I went to check out the bouldering by Ponderosa in the Jemez mountains last Saturday. A group of four Americans, one Swede, and two dogs headed down from Los Alamos. The boulders consist of the volcanic rock tuff. It is the same type of rock as in Hueco, which means a lot of weird structures and holes to use. Unfortunately, the only topo is part of a guide book over the rock climbing in the Jemez mountains and it only includes a very limited part of the areas around Ponderosa and moreover there are no updates posted anywhere, except a topographical map with indications of where the other areas are found and some notes (search for Ponderosa). However, there is a bunch of pictures posted on 0friction and a few videos on YouTube.
Goumas on a nice sit-start on the C boulder.
During the first visit we only climbed on two boulders and had a look at a few other by the pond. Today I returned on my own and walked further up to the Nascar boulder and tried and looked at some nice problems. The upper deck and the newer areas are still to be explored so there are lots of problems to climb.
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