Results tagged “rockclimbing”

A Riverside man died yesterday when he plunged 100 feet to the ground in Joshua Tree National Park. Reportedly an experienced climber, Curtis Woodrow Stark II, 67, became dehydrated while climbing The Giant Burrito, a rock formation near the Hidden Valley Nature Trail, when he fell. His equipment did not hold and his fall knocked his partner Alfred Kuok, 44, of Claremont, down too. Luckily for Kuok, his equipment held, but he suffered back pain, rib injuries, and other possible internal injuries. Two climbers nearby, who happened to be firemen, assisted Kuok and called park rangers to the scene.

Staring down to the ground from about 20 feet up in the air was nerve-wracking, to say the least. My palms were sweating, and the person holding my ropes (and my very life) on the other end was just as beginner as me.

Yesterday we showed you some jumping over at Rock Pool in Malibu Creek. Today we show you Rindge Dam, which is further down the road from Rock Pool. According to the owner of this video, "the rock pool def sucks compared to Rindge Dam." Okay then....

It's summertime folks, and we hope you are enjoying the many refreshing activities around LA. We recently visited this very same spot at Malibu Canyon's Rock Pool (shown in the video) and are not so confident the water is as deep this year (but we can hope!). Still, it's a great hike that you'll get wet on unless you are some kind of super rock climber....

It was about time we visited Malibu Creek in Calabasas! 25 miles from Downtown LA or a quick drive from Woodland Hills, this is an LA treasure we must visit much more often. We went in blind, without any research, excited to see this talked about park. Given a map, we looked and found a very short hike to start off with. It had a cool name too: Rock Pool. Little did we know,...