Brooke and I met up with Walter and Matt at the Owens River Gorge on Saturday. We had been up in Mammoth skiing and figured the Gorge was a good place to meet them for some climbing. The weather turned out great, and there were very few people there, surprisingly. We got a lot of easy to moderate climbing in and had a great time.

We started out at the Warm Up Wall since it was in the sun and climbed Welcome to the Gorge 9***, Clip Jr. 6****, High Seas 7****, Croud Pleaser 9****, and Babushka 8*****. After that we moved over to The Great Wall of China and climbed Fortune Cookie 9**, Enter the Dragon 8**, and China Doll 8****.





Matt leading Croud Pleaser with Walter Belaying.


Matt a little farther up Croud Pleaser.


Walter decided to top rope Croud Pleaser with Brooke belaying.


Me leading High Seas.


I'm almost at the top...


Walter on Welcome to the Gorge.


Walter making his way up China Doll while Matt belays down below.


Another shot of Walter on China Doll.