Your favourite Boulder problems!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Jan 16, 2016 - 10:45am PT

this just in

climber

Justin Ross from North Fork

Jan 16, 2016 - 11:39am PT

Was trying to find the video of the guy bouldering over a net to fall on, came across this. You live in a Mecca Ryan.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
This guy kills it.

GDavis

Social climber

SOL CAL

Jan 16, 2016 - 01:33pm PT

New and old school boulder problems.

bvb

Social climber

flagstaff arizona

Jan 16, 2016 - 02:40pm PT

This one.

bvb

Social climber

flagstaff arizona

Jan 16, 2016 - 02:42pm PT

and this one...

StahlBro

Trad climber

San Diego, CA

Jan 16, 2016 - 02:46pm PT

Great shot Bob. Many laps have been had on that JT beauty.

rmuir

Social climber

From the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.

Jan 16, 2016 - 02:48pm PT

You can't really see the landing. Isn't it pretty much instant ass over teakettle down the hillside if you blow it?

Autopilot is actually pretty straight forward, and the holds are quite positive. It's some pretty fine gymnastic moves and committing up high, but dialed-in, it's some fun movement. I have seen people go for the Big Skate® by hitting the pad and taking it for a ride all the way down to the road. That said, with several brutes giving a trusted spot, it was possible to take the plunge without the additional excursion. But we were doing this—along with Tail Gunner and Flight Attendant—back before the Age of Mattresses, and never toproped! 😎

I like that .gif too, and the back-story there is that I needed to do that thing three consecutive times since Bolton couldn't properly figure-out how to work that new-fangled digital camera gizmo. Those were certainly primitive times… "They studied rules of verse/And those ladies, they rolled their eyes"

Craig Fry

Trad climber

So Cal.

Jan 16, 2016 - 05:18pm PT

A couple more Black and whites

drljefe

climber

El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson

Jan 16, 2016 - 07:00pm PT

I want my baby back baby back baby back-er

Craig Fry

Trad climber

So Cal.

Jan 17, 2016 - 08:21am PT

Back in the day
We bouldered without pads or spotters

in fact, if someone tried to spot me, I would shoo them away
and say "what do you think your doing, I might fall on you"

I did some of my best bouldering alone,
some of my favorite memories are from Black Mt.: above the heat, headphones, high ridges, black rock = nirvana

Craig Fry

Trad climber

So Cal.

Jan 17, 2016 - 08:34am PT

My first 5.11
Power Pack
Rubidoux
1976
TR with our new Goldline rope

I developed the photos in my high school photography class

My second day climbing ever was at Rubidoux,
and we were top roping some easy stuff off to the right
and along comes John Long in Galibier "Super Guide" boots that he says he's wearing for training for the Alps
Well course he fires the crux of Power Pack with ease and solos to the top 30 ft above
So it was a simple goal, Must climb Power Pack, but with a rope of course.
I ran into Largo many times again in my first noob years and he was a good inspiration for sure.

I solo it now, or did, of course.

rmuir

Social climber

From the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.

Jan 17, 2016 - 08:43am PT

Same problem, but with Gallenkamp Scats.

Craig Fry

Trad climber

So Cal.

Jan 17, 2016 - 08:52am PT

When it comes to the history of Rubidoux
You have to mention the "Big Rock Boys"
Dimes and Henny

Dimes had all kinds of tennies he was using that had soft sticky rubber for awesome smearing
Weren't the scats one of the good ones?
That was before Fir'es,

Kevin was so into climbing shoes that he bought like 6 new pairs of EBs, just to have a future stock, days before the Fir'es came out. ouch!

Here is our beloved hero in full gala mode

Another of my favorite Rubidoux problems was "K.P.s Arete"
It's truly a classic but probably doesn't get much traffic,
like Power Pack, it helps to be tall.

rmuir

Social climber

From the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.

Jan 17, 2016 - 09:36am PT

And, we'd be remiss if we neglected to post this photo:

Rhodo-Router

Gym climber

sawatch choss

Jan 17, 2016 - 10:48am PT

Great stoke in this thread! thanks y'all. You're making me want to pack up, head south and live the simple life again til summer comes back to the high lonesome.

These are nobody's favorites who don't live in the upper Arkansas valley but there's a respectable circuit and generally just you and the fir trees:

This is how this thread makes me feel!

StahlBro

Trad climber

San Diego, CA

Jan 17, 2016 - 02:25pm PT

this just in

climber

Justin Ross from North Fork

Jan 18, 2016 - 07:50am PT

Loving the old pics and history. Thank you all.

RyanD

climber

Topic Author's Reply - Jan 18, 2016 - 09:12am PT

Yes dudes!

Tell me about da moves!! Awesome!

That linked vid was great Justin, here's a shot of myself doing one of the problems in it that I'd consider a "favourite"- that guy had a good trip for sure! Thanks for that.