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snakefoot
climber
cali
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Sep 23, 2008 - 03:46pm PT
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strong work TK...keep pullin down
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Sep 28, 2008 - 04:10am PT
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The following week (yesterday):
Andrew on a tricky slab--I backed off it, nice send A.
Zana working her pebble magic. AWhit sent the arete to her left; proud.
Nice little route to the right of the preceding, mine to name.
Zana following me up a little hand crackie.
Nice find, A--bring the crew and the pads for this one, Tom.
It doesn't look so mean from this angle.
From the side: note A and Z for size comparisons.
Last, but certainly not least, we played on this tamer micro. It's no gimme, only Andrew got it. I got to the crux entrance by a saddle bronc Leavitation move--it will be a fun one to succeed on.
Matching at the horizontal is the launch point for this.
Awhit lunging for a "foot" hold.
TKingsbury is heading up later today (Sunday) to further the exploration. Photos to follow on Monday ?
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 28, 2008 - 11:24am PT
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Nice stuff Kev! Looks like you uncovered some more goodness in there....
Drinking some coffee and getting ready to roll that way...
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FeelioBabar
climber
Sneaking up behind you...
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Sep 28, 2008 - 12:26pm PT
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ALWAYS a pleasure TK.
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P.Kingsbury
Trad climber
the jeep
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Sep 28, 2008 - 03:49pm PT
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right on brother men!!!!!
looks like fun, another week or so here at the tower for dave and i.
maybe have a tr of my own one of these days
cheers,
patrick
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Zander
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Sep 28, 2008 - 07:44pm PT
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Ha ha, nice!
Thanks,
Z
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Sep 28, 2008 - 08:33pm PT
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Some from today--it was cool that Molly and the kids decided to come out and join us for the day's events.
Lyddie trying to power through.
A possible future wide enthusiast.
realmojede gets into the groove of things.
Found a mini-crimper problem for Ladd--climbing shoes will be on him next season.
Success.
AWhit finishing things up on this fine arete.
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Sep 29, 2008 - 03:17pm PT
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Bump for the working folk.
Last session of the weekend at the new pebbles--Monday mornin' pullin' (I just got back into town to pick-up the lad).
Awhit gettin' some.
Mojede smilin' before the back-off. A smile for me anyways :-)
Z on one of the dozens of rounded-arete problems.
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Griff
Social climber
Felton, PA
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Sep 29, 2008 - 09:13pm PT
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So is that area about the same latitude as Whitetail Reservoir?
Looks north of Delmoe from what little I can see in the pics but that area is such a freaking maze I was still getting turned around after exploring there for years. For all I know you were south of the highway.
Maybe Chongo should move there to meditate. It would beat sleeping under a semi.
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Sep 29, 2008 - 09:23pm PT
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You guys have any clue, how much you rock?
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Sep 29, 2008 - 09:32pm PT
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Griff, no on Whitetail, yes on South of the Highway.
Those two highways (3 if you want to get technical, 4 could be accurate, too) running through the Batholith are its arteries. Just don't get me on the subject of the veins :-)
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 29, 2008 - 09:35pm PT
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Griff-
Very cool! I love finding out about past explorers of the batholith. You have any pictures/stories/areas? man, we should talk, because there is alot of greatness in those hills. If not here, by email...but I'm sure others would be interested too.
Hard to get a grip on what people have done...beyond talking to a couple of people, I have a hard time piecing together much for bouldering history. Locals like Dwight Bishop etal, seemed to be spending time tackling the larger formation...but I have heard stories about missoulans in the 70s spending days wandering and climbing the boulders...I have yet to tack down better info about that though...
While there has been some exploration near whitetail/nez perce road, this stuff is actually south of the interstate. Northside of the interstate/delmoe lake road has alot to offer as well. Have you seen any of the other of the past batholith postings? I can post some links...
BTW, you ever boulder the area on Delmoe lake road, where you first cross the tracks coming from the pipestone exit?
thanks Jaybro!
Cheers
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Griff
Social climber
Felton, PA
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Sep 29, 2008 - 10:27pm PT
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MOj and TKing,
I wasn't asking you to let any cats out of the bag so to speak!
Yeah TK I first explored just above the tracks you speak of (the Desert Zone we called it as opposed to the more northern and western forested areas) and was drawn back to the area alot! Just kept creepin north, never really felt I scratched the surface and was so content exploring there that I only ended up south of the highway a couple times.
This isn't any cool ancient history or anything. We're talking late 80's through the 90's. Whenever the crew I knew in Bozeman were going to "Pipestone" they were of course refering to the large popular formation on Delmoe road.
The guys I worked with took me trailriding on dirtbikes out there and I was blown away by all of the cool rock gardens we went through. Me and a buddy would Mtn. bike or dirtbike way back into some of these off the beaten path zones with shoes, a short rope and a lite rack.(we were only 5.9-5.10 guys and didn't want to break an ankle!) Mostly we'd look for sweet hands and fingers to T.R. or do little mini leads. Plain old bouldering of course too. We just climbed for fun and didn't take any notes or anything. Hell sometimes we couldn't even find our way back to some of the stuff we did.
There are some pretty tall formations tucked away back there as well. They occasionally stick out of the side of a steep hill and don't stand above the trees and are a pleasant surprise.
Super fun times. Oddly the place has a long climbing season for MT. Thats why we went there so much.
I know this is a long post but WTF. Thanks so much for continually posting pics of this area. I still have a lot of great friends out there and I WILL be back!
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Sep 29, 2008 - 10:44pm PT
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Griff, it's a very tiny cat in a very large bag; it didn't get out, it just walked around inside of the expanse :-)
I know what you mean by saying the pebbles look familiar, the area is sooo large that boulders and zones within it all start to look the same after awhile--one of the many splendors of the place.
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 29, 2008 - 10:47pm PT
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Really cool Griff,
Don't think we're giving away too much...just enough to get people interested.
Desert Zone...that's a cool name, fun stuff too. We've done about 60 or 70 problems in there, I'm betting you've pulled on more than a couple then...
this is that center tall guy on the east side of the road there..
As for not finding your way back to stuff...that seems to happen. Some of those cool 'out in the woods' boulders never seem so easy to find as when you just wander into them. More than once I tried to take someone back to some further back spots, and just ended up lost out there, running into other stuff...
Thanks for the post, really, good stuff. Enjoyable to read about people out on those rocks.
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Griff
Social climber
Felton, PA
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Sep 29, 2008 - 11:40pm PT
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I saw Mojedes post (I think it was his) walking with folks along the train tracks. That was cool. We used to ride motorcycles over that high trestle- that's a rush.
I'll dig out my old map tomorrow to refresh my memory and just give you a basic idea where we knocked around. I used to try to figure out on a map about where we were but there are so many folds in the landscape I could never be sure. My best map was in my head and it's been a while. I'm not sure but I think some of your posts refer to zones west of the loop in the train tracks. We always parked on the Delmoe rd.
Could you post the link to that map you put up before the batho- boulderfest? I'm curious where the zones are on the west side of the Divide/ rest area. I thought there was something on that map.
I should plan a trip out there next spring/summer. If I make it to MT, I WILL go to Pipestone. My "far away" bouldering excursion this past spring was Oak Flats in AZ. It was neat but I'd rather go back to the batholith.
BTW: those Humbug spires look awesome! Never went there but those photos are great.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Sep 29, 2008 - 11:59pm PT
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hey there tkingsbury.... say, i just love these rocks... very nice shots, too... looks like you had a nice day to climb, too...
so from what i read, this is montana, i am gathering?
wow, now i got to wait for page two to download... thanks for the share... it will be worth the wait... :)
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Sep 30, 2008 - 12:40am PT
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Griff, check your e-mail (address listed here for your user name).
Too much information flying over cyberspace forums--let's go personal from here if specifics are to be discussed. Both TK and my e-mail addys are good.
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tooth
Mountain climber
B.C.
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Sep 30, 2008 - 08:17am PT
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thanks for the photo journey!
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AWhit
Trad climber
Bozeman, MT
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Sep 30, 2008 - 03:18pm PT
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"New" Climbing Photos on a climbing sight, what a concept. All praise the granite delights.
Whens Pat comin' back?
Mid-week Session? How?
We need a super train not an interstate.
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