Heading to Tuolumne in a couple weeks and looking for recomendations on climbs up there? I climbed royal arches and after six earlier this summer, would like similiar grade in the Tuolumne?

-- chris randall (dutch123@earthlink.net), August 22, 2000

Answers

West Crack on Daff Dome is 5.9, but the only 5.9 is the first couple of moves right off the deck, with a bolt in the middle of them... Golfer's Routs is a nice 2-pitch 5.7.... And you can always hike in and do Cathedral Peak, which is about 7 pitches of 5.6/5.7, similar to RA but shorter. About 2 hours for the walk in, 4 hours or so for the route...

-- Jim Leininger (leining@us.ibm.com), August 24, 2000.