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bvb
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flagstaff arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 5, 2013 - 01:03pm PT
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any other new top secret spots?
I'll trade you the Aquarius Plateau boulders for the Big Rocks video. Deal?
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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Not sure why it ain't on the webz no more. Like any masterpiece, you should have copied it while you had the chance!
No word from my folks in Davis. Maybe Sun...
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 5, 2013 - 04:08pm PT
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The youtube link shows it is a private video/password protected. maybe you just need to log on to YuTube and change the setting?
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 5, 2013 - 04:21pm PT
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Those rocks look sort of like Suicide... is that stone like the stuff in the bouldering pics... you know, featured? Solid?
Nothing much like suicide, really. The stuff at Big Rocks and the Hankries is generally overhanging, pockets of all kinds from hideous tendon-snapping monos to bottomless sinker letterbox slots. It's not granite by any means; too many limestone-type pockets but it looks and feels like granite. Many climbs are 99% pockets with an edge here and there. I've seen no other rock like it on Earth. But there are some GREAT slab climbs that remind me a lot of Sherman Acres (think Sketchpad only better (sorry John!), and other Bishop stuff like those overrun Happies. Boom it's the bomb! The Capitol Reef bouldering is mutant, but good quality super fun and if you like Canyonlands scenery the setting can't be beat. I was hooked on it. The Wingate splitters range from full-on Indian Creek clones to scary sandy excercises in character building. The Navajo Dome summits are the ultimate in semi-techinial adventure outings (check out the Walker Peak photo and you'll see what I mean), and the mud towers are standard Fischer Towers-type fare. And all of this stuff is one CD or a few Mp3's driving time from Torrey! It's decided, I'm gonna buy a beater old 2nd home and live there from time to time. Absolutely most bitchin' place I've lived in the lower 48, but this may be a matter of taste. I *heart* the remote. Oh, and there are some frozen waterfalls that form up on the North side of Boulder mountain. A good google search will reveal much.
Bit steeper than a "slab", but less than vert and 100% pockets!
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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I don't see it anywhere in my youtube vids. Got a link?
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Thanks for the info ... bvb
I think the formation, from a distance.. looks like a granite formation.
But the stone is full of holes!!
That sounds nice, n fun.
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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Horny rock at the Hankries: twas a failed volcano... over zealous intrusion. Basically, it would have been a volcano... if it weren't for that meddling sandstone (Windgate me thinks). It got stuck and became a laccolith.
It is a silica undersaturated rock. I think I saw some nepheline in there... nearby La Sals and Abadabadoo's are also silic poor... fwiw, I think Hueco is a syenite, also silica poor volcanic... but it was a long long time ago.. I have a piece lying around here somewheres).
(youtube says it is private for me too)
Where dat? How are the bolders?
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2013 - 04:25am PT
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Wish I had my computer's portable back-up hard drive with me here in San Diego. 1,000's of pics of sh#t on there that could forever alter your pespective on obsure, mysto, off-the-beaten-path areas. Every single photo I've posted in this thread was nicked from the 'net. I mean, f*#k."secet Spots?" Yeah, maybe if you've never used a cell phone or a laptop before.
If I had my hard drive, I could start a motherf*#king American Climbing Legend Revolution, Godammit! In praise of hard-to-find, hard-to-get there, undoumented crazy-ass off-teh-grid rocks located in the most spectacular locales in the lower 48.
Black Diamond, Wild Country, La Sortiva, Patagonia, Metolius, Arctyrex, Eddie Bauer, Sears and Roebuck, North Face, Albertsons and Safeway and Whole Foods, the "I DO! I DO! sex-toy lingerie shop in Flagstaff...they'd all have to start rebranding completely from scratch and spend gazillions developing and launching new Ad campaigns for the cutting-edge Wayne Couny obsuranita hipster bouldering demographic, imported from Williamsburg!
Then they'd have to move OR from the Salt Palace to the NAU sky dome, that'd be fun! How many chossaholics can you fit on a pinhead, uh, I mean keyboard?!
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2013 - 06:05pm PT
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Unless the StoopidDopo group consensus is that this thead has become a massive, boring waste of precious time and a deplorable bandwidth-sucking black hole of blatant self-aggrandizing nonsense and choss-worshop, a bone-crushing expose of never-seen-before Wayne County sw0leness is in the works. It's all up to WesChrist and his motherf*#king video stash.
What say ye, fellow has-been never-was losers and chump scramblerz?!? Yea or Nay?
Not that I care what you think.
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Relic
Social climber
Vancouver, BC
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Lurkering hard here, keep err comin.
I'd love to check out the sw0le but I think it would explode my Honda Fit to bits.
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MisterE
Social climber
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You need to get the fuk back to Flag and get that hard drive.
That's my final answer.
:)
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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A load of Bull
I've always been so engrossed in the fun and frolic of playing on the choss that I just drive right by this kind of stuff with nary a second glance....
EDIT: Yes, those "shrubs" are big-ass trees
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 7, 2013 - 03:18am PT
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See? See?! This is what I'm talkin' about. I know good and goddamn well that NOBODY is giving this thread so much as a token glance. It's a wallflower thread, that pimple-faced n00b monument to awkward social invisibility.I slave day and deep into the wee hours attempting to fashion this extraordinarly deranged, depraved, bamboozled, hornswaggled, butttknckled and just plain unbalanced topic into something of value. Wadda I get in return? Some wierd looks, a few trully bizarre PMs, banner ads for Hungarian mail-order brides, come-ons for OCD San Diego psychiatrists, and bulk Viagra offers with Bolivian mail-order return adresses.
For example, the following remark, the essence of Absurdum In Extrema when it come to Dick and I, was allowed to pass with nary a single snort, an off-the-cuff snarky comment, a cutting put-down or reality check, nuthin, Nada:
When it comes to subtle self-depriciation, understated elegance, effortless finishing school manners, inconspicuous class, jaw-dropping climbing technique, exquisite taste in boulders, proper grooming, and raw animal magnetism with the fairer sex, you'll find no two finer exemplars then the American Legend and his early mentor, the Master Cylinder
OK, so maybe you rockclimbing.com refuges have grown soft, lazy, and addicted to thread-drama inolving guns, boobs, and YouTube videos of cats. So be it, as it may.
Me? Im keeping it real in Wayne County, where we don't preen, swagger, shout "Allez!" in our sleep or otherwize flex nuts. Cause we ain't got nuts, most of us were accidentally gelded by our drunk fathers when they mistook us for colts. But what the f*#k...we got the stones, bra! Bring your fart-stick digiridoos, we make the pioneer campfire musics with Blood Beat and Dread, and Marcus Garvey's secret dry-rub rib recipe of special herbs' n' spices for the Mutton Ribs Mon! I-tal down to da final Chakra, mon. We can crash at Haile Selassie's place, it be de bomb mon! Hemp fiber throws rgs, Mon. Splif and titties and boulders and sheep, mon!! Jah Waynesafari!
The all-volunteer Scumbag Taskforce TEAM DEADLY 2013 exploratory expeditionary team -- code named Satan's God Squad -- is is full motherf*#king effect, launcing in sw0le drive and heading out on the next Wayne County Reconaissance mission in the tricked-out heat-seeking 1956 Chevy Bel-Air epicmobile! V14 deathballs, here we come! Join the movemont, Mon! I and I give tanks and praises!!
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Let not handwringing divert thee from thy appointed path Pilgrim!
Nobody's getting in their cars over this stuff, okay maybe a few of us, but in general this is just serving as eye candy.
Besides, my pussy hurts and I believe this is the antidote.
Is it just me? Or does this thread needs more pictures ...
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 11, 2013 - 03:32pm PT
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NEWS FLASH!
The evil-ex Jocelyn has located my back-up hard drive and is mailing it to me. Prepare yourselves for a Wayne County PHOTO ASSAULT that will rock rhe masses, realign Chakras on an interstellar scope, and, well, compel the Supertopians of the planet to get sw0le, pack their rigs, and bust all known speeds records in the quest for plim-pickin' Wayne County first-scent GLORY! THIS IS IT! Chossaholics, get into therapy now 'cause you're gonna need it!
w00t w00t
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 12, 2013 - 03:26pm PT
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Oh HELL YEAH BABY, it ain't over till I SAY it's over. Wayne County Muthafukkas, straight pimpin' at 7500 feet, 40 miles out on a bad 4X4 road with a ragweed blunt in one hand, bottle of Macallan 12 in the other, steering with the knees while scanning 7.5 topos and blasting AC/DC turned up to 11. It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll.
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goatboy smellz
climber
Nederland-GulfBreeze
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Feb 12, 2013 - 05:37pm PT
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FKNA!
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Feb 12, 2013 - 05:58pm PT
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Me on some moderate short crack line at the mouth of Capitol Gorge, almost directly across from the road fromt the classic handcrack. CapReefNP, Winter 99/00
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