Indian Creek

Location Description

85 photos

Monica at the base of Tube Steaks Tomorrow (5.10+) on...
April on belay. It was so hot on Friday we did anything...
Monica climbing Tube Steaks Tomorrow.
Monica climbing an unnamed 5.10 next to Tube Steaks Tomorrow.
Looking up at several hundred feet of Wingate sandstone.
View from our perch at the base of Second Meat Wall.
Monica on an unnamed 5.10 next to Tube Steaks Tomorrow.
Lying back.
The route involved jamming hands and fists into a...
Monica, grabbing for a rare jug in Indian Creek.
Reaching high for the next hold.
At the crux move.
Jay and Monica hiking the trail back to the car...
A desert cactus flower in bloom.
With April's feet for scale.
Another desert flower.
Second Meat Wall and April, on the hike back to the car.
The next morning: South Six Shooter Peak, taken from the...
Monica climbing the climb that started it all. The aptly...
"Luxury Liner" is a splitter 3" fissure that drops like...
Clearly visible from the road, it beckons and begs to be...
Closeup of Monica. The challenge of this crack is its...
Monica belaying while John wrestles with the awkward and...
Then the fun begins.
The crack starts as narrow hands but soon widens to very...
Pulling the small roof on Luxury Liner.
Wide hands forever. I could sink my arms up to the elbow...
Esteban climbing Luxury Liner for the second time... it...
Throwing a leg out for balance.
A petroglyph and somebody's tag.
One of our cams got stuck and Estaban wrestled with it...
Monica taking photos while I'm taking photos.
Mutual photography.
There seems to be a tradition of finding a loose piece...
Coyne Crack, which looked like a lot of fun but we were...
Monica posing at the base of Coyne Crack... perfect 5.11...
Coyne Crack.
April, ready to lead a 5.9+ unnamed route in Donnelly Canyon.
April, placing gear.
A cute caterpillar crawled onto April's rope.
The drive back to camp.
Group shot. North and South Six Shooter Peaks visible in...
Colors kept getting better and better.
North and South Six Shooter.
Cryptobiotic soil!
More desert flowers. The desert was really in full bloom!
Hiking back to Second Meat Wall on our last day. We had...
Monica at the base of Second Meat Wall.
And here we ran into Jay belaying David on a horrific...
Jay belaying David.
Jay with his spiffy new windbreaker.
North and South Six Shooters from up high.
John, about to bite into Top Sirloin, 5.11.
1" crack in a striking crimson corner for 110 feet, non-stop.
Scenery shot taken by Jay.
Oops.
Another scenery shot.
Slow but steady progress. What a workout!
Self portrait by Jay.
Indian Creek climbing still life.
John, about 3/4 the way up. It got a little easier...
Getting lowered.
Exhausted.
Jay, with much bigger hands than I have was up for a...
Cracks are often referred to by the size cam that can...
Monica comes wandering in from climbing the aptly named...
Jay chewing the fat on Top Sirloin.
Monica and her pile of cams.
John and Monica with the pile of gear we needed to...
Monica, on her first outdoor 5.11.
Monica showing the boys how it's done.
Monica finds an easy-to-miss foot chip to stem on and...
Past the bulge. Still not easy but past the worst of it.
Jay at the base of Top Sirloin. I think this is the...
April shows off her battle wound with Low Cholesterol,...
Monica putting the Top in Top Sirloin.
Finding another unique opportunity to rest.
Done at last... Monica on the way down.
First outdoor 5.11!
Showing off the hands. Monica climbed sans-athletic tape...
David the machine eats up Top Sirloin.
Monicas hands closer up. Not too bad!
Jay belaying David on Top Sirloin.
April climbing Low Cholesterol.
Monica, Jay, April and John back at the parking lot....