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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Nov 27, 2013 - 04:12pm PT
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The Happy Boulders, along with hundreds of other folks.
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speelyei
Trad climber
Mohave County Arizona
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Nov 27, 2013 - 09:22pm PT
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What a flop today. Why did I think Arizona choss would be more appetizing than Oregon choss?
I went out shamblin' around my local wilderness... "Look at all these FA's just waiting to go..." Then reality hit... "this sh#t is crap". That's why there's no anchors on top... anyone with the skill to get there knows better.
Gettin' off the couch after a decade has me thinking everything looks good. No partner, rollin the clove hitch, brick sized pieces falling off and me with no helmet... foolish. Backed off at 20'.
Still, saw burros, a tarantula, pottery shards, evidence of knapping, found a hidden grotto. Sun shining on my face, just me and the coyotes and cactus for a few hours.
I guess it was a win after all.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Nov 27, 2013 - 09:58pm PT
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Sounds like a nice day.
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WyoRockMan
climber
Flank of the Big Horns
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Nov 27, 2013 - 10:26pm PT
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Another great crack in some fabulous Big Horn Dolomite.
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thebravecowboy
Social climber
Colorado Plateau
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Nov 28, 2013 - 11:44pm PT
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Speelyei, I call BS! Go do it if you feel called to do so!
Even if you don't summit, even if you summit some piece of crap that no one will call a tower, you will encounter the arachnid and the softstone, you may dance with death, and most days you will walk away strangely satisfied, aware and accepting of your alone-ness, and proud. I guarantee you that no matter what, you will be happier there than you would be at, say, Rifle, or some other developed area full of chuffers talking grades, not really doing anything new.
EDIT: YERGUNNADIE
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Rollover
climber
Gross Vegas
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Nov 29, 2013 - 12:57am PT
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This week anyway..
First Lady of Magic 5.9
Skinny Mini 5.9
Diet Delight 5.8
Arrow Place 5.9
Handbone 5.10c
Return of the Jedi 5.9
Deja Vu 5.7
All @ Red Rock..
All good fun..
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thebravecowboy
Social climber
Colorado Plateau
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Nov 29, 2013 - 01:35am PT
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now that's what I call a phuckin Thanksgivin' spread. And I see dessert in the background!
virginn prospects
pathways to the current prospect
prospecting
motherf*#king solo harrdrock mining
FA? Steambong Mesa today.
today.
today.
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speelyei
Trad climber
Mohave County Arizona
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Nov 29, 2013 - 09:34am PT
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BraveCowboy, you are my Muse.
Oh, and I haven't given up... Just regrouping.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 29, 2013 - 10:17am PT
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Two good photographers like speelyei (sp?) and thebravecowpoke should band together and shoot each other.
Choss kidding, mate! I'm only the piano player, off the stool myself and I like climbing on sh#t, too.
Here's he stool I came up to and got on top of.
It's on private land, first, (but I had permission, for a change), I needed to walk DOWN to get to climb UP to it, then I noticed the leafless PO I'd walked through to get there, so the adventure continues with the rash watch.
And there were the typical forest leavings on top from critters.
Trundlebait Tiptop. It's in the Rawhide Mobile Home Park across from the Grotto. There is a f*#king driving range next to it. My brother is a golfer and hits "rocks" he shags from the out of bounds areas.
We went on a ball round-up while waiting for the turkey to cook. We went to the bottom of the draw beneath his single-wide mobile, took the dog, too. Then I decided to take a different route back up and this helped to find more balls (I found 13, he only found 12 using Sasha's nose, even) and come out below this boulder. I climbed straight up to it, diretissima. Then I used the Reilly factor and knew I was gonna die if I kept THAT sh#t up, so I circled it and picked the easiest line, which still involved an airy step-across-&-around maneuver, while wearing a pack loaded with photographic equipment and "rocks." Luckily, I didn't need the tripod to get these spectacular results.
The turkey was perfection, too.
Tim's drives seem to average about two thirty, factoring in the roll, but you can't really tell--it's forest.
There was a mini-saga going on when I arrived to visit. There was an egg hatching, or trying to become a squab, and it took a lot of Tim's attention. Despite his ministrations, which meant little, really, it failed to keep itself alive. If yer gonna die, yer gonna die.
I like thebravecowboy's veneer of sneering at death, while shitting bombs.
May you and all of us die where we are happiest and with the least inconvenience to our bothers and sisters.
But having lived this long, I think that for my part, I'll keep practicing the Reilly Factor and live a bit longer, por favor.
Life is good, climbing only makes it better.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 29, 2013 - 12:06pm PT
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climbed some sandstone boulders above sturgis after dinner. All was going good until I was backing down off one problem with both hands on this great rail when the whole thing let loose. About a 50 pound block let loose that I was hanging on to. I went flying backward and flipped around backward landing on all fours. The ground was fairly uneven and I thought I broke my leg. Turned out to only be a twisted ankle which is slightly swollen today, but luckily the block missed me. Super bummed today though as jack and I were heading to the tower to do el cracko diablo and it is supposed to be 55 degrees. Maybe tomorrow.
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thebravecowboy
Social climber
Colorado Plateau
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Nov 29, 2013 - 01:18pm PT
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Damn! Glad you ain't broken Mike!
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Edge
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Nov 29, 2013 - 07:27pm PT
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Today my daughter introduced me to Clear Creek Canyon, as I've never been there. It's been a month since I last climbed and it was 45 degrees and shady, so I picked easy .10s for my off-the-couch initiation to the bolt clipping.
Fun day, and we had the Capitalist, High Wire, and Wall of Justice crags to ourselves.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Nov 29, 2013 - 10:33pm PT
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awsome cold crisp day. 2500ft of elivation gain 1500++ ft of ice
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Nov 29, 2013 - 10:39pm PT
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Climbed up and down the scaffolding and stairs at the jobsite. Working on the final and highest section of roof . . . probably got about 700' of vertical while carrying 30 lbs. of tools and fasteners.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Nov 30, 2013 - 06:49pm PT
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Low elevation ice is still pretty thin arround here. led a 3 that i often solo and it was pretty sketch with water running under the ice... tred a 4 that was in very stiff condition......
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Tahoe climber
climber
Davis these days
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Nov 30, 2013 - 07:24pm PT
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Climbed First Flatiron today with my lady. Mellow and beautiful, and not too many peeps out.
Guess this makes me a legit "Eldo Prancer"
Was amazing - not used to multi pitch fun after Turkey day…and the views of Boulder don't suck
TC
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thebravecowboy
Social climber
Colorado Plateau
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Nov 30, 2013 - 07:47pm PT
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I climbed 'Titanic Rock,' the flatiron at the mouth of Monument Canyon, with my father today. Perhaps only Cl. 4 but some decent exposure, wet lichen, and lots of loose Wingate fault-blocks keep it sporty. At 68 he is still more nimble than me on the stone (phukker does not even climb) and danced over the looseness where my feet/weight cut loose some big blocks. Pretty cool for a dude born in '45, and not too bad for a guy who by his own account hadda 'recycle' condoms whilst traveling around Mexico in '71 in a homebuilt camper. Eww. Showed those Catholics though.
I offered him a handline for one crux past a chockstone and he just had me haul his pack and scampered under the phukker, all the while marveling at the geology, the place, oblivious to my shortcomings as a son, as a person, as a guide. I love my dad!
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mctwisted
Trad climber
e.p.
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Nov 30, 2013 - 08:11pm PT
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mctwisted
Trad climber
e.p.
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Nov 30, 2013 - 09:05pm PT
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