Owen's Ridge, 4/5-6

Paul, Ken and I climbed at Alabama hills on Saturday and then met up with Joanne in Ridgecrest Sunday morning to climb at Owen's Ridge. We did the first pitch of a 5.8 that went to the right of a block on rock II, and then did a 5.9 and 5.7. We were the only people there, and the climbing was fun but the rock was often covered in a loose grainy layer.

Ken's trip report:
It was an interesting day and pretty fun. We climbed on the South
Face of Rock II we were shooting for climbing the right side of the
huge block in the middle of the upper face. We climbed a nice short
hand crack then short ledges to a tree on a ledge. From the tree we
were hoping to cross the face but it was too bold a slab climb for me
about 30 ft to the bolt so I tried the thin flake to the overhanging
flake up and right again it seemed a little too bold so I tried
traversing to the right into ?Gundarg Notch? but it didn't look too
easy going and since the wind was picking we bailed back down to the
ground. We headed around the bases of the face and found a good
looking right facing dihedral that ended at a pair of bolts. My
friend Paul battled up it but finished it, it was probably about
5.9 but took good gear and was fun but physical. I went exploring and
found "Dihedral" which had a great 5.7 crack for 70 ft, it looked
like it would have been great to move left into a chimney to the right
and take it up another 100 ft but our day was ending.