Climbing Advisories and Closures 2024 (Protection of Nesting Birds of Prey)

[JC w KC redux]

Let me know if you have questions or see things I missed, and thanks for the support!

Wow - Tuff Dome area open - cool! That may be a first since I became a Pinnhead (excluding I missed 2021, 2022 and most of 2023).

Echoing clink's thanks and adding thanks for being so concise. Much appreciated and please - keep up the good work!

P.S. I looked over the new list and I didn't see any problems or omissions.

[JC w KC redux]

I forgot to mention that you bumped Brad's A List down a position with the update.

[burnsbabe]

I might suggest editing the title of this thread moving forward.

[Gavin]

I updated the year in the thread title, and a small typo Brad found in the text.

[JC w KC redux]

It's amazing the shit we miss - especially when we are so used to seeing/reading certain things.

I have a few more corrections after looking things over again.
Osiris is spelled wrong.
In the Resurrection/Goat Rock section you have Nelson's Needle but I think you meant Numbskull's Needle since Nelson's is next to Salathe's Sliver - over by Generation Gap.

I'm also curious to know what the Balconies roof routes are. I don't see that "area" in the book. Is that the Balconies Bumps?

[Gavin]

Thanks for the added corrections, JC. I incorporated your suggestions.

As for the Balconies roof routes - yes I think that was just a way to describe everything on top of the Balconies formation, including routes at Balconies Bumps. I revised the text to hopefully reflect that.

[JC w KC redux]

Thanks for the added corrections, JC. I incorporated your suggestions.

As for the Balconies roof routes - yes I think that was just a way to describe everything on top of the Balconies formation, including routes at Balconies Bumps. I revised the text to hopefully reflect that.

Happy to help.

I like what you did with the Balconies.

[Brad Young]

I like what you did with the Balconies.

Yeah! Starting with Full Circle      

[FrankW]

I'm not super familiar with the names of routes on Balconies, so I apologize if this is already answered. I'm fairly certain is it closed since it's between Happy Hamlin's and Digger, but to be sure, is Lava Falls open (#720 in the B. Young 2007 book, pg.291)?

Also, for future reference if it is closed, is this route a walk-off, or can it be rapped with a 60m? Any other beta is appreciated. TIA.

[JC w KC redux]

^
Hey Frank.
It's closed. It always closes each year along with the majority of routes at Balconies. The routes that typically stay open are on the far right end of Balconies and to my knowledge don't get much traffic.
Since the addition of Full Circle a few years ago - that route can be used to get down from Lava Falls with a single 60m.
The rappels are described in the route description.
It's on the new routes list (722.5 Full Circle  5.10d **)

http://www.mudncrud.com/forums/index.php?topic=3025.0

[FrankW]

Figured. Thank you!

[Gavin]

Heads up - we have condors nesting on the backside of Machete Ridge again, and closures have been put in effect to protect them while they are nesting. Climbs affected include everything southwest, south, and east past Corona, beginning with Son of Dawn Wall and including Derringer, the first 3 pitches of Old Original, and The Hideout.

There are affixed closure signs along the access trail past Icarus so it is abundantly clear to climbers and hikers that the area is closed.

[Gavin]

Another update - a falcon pair has decided to nest at Goat Rock instead of Resurrection Wall this year, so I updated the closures to reflect that. All routes at Resurrection Wall and in the vicinity are open.

[clink]

 Thanks Gavin, by the way, how are the bees?

[Brad Young]

 Thanks Gavin, by the way, how are the bees?

Lemme get this straight: a guy with six daughters is asking Gavin about the birds and the bees!?

[mynameismud]

nice

[Jim]

Good one Brad!

[JC w KC redux]

The fact that it took him having SIX kids to FINALLY figure out what was causing it answers your question.

[clink]

The fact that it took him having SIX kids to FINALLY figure out what was causing it answers your question.

 The enormity of my self-made predicament hit me when I realized that I could no longer count my kids on one hand.

 JC, Instead of geology, you should have majored in sex education. You would have been very effective. The obvious problem with too many sex education teachers is that they are just not that convincing.

[JC w KC redux]

JC, Instead of geology, you should have majored in sex education. You would have been very effective. The obvious problem with too many sex education teachers is that they are just not that convincing.

My degree is actually in psychology but I identify as a geologist. That is why you and I became such fast friends. I could instinctively tell as soon as I met you that the gray matter between your ears is a pile of rocks.