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Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Aug 8, 2018 - 10:04pm PT
Eric Gabel, Better With Bacon, Lover's Leap, 2013
Mungeclimber

Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
Aug 8, 2018 - 10:06pm PT
I was just thinking about climbing some 5.8. Collusion!
Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Aug 9, 2018 - 06:33pm PT
Linda Jarit cruxed, Edge Of Absurdity, Yosemite Valley, 2010

selfish man

Gym climber
Austin, TX
Aug 10, 2018 - 04:57am PT
Lousy shot of a wonderful Robbins route in Cracked Canyon: Chewbacca

Pirouette, same location: (maybe not 5.8, but I can't find a thread for 5.7):
Mark Force

Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
Aug 10, 2018 - 09:01am PT
Cracked Canyon! Sweet!
Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Aug 10, 2018 - 10:26am PT
^^^love the shot, iconic, in my mind I hear the leader yelling down "which way does the topo say?"

and the fumbling of fingers pulling the folded script from a pocket, the mind glancing at a few abstract lines with age inappropriate lettering (small) attempting to convey a highly abbreviated notation.

First ascents are so much more sane that way.
norm larson

climber
wilson, wyoming
Aug 10, 2018 - 03:16pm PT
Savwafare est everywhere. One of the better 5.8s in J Tree.
Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Aug 11, 2018 - 10:19am PT
Mike Church leads Baby, Shawangunks, 1980
one of our first climbs in the 'Gunks, chosen because "how hard can 5.8 be?"
note the rack of hexes and nuts, and some tied slings, EB's on the feet.

By the way, Baby is an interesting 5.8 to lead... usually we did it, BITD, with about 4 pieces to the belay.

This is my oldest image of 5.8, and I've shown most of my other images (at least the presentable ones)...

...so this thread will wait for me to collect some more images, or for some of you to share your own.
selfish man

Gym climber
Austin, TX
Aug 11, 2018 - 12:06pm PT
North Arete, Bear Creek Spire
selfish man

Gym climber
Austin, TX
Aug 11, 2018 - 12:13pm PT
Barry being silly at the top of Moosedog tower, JTree. Whatever we did was 5.8, give or take
Ed H

Trad climber
Santa Rosa, CA
Aug 15, 2018 - 10:06am PT
Eagle Lake Cliff, Unknown Chimney 5.8 bolts!


After you lead the chimney you can TR an amazing 4 star arete 10c called 'Off the Wall'


You've also get a good view of climbers on Space Walk 11d


Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Aug 15, 2018 - 10:25am PT
Wonderful & wide, A Fritz Wiessner classic, put up in '40,(not,'41 as all the books say), Baby is a hard 5.6.
Alpinista55

Mountain climber
Portland, OR
Aug 15, 2018 - 02:22pm PT
Outer Space on Snow Creek Wall, WA

Musta been a while back... those look like EBs on my feet.

Mark Force

Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
Aug 15, 2018 - 03:36pm PT
EBs, rugby shirt, no chalk...yeah, been a while.
wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Aug 15, 2018 - 03:41pm PT
I hope chiloe is well.
yanqui

climber
Balcarce, Argentina
Aug 16, 2018 - 04:13am PT
Cool shot of the crux traverse on Outer Space (rated 5.8+ back in the day). I was too lazy to even take pictures back then, let alone set up a shot like that!
Alpinista55

Mountain climber
Portland, OR
Aug 16, 2018 - 12:01pm PT
No set-up involved in that shot of Outer Space. My friend who led the pitch before me sewed up the traverse and had so much rope drag that he had to belay early and just happened to be in the right spot for the photo.
thebravecowboy

climber
The Good Places
Aug 16, 2018 - 02:27pm PT

Sherman Granite 5.8 bumpity
Chiloe

Trad climber
Lee, NH
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 17, 2018 - 12:49pm PT
I hope chiloe is well.

Thanks Willbeer, still thriving.

wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Aug 29, 2018 - 03:41pm PT
Good to see man, I may get over your way this fall.
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