EISPIRATEN

We still can't figure out what to name this feature. It looks cool. We thought of "Bad Influence" while climbing it, since we were unroped and OMFG WTF that's t3h bad.

This ridge is directly west of Kimchi Ridge, the west ridge of Sheep Canyon.

No parking spaces open at 7:2- in the morning. TONS of people. Met up with Ze in the parking lot, as well as Edenooch. Platypi (Kenny) joined us at the trailhead. When I broke off the group to give this a go, Kenny tagged along to do the fun stuff instead of that damn trail to Etiwanda.

The goal was to climb up Kimchi Ridge to scope out the new ridge, probably rapp down to the base of it, and give it a look see. We made it up, and were able to walk off Kimchi Ridge down into the gully separating the two ridges. We ended up climbing the cool ridge. We did not rope up.

Route is a lot of fun 5.2-ish class 4. Hardest move (for me at least) was 5.8-ish, just a move.

Had a great time. I haven't been out in ages, and haven't climbed here in a year or so. Got bloody, dirty, beat up, and it was a blast.

Enjoy them there pics with the captions!


Going up into Sheep Canyon


Starting up "Magical Kimchi" on Kimchi Ridge


Moving up


Kenny moving along a ledge


More view of stuff


The goal is in sight!

Whole buncha pics of the ridge:










Tree


Moving down the gully


Looking up


We got to a thumb of rock, where we started the climb.


Gear


Kenny climbing up low on the route


Looking up the next 'pitch'


Out of the funny crack. Did a knee-jam-bar and earned some blood.


Looking tired with no sleep and whatnot.



Kenny attacking the next step


Kenny atop a block of sorts


Chillin


Kenny


Looking at the real big crag atop Fir Draw


Rock Smiley at the end of the route!



Our ridge from down on Icehouse Trail

Still tired, just woke up. Hopefully I didn't repeat any pics. Blarg

Nice job!

looked likes fun!

That was an awesome climb!! Thanks to Taco for having me along... we've gotta have many more adventures like that in the future!

More pictures coming soon once I figure out a good place to post them...

Photobucket usually ain't half bad.

I figured we could call the route "Bad Influence", and I named the ridge "Soba Ridge". Kimchi Ridge is the one we ascended to get a view of the goal route. Kimchi = popular food in Korea. Soba = noodles, popular in Japan.

Open to change if you've got a name you wanna put in!

Here's the route page thus far: http://www.summitpost.org/route/533698/ ... -5-7-.html

Long overdue photos of Bad Influence Ridge.































http://www.flickr.com/photos/21276068@N ... 848227442/

Really nice pictures. What were they taken with?

Olympus 770sw -- only the best, most indestructible, platypii-proof camera evar! 8)

Just not a Taco report without blood, is it?

Yeah, how come your Olympus 770 supahmegatoughcamera is all purdy-like while my Olympus 1030 supahmegatoughcamera isn't?

I reckon I left it on 3MP instead of 10mp.

NEED MORE BLOOOOOODDDDDD

nope, i think the relative purdy-ness actually comes mostly from picasa's "i'm feeling lucky" button. I've never found a better program for very quick photo editing!

WTF? Never heard.

Also, found out I had my cam on 3mp instead of 10 megapixels, so uh... suddenly, I found 7mp!