Best Climbs Joshua Tree National Park: The Best Sport And Trad Routes in the Park

ISBN-13: 9781493039395

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Falcon Guides

Publication Date: 04-01-2019

Pages: 192

Product Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

Bob Gaines has been a professional rock climbing guide since 1983 and is the owner of Vertical Adventures Rock Climbing School, voted the top rock climbing school in America by Outside magazine. Bob has worked extensively in the film business as a climbing stunt coordinator. He was Sylvester Stallone’s climbing instructor for Cliffhanger and doubled for William Shatner in Star Trek V as Captain Kirk free-soloing on El Capitan. He is the author of several Falcon rock climbing guides and instruction books, including Best Climbs Tahquitz and Suicide Rocks, Advanced Rock Climbing, Toproping, Rappelling, and the co-author of Rock Climbing: The AMGA Single Pitch Manual, Climbing Anchors, and Climbing Anchors Field Guide.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xii

Introduction xiii

How to Get to Joshua Tree xiv

Camping xv

Supplies and Showers xv

How to Use This Book xvi

Climbing Seasons xvii

Leave No Trace xvii

Park Regulations xviii

Standard Joshua Tree Rack xix

Climbing Safely at Joshua Tree xx

Emergencies xxi

Climb Finder xxi

Map Legend xxv

1 Quail Springs 1

Trashcan Rock 1

Hound Rocks 5

White Cliffs of Dover 7

2 Mongolia 9

Eastern Siberia Cliff 11

3 Lost Horse Road 17

Freeway Wall 17

Rock Garden Valley 20

Lost Horse Wall 21

4 Hemingway Buttress Area 23

Ken Black Memorial Dome 23

Hemingway Buttress-Main Wall 26

IRS Wall 27

Dairy Queen Wall-Right Side 29

Dairy Queen Wall-Left Side 30

Dihedral Rock 31

5 Hidden Valley Campground 35

Intersection Rock 36

Old Woman 41

The Blob 44

Rock Hudson 47

Watanabe Wall 48

Hot Tub Formation 50

Sidewinder Cliff 51

Grain Surgery Cliff 52

Chimney Rock 53

Cyclops 54

Peewee Rock 56

6 Real Hidden Valley 57

Tumbling Rainbow Formation 58

The Sentinel 60

Locomotion Rock 64

Sports Challenge Rock 65

Hidden Tower 67

Houser Buttress 69

7 Echo Rock Area 71

Echo Cove Rock-Southwest Face 71

Echo Cove-West End 73

Rusty Wall 76

Echo Cove-East End 78

Echo Rock-Main Slab 82

Echo Rock-EBGBs Block 85

Touch and Go Formation 86

Echo Rock-South Face 87

Snickers 90

Little Hunk-South Face 92

Anasazi Wall 94

Little Hunk-Northeast Face 95

8 Wonderland of Rocks 97

Astro Domes 98

Lenticular Dome 107

9 Cap Rock 109

10 Ryan Campground 113

Headstone Rock 115

11 Hall of Horrors 117

South Rock 118

Middle Formation 120

North Rock 122

12 Saddle Rock 125

13 Jumbo Rocks 133

Conan's Corridor 134

14 Split Rocks 135

Rubicon Formation 136

Isles in the Sky 137

Future Games Wall 139

15 Indian Cove 141

Pixie Rock 142

Campfire Crag 144

King Otto's Castle 146

Moosedog Tower 148

Feudal Wall 150

Short Wall 154

Index 157

About the Author 163