Tram Cleanup

Robert Miramontes (author of the Bouldering Guide to Joshua Tree) put together a cleanup day this past weekend at the Tram.

40+ folks showed up to “climb&clean.” The Miramontes’ (Rob and wife Christina) passed out trashbags and even gave everyone a raffle ticket. A few local climbing companies donated gear for the raffle. I went up early Saturday AM with wife and baby. This was Ava’s first trip up the mountain, and she did great.

I managed to tick 2 of the 3 climbs I wanted to do: “Like A Virgin”, and “Standing on the Head of the Dragon.” (the 3rd is “Methane”, but it was too hot to work on this problem). Part of the “cleanup kit” included rubber gloves to cleanup…anything that we found that we didn’t want to touch. I decided instead to use the gloves as part of a photo shoot in homage to “Like A Virgin.”

(please forgive the crude innuendo)