JBourgeois

I was at 3 O’clock Rock on Saturday with 2 friends. When we reached the North Buttress, we found fresh rock rubble and the hanger on the 1st bolt of Silent Running was bent. As we worked our way up to the start of Total Soul, we found that the terrain was a pile of broken rock and shredded vegetation which had buried the path from the base of Silent Running up to Total Soul. At the bottom of Total Soul the area was covered in broken rock and the vegetation was basically gone. The rubble and slab were covered in rock dust. And, we found on the way up TS the hanger of the 1st pitch 3rd bolt was flattened. The entire 1st pitch of the route is in dust with some on the second. From what we could see the rockfall seems to have come down the gully left of Total Soul and exploded when it hit the lower part of the slab. We could not see where it originated from though. And, since the dust was still on the slab and the rubble at the base, the rockfall must have occurred since the last good rain. My guess, judging from how little has been brushed off by climbers on Total Soul, it’s likely that the rockfall happened in the last few days or a week at most.