happy boulders, Bodie

We spent the morning climbing at the Happy boulders



Where we started out on a sorta tall problem right near the slowdance cave, then on to Blood Sample, then on to Heavenly Path, then Chicken head and the Hulk (not sent) and Solarium, checked out the beautiful but way hard "Morning dove white", and ended up on some of the easy pocket climbs to the right of Action Figure. By noon we could barely touch the rock, let alone pull on holds because we had lost so much skin and were so tired from hauling ourselves up the volcanic tuff. After a dusty trudge back down the hill to our car, we ate some thanksgiving leftovers and hit the road.

We drove north past lake Crowley and Mono


and took the turnoff to Bodie, a gold ghost town which is now a state park. It was now brutally cold, but Bodie was beautiful. We were both surprised to see that some of the park staff actually live in some of the restored Bodie houses!