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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 28, 2008 - 01:38pm PT
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How difficult is it?
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MH2
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 28, 2008 - 04:13pm PT
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Mousetrap is Hard Very Severe. The cliff should be avoided during the nesting season (Feb - Aug).
Hard Rock indicates 3 cruxes: 4c, 4c, and 5a
I think that means 5.9/5.10
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COT
climber
Door Number 3
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Dec 28, 2008 - 08:11pm PT
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How bout a cold one
Located at the eastern most point in the US. Hide tide prevents the column from touching down. This rock wall is where Spiderman Dan claimed the first 5.14 in the US in the early 80's
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COT
climber
Door Number 3
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Dec 28, 2008 - 08:15pm PT
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Otter Cliffs, ME
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MH2
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 29, 2008 - 01:19am PT
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How bout a cold one
How bout those are very fine
and they remind me of a highly photogenic kind of by-the-sea climbing
I don't have an example of my own. The picture is by Chuck Gates, the climber is Alex Lowe.
Coincidentally, that issue of Climbing had a short article on Mount Desert Island. This picture was said to be Tyler Stableford and Kevin Hand on Green Mountain Power, photographer Peter Cole.
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east side underground
Trad climber
Hilton crk,ca
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Dec 29, 2008 - 01:09pm PT
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Cali "secret" spot- not any more in the internet age!!!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Anyone done the Devil's Slide? This has always looked like a slab climbers dream! John Cleare photos from Mountains, 1975. Scuze the grain....
Need a little surf Murry?
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east side underground
Trad climber
Hilton crk,ca
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I've never done a sea cliff climb, what about all the bird sh#t? Most rocks I've seen (morro rock for example) is covered in the stuff. None in any of the photos?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Several varieties are fond of dive puking climbers by some accounts.
Ever climbed at Murry's Beach, Mickey?
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Seashell in the frozen sand today:
I've never seen the Atlantic more calm.
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MH2
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 3, 2009 - 07:04pm PT
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I've never done a sea cliff climb, what about all the bird sh#t?
Thanks for the surf picture - soothing yet energizing, too. It is a cousin of a family of pictures I really like, where there is some everyday ordinary peaceful scene in the foreground, in this case the boat, and something a little crazy in the distance, in this case the wave.
As to bird sh#t, there is a little on the traverse I do. If I find or get a good picture, it will show up here, don't worry.
To get sea cliffs covered in bird sh#t, which do exist, you need sea birds that nest on the cliffs, lots of them. The British sea cliff afficionados also tell us about the gannet, a bird that defends its nest by up-chucking mackerel eye-ball soup on anything approaching from below.
I haven't been on scene for that or for a "sea-bird defecating from the top-most pinnacle", another British sea cliff thing, but I have had a grebe launch explosively into flight from a dark crevice over my head, and it put the pigeon experience to shame.
Also, on the traverse I like so much, or maybe its just the convenience, I was once innocently zooming along across territory intimately familiar, when my hand came down on something icky. On closer look it seemed to be something a sea gull had tried to digest and failed. Perhaps a starfish stomach. It had the lowest coefficient of friction I've ever encountered, waaay below teflon, ice, and snot. Combined. Just getting it on my fingers would make me fall down, even in the middle of Nebraska.
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TLloyd-Davies
Social climber
Santa Clara, ca
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Well, it really is hard to beat California weather. Even Northern California
Pebble Wrestlers
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Been going for lots of walks by the shining sea with our dog lately. Yesterday:
It's been brisk along the Gulf of Maine.
But I can remember warmer times along a different sea last year.
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MH2
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 5, 2009 - 11:30am PT
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Wonderful pictures. They stimulate and leave room for the imagination.
California, again, I presume, from the Life Magazine photo collection:
actress Carloe Landis climbing on the rocks near the ocean at the beach
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MH2
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 25, 2009 - 01:18pm PT
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down to the sea again
evening sun Jan 02
big wave Jan 08
fog Jan 16 (and several days before and after)
traverse Jan 19 (grim)
above it all Jan 15
guarding its secret Jan 15
indoors Jan 15
above the clouds again Jan 17
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jan 25, 2009 - 01:29pm PT
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January 15th looks familiar!
We should start a thread about nonplussed gym counter people... no one ever asks "You're from California? what are you doing here?"
Maybe it's just very common. It was fun pulling on plastic and meeting some of the Vancouver afficionados, MH2 being one. But we didn't encounter any Ladybugs, as far as I know. But it does give me an idea...
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