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illusiondweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Dec 30, 2010 - 09:16pm PT
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Now, what are the chances that you'd pop in after sharing the story above ?! Always good to hear from you Ken. We'll get another chance again I'm sure. Have a great and safe new year and a safe trip home. Tell your family I said hello for me.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Dec 30, 2010 - 09:30pm PT
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Woodson always looked really cool to me. I gotta make it out there.
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Doug Tomczik
climber
Bishop
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Dec 30, 2010 - 09:43pm PT
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So far this season I've managed to get on a lot of "roadside obscurities" as well as some not-so-near-the-road gems. Got on Donny's Par 3 a couple weeks ago...man that thing is wild! Also finally checked out Coco's Cruise...really good easy slab. I hardly ever bring a camera to document the flailing, but here are a few from recent times (minus the first two).
Lots more climbing days than those shown above...I'll try to bring the camera more often.
Does anyone know if the rattlesnakes actually hibernate during the winter or do we just circulate the idea so that we have more courage to explore?
And what's the deal with someone rating that short pinned-out seam at Rexrodes 11+?!?! ...SANDBAG
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deepnet
Boulder climber
CA
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Dec 31, 2010 - 08:57am PT
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Wow! What's all the commotion?
...'NUFF SAID!!
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Phantom X
Trad climber
Honeycomb Hideout
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Dec 31, 2010 - 06:34pm PT
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DAY 2 TRAINING REPORT: Training temporary postponed due to New Years Eve party preparations.
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gonamok
climber
aging malcontent
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Hey I saw that henny.
They say Ive lost a step, but the jokes on "them" because Ive lost the whole LADDER! Nonetheless, I can still approximate a reasonable facsimilie of a genuine climber as long as I dont get on any rocks, and IVE GOT MY EYE ON YOU, young man.
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illusiondweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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By the looks of that ambulance that picture predates the '86 contest and '82 comtest at Magnolia Boulders!
Now that's a scary picture Ron!
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deepnet
Boulder climber
CA
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That photo was from the '86 contest.
I believe Shawn Curtis was part of the ambulance crew.
Watusi would know for sure?
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illusiondweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Sheesh, I guess I'm dating myself by saying that! I worked in EMS for seventeen years and don't remember ambulances looking like "Mother, Jugs, and Speed" back then! Not sure, but I think that is me in the light blue windbreaker with my back to the camera, in the group to the right of Painted Boulder. My mentor, Roger Barnes, is in white painters pants to my right, great memories. I still say that there must be more pictures out there from that contest. Thanks for posting!
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illusiondweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Phil Bard, is that you "deepnet"?
Edit: Okay, it's Rick Allenby...sorry Rick!
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henny
Social climber
The Past
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 2, 2011 - 11:40am PT
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Pretty good weather the past couple of days. We saw plenty of people on the mountain yesteday taking advantage of almost perfect conditions.
An interesting note, we went to the TV Screen with Woodward. His observation was that the ground had significantly eroded under the left arete (his namesake problem) and that it wasn't even the same problem anymore since it could no longer be started directly underneath the arete. Acting as the restoration foreman, he directed the activities to place a couple of large flat boulders under the start to stop ground erosion and return the level to the approximate level when the FA was done. Please leave them, they are flat and should pose no problem with a pad covering them.
Later in the day we also managed to ferret out a new problem in the vicinity of Bad Boys/Laker Girls - The Light of Day. Pretty good crimping with a semi-bald exit.
I thought I was getting decent pictures of JW setting up for and making the HDTV throw but I leaned back to keep him in frame and ended with pictures of my foot instead. Brilliant. I think Johansolo may have some pictures of the dyno, maybe he'll post them. What a great problem HDTV is.
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eliot carlsen
Social climber
San Diego
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Great thread Henny.
The past couple days have been super good up on the hill. We got rained off the Seminar Wall today but got in a bit of climbing.
Walked by the TV Screen boulder. Nice job on the landings. Next time I go up I'll be bringing pads. I had always wondered about the Woodward arete. Looked impossible to get up on to with the eroded landing.
Sat. we went to Arch Crack, Grainstorm and Big Man on Campus. And we finished the day on the Sail. The Sail is SUPER good. Although it's a little scary to solo up the south/west side of the boulder?
Fri. we went to the Welcome Home area.
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illusiondweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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The foot Darrell, the foot...we want to see the foot!
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eliot carlsen
Social climber
San Diego
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By the way, Doug probably made the proudest send of the fall season.
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sneville
climber
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Eliot,
Where is the welcome home area? What is that arete called? Also I thought elsa's was hand size not #5 and#6.
Sean
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henny
Social climber
The Past
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 2, 2011 - 10:37pm PT
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I know, I can't spell. Foot, not food. Anyway, here's the requested picture of Woodward doing the HDTV dyno.
BTW, I'm not sure I really want to know anything about any crack that takes #5 and #6 cams. Nice picture, though.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
Will know soon
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Out at Lilac Boulders....two new problems wished I could have seen yo and Woodward tackle. So far very close, but undoable,,,,,but doable.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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I did manage a half-day out there recently giving Mucci the intro tour. Pretty sure he liked the place.
Blr, Mucci called me on the drive home and said he'd visited Woodshun with your help. Not sure if you know the Mucci gruffness, but I asked how it was and immediately got a classic 'uhfff' sound out of him. Which means grim + good in the same sound.
We should have gone down for a day, instead managed some fun in IC at JT.
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henny
Social climber
The Past
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 3, 2011 - 12:31pm PT
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Yeah Eliot, we got rained off yesterday also. Luckily, it didn't start until we were pretty much done for the day though.
The Sail is pretty good isn't it? Did you do Bedford's problem on it as well as the standard route? Post pictures of the Sail if you got 'em. The solo to set up the TR is a bit spicy, considering where you'll go if something were to happen and you came off at the start. Of course, when I went to set it up I was there with Bedford and had absolutely no sympathy for what would happen to me. Something about I was being a "whiner", in spite of the fact that knucklehead only has about 2 feet of reach on me. I have some great friends.
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