In a past post, Hike to Fish, we showed the hiking and fishing parts of the Blodgett. Now it's time to show the climbing side of it.
The access is good and starts at the parking lot. In fact, on the way back down, we saw a wall that you can't see from the parking lot. I looked at a large arch on the wall and thought, hmmm, it is probably called Arch Wall -- nope -- it's called Parking Lot Wall --dah!
I did check the local climbing scene and there are a ton of climbs on this wall.
So, Parking Lot Wall was actually the first in the series but the last that we saw.
We saw these first - I believe that it is called Flatiron Peak - looks like 6-7 pitches
A smaller peak - possibly Shoshone Peak.
A massif well up the canyon
A look up the canyon with most of the peaks stacked up
A few reminded me of Tuolumne domes
All in all, an interesting place to climb. It looks like slog in over scree piles for a one day climb that might go 6-7 pitches. Most of the big climbs require a river crossing -- bring your rack and your rod!
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