Photos by horalka

This route can be trad lead or top roped.

It was right after two days of rain so everything on Echo Rock was bombed. We found this pretty cool looking crack with no wait and that was good enough for us. It could be bouldered as well, but it is a highball.

The bottom section is easy with a nice juggy crack to pull up on. The top is slaby and becomes difficult to protect.

December 30, 2006 - last day of our climbing trip to Mt. Lemmon, AZ we went to Mustang (about an hour south east from Tuscon)...Thanks Jim & Jeanne for all the beer & care. Our all mesh desert tent would probably not be able to take any more snow and rain up Mt. Lemmon :) And, of course, thanks for the FA. More info about Mustang - very cool limestone crag http://mountainproject.com/v/arizona/the_mustang/105903690

This boulder problem can make you stretch to the fullest extend, unless you are tall or do some high stepping after the SDS. I'm not tall and did not feel like high stepping that time...

I'm not sure what is the name of this boulder (so please if you can recognize it let me know and I will change it), but according the "Beta for Emmaus Boulders" from this site, it is the most north one, almost perfect circle.

We were here on Friday 11/26/04 and it was kind of cold so my shoes got little to stiff and it felt like I was climbing on ice. Also because the rain on Thursday, the leaves were wet and every time I had to jump on the pad I felt like surfer, taking off down hill. It was definitely a cool day. Lots of sun and just to be outside, sitting on the top, looking in to the trees and drinking hot peppermint tea.

I'm not sure what problem is that (so please if you can recognize it let me know and I will post it), but according the "Beta for Emmaus Boulders" from this site, it looks like the face crack problem.

I just came back from climbing trip to Adrspach in northern Czech Republic. The photo of the rock is called Milenci - Lovers. The area is all sandstone and there are plenty of parallel cracks and chimneys. Climbing is very traditional with long distances between anchors. Routes are equipped by sandstone rings with long distances, there is necessary to use slings. Usage of metal equipment (chocks, friends) and chalk is not allowed. It is very romantic environment. There are much more then 1000 routes. Difficulties: 2 to 11b local sandstone scale (to 10 UIAA). Good relatively firm sandstone. Height to 70 meters. Towers are acceptable from various sides, often in tree shadow.

This is photo is from the same area as Lovers. I just like the "face" of the rock. You can also see the under exposed summit box of another chimney under the tree.

This was taken on one of the first hot and humid spring days in Philly this year. My friend Pastika is trying to kill the sudden urges of climbing after a long winter and almost no climbing opportunity in Philadelphia area. He was the one who led all the climbs during my recent trip to Adrspach.

It was unbelievably warm December Sunday, week before Christmas and it felt like we had the whole Gunk’s cliffs for ourselves. Even High E was totally abandoned, there was a first party gearing up after we have already rapped down and finished the whole climb...

It took Kai couple of tries to finish this, but I think he was just being sympathetic since I needed some down time while I was working on the neighboring Dubeck.

It felt good to finaly reach the top. I did get a little bit of beta on the way up, since I was almost glued to the wall and could not see much bellow me...

This boulder problem can make you stretch to the fullest extend, unless you are tall or do some high stepping after the SDS.

This is also what bouldering is all about, just chilling under the rocks, wrapped up in some very deep conversations :). Good times...

It felt so good to finally stick that one move and top out. Very nice arête problem.

This is a very nice little arête problem, which will make your abs work really hard. It took a lot of tries until I finished this problem; I was coming off the same spot over and over again. Thanks Kai for sticking around for so long :)

After the crux moves of Never Never Land the climbing becomes very mellow and euphoric...there are actually holds on the rest of the route :)

Climbing at the Gunks in summer could be very sweaty experience...after the opening move it is just very mellow climbing from one horizontal to next...

Tim looking up the Coffin crack. We did only P1 which ends to the right of the roof at a bolted anchor...