Ross Rocks 

Its a fun place if you are in the area. I saw the chalk marks/dots of "the douche" all over the base of some crack near the parking area. The crack looked pretty good actually for being 25' tall.

The routes more recently put up by Brian Phillips are quite excellent! This crag surprised me greatly! Very fun area!

I love MP but the info and topos at www.climbri.com are still much better than the sketchy/incomplete info on this site.
[www.climbri.com/ross.htm]

BTW...that is Ross Pond on the cover of the April 2013 Rock and Ice.

That Rock & Ice issue is what turned my attention to Ross Pond.... only about 35 min away from me. I agree that the climbri.com site was quite useful, however it only seems to tap the potential of this interesting crag.

went to Ross today, and La Mesa has been chopped. yes, the one from the cover of Rock and Ice.

wonder who did that...

I wonder if that photo on the front page of rock and ice had anything to do with that..... just a thought

Ming mentioned a blowtorch might have been used to "chop" the bolts. Were they glue-ins?

bummer. it was a pretty good route.

Were the other sport routes damaged as well? What a Damn shame.... Sounds more like trying to make a statement than enforcing Trad ethics. Hopefully people see this before trying to lead it and nobody gets injured.

my understanding is that there are/were only 3 sport routes there. we didn't check out the other 2 routes though as we were mostly there to climb the parking lot wall stuff. we couldn't pass up a chance to hike down and see something from a magazine cover though.

There was another chopped on the Party wall.

What about the bolted climb on north end and the fixed gear on disneyworld? I would wager that he got them all..... Apparently somebody didn't like the way he was portrayed in the Rock and Ice article.....

There is still one bolt clipping opportunity here if you know where to look