Quick Desert Fix

The weekend before John and I flew back to the East Coast for the holidays we took a quick day trip out to Blair Valley for a little desert action. The drive out there was pretty crazy because we drove right through some of the major burn areas from the the October wild fires. As we crested the hill on the 67 into Ramona you could see the burnt valley below. As we drove through the windy roads of Julian we'd see one house perfectly fine next to another lot that was scorched with nothing left. Pretty sobering and crazy at the same time. Once we got to Blair Valley it turned out to be a perfect day...warm temps and great climbing weather...at least till the sun started to go down. I even got brushed off the cobwebs and got on a few problems. John and I are looking forward to making a few more trips out to Anza Borrego this winter to take advantage of the winter desert climbing. Enjoy the scenery....hard to believe this place is just a little over an hour from our house!!!

The windy roads on the way to Julian. Notice how some trees are alive and green and others are brown and dead

Burnt hillside

Not so lucky :(

Suns out!!!! John on a warm-up problem

Checkin' and prepin' the boulder

John liked this one so much he did it three times

It's me on a boulder....this one was actually really fun

John on the same boulder I was just on