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Friend

climber

Feb 21, 2015 - 04:41pm PT

^^ man knows what he's talking about.

nice job skcreidc. Goals keep us moving forward... feels good to send!

But, uhhh... better run a lot of laps on Robbins if you are prepping for IC :)

Mungeclimber

Trad climber

Nothing creative to say

Feb 21, 2015 - 04:42pm PT

nice job on the laps

Friend

climber

Feb 22, 2015 - 09:46pm PT

They grow like weeds down there

skcreidc

Social climber

SD, CA

Feb 23, 2015 - 06:33am PT

Nice weed Friend! I need to lead and run laps on many many more of these short ones to have a shot at IC is what I hear from you and BVB. Shoot, it's now or never for us. So it looks like its now, lol! Next time on Robins, instead of alternating one lap per i'm going for 4 consecutive then let Patty run laps on it for a few. Any suggestions? We both got to bump up our crack strength as we aren't getting any younger.

Truthdweller

Trad climber

San Diego, CA (stuck in Jersey)

Feb 25, 2015 - 10:25pm PT

Anyone get a chance to continue up the trail/ridge from Shirley and find the gems up along there?

Sanstone

climber

San Diego

Feb 27, 2015 - 12:02am PT

Some folks have been going up as you see by the pictures. Seems the order of the day is to go to a new area. Then you leave your trash there. Then you start prying off flakes and f*#k up an existing solo circuit. Does anybody just go climb without trying to be a movie star anymore?

skcreidc

Social climber

SD, CA

Feb 27, 2015 - 04:12pm PT

Great god I felt tired today. But still led Robbins then we ran 8 laps on it. At 58, there is NO wait.

Anyone get a chance to continue up the trail/ridge from Shirley and find the gems up along there?

Some truthdweller, some of it; we are still working on it.

Sanstone, that is some funny sh!t you wrote. You been hanging with the wrong people? We leave places cleaner than we found it, and why would anyone pry off flakes. Which brings me to the question; where people been pulling off flakes? If so, that really sucks. We been trying to be low key; leave no trace, well, just trimming the veg. The supertopo messageing blows so call me if you want. (619) 851-3466.

Chris

EDIT; Been having some dyslexic senior moments lately, so my apologies to anyone trying to call the phone number I left. It has been corrected and the double post deleted.

Friend

climber

Mar 4, 2015 - 03:03pm PT

BUMP

Hey sandstone, let’s hear some more about these allegations of yours. Prying off flakes. Where?

New area? You can’t mean Laverne and Shirley, dead-obvious roadside cracks established decades ago. What are you talking about?

bvb

Social climber

flagstaff arizona

Mar 4, 2015 - 03:05pm PT

I was wondering the same thing. WTF is he talking about? And 7 posts in the last 5 years? We should be honored!

darkmagus

Mountain climber

San Diego, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Mar 4, 2015 - 04:23pm PT

He knows something we don't know: lots of loose potato chip flakes means you're on a well-traveled classic...

bvb

Social climber

flagstaff arizona

Mar 5, 2015 - 11:01pm PT

*snicker* the thing behind is better, yo.

skcreidc

Social climber

SD, CA

Mar 14, 2015 - 01:30pm PT

This is a call out to the JW's OR anybody who can direct me to Starface. I took the trail down from Bighorn. Basically goes either mostly South of it, or heads a bit more westerly as the trail bifrucates. The trail that heads more south ends up at an overhanging offwidth that starts out fisthand stacks and widens going up. The other trail I had to stop 'cause I can't take my wife on that without knowing where I'm going, lol!!. Hopefully I was on one the right trail. Can someone tell me which one? I need to sus this out first, then drag my wife out.

baggenstos

Trad climber

san diego, ca

Mar 14, 2015 - 04:40pm PT

Sounds like you were on the right trail. The offwidth that you found is Maria's. If you keep contouring the hillside instead of dropping down left to Maria's you'll end up at Starface. The trail is pretty obvious but there's a few awkward spots where you have to go over boulders.

gonamok

climber

dont make me come over there

Mar 14, 2015 - 05:33pm PT

sanstone, if you know of anybody who really does the things your are talking about, kindly forward that information to me and i will have a talk with them. San Diego has always been a bastion of traditional ethics. Time has brought change, and a limited amout of rap bolting in specific areas has been tolerated (dont try it at woodson), but chipping, gluing and any other artificial enhancement will never be ok. How about some specific examples of the rock butchery of which you speak?

And whomever you are, you are in no position to make a judgement on san diego's climbing ethics, because 1)who are you? and 2)you dont know what youre talking about

gonamok

climber

dont make me come over there

Mar 14, 2015 - 05:36pm PT

Gary, Rick and I have checked out the ridge south of woodson, accessing it once from K2 and once from ellie lane. We found it surprisingly open and easy to navigate on top, and surprisingly devoid of potential. I think targeting specific giant boulders to access from the top may be the best way to check those things out.

skcreidc

Social climber

SD, CA

Mar 15, 2015 - 10:25am PT

Thanks baggenstos, I WAS on the right track originally. And the bonus was I found that OW too. I need to go back with clippers and find the rock first. THEN take the wife there. It just needs a wee bit of trail work before I take her down all the way I think.

skcreidc

Social climber

SD, CA

Mar 17, 2015 - 09:15am PT

Thanks for posting that up Warbler. I don't know the guy and I certainly don't feel qualified to speak for anyone who climbs in that area, but (after I posted up the right #) sanstone gave me a call and we talked for quite a while. Seemed stand up to me, and after my bro-in-law gets off deaths door (liver transplant as I post) I plan to get together with him to climb.

Chris