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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 26, 2009 - 09:20pm PT
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Jan 26, 2009 - 09:24pm PT
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Really cool John, thanks for the post. Love this kinda stuff.
Peace
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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Jan 26, 2009 - 09:27pm PT
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Super pics, John.....That's a great wall, eh?
One of the best locations on the Captain.
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T2
climber
Cardiff by the sea
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Jan 26, 2009 - 09:30pm PT
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Sweeeet!! Nice pick of the late Muggs Stump and Lyyn Ramano.
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Jan 26, 2009 - 09:32pm PT
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outstanding!
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Jan 26, 2009 - 10:05pm PT
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Definitely a favourite route. You guys got some stormy weather up there too, eh? Love the shots of Half Dome with the snow on top.
May I suggest you rescan or re-photoshop, and adjust the colour hue to cut down on the magenta [purple]? You could also adjust the contrast a bit, and increase the brightness so they're not so dark. Plus if you put the photos in order, and put captions on each photo, it will be a lot more fun and interesting.
Thanks, John.
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J. Werlin
climber
Cedaredge
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Jan 26, 2009 - 10:37pm PT
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Less talk, more pictures.
Thanks John.
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wtfd
climber
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Jan 26, 2009 - 10:52pm PT
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great photos, that one with half dome in the background is a postcard waiting to happen.
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Conrad
climber
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Jan 26, 2009 - 11:02pm PT
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Gotta groove on Quinlan with a Mullet. He still is as smiling as ever and is sans mullet (as of last summer). thx
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 26, 2009 - 11:26pm PT
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The finest of company for the mystery route!!!!
A cat's meow and a cow's moo, I can recite 'em all,
Just tell me where it hurts yuh, honey,
And I'll tell you who to call.
Nobody can get no sleep,
There's someone on ev'ryone's toes
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here,
Ev'rybody's gonna wanna doze.
Come all without, come all within,
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.
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Bruce Perschbacher
climber
Carbonale,Ill. 62901.
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Jan 26, 2009 - 11:47pm PT
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Hey John,
Thanks for more great photos.
Cheers,
Bruce.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Jan 26, 2009 - 11:50pm PT
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Huge Wow ! Great Pics, Climbs and Dudes !!! Peace and Joy for Life and the Rock..
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Thorgon
Big Wall climber
Sedro Woolley, WA
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Jan 26, 2009 - 11:59pm PT
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Digging those old V-Dub's!!
And those wall gloves are awesome!
Definitely a time-capsule!
Keep up the great work,
Thor
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hoipolloi
climber
A friends backyard with the neighbors wifi
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Jan 27, 2009 - 12:00pm PT
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get it to the top.
Thanks John, really awesome and inspiring to see those photos.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Jan 27, 2009 - 12:56pm PT
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Whoo Hooo!!!! Thanks!!!!
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hoipolloi
climber
A friends backyard with the neighbors wifi
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Jan 27, 2009 - 07:47pm PT
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bump, bad ass climbing
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noshoesnoshirt
climber
I don't even know anymore
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Jan 27, 2009 - 08:22pm PT
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holy crap this is sweet
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Moof
Big Wall climber
A cube at my soul sucking job in Oregon
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Jan 27, 2009 - 10:46pm PT
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Nice!
Thanks Duece!
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Mr_T
Trad climber
Somewhere, CA
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Jan 27, 2009 - 11:05pm PT
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old skool awesome bump
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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Jan 27, 2009 - 11:15pm PT
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We(Minerals & I) climbed it in '99, I think it was....Still a glorious Wall.
Amazing Place........We fixed all the Belays, then, too.
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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Jan 27, 2009 - 11:16pm PT
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Bad ess!
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Jan 28, 2009 - 01:20am PT
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Thanks John,
What great memories. Lesher, Lepton and I did it in 81, and we had a gas up there. We got a little storm too! Wonderful pix. Much better than the scraps I have..............
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 28, 2009 - 02:21am PT
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Survival- What's your real name? We must have met. I got to know Lesher fairly well when he was on the rescue team, but I never got to know the Lepton man, only by reputation. I do recall seeing the Lepton man in the cafe parking lot one time, I think he had just been rescued? He kind of snarled at me as I walked by, I must have been staring at the iconic big wall climber dude in full regalia, curious as to why he looked so worked. Around '80 or '81?
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Jan 28, 2009 - 11:38am PT
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John,
Yes we have met numerous times. I'm Bruce Birchell, a forgettable fixture from 78-82 when I joined the military. Semi fixture from 82-86 when I was there on leave for El Cap climbs, then went to Saudi. Almost wanna be fixture from 90-96 dropping in for the occasional wall.
My primary wall partners were Lesher and Royster with a few others scattered in including Bob Williams, John Dale, Lepton, Doug MacDonald and Scott Burk.
Coming out of the woods after Tribal Rite 3rd ascent.
Organ Mts. Jan 2009
Sure hope to see you again someday....facelift?
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 28, 2009 - 02:37pm PT
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Great to hear from you Bruce. perhaps we will bump into eachother once again in Yosemite!
cheers
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Jan 28, 2009 - 02:46pm PT
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I'll see you there!
Thanks for the pix.
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Ottawa Doug
Social climber
Ottawa, Canada
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Jan 29, 2009 - 08:41pm PT
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Awesome pics and accompanying history. It is certainly located on a special part of El Cap - front and center - a wall I will never forget!
Cheers,
Doug
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Thorgon
Big Wall climber
Sedro Woolley, WA
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Jan 30, 2009 - 02:19am PT
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Anymore pictures from anyone
that has done this one?
Thor
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2009 - 04:00am PT
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Quick note--ours was the last "Topo-free" ascent, I believe. I think our ascent, in 1992, was somewhere less than the 10th ascent, but I really have no idea. We climbed the right side of El Cap tower start--a real grunt, but way cooler than hauling big bags up the Nose.
It was one of those routes with an "aura", mostly due to the lack of Topo. Like today, climbers generally go where there's info, and tend to put off the more exploratory missions.
I drew up a topo after our ascent. But then I broke the unwritten rule about the topoless Tribal Rite, and shared the topo with Mark Blanchard, who was going up for the first solo ascent. When he got down, he told me my topo was wrong, because I apparently forgot about a pitch somewhere in the final stretch where it joins WEML.
Not having a topo made the route a lot more cool, almost like a first ascent, but without having to establish anchors after a long hard pitch of climbing. Really a stellar route, even though it stormed on us each and every of the seven days we were up there.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Jan 30, 2009 - 11:07am PT
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Thor,
I will see if I can scare up my raggy pix from up there. Have a few decent ones someplace.
John,
We also did the right side of the towers to start!!
Stayed on Lay Lady, even though we got there pretty early in the day and Bob Williams was shouting at us to keep going.
It was just too sweet to pass up.
I agree about the topo free ascent. It really felt adventurous casting off from Boot Flake. We only had to sit for one whole day in a storm. Luckily, we had plenty of "supplies".
The long copperhead corner had nothing fixed in it and took me a long time even though Lesher was making a lot of noise about the time. I told him that if I came zippering down at him, it was going to take a lot longer than just getting it right the first time so "Shut yer piehole"!!
That upper wall was so spectacular that it remains my most treasured memory of El Cap, even over some very special places I've been up there.
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Ezra
Social climber
WA, NC, Idaho Falls
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Thank you!
-e
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Ottawa Doug
Social climber
Ottawa, Canada
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Ditto Survival and Captain...or Skully
Doug
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Hoots
climber
Tacoma, Toyota
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