Bitterroot Stone

As we rode in the Bitterroots this past weekend, I constantly had my eyes peeled for rock.  As a climber (ok, former climber who is hoping to get back into the climbing swing at some point again), your eyes are always scanning terrain for stone.  There is some bouldering north of where we were camped up in the Lost Horse area but given all the rock we rode through, there has to me a lot more just waiting to be developed.

I think there is probably a fair amount of easily accessible bouldering that could be knocked off.  There possibilities are there...heck, we saw this boulder around the campsite - it has 3 different faces that each had problems on it!

Picture of the front side - note that it is steeper than it looks...

 side portrait of the same face above - good holds, good topouts, ok landing

 side of the boulder....needs some cleaning but possibilities are there

 another steep little face - probably only a 2-4 move problem but good starting holds...

A couple of gratuitous puppy shots - the dogs had a blast exploring new territory and squirrel chasing:
Moby wondering what is taking us so long....

 Otis checking water depth

 part of the trail we rode on Saturday - where there is little rock, there bigger brothers and sisters lurk....Generally, the stone looked like it was pretty good quality with good texture - looking forward to getting back and doing more exploring at some point, and hopefully up to Lost Horse to boulder....