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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Feb 27, 2009 - 02:21pm PT
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more pics...
unknown climber 80s (isn't it obvious by those pink Grahams?)
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40oz2freedom
Social climber
Between depths of despair & heights of folly
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Feb 27, 2009 - 02:48pm PT
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Had a few too many 40’s over the years and during a recent jaunt up Serpentine I was tripping the scales at 278 Lbs. Do I hold the record for the “Fattest” ascent? Guess I can't term that the FA cause that'd be confusing. Guess I'll stick with HPA for Heaviest Personal Ascent.
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scuffy b
climber
just below the San Andreas
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Feb 27, 2009 - 02:51pm PT
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Could we call these climbers "unidentified" rather than
"unknown" please?
With more pictures, of course.
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GDavis
Trad climber
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Feb 27, 2009 - 03:24pm PT
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Good times, good times!
Long Climb
Brother's friend Danny on his first climb, ever! White Maiden
Brother leading out
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Feb 27, 2009 - 03:32pm PT
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My third day of climbing ever was an intermediate rock course that took me and some other dude up White Maiden and I've been hooked ever since. 1977 I think.
I love Idyllwild! Been a few years though. I just wish I could get out there more often, like even once or twice a year. I am so glad I earned my face climbing chops at Suicide because it's helped me everwhere I've ever climbed.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Feb 27, 2009 - 03:40pm PT
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One of the best things about Idyllwild was that because it didn't have destination skiing, and it wasn't on a highway to other places, it didn't get built over in the '60s-'80s by ugly corporate resort condos. As last as the late 1980s-- before they uglified the downtown with that fort--it still really felt like a sort of mid-century California mountain town.
Tons of small, single-family cabins (plenty of them homemade), and real homey-feeling restaurants and bars.
Quality bouldering right in town. Trout fishing almost as close. View of Tahquitz from downtown. In a lot of places, even around town, you could almost imagine it was 1946 again.
One of my favorite places of all time.
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tdoughty
Mountain climber
descanso, ca
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Feb 27, 2009 - 03:46pm PT
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And don't forget it's winter possibilities!
N. Face Tahquitz
Weeping Wall @ Suicide
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froodish
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Feb 27, 2009 - 03:57pm PT
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Hurrah for Idyllwild, I do miss it so.
Me (leading) and Chris Parker on the Flower, mid-80's
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Fletcher
Trad climber
here to eternity
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Feb 27, 2009 - 03:59pm PT
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My favorite place to climb in SoCal. Really feels like you're in the mountains, and the climbing is awesome. Why don't I go there more often??????
Had some good times there.
Nice that the town has that "out of the way" feel.
Fletch
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Fletcher
Trad climber
here to eternity
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Feb 27, 2009 - 04:03pm PT
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Hey 40oz... you're a funny guy
Nice on the Fattest Ascent. At 278 lbs on a face climb, that's got to count for something!
Fletch
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Gobi
Trad climber
Orange CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 27, 2009 - 04:05pm PT
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How do you size down photos?
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Feb 27, 2009 - 04:44pm PT
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Gobi, when you download to the web service you're using, you can usually select the size you want to save it as. I usually save them as 800x600.
At least that's how I do it with ImageShack.
Cool thread too! I've never been there but know it's a sweet location with quality rock. One of these days...
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Feb 27, 2009 - 07:02pm PT
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I plan to be back ropo soling Multipitch trad this spring.
Plans call for the Step and Superpooper.
Rock Exotica Soloist.
Juan
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Feb 27, 2009 - 10:18pm PT
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Hmm. Note to self: don't hang out under Step and Super Pooper this spring...
Anyway, I'll bump this with another insomnia pic, 1994...
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apogee
climber
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Feb 27, 2009 - 10:26pm PT
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Bump for pix of recent winter conditions (Valentine's Day) on Tahquitz
Vampire looks chilly!
Closer look at the Trough. Good training for the Eiger!
North face routes
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BeeHay
Trad climber
San Diego CA
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Feb 27, 2009 - 10:39pm PT
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Copyright violation!!!
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tooth
Mountain climber
Guam
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Feb 28, 2009 - 12:53am PT
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Those winter pics are great!
I first saw the rock on a drive through Idyllwild to get somewhere else. I returned the next weekend and climbed there dozens of times since. The best days were when there was snow covering the first pitch of the climbs around whodunnit.
I had a couple really good climbing partners at the time who would go up every weekend with me and do laps up and down the rock.
Nothing better than finishing your week with a couple thousand vertical feet of granite crack!
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Feb 28, 2009 - 01:06am PT
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what's cool is that all the Taquitz cracks look kewl! I haven't even done 'em yet....keep rolling the pics.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Feb 28, 2009 - 10:14am PT
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Idyllwild does contain some of the most compact granite anywhere.
Super high quality in some cases similar to portions of El Capitan.
Galloping about on a Suicide Rock classic, Flower of High Rank, circa 1984:
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Feb 28, 2009 - 11:10am PT
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*MAGIC*
History, excellent rock, classic routes at all grades.
I ALMOST lost an Anasazi from the
"bologne slicer" belay on the Vampire.
That would not have been good.
Absolutely love Tahquitz.
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