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DeSoto is one of the newest bouldering areas in the SouthEast; not necessarily because it is a newly discovered boulderfield, but because access has just been thrown wide open. Park officials have decided to open the boulders in the park to climbing and have decided to welcome climbers to the area. Lee Means spent several weeks this summer negotiating with park officials, cleaning off boulders, and making a detailed mini-guide to the area. These pictures were taken when I visited Lee during one of his recent trips to DeSoto. Thanks to all Lee's hard work, we now have a fun new area to boulder.
Park Rangers are excited about climbers coming to check out the rock, so I hope to be back when the weather cools down and take more pictures and climb more problems. There are many fun problems in the woods with rating ranging from V0-V8ish and the majority of the problems falling into the V2-V5 range.
New DeSoto Pics:
Here is Jared McAlpin making short work of "No Preservatives V5", after only a few attempts.
Here are Tim and Jared working out one possible sequence for this fun project in the Roadkill Area. (V7/8 ?)
Another one of the few hard problems at DeSoto: this is a V6ish roof problem in the Needle Eye Rock area. Here is Tim (dig the hair?) working out the moves.
Jared dynoing for the elusive last sloper on "Grasshopper Incident V5" on his impressively quick ascent.
First are two pictures of Tim Hinck on "T-Crack V1" right in the main area, below the biggest boulders.
Below is Lee Means on "The Grasshopper Incident V5/6", again right in the main area.
Here are Lee and Tim on "No Preservatives V5". I visited just in time to document Lee's F.A. on this nice problem.
Here is Lee running it out 20 feet up on the slabs in the main area.
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