Joshua Tree: Top 15 Tick List

 I have been wasting disastrous amounts of time pouring over routes on mountain project.  My hands are sweating.  So, I've decided to put together a Top 15 Tick List for this 2011-12 Joshua Tree season.

Here she be:

Fen traversing the dike on Pope's Crack (Original Route)

1)   Damn Jam tick! (5.6) Hidden Valley Campground 

2)   Bird of Fire -- (5.10a) Split Rocks
3)   Solid Gold -- (5.10a) Wonderland of Rocks

4)   Popes Crack Direct -- (5.10b) Echo Rock

5)   Chemical Warfare -- (5.10b) Barker Dam Area

6)   Caught Inside on a Big Set -- (5.10b) Wonderland of Rocks

7)   Figures on a Landscape -- (5.10b R) Wonderland of Rocks

8)   Clean and Jerk -- (5.10c) Real Hidden Valley

9)   O'Kelly's Crack -- (5.10c) Echo Rock

10)   Piggle Pug -- (5.10c) Wonderland of Rocks

11)   EBGB's -- (5.10d) Echo Rock

12)   Imaginary Voyage -- (5.10d) Lost Horse

13)   Swept Away -- (5.11a) Echo Rock

14)   Coarse and Buggy -- (5.11a/b) Roadside Rocks

15)   Hot Rocks -- (5.11b) The Outback

I will update this with the dates as these routes go down... so psyched!