Raspberry Boulder Climbing

This boulder is a diamond in the rough, located across Hyalite Creek towards the bottom of the drive up to the reservoir. I want to preface this by stating that we were unable to find any indication, evidence, or information supporting that this boulder was ever developed previously. If you have knowledge otherwise please email us at sierrada08@gmail.com or camsurprenant@gmail.com and we will happily update names and FAs appropriately.

This boulder was first spotted by Cam on one of our many drives up to Hyalite. He spotted the top of the boulder lurking across the creek and for the next 10 months it taunted us waiting to be climbed. Summer 2020 we finally found a good path across the creek (we hate cold water) and our suspicions were correct, it is one beefy rock. This granite boulder lurks underneath a craggy vein (which holds potential for more problems) and is completely shielded by forest on every side. This creates really great conditions even on windy days. The rock itself is still fairly dirty with lichen and dirt even though we did our best to clean it up. It took a lot of cleaning which is why we were led to believe no one had climbed there, at least not in a really long time.

As of this posting we haven't not climbed in the winter, but our suspicion is that crossing the creek and potential snow build up may make it a challenging approach, but the boulder itself should be great as long as it's dry. There is a suspiciously natural (or maybe not so natural?) trail leading up to the rock. We moved some small rocks and fallen branches approaching the boulder to support the trail. There is vegetation, especially immediately crossing the river, so please do your best to stick to the trail so as to not disturb it in efforts to minimize trace.