[Hide Comment] How is access currently? Last I heard, this place was off limits due to a homeowner nearby. Dec 3, 2013

[Hide Comment] Something that Paul Humphrey had posted on Supertopo...

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"A bitter old lady claims to own the rock. According to survey reports, the freeway face is on Cal-Trans right of way. most of the rest is on timber company land. She owns a little piece / the top and is VERY GOOD at harrassing climbers and bugging the cops by calling them all the time.

One day she will die. We have been saying that for so long, she must be immortal or something. She spraypainted no climbing on the base of the rock, sent me and other guide authors threatening lawyer letters, etc. For no legal reason, we checked.

It's nonscence. Her ace in the hole is the cops don't even want to deal with her. I have been climbing there, had the cops stop, explain the situation to them. They roll their eyes and ask us to just leave today because they are sick of hearing from her. If you are a little old lady and a bitch I guess you can get away with chasing everyone away.

Climb there if you want. Be nice if harrassed by the cops, they really don't care. It's her." Oct 5, 2015

[Hide Comment] This rock at least in the very late 70s and early 80s was well known as Elephant Rock. The rock presented itself as the profile of an elephant from 101 northbound. The obvious diagonal (up and right) crack at the bottom of the west face was free climbed at least as far back as summer of ’80. A bunch of routes existed on the South face many with rotting old pins in them. There was also an an aid tr up the overhanging section of rock on the SW corner.

Once a friend and I walked to the top to set up a TR on the West Face. We rested and chatted for a bit and enjoyed the view to the south. There was a newly place large sign for some political candidate. We talked about how ugly the sign was and joked about kicking it off. We didn’t. We moved over to the west face and set up a TR. My friend rapped down and I was setting up my rap when I heard something and looked up. I saw the barrel of a gun. Slowly looked up and there was a man asking me what I was doing. I said we were climbing, and he replied that this part of the rock was his property. I asked if we could climb there, and his reply was something to the effect of, if you accept the risk sure. He was more concerned with vandalism than our climbing activities. For a few years after that we climbed there without incident. Then just before I moved away we were climbing on the west side and a woman pulled off the 101 and told us to get off her property. I told her the story of meeting her husband and him saying it was alright to climb there. I honestly do not remember how she replied except he had never told her that. From my perspective they both seemed old in the early 80s. Hopefully, access is possible now. Sep 16, 2022