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marky
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 16, 2007 - 02:16am PT
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Post 'em if you got 'em.
Bonatti - Le Petit Dru
Buhl - Nanga Parbat
Messner - Everest
Croft - Astroman
Shipley - Keeler Needle
House - K7
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Darren D.
Social climber
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Nov 16, 2007 - 02:21am PT
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Reardon - EBGB's (I still get the heebeegeebees thinking about it!)
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Nov 16, 2007 - 02:22am PT
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shipley, Conness way weirder than Keeler, except for the weather...
Jaybro ( and everyone else) out of the bed each morning, what is scarier than that?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Nov 16, 2007 - 03:04am PT
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Alexander Huber - 2004 Free Solo Ascent of the Kommunist (5.14a), Austria
(source wikipedia)
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Riotch
Trad climber
Kayenta, Arizona
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Nov 16, 2007 - 08:39am PT
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Charlie Fowler's onsight free solo of the DNB on Middle Cathedral!!!
I'm not sure when he did this, but it was the mid '80s at the latest.
If you've done the route you know what I'm saying.
Badass!!
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WanderlustMD
Trad climber
Lanham MD
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Nov 16, 2007 - 08:53am PT
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Reardon, Romantic Warrior. I think he did it onsight...
Potter, California Roulette
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Nov 16, 2007 - 09:04am PT
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norwegian - fat merchant crack onsight and downclimb
i know, loud mouth soup
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rick d
Social climber
tucson, az
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Nov 16, 2007 - 09:44am PT
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wiggins scenic cruise (@ 16)
hersey- name it (I like the photo in the black w/ arrow)
rusty baillie Polar Circus
rob slater slipstream
me, layback (oh, yea- I didn't finish that one)
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TwistedCrank
climber
Ideeho
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Nov 16, 2007 - 10:19am PT
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anytime anyone solos anything anywhere is definately ballsy imho
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Nov 16, 2007 - 10:23am PT
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Frank Jourdan, a German who likes to visit Canada. Some of his solos:
Andromeda Strain (part of a huge enchainment involving a number of routes on Athabasca and Andromeda)
Grand Central Couloir
NE face Howse peak (2nd ascent Blanchard Robinson route)
N face Cromwell
E face Assinniboine (Cheesmond Dick route 2nd ascent)
all of the above except for Assinniboine were done in a very short time period.
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Dragon with Matches
climber
Bamboo Grove
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Nov 16, 2007 - 10:35am PT
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After soloing hardish (for me) stuff that was rehearsed into submission, I felt about as bold as my grandma.
Onsight is a whole different game and I'm in awe of men & women with those kinda stones.
Barber
Buhl
Twight
Reardon
Paul Preuss
That Norwegian dude in his bamboo raft across the Pacific, or whatever.
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paganmonkeyboy
Trad climber
the blighted lands of hatu
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Nov 16, 2007 - 10:52am PT
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maybe slightly different then what you are after, but i was blown away by Goran Kropp's everest trip...
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Nov 16, 2007 - 10:58am PT
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Potter on Heaven, that was pretty ballsy.
His Half Dome ascent was outside the box.
Some of those solo slacklines.
A bunch of high-altitude mountaineering stuff.
Gullich on Separate Reality
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Josh Higgins
Trad climber
San Diego
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Nov 16, 2007 - 11:45am PT
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Is Bachar even mentioned in this thread yet?
Nabisco Wall
Moratorium (onsight)
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hashbro
Trad climber
Mental Physics........
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Nov 16, 2007 - 11:46am PT
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Randy Vogel on Stoner's Highway (79'?)
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TwistedCrank
climber
Ideeho
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Nov 16, 2007 - 11:47am PT
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Bacher on Solitary Confinement
Yabo on Spiderline
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Blowboarder
Boulder climber
Back in the mix
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Nov 16, 2007 - 11:59am PT
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damn, this thread is making my hands sweat.
some of those jtree solos are beyond my comprehension.
EBGB's? wtf?
i thought i was coming off every move.
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Handjam Belay
Gym climber
expat from the truth
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Nov 16, 2007 - 12:36pm PT
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Frank Jourdan. Noone ever remembers him. I recall a story about him hiking up to Chasm Lake in RMNP with his wife and children. He sprinted up the Black Dagger/Yellow Wall and met them back at the lake where they'd been hanging out watching.
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wbw
climber
'cross the great divide
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Nov 16, 2007 - 01:35pm PT
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That picture of Derek Hersey in the Black with the arrow, in Climbing Magazine was my one Galen Rowell moment. He was soloing the Scenic Cruise on a day when he soloed three routes. I was sitting on the South Rim, watching in awe as Derek lapped North Chasm View Wall. Amazing!
As Derek was finishing his second route, (I think Journey Home although the memory is a little fuzzy on that) I left my photographer's duties to drive back around to the other side. On the way back I stopped in Montrose and picked up the Big Mac that Derek had ordered for his stamina food for the day. I found him back at the campground lounging. When he saw the Big Mac, his eyes lit up with enthusiasm, he gulped it down and then ran down the Cruise Gully to complete the "Triple Crown".
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KP Ariza
climber
SCC
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Nov 16, 2007 - 03:06pm PT
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Stoner's Highway has been free soloed? '79 would mean it was done in EB's to boot(no pun intended) DAMM!
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