American Lifestyle: Joshua Tree

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Join French climbers Romain Desgranges and Fred Rouhling in a 20-minute video as they explore the wild and wondrous quartz monzonite boulders of California’s Joshua Tree National Park. There’s footage of everything from JTree’s classic problems to the many V-hard, tip shredding and highball testpieces found throughout the nearly 800,000-acre park. Even a local bobcat and coyote make an appearance in this inspiring video, narrated in French, that seeks to capture the experience of bouldering in the heart of the Mojave Desert.

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