Category Archives: Bitterroot

Brandon Rennie gave us a tour of Sweathouse Creek, south of Missoula, last Sunday.  It’s a nice cluster of granite boulders about a mile hike from the trailhead.  Good movement and good enough stone make it worth at least one trip.  Don’t miss “Chinese New Year” (V4), “Maverick” (V9) and everything on the Bear Grass Boulder.  Corey Piersol put together a nice guide and website for the area HERE.  Here’s a few photos from the day:

The crew showing the sequence for “Chinese New Year”

Jeff

Sarah

Brandon (Photo by SHo)

EC (photo by SHo)

EC (photo by SHo)

Jeff crushing "Maverick"

Jeff finishing up "Maverick" (photo by SHo)

Thanks again for the tour Brandon, it was lot’s of fun!

-EC

Went to the Bitterroot for the long 4th of July weekend and spent Saturday up at Lolo.  Jeff, Sarah and I got a tour from Levi and Brandon and we were also joined by Missoulians Jesse, Hannah and Ben.  Good time on crazy rock.  Photos:

Jeff working out the "Way of the Samurai"

Brandon starting out "Hooray for Boobies SDS"

The best move in Montana?

Levi showing how it's done on "Flying Lotus"

Sending "the Alchemist" quickly wasn't good enough for Jeff so he worked on the obvious low start to it. Next go for sure...

Stay tuned for day 2 presenting Sweathouse Creek…

-EC

Headed out to the Lost Horse Climbing Festival over the weekend with a bunch of other Bozemaniacs.  Good times were had by all.  Brandon, Jarred and I even got a tour of the some of the goods up at Lolo thanks to local Sam Johnson.  Instead of too many specifics I’ll just say that everybody sent a lot of stuff (except for me at Lolo…).  Plus, y’all just want pictures anyway, right?  Here you go.

Holmer, Pat and Brandon showing the sequence on one of my favorite problems of all time, Montana Meathook V5 at Lost Horse.  All 3 flashed it with ease.

Holmer trying hard on the South Face of the John Wayne Boulder V7 at Lost Horse:

Holmer finishing up the Duke V4 at Lost Horse, another of my favorites:

Jarred sending Hooray for Boobies SDS V7 at Lolo (photo by Sam):

Jarred & Kelsey’s dog, Tisha, the cutest puppy ever (photo by Sam):

Brandon sending a V6-ish problem at Lolo that we were calling Dusl Driver in honor of Frank “I don’t get pumped any more, I just lose contact strength” Dusl.

Lastly, here’s a little vid that I shot Friday night of myself on MT Meathook.  I did it this spring pretty quickly so I was a little worried when I couldn’t even pull onto the wall at first.  Once I warmed up it went a little easier:

-EC