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yeah jerry bargo is right man. so to the enormous masses of people going to climb boogered this year, use the correct trail.

Who's coming to the trail day next Saturday? Let's get this thing built right!

Jerry Bargo wrote:It's about the journey, Grasshopper.

And if the journey does more damage than the straight up approach, then the "enlightenment" is definitely worth it....

Those crags see no more than a dozen parties in a year.A lot of the routes stay wet. It's not a prime destination.I hope it stays that way. the logging road is the best way.Stay on it until you have to duck under a fallen tree with a group of evergreens just beyond it. Head uphill along the ravine following deer trail to Symphony.

I got lost following directions like those...

We all get lost at some time. I had been in and out of Mariba once and we still had a near epic getting out in the impending darkness. With those directions for Symphony and Rays or Johnnys it shouldnt be hard. The logging road is easy to follow,and just before the grove of evergreens if you look up and right when the leaves are down you can see the saddle between Jazz and Symphony. Aim for that up the ravine. The saddle is avery cool place. Rock in all directions.We watched a flock of turkeys walk through not 50 feet from us.The deer use it too.Theres deer sign everywhere.

Yasi and I couldn't even find the logging road where the trail starts. And I've been there multiple times.

Fuck that....walk up the hill. Its faster, easier, and if you use switchbacks....you can reason your way thru it.

Fuck a trail.

It's directly across the road from the big parking spot.a little left

Jerry Bargo wrote:Please consider taking the leisurely, less steep, longer approach and enjoy a fantastic (and probably easier) hike.

If I wanna hike, I'll go hiking. When I want to climb I want to climb, not hike all over creation. Now, I know many of you are probably slack jawed at the irony of that statement. All I have to say in my own defense is that if I suckered you into a long bushwhack approach once and you went climbing with me a second time, you should have known. I do try to take the shortest route when possible.

My point in offering that alternative was just that, an alternative. It's there. If you just want to hit those two crags and not wander across half of Indian Creek then there is a shorter approach. I don't think there will ever be enough climber traffic at those walls that there will be a problem with erosion.

ynot wrote:It's directly across the road from the big parking spot.a little left

Yeah, that road is all overgrown. Pretty much the same as walking thru the brush. I guess I'll just float next time.