On our last climbing day, we drove to Joshua Tree to check out the bouldering for 1 day. The landscape is also very surreal and beautiful. Joshua Tree is very well known with trad and bouldering. It is also know that the grades are very stiff. In fact, it was a struggle to get up […]
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After climbing Epinephrine which also involved us hitching a ride with the police and Search and Rescue (the cause didn’t really have anything to do with us per say but I am not going to blog about it); we went home around midnight and crashed. Of course, the next day happened to be M birthday […]
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Note: Route Beta at the Bottom After Bishop we drove to Las Vegas to check out Red Rocks Canyon. I really enjoy visiting Red Rocks because of it’s close proximity to Las Vegas (civilization) yet it is still so majestic and grand and so full of solitude. Red Rocks has a special place in my […]
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Climbing road trips are starting to becoming a yearly tradition. This year, 9 of us got together to go to USA for a one week mad adventure around Bishop, Red Rocks and Joshua Tree. I am not sure if Bishop has jinxed me, but one week before the trip I managed to have my first […]
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I found flights to USA for $375USD round trip from HK (a steal!). So after almost a year since I went to my Bishop/Red Rock trip, I met up with my sister W to do another climbing roadtrip to Smith Rocks, Oregon. Smith Rocks is located near Bend, Oregon about 2.5 hour drive from Portland. […]
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Drove to Shiretoko Park. Took a walk around the Five Lakes which was ranked very high on many tourist websites, but really you can only just one because you have to pay and take a tour to access the rest for fear that tourists will get eaten by bears or something. Not worth it, my […]
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From Bishop we drove to Las Vegas via a very mountainous and desolated road. We drove with half a tank thinking we could get gas in Nevada and take advantage of the cheaper gas prices. However, we did not count on the very mountainous road and absolute lack of gas stations for the next 4 […]
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