Had a fantastic exploratory day in the upper menagerie with some of the CMRU folks... I'm a little embarrassed to say I have never visited a lot of the features in this (relatively local) area, and even more so after seeing how spectacular it is. We spent most of the day exploring the pinnacles around "the bridge" group, trying to sort out which routes were which and how they could possibly have put up so many routes with so little protection. Clearly the folks who developed this area were not afraid to "run it out". We did get a couple really nice pitches in... Just enough to make us want to go back for more. After the day ended, we helped some folks get their boat unstuck from a gravel bar on the willamette... It was pretty disorganized, and our solution wasn't very elegant, but at least in the end their boat was unstuck and I think our being there helped a lot... I'm fairly confident that the boat would still be out there if we hadn't shown up... :P
Panorama point and the Rabbit Ears
First looky look at the bridge
The bridge up close. You can walk across the top of it, but the whole formation seems pretty precarious...
Bridge shadow.
The view from the top
This week's "incredible tree".
View from the alcove below the bridge.
Bridge from below. Doesn't appear that there is much holding this up...
Cusk and Hoy after the first (mossy) pitch
Monkey face v2.0?
Bridge from the top of p2.
Same, 'cept with Aaron.
Jerry all grins on the jetboat.
Already getting dark and we aren't there yet.
"Stuck" stuck...
Before we got started, the Marine Patrol folks had the sense to take some of the family back to the boat launch. Really good call cause it was after dark before we even got started on freeing the boat...
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