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Beatrix Kiddo
Mountain climber
Denver
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Jun 21, 2007 - 12:30pm PT
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NICE! Some much to the Flatirons besides the standard routes on 1-3.
I need a partner for next Monday in the Flatirons or Boulder Canyon after work if anyone is interested. We could do a group thing. I just can't organize it. I lack the skill
Her Tar. . .Tim tells me we should get out climbing. Seems like we both have a route on Powell pretty high on the ticklist. I have my own cowboy hat too.
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Tarbuster
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 21, 2007 - 12:35pm PT
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Ok, let's saddle up!
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Jun 21, 2007 - 12:37pm PT
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That's a TR I really wanna read! Have fun, guys!
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Jun 22, 2007 - 02:34pm PT
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One more shot of Roger attempting the FFA of South Crack on the Maiden in 1974. Looked adventurous at the time, heading up there with just a dozen or so nuts.
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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Jun 22, 2007 - 03:16pm PT
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Chiloe, those pictures of Roger remind me of my own reluctance to use chalk. I held out until 1974. At that point I had been living in Boulder for a couple of years, having a mix of success and failure on the 5.11's in the area. Spring of '74 I broke down and started using chalk. Immediately went into hyperdrive on the hard routes of the era, climbing 25 or 30 5.11's with no failures or falls in one month, ending with a clean on-sight of the Edge with Kevin Donald. I was hooked on the white stuff!
A few years later I climbed that beautiful South Crack with Duncan Ferguson, who followed it barefoot, if my memory is correct. Roger and Duncan would both make good thread subjects, wouldn't they?
-TaintedJello
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Jun 22, 2007 - 03:17pm PT
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I agree.
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Oli
Trad climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Jun 27, 2007 - 04:24am PT
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Just because you don't see the chalk in this photo doesn't mean it isn't there. It's subtle. Nice, though, that it's not visible.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Anyone done this one?
From Mountain 94 Dec/Jan 1983/84. Chip Ruckgaber on the crux of Doric Dihedral on Satan's Slab during the FFA. Carl Harrison photo.
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Tarbuster
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 2, 2008 - 08:47pm PT
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Nice recall there Steve.
I've looked at all those old routes like Doric & such.
Cobwebs all over that stuff man... ain't it a shame.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Eventually folks will project these routes and freshen up the fixed pro, etc as necessary to bring them within reason. In the meantime, tales of power will have to do.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 2, 2008 - 09:13pm PT
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"bring them within reason"
hahaha...Think: Dennis Hopper rambling on about Kurtz in "Apocalypse Now",
...or Kurtz hanging from the cord at the train window on the Eiger, perishing!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Shssssssh, Roy you're scaring off the future nimrods with all this Eigertalk! LOL
What a fine adventure this would be. The High Over Boulder description 1976.....
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Tarbuster
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 2, 2008 - 10:02pm PT
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From: High Over Boulder, 1984
...whutabout that roof on p2?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Better bring a few Screamaids and micronuggets for that one. Yahoo! 5.12 mantle!
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