide
Looking up from first bolt
Looking up from 2nd bolt
Looking down from 2nd bolt
Looking down from 3rd bolt
Looking up from 4th and last bolt
The view down from the 4th bolt
Looking down from the belay
We decided it was time to move on to something else, so we headed over to Cyclops Rock and noticed that no-one was climbing the Eye route. The Eye 5.3 is an easy climb, but special and certainly one of my favorites.
The trail to the rock is well marked
Cyclops Rock
Looking up the Eye route
Roy belaying at the base of the Eye
The first protection, sometimes I get carried away...
The route goes up left of center
Bomber protection
A great view
Looking down the route
That's how I see it
Roy about to climb
The view from the top
We then called it a day so we could get back to our busy productive lives. The only drawbacks to the day were that we didn't have more time (Roy also says energy) and defacing of Cyclops with graffiti.
Videos of our climbs
Nice. I so wanted to go to J Tree today but kids kept me at home. Glad someone had fun up there.
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