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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 10, 2009 - 08:50pm PT
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Anyone else know? Until this weekend I didn't, but sometimes idly wondered. No guidebook
I read had answered the question, or even asked it.
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Idaho, also. Sorta, kinda mostly, Yeah.
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Oct 10, 2009 - 09:17pm PT
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Beulah is Bertha & Bathsheba's sister.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Oct 10, 2009 - 09:50pm PT
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What are you doing up there Larry?
Some sort of circus trick?
Either get your hands back on the rock or come down from there before you poke your eye out, young man.
(Just a suggestion).
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Indianclimber
Trad climber
Lost Wages
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Oct 10, 2009 - 09:54pm PT
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Maybe she was a librarian
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Oct 10, 2009 - 11:40pm PT
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Beulah Henderson Riley
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Roman
Trad climber
Bostonia
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Oct 10, 2009 - 11:44pm PT
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dunno who she is but I know she AIN'T in NH!
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Oct 11, 2009 - 12:34am PT
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She must have been a good author 'cause I sure love her book.
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Oct 11, 2009 - 12:39am PT
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Don't know who she is, but I do know that I faced the other way. Perhaps this is an artifact of my ancestors' decision to write from right to left?
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
climber
. . . not !
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Oct 11, 2009 - 04:06am PT
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Cut to the chase you cryptic dork .
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 11, 2009 - 12:40pm PT
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From Jerry Handren's Red Rocks guidebook:
Beulah's Book 550' 5.9*
Randal Grandstaff, Dave Anderson. 1979.
The big corner on the second pitch is excellent...
Sadly, the first ascent team has left the building.
To the left and right of Beulah's Book, or on the wall above it, there are at least ten
climbs named after the sun. I am grandfather to those names, in a sense. But I never
had a clue about Beulah.
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Oct 11, 2009 - 04:45pm PT
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I still don't have a clue. Who she was and why the name for the climb, got me very curious as it is a awesome climb right there with Johnny Vegas?
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 11, 2009 - 04:56pm PT
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Tarbuster:
What are you doing up there Larry?
Some sort of circus trick?
Either get your hands back on the rock or come down from there before you poke your eye out, young man.
Heh, I was prolly showing off, "See, it's a no-hands rest!"
That pitch, chimney turning into long corner, is one of the coolest 5.9 leads I can think of in RR.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 11, 2009 - 04:58pm PT
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But anyway, who was Beulah? There's one man I thought might know the answer.
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perswig
climber
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Oct 11, 2009 - 07:57pm PT
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Beulah Thomas, birth name of Sippie Wallace.
Do I win?
No?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 11, 2009 - 09:09pm PT
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Mebbe,
But now that I realize that this route was in part put up by my bro Dave, (RIP) I am sure that skully or capn was right, and it is named after the most flamboyant of the Butt sisters!
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 11, 2009 - 09:37pm PT
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Beulah was the name of a likable neighbor, across Joe Herbst's backyard fence.
The obvious line of Beulah's Book, not yet climbed, loomed sort of "out back" with
respect to a harder route Joe was working on at the time. Joe off-handedly began
referring to this arching unclimbed corner by the name Beulah's Book.
"But why did Randy and Dave name their climb after your neighbor?" I asked him.
The mystery deepened a bit then. Joe had the vague feeling that they weren't the
first, and he might have climbed it earlier himself.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Oct 11, 2009 - 10:51pm PT
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Solar Wall/Solar Slab?
Maybe that's also where Black Orpheus is... probably off by one canyon.
My first long route out there at any rate, was the latter.
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Idaho, also. Sorta, kinda mostly, Yeah.
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Oct 11, 2009 - 11:18pm PT
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Whomever the Fair Beulah was, I liked her book......
Hope she says hi to her sisters for me.
That whole Solar Slab wall is Fabulous for monkeyin' around on.....
WooHoo!!!
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 12, 2009 - 09:28am PT
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Tarbuster:
Solar Wall/Solar Slab?
Maybe that's also where Black Orpheus is... probably off by one canyon.
Yeah, Black Orpheus, Levitation 29 and many other routes are farther up the same canyon,
Oak Creek.
Captain...or Skully:
Whomever the Fair Beulah was, I liked her book......
Hope she says hi to her sisters for me.
That whole Solar Slab wall is Fabulous for monkeyin' around on.....
Solar Slab was the original (1975), so named because a bright sun kept the fast-moving
FA party comfortable through a January day that never warmed up to the freezing point.
After Solar Slab came other routes, with names like ...
Sunspot Ridge
Solar Flare
Corona
Sunshine Boys
Sunburn
Sandstone Overcast
Heliotrope
Sunflower
Sundog
and Beulah's Book.
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