Joshua Tree NP

Location Description

120 photos

Monica, putting on her climbing kicks on Thanksgiving...
John, belaying from a rock while Jim puts on some shoes...
Climbing still life: a couple of BD Cam-A-Lots.
View of our surroundings on Thanksgiving afternoon.
One of our team members gives King Otto's Castle (the...
A.J. and Harold getting ready to climb a 5.10c on King...
Harold, atop King Otto's Castle before rappelling down.
Monica and John, walking back to camp to start to...
Shadows are very long at 3:30pm.
Sunset, around 4:30.
Rob standing by our fire at Lucky Group Camp #13.
Playing bocce ball while Monica starts to prepare...
Thanksgiving fire.
Jen cooking paella. All in all the Thanksgiving feast...
Our tent, between 11pm and 12pm on Thanksgiving Night. A...
Single shot from our camp on Thanksgiving night.
View to the north between roughly 1am and 3:30am on...
The crew on Thanksgiving at Joshua Tree National Park.
John spotting Jim on a really hard bouldering problem...
Matthias boldly leading "An Eye for an Eye and a Route...
Traversing the wandering Eye for an Eye and a Route for a Route.
John belaying on a much easier slab climb while Monica...
View near Barker Dam.
John climbing some unnamed slab on crumbling dime edges...
Working those toes and calves.
Going pretty slow I guess.
Alex climbing An Eye For An Eye A Route For A Route...
The easy start of An Eye For An Eye A Route For A Route.
The crux of the route, maybe. Unless you're bad at slab...
Alex pulling the roof on An Eye For An Eye A Route For...
Alex walking on dime edges.
John climbing An Eye For An Eye A Route For A Route on top rope.
Joshua tree sunset on Friday evening.
Friday evening sunset.
Desert tower and stars from the campfire Friday night.
Playing around with lights and a joshua tree and the night sky.
Mountains to the southeast of our tent.
John and Alex at the top of a 5.8 double-crack on Trashcan Rock.
Monica climbing a double crack 5.8 on Trashcan Rock in...
Monica on a double crack 5.8. Very steep for only a 5.8!
Rob hurt his shoulder so he wasn't climbing but...
Joshua Tree near Trashcan Rock.
Agave? Baby Joshua Tree?
Monica, in the fuschia shirt.
Victory!
Joshua Tree
Apparently joshua trees were named by Mormons who...
View from on top of Trashcan Rock.
Sunset on Saturday evening. Sad! We must drive home tomorrow.
John, Alex and Rob goofing around and posing on a rock...
Trying to balance. Alex looks confident.
Alex balancing.
Moon setting to the west.
Fuzzy. Just a sliver of moon.
Monica scrambling on some rocks next to our campsite,...
Monica at Stirrup Tank Wednesday morning.
Jay leading Gargoyle (5.6) at Stirrup Tank on Tuesday....
Lee climbing Gargoyle while Jay belays. Monica also...
Posing for a photo.
Lee on top.
Jay rigging up a rappel.
Jay on rappel.
Jay on rappel.
John, on top to check out the view (you could climb up...
Jay, having just lead a route (can't remember the name!)...
Rob seconding some chimney in lower Garden of Rocks on...
John, Monica and Jay on Thanksgiving night while...
Pietro and Ian hiking in to climb at Atlantis Wall in...
Monica leading a 5.7 at Atlantis Wall.
Monica leading a 5.7 on Atlantis Wall. Jay, Lee and Rob...
Monica working on a nut placement while Lee is belaying.
Monica leading. Jay and Rob at the left. Lee belaying Monica.
Monica climbing. I love the little bush growing out of...
Grabbing a face hold.
Placing more gear.
Looking down.
Checking the time on the Casio.
Climbing on up.
Looking intent.
Monica throwing in a jam.
Jamming it out to the top.
Rob climbing a 5.10 route over on the right side of the...
Lee climbing.
Ian and Pietro at the base of Lloyd's Rock.
Lost Horse Valley. Very pretty. Atlantis Wall is the two...
Lost Horse Valley and the Aguille de Joshua Tree (hard...
Jay leading Friend Eater (5.9) at Lloyd's Rock.
Jay on Friend Eater (5.9).
Pulling one of the last moves before dark.
Joshua Tree sunset.
Jat atop Boortemus Boulder, site of an incredible...
Looks like a neat boulder.
On Saturday, the heat drove us to a near cave-like...
Jay leading Apocalypse Now (5.9) inside the Heart of...
Rob belays Jay on Apocalypse Now.
I like the silhouette effect.
Red-pointed my first 5.11a trad lead: Heart of Darkness....
Hiking back to the road in the Saturday afternoon heat.
Lots of Joshua trees in this part of the park.
Rob, Monica and John hiking back to the car on Saturday...
More Monkey than Funky (5.11c), the John Bachar test...
John leading the easy slab approach to the horizontal hand-crack.
Immediately placing a #1 and #2 camalot in short...
Going horizontal. Placing another #1 closer to the lip.
Struggling to stay upside down.
Planning to put a .75 right by the lip.
D'oh!
It's hard work just sitting up like this. How am I...
Making another go of it.
Thin hands over the lip... it's still overhanging by...
Trying so hard....
The route continues up from here, headed to the climber's left.
Monica contemplating More Monkey than Funky (5.11c)
Sunrise at camp on the last day of our trip.
Rob leading Driving Limitations (5.8) at Indian Cove.
Rob on Driving Limitations.
Monica on Driving Limitations (5.8).
Monica again.
Last route of the day before the sun drove us back to...
Joshua Tree takes its toll on gear: My precious $170 TC...