Climbing at Castle Rock Water Falls 31 May 2010

Nice weather, so another spur-of-the-moment rock climbing trip to Castle Rock State Park , water falls which is an easy hike off Skyline Blvd in the south bay, and where one can find an abundance of what are called Tafoni formations - basically nooks and caves weathered into sandstone. Given that it was Memorial Day weekend, it was surprisingly uncrowded; when we first got to the waterfalls there was no one else climbing.

The thumbnail above is a sketch of the rock face we ended up climbing showing the designated routes from the book "Rock Climbing Guide to the Castle Rock Area", by Bruce Morris - who also has a book out on bouldering in this area. Unfortunately, the sketches of the routes are a little ambiguous - I think we at least started routes B (Above the Law), and C (Clamydia), though we ended up bailing on both.

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