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survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Oct 7, 2011 - 05:30pm PT
Just run out the third pitch of Super Chicken, and yer ready!!
nutjob

Gym climber
Berkeley, CA
Oct 7, 2011 - 05:40pm PT
I've only done Generator once... I need to start making it a ritual on the way out of the valley whenever I'm not already trashed.
yosemite 5.9

climber
santa cruz
Oct 7, 2011 - 08:08pm PT
Up in Tuolumne, you might consider The Yawn. It is fairly easy for an offwith if I recall correctly. Difficult to protect at first. But very interesting with a nice hand jam at the top. It's been years so ask someone else's opinion first.
PellucidWombat

Mountain climber
Berkeley, CA
Dec 21, 2011 - 06:12pm PT
What about changing directions mid-pitch on Generator?

I find the middle easiest right-side in, and just before I tunnel through behind the flake I switch to left-side in (seems easier for the tunneling & squeeze). It's not too bad to do once you get the feeling for how to cross arm-bars and rearrange your hips & feet.

I've TRed Ahab once, right-side in. Pretty tricky but I can see how it can be easy once you get foot t-stacking down. I'm at a loss to figure out how I'd ratchet up facing right-side in though. That back wall is slick!
Largo

Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
Dec 21, 2011 - 06:38pm PT
I saw a shot in the new Rock and Ice of someone leading the Zone in slippers. That's seems terribly dumb to me.

Just saying . . . .

JL
scuffy b

climber
heading slowly NNW
Dec 21, 2011 - 07:43pm PT
only if it's a problem. Some guys just don't seem to ever scrape their
ankles.
Mike Bolte

Trad climber
Planet Earth
Dec 21, 2011 - 07:46pm PT
the frightening thing about the road to Twilight Zone is that it ends at the base of the Twilight Zone.

scuffy - you been up it?
scuffy b

climber
heading slowly NNW
Dec 21, 2011 - 07:51pm PT
No, actually, I'm intimidated. Steppin Out and Cream didn't have that
effect on me, and in fact I have my sights on some harder things, but
somehow it just keeps getting put off.
Wade Icey

Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 22, 2011 - 11:55am PT
skating on stilts
dogtown

Trad climber
Cheyenne, Wyoming and Marshall Islands atoll.
Dec 23, 2011 - 12:02pm PT


TZ was a on the to do list as a goal when I was living out that way just never got around to giving it a go. Tubes and hexes were the pro of the day needless to say a bit tricky. With today’s pro.(cams and big Bros) and a steady diet of offwiths do to a few seasons of skin loss at Veedauwoo I think I may have a chance.

Dawg.
Alexey

Trad climber
San Jose, CA
Nov 6, 2012 - 07:57pm PT
bump. So when this road is done what climbers do with big gear?
sell off on e-bay?
nutjob

Gym climber
Berkeley, CA
Nov 6, 2012 - 08:18pm PT
There must be some monster OWs in the high sierra with your name on it Alexey! People knowledgeable about such things should post inspiring pictures. But maybe that should be a new thread "Beyond The Twilight Zone"
fosburg

climber
Nov 6, 2012 - 08:28pm PT
Classic shot of Nic Taylor employing bad stacking technique; palms should face the walls!
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Nov 6, 2012 - 08:33pm PT
No Alexey, they donate all unwanted wide gear to Jay Anderson, general delivery Moab Utah 84532 I have projects that demand every bit of it.
Jim Pettigrew

Social climber
Crowley Lake, CA
Nov 7, 2012 - 12:42am PT
This off width stuff makes my hands sweat! Too wide to fist jam to narrow to knee lock! Lever, reach, pull! Breathe, breathe, breathe! Again! lever, reach, pull:)
Captain...or Skully

climber
Nov 7, 2012 - 02:51am PT
Twilight Zone! Sweat is right. I'd be bleedin', too, most likely.
Yeah, that's some climbing, huh?
this just in

climber
north fork
Nov 7, 2012 - 09:44am PT
Poli bump
Wade Icey

Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 5, 2013 - 12:53pm PT
crøtch

climber
Jul 16, 2013 - 08:07pm PT
bump

Rollover

climber
Gross Vegas
Sep 21, 2015 - 05:12pm PT
50th anniversary bump!
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