I climbed Castle Peak & Conundrum Peak with my dear friend Aaron Charles Pacheco. We did not do the standard route, but instead decided to ascend the Northeast Ridge in it's entirety from much lower than the standard route normally would. If you stay on the left side of the ridge it is a steep class 2, but we decided to do the right side of the ridge into some very unnecessary and very enjoyable class 3,4,& 5. This climb had some of the loosest rock I have ever dealt with. We had dozens of close calls and near death expirences. There was constant rock fall from above. Every hold you tried to grab came loose. On our decent we decided to go down from the saddle between the two peaks and into the basin. This was another decision that put us in very dangerious territory. There was still a lot of snow, so to avoid it we ended up traveling along some very narrow ledges with huge exposure. Every time the wind would blow rocks would start falling all around us and the sound it made was like a thousand animals in a stampede.There were moments where I would step on a rock and it would fall. I would quickly jump to the next rock and it would also fall. It felt like being in video game or a movie. There was one moment where I grabbed onto a boulder the size of a car and the entire thing came loose. I had to jump off a drop and catch myself on a ledge hanging by just my arms and swing out of the way just in time so it did not smash me and take me with it. It demolished everything in it's path! What a day!