Joshua Tree 2002


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		Just as another wave of cold weather blew into town, Lee and I hopped a plane to southern California. The desert was everything -- both good and bad -- that we expected, and a whole lot more. The rock was unforgiving and the views were breathtaking. We felt like we learned so much, that the day we got back we ran out to Rocktown to test our new skills on sandstone. Here are a few pictures from Joshua Tree, California, bouldering:



								The boulders in the Asteroid Belt area were some of the best we climbed on. Tons of problems lined up on several boulders. This slopey problem was typical of the lines we encountered here. This is Tim Hinck on one of the thousands of undocumented crack lines that split the rocks of J-Tree. I ventured out one early morning and found this gem near the campground. Stem Gem is one of the super classic boulder problems at Joshua Tree. It is terribly slopey and (as is typical) very sandbagged. Here is one of our Canadian friends on this classic line. Goonish, eh? Pinhead Crack was possibly the highlight of the J-Tree trip for me. This problem was so amazing that I wanted to climb it again and again. Perfect finger/hand crack. West Corner was one of the first problems we got on. We didn't know it at the time, but it really summed up the bouldering at J-Tree. Foot smearing, sloping on sharp crystals, and slabby. Here is my J-Tree partner , Lee Means, on this fun and difficult problem. This is the way we ended every day at Joshua Tree.