Photos by jovino

This is such a hilarious photo to me because of how meta it is. This is Paul sending Tendons Mend.

It took me a few tries to dial in the sequence, but once I got it it flowed nicely.

Just fooling around at Indian rock.

Right across the street from Black Rock Spire was a bench mark set into another boulder. You can retrieve the data sheet by going to: http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_radius.prl and entering the GPS coordinates: N392730 W1231238, and then selecting the designation B1063.

This is the North-East face of the main spire. It reaches about 25' - 30' up and is comprised of sedimentary shale. The quality of the rock is very poor and it flakes off easily making it unsafe to climb. The top of the boulder is a mess of smaller broken rocks, grass and a manzanita tree. It is not possible to set up a safe anchor on this site.

This view shows another boulder in the area. You can also see a poison oak bush directly underneath the overhang as well as along the arete of the angled boulder making climbing on this feature inaccessible.

This was my first go at slacklining. It was a relatively unsafe rig that used those cheap orange ratchet straps. I'll have to invest in some real equipment because I had a lot of fun.