Finally got a few pics of Lover’s Leap rock climbing…

Russo climbing at Lover’s Leap.

Russo relaxing at the belay station.

Ritwik and I at the top of the climb.

The view from the top of the climb.

This weekend I joined Ritwik and his cousin Russo for some nice rock climbing at Lover’s Leap. Lover’s Leap is located just a few miles west of the Lake on Highway 50. We got a late start on Saturday but we were able to get in a nice two-pitch climb before nightfall. The Leap is supercool because the hike in and the hike out is literally only 5 minutes long back to the tent!

The next day we joined up with a guy, Stefan, whom we met in the campground for some mountain biking at Crystal Basin. Crystal Basin is a large area of granite slickrock - you can basically bike anywhere you please on the slickrock while doing jumps, drops, and other technical riding. It was really just a fun time. The best part of the day was biking up this huge granite bowl and then cresting a ridge to Loon Lake. We were able to relax a bit and take a dip in the lake. We then explored around the lake’s edge to see if we could find a way to the other side but unfortuntaly the cliff line of some of the rock formations prevented us from biking further.

Also, the Crystal Basin area intersects with the Rubicon Trail - the most famous Jeep and 4×4 trail in the world. We were able to see some massive rock crawling machines do some amazing stuff over the boulders in the area. No comment on the *cough* environment impact of the area.

I’ll post some pictures from the weekend when they are provided to me with my fancy friends and their fancy digital cameras.