Eastern Sky Bridge: Where oh where???

Post by **toad857** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 3:49 am

have gotten lost more than once trying to find this crag...

my beta: look for an old, rusted metal signpost (minus the sign) opposite the crag side of the road. the trail is exactly there.

Post by **512OW** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:05 am

Thats crazy... you can see the crag from the road. I can't imagine getting lost going there...

Post by **endercore** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:37 pm

many new climbers to the red struggle with approaches that are longer that .5 seconds.

Post by **steep4me** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:10 pm

Just give up and go to Muir Valley--where you can follow the signs and the routes are labelled. Leave Skybridge to the experts.

Post by **mike_anderson** » Tue May 19, 2009 5:54 pm

I have put Ray's guidebook through the ringer over the last 8 months, going to many crags without prior knowledge or a tourguide, and I have to say that it is by far the most accurate guide I've ever used. Here comes the but....

The directions for ESB are messed up. He does say go "about a mile" past the Funk Rock parking lot, and it's more like a couple hundred yards. So far that is the only mistake I've found, (besides giving Lip Service 5 stars), and I've been impressed with the very detailed directions to most crags. The red is such an intricate climbing area, that it's not any easy job to write detailed directions to each of 100+ obscrure crags we have here. He did a great job.

Post by **pigsteak** » Tue May 19, 2009 7:11 pm

yeah ray..you suck. get with it.

Post by **steep4me** » Tue May 19, 2009 7:43 pm

I think the other minor flaw is that the routes at DriveBy are listed in reverse order. I keep seeing lost out-of-towners trying to figure it out.

Post by **bcombs** » Tue May 19, 2009 7:47 pm

Yeah, but then you tell them Breakfast Burrito is the last route on the left and then hop on the real burrito to warm up before they figure out what happened.