5.Fun Guide To Joshua Tree (Book 1, Trash Can Rock)
By Jt Kalnay
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About this ebook
I love rock climbing.
I also love Joshua Tree National Park.
Thus, when I am rock climbing in Joshua Tree National Park I am pretty close to Nirvana. I have visited the park a couple of dozen times over the past ten years. Which tells you a lot, because I have to come from Ohio!
This guide provides information that may help you, modest climber, experience some of the same joys, challenges, and peace that are to be found while climbing in the park.
Once upon a time, or maybe “back in the day” as the kids say now, some of the moderate and moderately hard routes were what I did when I came here. Now, after hip replacement and too many good meals, it’s the 5.fun and easy routes that interest me. They present the challenge now that other routes provided back then.
This 5.fun guide is intended for the climber who maybe can’t walk as far as the other climbers, who maybe can’t climb routes as hard as other climbers, who likes someone else to make breakfast, who will probably pick up a small gift for the grandchildren or the children or nieces and nephews before returning home, and who gets excited on the rock no matter what the ratings say. Thus, this guide only discusses the 5.fun routes. All the routes are visible in the photographs, and many other excellent guides will provide you information about the 5.hard routes that are interwoven with thte 5.fun routes.
This 5.fun guide is organized into chapters that each represent an entire days of climbing for someone like me, a 50 year old (at the time of writing) hip replacement recipient who on his good days climbs 5.7 gym routes that are thirty feet long and on his average day climbs 5.4 routes and has more fun doing so than pretty much anyone else.
Jt Kalnay
JT Kalnay is an attorney and an author. He has been an athlete, a soldier, a professor, a programmer, an Ironman, and mountain climber. JT now divides his time between being an attorney, being an author, and helping his wife chase after seven nieces and nephews. JT was born and raised in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. Growing up literally steps from the Bay of Quinte, water, ice, fishing, swimming, boating, and drowning were very early influences and appear frequently in his work. Educated at the Royal Military College, the University of Ottawa, the University of Dayton,and Case Western Reserve University, JT has spent countless hours studying a wide range of subjects including math, English, computer science, and law. Many of his stories are set on college campuses. JT is a rock climbing guide and can often be found atop crags in West Virginia, Kentucky, California, Texas, New Mexico, Mexico, and Italy. Rock climbing appears frequently in his writing. JT has witnessed firsthand many traumatic events including the World Trade Center Bombing, the Long Island Railroad Shooting, a bear attack, a plane crash, and numerous fatalities, in the mountains and elsewhere. Disasters, loss, and confronting personal fear are common themes in his writing.
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5.Fun Guide To Joshua Tree (Book 1, Trash Can Rock) - Jt Kalnay
Chapter 1
Trash Can Rock
This is a super fun little rock that serves as a very gentle introduction to Joshua Tree. You need some trad gear and a 80-100’ static line anchor rope. If you have some big cams, some big hexes, an anchor rope, and anchor building skills, there are at least a dozen 5.fun routes on this rock. If you come here first you will be ready for other rocks in the park for later in your trip. This is also a great rock to meet other modest climbers.
As seen from the south and east, just after turning into east parking lot.
As seen from the west after driving around to the west parking lot.
5.Fun Guide To Joshua Tree
JT Kalnay
Published by jt Kalnay
Copyright 2011, JT Kalnay
This guide includes some fiction which is mostly presented as shameless self-promotion of my novels. While, as in all fiction, the stories in the novels are based on experiences, real or imagined, all names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of my overactive imagination or are used fictitiously. No reference to any
real person is intended or should be inferred.
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WARNING
Climbing Is An Inherently Dangerous Activity Where You May Be Seriously Injured Or Die. You should not depend on any information in this book for your personal safety. Your personal safety depends solely on your own good judgment, your own good choices, the quality and care of your equipment, and your abilities. There are no warranties, express or implied, that this guide is accurate or that the information in it is reliable. Your use of this guide indicates your assumption of the risks inherent in climbing and is an acknowledgement of your sole responsibility for your climbing safety. This is a guide to an area and to some climbs, it is not an instruction book. The user of this book assumes all risks and responsibilities associated with the practice of the sport and absolves the publisher and author of blame for any accident or injury that may occur through use of the book. Those unfamiliar with the techniques and equipment required to ascend any of the routes described herein are advised to seek professional instruction or to hire a professional guide.
Introduction
I love rock climbing.
I also love Joshua Tree National Park.
Thus, when I am rock climbing in Joshua Tree National Park I am pretty close to Nirvana. I have visited the park a couple of dozen times over the past ten years. Which tells you a lot, because I have to come from Ohio!
This guide provides information that may help you, modest climber, experience some of the same joys, challenges, and peace that are to be found while climbing in the park.
Once upon a time, or maybe back in the day
as the kids say now, some of the moderate and moderately hard routes were what I did when I came here. Now, after hip replacement and