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le_bruce
climber
Oakland: what's not to love?
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Dec 17, 2007 - 02:37pm PT
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Sketchy, that is RAD - congratulations. Looks like a dogged effort to say the least, and many props to your friends - I should forward that link to my friends to give 'em some ideas for my birthday in'08.
Any falls or hangs throughout the day? Just curious whether your endurance is super super human, or just super human. And North Overhang as the 53rd, very nice. Probably best you didn't leave Leave It To Beaver for last.
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Latitute 33
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Dec 17, 2007 - 02:45pm PT
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Le-Bruce, you should definitely go for it. Two close calls, but no falls (or hangs-same thing). All leads or FS. Figured I better go for before it got any harder. Thanks again to Andy, Tom, Dave, Chris and Holden. There is no way I could have attempted this without them. They were awesome.
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Misha
Trad climber
Woodside, CA
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Dec 17, 2007 - 02:49pm PT
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My favorite and most rewarding "moment" of the year was a rare ascent of Mt. Winchell's West Arete in Sierra Nevada. Incredible adventure climbing in a gorgeous setting.
(photo copyright by Pavel Kovar)
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Maysho
climber
Truckee, CA
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Dec 17, 2007 - 02:56pm PT
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One major highlight was the last rappel down Deer Creek falls in the Grand Canyon with my son Braden, Brian Sweeney, and John ? . We were really not sure that we wouldn't drown.
In terms of going up, it would have to be the Nose in June and the last day. Leading every pitch, I had shaken off my off-the-couch rustiness and got into a great groove, (and so did my partner on 2nd). Jon Gleason and partner were cranking it in a fast day training for their soon after 1/2 Dome and NIAD combo. I felt proud that I was leading and hauling fast enough that they only very slowly gained on us, had to jug my line on the pitch off of camp 5 to pass, and then we only fell behind one pitch between camp 5 and the top. Not that I generally have any kind of competitive attitude, I was just psyched to be in such a flow and relative to some rad speed masters who I respect and like.
Peter
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Darren D.
Social climber
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Dec 17, 2007 - 03:00pm PT
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Graduation + Climbing = Best moment of 2007
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Prod
Social climber
Charlevoix, MI
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Dec 17, 2007 - 03:06pm PT
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Getting back into climbing after a 12 year hiatus.
Prod.
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nature
climber
Flagstaff, AZ
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Dec 17, 2007 - 03:11pm PT
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The best moments were meeting the likes of people like Jeff Lowe. Of course meeting the rest of the sushifest crowd is a very close second... but ya'll's can understand.
I don't recall anything that sticks out in my head as far as best moments. The trip I took to the East side and Tuolumne with my friend Tina sticks out as the best time I've had climbing this year. In fact, belaying her on her first lead is one of my favorite moments.
I've been working on a sport climb project here locally at The Pit called the Joker. After sitting on the couch for a few weeks took a top rope run on it and only had to hang once. That was my best effort on the climb and I surprised myself a little bit.
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scuffy b
climber
Stump with a backrest
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Dec 17, 2007 - 03:41pm PT
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Cutting it fine:
Getting my right foot, finally, onto that big feldspar crystal
that let me know, Yes, I had made it through the crux of the
Left Torpedo Tube.
Slightly larger scale:
Climbing Maria's Delight at Woodson, with Grug and Tom Gibson
looking on. I'm sure it was "just" a magical moment kind of thing
but everything below the squeeze section struck me as one of the
finest climbs I'd ever been on. I was high flying.
Larger still:
getting to Woodson and Vedauwoo for the first time.
Extending my social net, with strong ST connections, has been
exceedingly powerful for me. Just not "best moment" category, but
too important not to mention.
Thanks to all my new friends for sweetening my life.
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exposeur
Trad climber
santa cruz
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Dec 17, 2007 - 03:47pm PT
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this summer i got Do or Fly, 11c on puppy dome in TM, with much encouragement, and had never trad lead harder than 10d before that. stoked! later i was on blues riff and ran out of gear. i was doing it in one pitch, i had the hardest friggin time clipping that first bolt, fiddled around way too long on the crux, trying to get rests on the overhanging lieback stuff, wrist jamming, shaking and wobbling like hell.. my belayer said if my last shitty piece had blown it likely coulda been a 70 footer or somethin. wee!
http://photos-105.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v112/62/61/715137105/n715137105_150759_5717.jpg
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Brutus of Wyde
climber
Old Climbers' Home, Oakland CA
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Dec 17, 2007 - 04:36pm PT
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Lot and lots of great moments this year:
An unlikely ascent with Nurse Ratchet of Grassi Ridge on Wiwaxy Peak after deciding, spur-of-the-moment, to try to get camping space at Lake O'Hara. Night before the climb it stormed and left a half-inch of verglas coating the rock. We waited 'til noon
to let it melt off, then blasted. Got back to camp just at dark.
Northwest Corner of North Early Winter Spire. Washington Pass is an incredible area. Our first time there.
Devil's Tower.
City of Rocks.
North Ridge of Mt. Conness with full overnight packs.
Royal Arches and North Dome South Face with bivies.
Bow-Yoho Traverse across the Wapta Icefields on tele gear.
Many many other moments. They were all the best.
Brutus
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zip
Trad climber
pacific beach, ca
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Dec 17, 2007 - 04:41pm PT
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Climbing with you in Joshua Tree.
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Dec 17, 2007 - 04:51pm PT
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My first trip ever to City of Rocks, sandwiched between days in the Tetons. Spent 8 days at the City with no rain, a great crew, a nice campsite, and plenty of beer. All the climbing was amazing, but the sweetest was getting up Pigs on a Wing, clean, on my birthday. Partied hard that night and still had a good following day of climbing.
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GOclimb
Trad climber
Boston, MA
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Dec 17, 2007 - 04:55pm PT
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Best moment? Realizing what a lucky, lucky guy I am.
Here's me on my B-Day this year with Allison. My first trip back to Yosemite in nearly 10 years, since I learned how to climb. And she wanted to share it with me.
The T-shirt I'm wearing was a present from her. She designed it and hand-made it (cool pic of a splitter hand-crack on the back).
Speaking of which, despite her reticence about crack climbing, here she is showing her willingness to break out of her comfort zone.
Plenty of superb days with other partners this year, but that trip to the Valley simply can't be beat.
GO
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rhyang
Ice climber
SJC
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Dec 17, 2007 - 04:58pm PT
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My first 5.8 leads at Tollhouse Rock (March).
My first WI4 leads in Canada (Professor Falls, 2nd & 3rd pitch), also in March.
Soloing the NE Ridge of Bear Creek Spire car-to-car (August).
I won't be climbing again until August of next year at the earliest, and it will be like starting all over again ... hello Munginella and Aunt Fanny's Pantry :)
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SamRoberts
climber
Bay Area
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Dec 17, 2007 - 05:39pm PT
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Scrambling up an un-named 18000+ ft bump in western Tibet looking out over the Chang Tang, aka the Big Open. Nothing but space and silence.
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mooch
Big Wall climber
The Immaculate Conception
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Dec 17, 2007 - 06:56pm PT
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Tapping into a hidden beauty, somewhere in the southern Sierra. The FA of 'Three Amigos' (5.10+)
'Burrito Bandito' (5.9+)
My golden friendship with this modest chap
Chattin' with this pioneer of Sierra Nevada climbing, Glen Dawson
Trackin' down one of Suicide's last remaining aid lines.....'Forest Lawn'
Good ol' Jack McBroom (aka wallspeck). Good times sharing whoppered out stories, swappin' leads, a life teacher, and having him as a dear friend and the dude that married Rockcritter and myself. Long may you run, Jack!
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ct
climber
CA
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Dec 17, 2007 - 07:07pm PT
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2007 was my best year climbing. I feel extremely lucky to have had so many incredible experiences this year with my close friends. It is difficult to sum up any one 'best moment,' but some of the highlights were...
Sent my first .12 on gear.
Sent my first .13 on bolts.
Sent my first v9 over a pad.
Led every pitch on the Casual Route, onsight, wet, last two pitches in a rainstorm. Made it down unscathed.
Found, cleaned, and put up many new boulder problems.
Placed my first bolt.
Put up a new trad route.
Bummed it in the Creek for a month, total.
Soloed Cathedral Peak and West Country in an afternoon.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 17, 2007 - 07:16pm PT
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Pretty hard to top the FaceLift. Though I didn't once put on the rope.
SushiFest at St. George was pretty good, too, and I did climb one pitch there.
Plus I got to climb one day with Bryan L in Tuolumne, and he learned me a bit about the geology.
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Michelle
Trad climber
a camper shell somewhere, soon to be the Carolinas
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Dec 17, 2007 - 07:35pm PT
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some guy whose name I can't remember..
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Dec 17, 2007 - 07:35pm PT
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Reuniting somewhere in the basin and range, with my best friend/climbing partner, and seeing a decade of acrimony / loose ends, disolve, as we came back to a seemingly earlier temporal place, that could only happen now; is as good as it can possibly get.
There were many many other mind numbingly worthwhile moments as well. Mostly at the crags more than on the routes.
-though climbing spectreman clean (I was part of the FA team, BITD)after a period of not climbing well (wouldn't have happened with out the reuniting event mentioned above) was a pretty happening climbing situation.
I hope it was as good a year for y'all, as it was for me!
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