|
|
|
|
Needles lookout trailhead |
|
|
|
|
| Fire lookout in the distance | Erick on the approach | Lookout on Magician Needle |
|
|
|
|
| Voodoo Dome | ||
|
|
|
|
| Erick on the approach to Voodoo Dome | Start of 'White Punks on Dope' (5.8) | |
|
|
|
|
| Looking down the first pitch | Offwidth roof on the second pitch | |
|
|
|
|
| Erick coming up the first pitch | Erick leading the second pitch | |
|
|
|
|
| Erick over the roof | Erick belaying me on pitch 3 | |
|
|
|
|
| The weird gully on Pitch 3 | Looking down the gully | View from third belay |
|
|
|
|
| Looking down the sustained lieback on Pitch 4 | Looking up the lieback | |
|
|
|
|
| Easy variation of the last pitch | Looking down pitch 5 | |
|
|
|
|
| Runout slab I climbed up instead of the actual route | Erick leading the nice finger crack on Pitch 6 | |
|
|
|
|
| View from the fifth belay | ||
|
|
|
|
| Erick near the summit | Sorcerer Needle | |
|
|
|
|
| View from fire lookout | ||
|
|
|
|
| Witch Needle, 'Airy Interlude' (5.10a) and 'Igor Unchained' (5.9) | ||
|
|
|
|
| Company at the base | Erick leading pitch 1 of 'Igor Unchained' (5.9) | |
|
|
|
|
| Party on 'Fancy Free' | Erick coming up Pitch 2 | Erick leading Pitch 3 |
|
|
|
|
| Summit view | Erick rapping | |
|
|
|
|
| Party on 'Thin Ice' (5.10b) | Erick downclimbing | Needles from Dome Rock |
|
|
|
|
| Tree Route (5.6), Dome Rock | Looking down the first pitch | Erick coming up pitch 1 |
|
|
|
|
| Erick leading Pitch 2 | Pitch 3 | Erick coming up Pitch 3 |
|
|
|
|
| Needles | Voodoo Dome | |
|
return to needles
return to california return to index |