So right after we left Joel from the great dinner we went to the gas station to fill up on gas and water (for those of you who do not know, JTree has no water in camp sites and no stores in the park, which is cool by me but town is 14 miles away one way). A nice old woman in the best old Chevy truck said "Your front tire is flat now." I went to fill it with air and at the pump a saw that we had a screw in it. Well now where do we go to get a flat fixed when it is 7pm on Super Bowl Sunday?! We drove to Yucca Valley to see if one of the car shops was open, but alas no. What we had to do was go to the worst place in the world; yes that is right Walmart! We wet into Walmart and found Fix-a-Flat, went back to the car to put it in the tire. While we were in the midst of this all, a Walmart employee came over and asked if we were ok. As luck would have it, this very nice guy used to work for the tire department and told us to come back and get it patched before we hit the rode again. We headed back into JTree on the 14mile trek to the camp site, hoping that Fix-a-Flat would work.
The next morning, we realized that Fix-a-Flat worked, thank god (if there is a god to thank or what god or gods). We treked back into Yucca Valley to get the tire fixed for real, which only took 20 minutes. Sweet and now back to JTree on the same 14 mile drive! We got back to camp and decided to take a good and long bike ride.
FUNNY STORY: We biked to Jumbo Rock (about 12 miles away) to see another part of JTree. We got to Jumbo Rock and rode down to the end of the camp site. We turned around to start heading back when I see this tan blob out of the corner of my eye and i say out loud "Either I'm crazy or I just saw a wax buddha." I stopped, headed back found that it actually was a buddha candle with just the top of his head had melted a tiny bit. So Kristen said, "I'll put that in my jacket and ride back to camp with it" which is what we did.
We finally got to go climb for the day, but just a bit of bouldering. We headed to Gunsmoke and we both got smoaked that day by this blouder problem. It is a pumpy traverse that is probably about 120 feet long, give or take, and graded at either v2 or v3. We met two locales that day at Gunsmoke. One of them traversed it three times and then pounded a Budwiser. He told us how one day, some older guy traversed it 47 times in a row back and forth. The local told us that about every 5 passes, the old dude would sit on a rock, smoke a cigaret, and then get back on the traverse. Boy what a day...
We left buddha in the camp site in hidden valley at site 17 under a rock so it is now protected from the elements. Rest in peace buddha and thanks for the good time.
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