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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 30, 2014 - 05:54am PT
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Zany zonie love bump!
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rick d
climber
ol pueblo, az
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Sep 30, 2014 - 07:02am PT
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btt
dubai biatches
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Leggs
Sport climber
Made in California
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Sep 30, 2014 - 08:59am PT
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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climbing thread bump in anticipation of all the poli threads yet to come after the elections
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Cave Creek, AZ
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JIm Waugh on Twilight Zone (5.10C/D) at West Elden in Flagstaff in 1979.
Images are reversed and I can't figure out how to fix them. Paging Peter Haan...
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MisterE
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 5, 2014 - 08:43pm PT
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Great pictures, Mark! I have looked at that climb so many times - so intimidating.
OK, I pulled up some shots from the rounds doing the Sedona guide:
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Cave Creek, AZ
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Yeah, West Elden is such a great crag, especially when the summer wildflowers are out. That route's a great one; it does overhang a good bit. Here's a pic of me doing Twilight Zone in '78.
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R.B.
Big Wall climber
47N 122W
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Twilight Zone was one of my favs. in the early '80's. West Elden is the shred!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Twilight Zone was 5.11 when I first did it on a rack of nuggets. Ed Webster had bagged the FFA with one fall and Scott Baxter sent me up to do the first clean ascent not long after that. I remember a long throw to a flared hand jam at the crux to get past the steepest section above the handrail into space that leads you into the Twilight Zone.
No camera around the day that I did that one but your shots of Waugh look properly oriented and are sweet Mark! Do not adjust your set.
Gotta do Megadeath too while you are there...
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Cave Creek, AZ
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Lookin' good, Steve!
Megadeath is "old school" 5.9 (translation: some suffering will likely be part of the experience).
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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There's one from the vault!
Count on Larry to have a camera. I forgot that one.
Big Ole Teeton on my hip just in case it got wider than a #11 Hex up high.
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MisterE
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 7, 2014 - 08:02pm PT
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Great shot of Steve!
A couple of tower shots from Brins Mesa Trail area:
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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MisterE
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 20, 2014 - 09:10pm PT
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Bump
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Mar 20, 2015 - 06:30pm PT
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Josh Nash
Social climber
riverbank ca
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Sven slab looked really cool from behind a coded electric gate with no parking signs everywhere. The scrambling on some nearby boulders was really cool and the scenery was jaw droppingly amazing. I'm really excited to come back on a few years with better beta.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Apr 30, 2015 - 06:59am PT
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overwatch
climber
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Apr 30, 2015 - 09:21am PT
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no offense but the pictures are much more useful with location captions.
beautiful though.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Apr 30, 2015 - 10:12am PT
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The climb just shown is called Thunderhead Spire and it is one of many at Windy Point along the Mt. Lemmon highway. Rich Thompson was really excited about doing this one to get a photo of the free rappel and once we topped out he began drilling out at the lip of the summit block.
I wasn't too keen on the proposed anchor location but Rich wasn't changing his mind so I started considering my options. I could downclimb the reasonably solid 5.7 pitch that we had just done or...I could just jump off!
A reasonable landing spot across the gap presented itself so while Rich was busy drilling I quietly untied and measured the leap of faith and took it! The jangle of gear on my landing startled Rich but he immediately started laughing and giving me crap for being too chicken to face the short but airy rappel.
It all worked out well because I got the shot of Rich in the air and everyone was happy. We were doing a lot of Superfly jumping right at that time in Tucson and I came back several more times to solo the original route and new one in the gap which has since sprouted bolts I hear. I will see if I can find the money shot.
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