It's time to play...Name that Route!

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Jaybro

Social climber

The West

Mar 20, 2006 - 09:54pm PT

Bingo-Larry!

A victim of the deceptively hard vertical part before the business?

Were you on some of the early forays larry? Bob only showed me after it was a done deal, I'd moved to SLC by then.

the other one is not the right tube, but that's the right formation.

Jaybro

Social climber

The West

Mar 20, 2006 - 10:04pm PT

BTW, moandy, That's Lucille, & Best 'o' the blues and agony of dafeet.

climber

I'm so over it

Mar 20, 2006 - 10:26pm PT

I'm so very afraid.

Larry

Trad climber

Reno NV

Mar 20, 2006 - 10:31pm PT

Squat was history by the time I got dragged out there. I think "The Cracksmen" was even out.

Bob didn't take me on too many of his projects...but for one, out at Sweetwater Rocks (Lankin), that he called his hardest. Have I asked you if you've been there, Jay?

That other one must be one I haven't tried. Crankenstein maybe?

...I just noticed in the new book (I had to cheat) that it says Ron Matous did the FFA of Hung Like a Horse. I thought it was Steve? (Of TV/AF fame.)

phoolish

Boulder climber

Athens, Ga.

Mar 20, 2006 - 11:20pm PT

Get this thread out of the west.

Jaybro

Social climber

The West

Mar 20, 2006 - 11:27pm PT

I dunno Larry, I thought Steve & Gary Issacs were buddies and did a bunch of stuff together, so I would have thought like you on that one, but who knows? besides those guys, anyway.

Never got out to sweetwater but Bob gave me a glowing report and I want to get there sometime.

The other one was BG crack. Book sez cairns, could be,I was thinking issacs/Garson, do you know?

Didn't you live in Tucson for awhile? did you ever do Matracide?

o-o, looks like the thread is drifitng east.

Larry

Trad climber

Reno NV

Mar 21, 2006 - 12:09am PT

I would have guessed Cairns on BG, even if you hadn't said. I followed him on the 2nd ascent (I think) of Fowler/Hurley, next door. Was Isaacs that really tall skinny guy, or was that Gary Pousch? My old buddy Nick followed Bob on October Light. A friend named Diana belayed Doug on Flying Buttress.

That very first pic...I would have guessed Needles (SD) too. Nick of Time maybe.

I still go to Tucson a lot. Is this Matricide on Mt Lemmon? Not that I'm fit nowadays.

Jaybro

Social climber

The West

Mar 21, 2006 - 12:29am PT

Larry
Wierd. Doug C was The Man in Vedauwoo there for a while! Diana, diana, did she become a cop in Gillette? Or am I thinking of someone else?

You ever hear from Nick (Mike Nikzich [sp] I presume) I think you said something about him a while back, but dodderers like myself sometimes forget. I think I did the second ascent of October Light( there wasn't exactly a line) with Chris Raypole about the time of that Squat photo above. I thought it was classic, Chris didn't dig it, and he'd never read the book.

Matracide is an 11+ bombay squeeze chimney roof on Mt Lemon; a lowerdown through an obstruction crux kinda like Lucille, great stuff.

Issacs was (is?) tall and skinny,lanky, even, but I think Pausch was too.

Larry

Trad climber

Reno NV

Mar 21, 2006 - 12:46am PT

I wonder if DC still climbs? Diana was from Sheridan, so she might have gone to Gillette, but I don't think she'd be a cop. She was always a very gentle person. Married a guy from Israel. Yes, that's Mike Nicksich I mean. I've completely lost touch with him.

Scarpelli often had literary references in his route names. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, or Tripmaster Monkey.

Matricide sounds like a blast (!). I've found a reference - in Steiger, it's not in the older EFR. Ah - a toprope climb! FA by Swedin - is that the same person of Swedin/Ringle?

Jaybro

Social climber

The West

Mar 21, 2006 - 01:00am PT

Probably not the Diane I was thinking of.

I don't know if DC still climbs. He's a college proffesor in Montana now. Leubben interviewd him a year or so ago for an article on Vedauwoo in Climbing™. Told Craig an obscure story about him and Bob that rarely sees light but you probably know, how weird is that?

Gotta be the same Swedin.

oh yeah, another literery bob route- Freddy's Book, he climbed it with Mike (Fred) Fredreichs. bunches of others, but mind is getting small right now.

I'm looking for one to call Vlemk the boxmaker.

Rhodo-Router

Trad climber

Otto, NC

Topic Author's Reply - Mar 21, 2006 - 10:19am PT

Ah, the Swedin-Ringle: place TCU, lunge for chains. Too pumped to stick the chains. Repeat.

Phoolish: Currahee?

Rhodo-Router

Trad climber

Otto, NC

Topic Author's Reply - Mar 21, 2006 - 10:22am PT

How 'bout this one, y'all. Hint: not in season.

(No peeking)

Rhodo-Router

Trad climber

Otto, NC

Topic Author's Reply - Mar 21, 2006 - 10:36am PT

Get over yourself, man, who here's in CA? Look who's on this thread!

Ease up.

plus, toproping 40' slabs is proud, how could you deny this?

Tarbuster

climber

right here, right now

Mar 21, 2006 - 11:13am PT

Leapfrog + drift adjust/who cares where we're from.
This is Cyberville:

Rhodo, that last shot down the corner, Devils Lake or Rumney...

Rhodo-Router

Trad climber

Otto, NC

Topic Author's Reply - Mar 21, 2006 - 01:11pm PT

You're on the right side of the Mississippi...

[Edit]Hint: It's on the Chattanooga 'Yosemite Training Circuit'

Tarbuster

climber

right here, right now

Mar 21, 2006 - 09:46pm PT

I move that all "name that route!" posts be given top spot, front page, now matter how obscure, until some savvy cocksman names the bride, so we can enlarge our repertoire of climbing related astuteness and gallop on to the next one...

Ta hell with the technical conundrums of such a plan.

Yours,
West of the Mississippi.
[edit: gosh, I'm appaled how few try these, they're fun]

Tarbuster

climber

right here, right now

Mar 22, 2006 - 01:01am PT

Sewelly Mon: you meant to say, you know the climber, not the route, eh?

While we're waiting on the last 2 nice offerings, let's try an easier target.
"Name this Pitch?"
Hint: it's on the ID Tag, oops.