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Title: Rock Creek
Post by: salad on September 14, 2007, 10:08:02 AM
Heading up tomorrow for 11 nights.  Drop me a line if you want to climb anything in the Eastern Sierra from 9/15 thru 9/26.  Plan on hitting Abbot, Dade and BCS early in the week.  Split mid week (for speed). and the Palisades traverse on the 23rd or 24th.  Could be talked into anything on Whitney, Russell or Temple Crag as well.
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: mynameismud on September 14, 2007, 03:38:24 PM
Here's ta sweat in your eye
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: F'ueco on September 18, 2007, 04:39:19 PM
Where do you find all this time?  ???

 I can't take any time off from work before November...
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: mungeclimber on May 31, 2010, 08:35:28 PM
This is the lower section...

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4045/4658375181_2ed58b1b3c_b.jpg)

if you have not ridden this, you are dumb.  I am dumb. Should have brought bikes.
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: Uncle Stinky on June 01, 2010, 05:46:31 AM
After seeing this shot I am dumb, looks awesome!  All the stuff up in my neck of the woods will not be ready for at lest three weeks and by then I will be in Colorado.  More shots
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: mynameismud on June 01, 2010, 07:36:13 AM
What trail is it?  Are bikes legal?  How long is the trail?  Out and back, loop, more info please.
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: F4? on June 01, 2010, 07:44:28 AM
Munge, did you call Jim Mc??? He has a place near the bottom of Rock Creek (well sorta close) and might have made the trek over.
For that you really are dumb, but we still love ya!

PS, I hear Bud is coming out with Bud Lite Pomagranite.
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: squiddo on June 01, 2010, 08:48:17 AM
Rideen that trail countless times. Awesome ride...nealy killed myself last Summer when I rode the old hightway back up to the top. 95+ outside and its in the sun over 2500 ft on the climb.

Trail here somewhere:

(http://squiddo.smugmug.com/Nature/Sierra/The-beautiful-Sierra-Nevada/P6170140/258816927_N9jUX-L.jpg)

Better view here of the lower cyn, BTW...tons of Owens like rock down here:

(http://squiddo.smugmug.com/Nature/Sierra/The-beautiful-Sierra-Nevada/P6170139/258816906_s9pvK-L.jpg)

Amazing stuff:

(http://squiddo.smugmug.com/Nature/Sierra/The-beautiful-Sierra-Nevada/P6170134/258816773_iMTvh-L.jpg)

Best views at the bottom:

(http://squiddo.smugmug.com/Nature/Sierra/The-beautiful-Sierra-Nevada/P6170146/258817053_R6CfD-L.jpg)

The steed, she was happy that day:

(http://squiddo.smugmug.com/Nature/Sierra/The-beautiful-Sierra-Nevada/P6170149/258817115_JMs8m-L.jpg)

And of course the best part of all of this is the icy beers at Toms Place when the ride is over. Tear it out and climb back up in 3 hours.
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: mungeclimber on June 01, 2010, 09:05:50 AM
the rock is fairly gritty. from what I can tell it doesn't have the same density as the best that the Gorge has to offer.
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: squiddo on June 01, 2010, 09:10:36 AM
the rock is fairly gritty. from what I can tell it doesn't have the same density as the best that the Gorge has to offer.

Yeah- gotta be pretty drunk to get on that. BTW, found a Sierra Nevada green lable at the base of one of your SNP routes....some bolted 5.9/10a at the quickie mart
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: mungeclimber on June 01, 2010, 09:13:04 AM
I don't have any lines at Quickie Mart, do I?  Boulder problems maybe, but routes?  I wudda drunk it anyways, so can't be mine. :)
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: Brad Young on June 01, 2010, 09:14:19 AM
Actually he found it at the base of Fruit of the Vine, not Quickie Mart. Excuse him for loosing track, he soloed everything at both crags in a 45 minute period.
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: squiddo on June 01, 2010, 09:14:55 AM
maybe I'm getting the two places we went yesterday mixed up. BTW- it was empty.
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: mungeclimber on June 01, 2010, 09:15:07 AM
solo?!?!  yikes!
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: squiddo on June 01, 2010, 09:16:11 AM
solo?!?!  yikes!


lol, not quite and Brad gives me way too much credit.......I did follow him up a sweet old skool offwidth- 5.9. Nice lead Brad.
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: mynameismud on June 01, 2010, 11:29:39 AM
squiddo,

How many miles worth of trails are there at that place?

Is there more than one trail?  Other stuff in the area?
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: squiddo on June 01, 2010, 11:54:20 AM
Not that much which explains why I lap it. The BEST ride I've been talking about involves riding UP Rock Creek 9 miles on pavement to Sand Cyn. From there you can ride 9 miles down trails and enter LRC for the rest out. The total mileage has to be over 6k vertical feet.
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: mynameismud on June 01, 2010, 12:00:51 PM
have you ridden Onion Valley, White Mountain or Horseshoe Meadows (those are road rides)?
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: squiddo on June 01, 2010, 12:03:48 PM
have you ridden Onion Valley, White Mountain or Horseshoe Meadows (those are road rides)?

I'm sorry, you lost me at road...........
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: mungeclimber on June 01, 2010, 12:07:30 PM
there's a lot of mileage, that's why I would shuttle it.

;)
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: mungeclimber on June 01, 2010, 12:08:28 PM
I'm sorry, you lost me at road...........

what is this thing you call "road"?
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: salad on June 01, 2010, 01:50:07 PM
4 wheels are better than two.  had an epic 5 mile run down whitney portal saturday.  ive gotten better since last year, got into some tucks and thru down some fatty slides.  prolly rode it in half the time as last year.
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: mungeclimber on June 01, 2010, 01:53:08 PM
looking forward to any vid


Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: mynameismud on June 01, 2010, 02:07:51 PM
We went out for a quickie road road ride on Saturday, 87 miles and 7,000 footies later we rolled back into the driveway.

The Mighty Mudworm dropped me on Bonnie Doon.  I caught up to her wine tasting and eating Hors devours.  Had to drag her back out and onto the bike.

Dam Rookies.
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: mynameismud on June 01, 2010, 02:11:18 PM
Do you know how Whitney Portal Road compares to Horseshoe Meadow Road?  Horseshoe Meadows turns off of Whitney Portal Road then goes up for a ways.

4 wheels are better than two.  had an epic 5 mile run down whitney portal saturday.  ive gotten better since last year, got into some tucks and thru down some fatty slides.  prolly rode it in half the time as last year.
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: Ubergoober on June 01, 2010, 02:30:53 PM
Still in Colorado. Cole and I went to Rotary Park next to Horsetooth Reservoir yesterday. Did some fun V0s & V1s and worked on a "V7" traverse (what I worked through felt like V4). Cole actually got pretty far on it too. I'll post vid soon.
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: mungeclimber on June 01, 2010, 03:05:50 PM
We went out for a quickie road road ride on Saturday, 87 miles and 7,000 footies later we rolled back into the driveway.

The Mighty Mudworm dropped me on Bonnie Doon.  I caught up to her wine tasting and eating Hors devours.  Had to drag her back out and onto the bike.

Dam Rookies.

heheheh
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: mungeclimber on June 01, 2010, 03:08:53 PM
Still in Colorado. Cole and I went to Rotary Park next to Horsetooth Reservoir yesterday. Did some fun V0s & V1s and worked on a "V7" traverse (what I worked through felt like V4). Cole actually got pretty far on it too. I'll post vid soon.

Tendonitis Traverse?

http://www.drtopo.com/colo/horsetooth.pdf (http://www.drtopo.com/colo/horsetooth.pdf)

Mental Block!!!
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: salad on June 01, 2010, 03:12:35 PM
no vid.

horseshoe meadows is wayyyy gnarlier than portal.  a lot longer and gains an extra 1500+ verticle.
Title: Re: Rock Creek
Post by: F4? on June 01, 2010, 04:47:53 PM
Quote
maybe I'm getting the two places we went yesterday mixed up. BTW- it was empty.

Whew, I was nevous there for a minute. A lost beer is a horrible thing.