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Slater
Trad climber
Central Coast
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Shuteye January 8, 2012.
Less snow now than there was in November.
The season keeps on giving...
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Nice coat hangers.
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Slater
Trad climber
Central Coast
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Nate, I like that... coat hangers.
The second pitch was a rodeo.
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Meaning a lasso frenzy, or you got bucked off?
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Slater
Trad climber
Central Coast
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nothing but flingin' slings
Sling Flinger... good route name
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Camahoo
Trad climber
Shaver Springs
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This winter sucks.
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Banquo
climber
Morgan Hill, CA (Mo' Hill)
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3" is too long for hand drilling in granite. Agreed, but just right for power drilling on roofs. :-) Ground up on lead? Awesome if so.
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Slater
Trad climber
Central Coast
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We didn't need any... 400' on knobs and gear! stoked!
Did use some on a fun .10c slab though.
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mike a.
Sport climber
ca
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That stuff looks super fun, where those climbs, i want check that out.the weather is still looking great for the next week!!! wow!!!
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mooch
Trad climber
Old Climbers' Home (Adopted)
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nice stuff Tom. Good you're getting up there.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Need to get out.....someone ping me.
All work and no play makes Tiki an angry boy!
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Slater
Trad climber
Central Coast
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Yeah you guys gotta get out there and capitalize on the temps and no snow... (maybe you are!?) even though the days are short. I make up for it by bringing amenities like a thermos of coffee, some beers for later, a big fat sub sandwich, and then eat like there is no tomorrow on the way home.
It works out about even.
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Ol' Skool
Trad climber
Oakhurst, CA
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Anybody spontaneous enough for tomorrow?
Planning on going up- if so, lemme' know...
Bruce
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Slater
Trad climber
Central Coast
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Jan 10, 2012 - 11:21am PT
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Trad is rad.
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mooch
Trad climber
Old Climbers' Home (Adopted)
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Jan 10, 2012 - 12:14pm PT
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JR -
Please hold his feet to the fire as a favor for me! Ger likes to flake from time to time..... ;)
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mooch
Trad climber
Old Climbers' Home (Adopted)
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Jan 10, 2012 - 12:25pm PT
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Okay, soyo thread that was my post limit for another 6 months.
HAHAHA!! You sir, are well disciplined.
Jealous! And Big Cam will be there too. Double Damn!
Will be climbing Feather Couloir this weekend (by request from the "Commanding Officer").
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Slater
Trad climber
Central Coast
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Jan 10, 2012 - 12:27pm PT
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No worries JR, we'll post for you
f*#kin' Slater
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Jan 10, 2012 - 01:24pm PT
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Jer - even if you don't post, we know you'll be lurking...
GO GER - get OUT there!
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Camahoo
Trad climber
Shaver Springs
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Jan 10, 2012 - 03:48pm PT
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I'm down for saturday. Not only in spirit but in body.
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Grahm Doe
Sport climber
Just South Of Heaven
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Jan 16, 2012 - 10:32pm PT
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Trip Report for Jan 14th.
So plans changed at the last minute and I ended up hooking up with Jeremy and crew at North Fork in the morning. And, who was there but TIKI-Jer! Woohoo, he made it out before the season ends. I was stoked to play tour guide for him.
Jer and I bombed up the road in the Jeep and hoofed it up to the Eagle Beaks. Jeremy had to go pick up a friend and would meet us later. First we hit Ahria Wall and a nice splitter crack for our warm up.
Jer tried to onsight it for the second ascent but he was feeling it from the long approach and the steep jams got him. So he lowered off a cam and I gave it a burn and then Jer toproped it for fun and did really well.
Next we hit South Eagle for an FA on a long face I was hoping would go with no bolts. I wanted to get on it all summer but it never came together. Jer was game and we searched out an approach and went for it with just slings and cams.
A stiff 10a traverse into the dihedral lead to easier climbing and a big ledge. A short scramble behind the ledge and a perfect little belay chair boulder made a comfy spot to bring Jer up. P2 A spicy reach over the void to some knobs lead to a huge wall covered in Coral Reef knobs.
Awesome views and fun climbing for 500 feet.
One more pitch to the top!
We found this old tree that was strangled to death from webbing near the summit.
The walk off is easy but a bit spicy at this one point where a slip could send you free falling.
We walked back down to the Jungle Gym Wall and I pointed out all the other walls to Jer on the way back. He seemed a little overwhelmed by all the rock up there. :-)
Finally we met back up with Jeremy. Jer tried to onsight Jeremys steep knobby climb up the middle of the face. Jer started getting pumped and with some encouragement charged for the anchors. A slip of the foot and he was airborne at the last bolt for a nice sport climb fall. Earlier Cam was struggling with the same route and yelled down "This route isn't 5.9!!!". I yelled back "Thats cause its 5.8!" :-)
Jeremy then onsighted my route to the right for the second ascent as the sun was setting.
Finally Camahoo's dog said it was time to go.
We hiked out by headlamp and she was not happy going down the steep descent. At one point while Cam was trying to guide her down the trail his legs got tripped up and he took a full on header and almost went down into a chasm. Yikes!
After the hiking crux it was smooth sailing back to the car. Jer headed straight home and then it was time for Jeremys famed "Fiesta Chicken" pizza at Pizza Factory and a pitcher of Shock Top beer.
Looks like the season is finally over with a big storm coming in. This was the longest winter season for climbing I have ever seen. I was glad to be able to get out, finish up some projects, do more research, and get pics for the guide book. Looking forward to snowmobile season!
The Tahoe snow report shows what we may be in for...
http://unofficialnetworks.com/tahoe-start-recovering-snow-67415/
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