Going vertical at Valley of the Moon, CA

My first time to the valley of the moon didn't go so well as far as climbing goes, but that one was just an exploratory trip. This time I headed up with the Yuma Climbing Club, so they knew where we needed to go.

Here is the road in looking back from the main climbing areas.

Mostly we spent our time on Tech 9. This was my first outdoor climbing since Saudi Arabia, almost two years ago. This was a fun route. It was about 3 times as tall as the routes in Saudi. It was tiring but I didn't have to hang at all.

After we all took a few runs at Tech 9, we moved over to a mixed route. There were three bolts on the bottom, then it was a trad climb up a crack. None of us could move past the bolts on the bottom. We need some beta to make that transition from sport to trad.