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Bouldering at Lahaul summer 2011

Chota Dhara
After Chatru we went up to Chota Dhara (3850 Mt) , it took us 4  hours of walking to cover the distance of 17 Km ,after arriving  there we set up our  camp in a nice cave called ice goofa.It will be our home for the next seven days .Chota Dhara is one of the most amazing place to go climbing . it offer's one of the best bouldering available any where in the world.

Dave on Positive Medicine Font 7A+ Shanti Shepherd area


Positive Medicine Font 7A+

Oscar on Shepherd Shuffle Font 8A

Font 6C Goofa City area

Garden of Dreams Font 6B The Garden area

Oscar on Mumble Om Font 7B

Dave on Shepherd Shuffle Font 8A

 Mumble Om Font 7B
Dirty Shepherd Direct  Font 7A+
This  place also has amazing potential for new multipitch routes on the granite towers that surrounds this place . The fantastic wealth of high quality bouldering   kept us intrigued for the whole time.    With so many areas and so many problems we felt  in seven days we will only scratch the surface. The areas to boulder in Chota Dhara are Shanti Shepherd area,Goofa City area , The Garden area , Storming Haven area , & Crazy Cat Garden area . During our stay we visited most of these areas and were able to climb  some problems . The problems were varied in  nature from smooth hold less slabs to powerful steep climbing and all of us enjoyed some great send"s. Dave did the classic Shanti Shepherd(Font 7A+) ,we also raised the bar with Oscar by climbing Positive Medicine(Font 7A+) also in the same area.. The other problem we did in this area is Dirty Shepherd Direct(Font 7A+), a obvious roof line then direct using a sloppy crimp.Dave & Oscar tried the super hard Shepherd Shuffle(Font8A), it was amazingly hard.. Then we check out the Goofa City area ,The Smile boulder is the absolute star here with classic  problems all over it .Dave did the classic Smiling Baba(Font 7A). By this time we were feeling strong and dicided it was time to project,and we went for  Mumble Om(Font 7B) a powerfull short problem which has a very hard mantle top out, after a hard battle we were close,but could not send this line.The next area was the Garden City area, the classic(Slab) problem here is the Garden of Dreams(Font 6B), and it also has many other very difficult lines .On the other areas we didn't had much time to solve the classic hard problems but nevertheless did some of the problems there .With so much to do it will be for sure a place where we are going to spend a lot of time in future
Sending  Dirty Shepherd Direct Font 7A+
Font 6B+,Goofa City area  Chota Dhara

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