Courtright reservoir

Went with some people from work for a day of fishing to this new lake I had never been to and what a wonderful discovery. Courtright is right in the middle of dome land and has some great looking stone. My question is this, I have found out that the only guide is out of print and apparently is several years old; does anyone have any recent beta on this place? Also, any beta on Wishon? looks like some good routes there too...

There's lots of good information about Courtright Reservoir here on this site as well as at Summitpost.com.

Check supertopo.com too. Lots of threads with many photos have been posted here.

That place is stacked, the routes there are great...lemme look around and i might be able to dig up some beta for ya, i know have a guide to there. If you can find him, blain neeley had tons o' beta on courtwright and environs....ever been to mamoth pools resevoir? good "fishin'" there too.

You should hook up with the Southern Sierra Climbers Association. It's a great group of active local climbers including many of the folks that put up the routes and wrote the guidebooks.

southernsierra.org/

They have an email newsgroup which is much more current than the not-often-updated website. It tends to be quiet for a while, then a bunch of emails in a row. If you sign up for the group list and introduce yourself, you're sure to find some cool folks to climb with.

groups.yahoo.com/group/ssca/

Just FYI on a detail - while Courtright is full of domes, the "Domelands" area of the Southern Sierra is actually the area northeast of Kernville (east of the Needles, south of the Sherman Pass road, southwest of Kennedy Meadows).

Hey, thanks for the beta, I since have had someone email me the old guidebook with lots of good material. I would still like anything new that's going on up there. Anything on the fresno dome including directions?

Funny, Fresno Dome is southern Yosemite, but it's the far north end of the "southern Sierra" (most people think of Sequoia/Kings, Courtright, Needles, Domelands, Kernville, etc). Fresno aka Wamello (aka Way-Mellow) Dome is 7500' and snowed in until mid to late May. Fresno, Shuteye, the Balls, Mammoth Pool - endless fun stuff!