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James
climber
My twin brother's laundry room
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 18, 2009 - 03:49pm PT
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What recent free climbs have been put up in ground up style? What's the name of Nico's El Cap route?
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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Nov 18, 2009 - 03:57pm PT
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I can think of 9 or 10 in the last 5 weeks.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Nov 18, 2009 - 04:19pm PT
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all of Gabel's climbs I've participated in are ground up, many can be found at Clint's site
http://www.stanford.edu/~clint/yos/gabel.htm
spread out over more than 10 years...
...Eric's been very active lately.
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WandaFuca
Social climber
From the gettin place
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Nov 18, 2009 - 04:39pm PT
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Ground up and spit out, many times.
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altieboo
Boulder climber
Livermore, Ca
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Nov 18, 2009 - 06:20pm PT
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I was in the valley about a month ago and had heard of 3 routes going up in the last month. All ground up!
Heard some need some ascents too!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Nov 18, 2009 - 11:54pm PT
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hey there all, say, i'm just checking in to learn here,
say:
is ground up, style, the obvious meaning... (you start without having to get up a "stage of rock", first, being doing said-route?)
or does this mean something else?
just wanting to understand, is all...
thanks guys... :)
*will check back, soon, when i can...
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Nov 18, 2009 - 11:56pm PT
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I watched those guys Nico and Sean take a lot of LONG-ass falls. They really ran it out on serious terrain, but didn't stoop to drill any bolts on the aid lines.
It remains to be seen what Tommy Caldwell has done, or ends up doing to Wall Of Early Morning Light and Mescalito. He was seen drilling rather a large amount of bolts on toprope. It would be very uncool if these bolts are right next to the aid cracks, like what Todd Skinner did to pretty much ruin Dihedral Wall.
The Hubars didn't add any bolts to existing aid lines on their many free routes.
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