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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Sep 12, 2010 - 05:34pm PT
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Nature, Santa Cruz is famous for it's Maleno Creek Dry Farmed Tomatoes.
Now the Mojave... That would be some serious dry farming!
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Sep 13, 2010 - 06:19pm PT
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Geez, did I actually catch anyone with that? I wasn't even trying to disguise the farce of it!
Honored some of you think I could dream of climbing that thing. I'd have to do a rap/jumar ascent for sure!
;-)
Karl
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Sep 13, 2010 - 09:30pm PT
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Karl- it's so rare you troll and the STFU was priceless. I just couldn't resist ... LOL.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Sep 13, 2010 - 10:36pm PT
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Priceless!
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snowhazed
Trad climber
Oaksterdam, CA
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Feb 18, 2011 - 06:58pm PT
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I have no idea how I found this thread- 2 whole years later- but after reading the whole damn thing all I can say is wow.
This thing validates the st forum in ways that utterly mitigate all the other non-climbing detritus that dominates here.
Sorry to bump this back up after all this time, but I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who poured out their hearts here.
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Brandon-
climber
Done With Tobacco
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Feb 18, 2011 - 08:33pm PT
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+150 GNAR points.
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gonamok
climber
dont make me come over there
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Feb 19, 2011 - 06:46pm PT
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What a bunch of bull s h i t. Rap bolting half dome. I dont care who you are thats as lame as lame gets. F you and your route. Pretentious asses.
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Pass the Chongo, Chongo
Social climber
T*R
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F U C K ya gonamok.... doug robinson and sean jones are a bunch of pretentious as#@&%es
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Style police.....less talking more climbing. If you can put up 13 slab on lead go do it and then call everyone who can't an as#@&%e
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Salamanizer
Trad climber
The land of Fruits & Nuts!
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It's 5.11 slab, the undercling pitch under the arch is 5.13 and I'd say a bit soft for that IMO.
The first half of the route is absolutely amazing climbing. Exposed, sustained, clean, varied climbing all around. It's like if someone stacked Astroman on top of the Rostrum and beefed up all the cruxes of each pitch a notch. Classic!!!
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wildone
climber
Troy, MT
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How'd you like the sloper lieback by the little sapling?
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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God damn Salamanizer! Incredible. Please set up a new thread on your climb. It would be hugely interesting!! We are only b-e-g-g-i-n-g here!!
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hossjulia
Social climber
Eastside
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Ditto what Peter said, TR, please?
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karodrinker
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Wtf? Salamanizer, you repeated this thing? Gotta show pics to prove it!
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Yeah; this has been known for awhile--- did the arch and that was the climb. Hearing about the party's impressions would/will be very very interesting. An Astroman with a Rostrum ontop of it. That is just huge news, folks!
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Salamanizer
Trad climber
The land of Fruits & Nuts!
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Awww, well I'll have to personally apologize for my hiatus in posting a TR. You see, there was only one camera on the ride and it was my partner Mikes. We had a bit of an unfortunate falling out and I haven't spoken with him in almost two years. Anyway, I never got any of the pictures and a TR without pictures is scarcely worth the pixels it's typed on.
If you really want to see the pictures, try emailing him. He posts on here once in a blue moon as Oh Yeah! He might throw down a TR for ya'll.
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Doug Robinson
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Thanks, Salamanizer, for filling in the details that kept you from posting a TR. Dreary stuff those broken relationships, and sadly familiar. I would have video of the FA to show too, but the dream of that film crashed and burned -- broken relationships -- even as the climb was becoming a brilliant reality. The gritty details are just not that interesting.
But please write more for us of your impression of the climbing. We have been so mired in this to-rap-bolt-or-not-to-be controversy, that the quality of the climbing itself has gotten a little lost. Already, in just a few lines, you've given us so much perspective:
It's like if someone stacked Astroman on top of the Rostrum and beefed up all the cruxes of each pitch a notch. Classic!!!
Like two of the most iconic long crack climbs in the Valley, only harder? Please, tell us more! Photos we've already got.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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WOW!!!!!!
Heck, even if you don't have photos, tell us about it, PLEASE!!!!!!!
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