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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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May 22, 2009 - 04:59pm PT
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Drew on the uberclassic 5.9 Pit and The Pendulum. last week DeersleapVT
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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May 22, 2009 - 05:32pm PT
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Rockit' Drew !!!
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GOclimb
Trad climber
Boston, MA
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May 22, 2009 - 05:46pm PT
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perswig and ice-cowboy, right on.
Hard to miss that pink granite, nothing else like it.
Exactly! Sweet stuff it is!
GO
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - May 24, 2009 - 07:29pm PT
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When we got out of the car below Whitehorse late this morning, it was looking like this.
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cowpoke
climber
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May 24, 2009 - 08:11pm PT
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a few minutes before Chiloe's picture was taken, the family was headed up the slabs (beginner's route):
but then the rains came and things got a bit slicker:
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perswig
climber
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May 24, 2009 - 09:57pm PT
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Cowpoke, was it your Reverso gone walkabout?
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cowpoke
climber
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May 25, 2009 - 06:22am PT
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nah, I bet it was the party's who you can see in Chiloe's pic still rapping -- they dropped something after they were a couple pitches up. they seemed to be having an "exciting" morning, also having a bit of an epic with a young one stuck mid-pitch during the hardest rains.
how about you? get any climbing in before the rain? pretty funny that you recognized the famous dogs: Jack and Sophie!
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perswig
climber
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May 25, 2009 - 07:50am PT
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To be honest, I recognized Jack and Mrs. Chiloe (the more photographed members of the fam) first and screwed up Sophie's name to boot!
Yep, guy with a blue helmet and a passel of little ones was getting them back to the Launch Pad; had dropped it a few pitches up?
We got 2/3 up P2 of Children's Crusade before the slabs turned to skating rink. We executed a reasonable retreat with the party ahead of us, shared some ropes, good times.
Think I have some more pics of the changable weather to post - kind of weird day all 'round.
Dale
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - May 25, 2009 - 08:26am PT
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Perswig recognized Jack right away and figured things out quickly from there. Funny how
Internet fame works :-)
And speaking of which I got a nice pic of Cowpoke's wet family after their stormy retreat.
Later the sun came out and we all had a picnic. "Now you've got a story!" I told the girls, who
might or might not have seen that as a plus.
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perswig
climber
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May 25, 2009 - 10:01am PT
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0800, not esp ominous
kid's or climber's artwork (is there a difference?)
Reverso-less party, resolving their epic
Driving out, of course it's clearing
Consolation for driving 6 hours for 1.66 pitches of Whitehorse was 3 pitches of beautiful Camden rock after dinner with Alan. And the sunset.
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cowpoke
climber
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May 25, 2009 - 11:30am PT
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perswig, that last picture is awesome...glad you ended the day right.
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GOclimb
Trad climber
Boston, MA
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May 25, 2009 - 01:26pm PT
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If it's any consolation, it's been raining for days and days here on the front range. Yesterday it looked nice in the AM, so Allison and I gave it a shot - only to hit massive thunderstorms just in time to scurry back to the car and head for home.
Apparently things aren't so different here than there.
GO
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MH2
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May 27, 2009 - 01:07am PT
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Ah, I remember the North East. Mostly the Gunks but other bits, too.
For a couple of summers I worked not far from Deer’s Leap, Vermont.
This was quite a while ago and our climbing photography was not up to current standards.
We did at that time have climbing shoes that could support your weight on eensy edges and double as steel-toed work boots, and we had rockets that could fly a human from Earth to Moon and back.
I learned a lot as a summer camp counselor. Never take a group of 10 year old boys to the top of a cliff.
One of the campers had already taken up climbing after seeing a demonstration of rappelling put on by the US Army. He brought to camp with him a collection of aids and techniques we had heard of at the Gunks but had seldom (in my case never) seen. This youngster tied me a set aiders which I still have. We took this gear to boulders behind the camp. The kid had a little metal hook and a pin the size of a postage stamp. He demonstrated to me how you could place these on and in the rock, then support yourself on them quite comfortably before a slight shift of weight sent everything into a heap below.
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perswig
climber
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May 27, 2009 - 06:51am PT
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Waiting to see if Nick can tell what route your climber's on?
Had forgotten in all the rain-induced excitement (and pale in comparison to the Hamilton posse sighting :)), but rounding one of the Whitehorse road bends I got to see a momma black bear and her cub go lumbering across the road. Too fast into the woods again to grab the camera.
Like I said, kind of a weird day...
Dale
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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May 27, 2009 - 08:36am PT
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Looks like monkey direct. Probobly called it a 5.9 back then, It's a 10 now:)
You worked at farm ane Wilderness? I went to Sam in 75
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MH2
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May 27, 2009 - 08:49am PT
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I went to Sam in 75
Were they using lake ice/sawdust for refrigeration, then?
I was at TL in '69 and '71.
Great times but the 24-hour responsibility was trying.
We had no idea what we were climbing at the Leap.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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May 28, 2009 - 06:58am PT
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Yea, they were still useing ice for refrigeration and walking arround naked with the 5th freedom. I was one of the few local kids who got a scolarship to the camps.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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May 28, 2009 - 01:55pm PT
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Isa on the climb we put up last year for her 50th Bday 50 Lentze (50 years)
We must have been climbing pretty strong as neither one of us could free it on sunday. We need a 2nd opinoion on the grade please. Of course it is now raining cats and dogs and this one takes awhile to dry after a heavy rain...
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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May 28, 2009 - 02:03pm PT
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Annother shot of Drew on the Pit & pendulum last week
If you find the harder finish up high on the left this is definatly 5 star climb.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 26, 2009 - 12:27pm PT
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No action on this thread in a month, that's a fair reflection of our weather. The Globe sez we're
on track for the cloudiest June on record, and with clouds have come sogginess in all its wet
forms.
While the Avatar Formerly Known as Wootles basks under Rocky Mountain skies out in Idaho,
I'm pretty sure other Northeasterners have dashed out to climb something between rains.
Here's Cowpoke out at Farley last week:
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