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Baboo
Trad climber
CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 21, 2005 - 09:11pm PT
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Anyone out there know anything about RORP on Reed's. Good route? Worth doing?
Any beta will be appreciated.
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Baboo
Trad climber
CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 21, 2005 - 10:36pm PT
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Thanks. I'll have to get on it once the weather gets better
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Feb 21, 2005 - 11:41pm PT
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Gary, Steve and I did the first 5 or 6 pitches of it a few years ago. It was one of Gary's first climbs in the Valley (I believe) and convinced him to get a helmet. As I recall it wanders a bit at the bottom getting to the left (west) side of Flatus onto pretty straightforward ground. The only problem we had was rapping off one of the stations where the rope hung up with the knot refusing to go over an edge. We didn't adjust it above. Gary also learned what a prussik knot was, and why you might want to know about it. I climbed across to an ancient anchor and pulled the ropes.
top left: Steve in the initial chimney, Pitch 1
top mid: Steve looking for the easy way, Pitch 1
top right: Steve taking off from the belay, Pitch 3
bottom left: Gary getting ready to follow Steve on Pitch 5. Belay station was fateful rap station.
bottom right: Me cleaning up the rap station to pull the ropes from P5.
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steelmnkey
climber
Phoenix, AZ
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Feb 22, 2005 - 08:53am PT
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Did a bunch of it about twelve years ago. We started out doing two or three pitches of Flatus and then continuing up Rorp as I recall. Recall one of those 5.7 teflon-coated chimneys being quite the burl-fest.
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Melissa
Big Wall climber
oakland, ca
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Feb 23, 2005 - 01:25pm PT
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We did it a month or so ago via the first two pitches of Flatus (which are awesome but stout for the grade). I thought it was a fantastic route...gorgeous cracks, nice belay ledges. All of the rap stations were bomber. Bringing a little extra runner might be a good idea though. It's probably wet right now.
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Stonecowboy
Social climber
Livergulch, Cali
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Feb 24, 2005 - 07:58pm PT
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eye must be getting old, not until seeing the wonderful pix of my good friend and colleague (note to sheryl, my wife on correct spelling of colleague) ed H (otherwise known as Local H, ok ok its a music thing...calm down)did eye even remember gary without a helmet. i am shocked that someone following me on lead would be so confident in my sure footed ways.
there are many ways to climb a route, eye just so happen to specialize in steve ascents :)...yawn...
eye am a newbie at posting, so eye ask...is their an ethical limit of inside jokes allowed in posting to a forum?
sc
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Stone Cowboy
Trad climber
Livermore, CA.
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May 12, 2016 - 09:46pm PT
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you certainly know me well, but not well enough...yet. Let's go climb Knuckle Sandwhich sometime.
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