After Lindsey and Nevin left, Matt and I headed to Bishop again to check out the sport climbing in the Owen’s River Gorge. We set up camp at the ‘pit’, the climbers only campground. For two dollars a night, you get a toilet and your pick of sites in the old abandoned gravel mine. It has a subtle charm to it, and with this great weather, we really can’t complain either way.

The sport climbing has been really great! We’ve already checked out quite a few places in the gorge (that has over 1500 routes) and gotten to climb some really nice lines. Sorry for the lack of pictures of us actually climbing, but without the third party, are hands our tied either climbing or belaying one another! We also have done some bouldering at the Buttermilk range. It felt weird to go back to bouldering after all this sport climbing, but we enjoyed ourselves thoroughly.

The gorge itself requires that we descend nearly 400 feet to the base of the gorge where we begin our climbs. The hike (both up and down), is steep and challenging. It’s a real kicker at the end of the day when you know you have to climb back up to the car before the sun goes down. Anyways, as we spent the first day in the gorge we realized that there was an inordinate number of climbers wearing helmets. Which makes sense since the gorge top is covered with millions of boulders or all shapes and sizes, just waiting for erosion to let them go on the ride of there life. So Matt’s fashion sense had to bite the bullet, and we bought some snazzy helmets for the rest of our time in the gorge. (I think I look like a rockstar in mine personally). Check out the pics, and enjoy! Miss you all…and lots of love to go around.