New Route: Resist! V 5.7 A2+ Ribbon Falls Amphitheater
Resist! V 5.7 A2+ October 2019, Bosque, DeWeese, Poston Ribbon Falls Amphitheater, Yosemite NP Topo Photo Overlay of West Side off Ribbon Falls Amphitheater In June of 2019, Steve Bosque, Tyler Poston, and I hiked up to Ribbon Falls Amphitheater to begin a new route on the West side of the Amphitheater. Though the weather on the valley floor was warm and sunny, we found that the Falls (because of the high snow pack level the previous winter) were raging so heavily that the entire Amphitheater had been turned into our own private self-contained rain forest. Upon getting drenched from the rainfall contained within these crack-spewed walls after sussing out the route that we would follow, we retreated back to the valley floor to dry our clothing and gear and plan our next attempt for this new route. A little over a month later, we returned and began our route…