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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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May 24, 2010 - 12:48pm PT
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Les, who did you do the Great Corner with?
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tradchick
Trad climber
Vermont
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May 24, 2010 - 12:54pm PT
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Nick, with a friend from Warren VT.
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Ricardo Cabeza
climber
All Over.
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May 24, 2010 - 12:58pm PT
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I've got family in Warren, nice place. My Grandpa was one of two guys who started Stowe after their time in the tenth mtn. division.
Let's go climbing.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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May 24, 2010 - 01:01pm PT
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Wicked cool climb! wondered if Tomcat had been up there?
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - May 24, 2010 - 01:50pm PT
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Over 100rts and i only know about 6 of them. the rest are all on the top secret topo that they only give to hot chicks....
Ah, that would explain why I don't know about this cliff!
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meclimber
Trad climber
Dover, NH
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May 24, 2010 - 06:11pm PT
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A friend put up some new routes over by pitman arch that I checked out on Sunday, a couple sort .10's and a short nice .12. Then over to humphreys for laps oncastaways. Short weekend and off to supertopo land on Friday! Woo Hoo!
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slabbo
Trad climber
fort garland, colo
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May 24, 2010 - 07:33pm PT
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I think Webster freed the corner around '81 ? I did maybe the third ascent and I know we wore EB's. Very nice climb, 10c ? HA HA HA
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Tomcat
Trad climber
Chatham N.H.
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May 24, 2010 - 08:38pm PT
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Tradchick and I scoped it out a few weeks ago Nick,but,sorry to say we have since parted company.Looks like she got a crack at the Big Corner route,which I know she was wanting to do.We were both very impressed with it.Great cliff.
Good to see you and Isa are getting after it.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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May 24, 2010 - 10:44pm PT
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OOps, sorry about that.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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May 24, 2010 - 11:20pm PT
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Chiloe. It is a 500ft tall granit dome about 15 min by dirt road from lake willoughby. Good rock quality for the most part. The great Corner was an old AMC aid line back in the day. You can see the vicious pin scars from the ground.. I have a 1981 Mountain magazine with Ed getting the FFA and calling it 11a I think its a bit easier than that as I can not climb 5.11
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perswig
climber
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Mar 27, 2011 - 08:48pm PT
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"shoulder" season in the NE
Dale
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Aya K
Trad climber
New York
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Mar 28, 2011 - 08:14am PT
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It's definitely still winter in my neck of the woods. There's all kinds of ice formed up right now that hasn't been there all season. It's all very strange. Anyway, on Saturday I slept in, and so we decided to just do a more or less roadside peak - Giant Mountain, about a 3 mile hike in and 3 miles back out... but with two cars we did a big loop so it was nice. Apart from my IT band flaring up it was a beautiful day!
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perswig
climber
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What's in the box?
Hester, our orphaned foster from the winter.
Today was her release day, somewhat arbitrarily decided by schedules, weather, and her increasingly frentic behavior inside. She knew it was spring.
We elected to let her go on some property adjoining Sara's horse's barn. It's pros include tons of oaks, a brook and great terrain, and an existing but not overwhelming squirrel posse. It's key drawback is going to be a raptor population that includes eagles, hawks, and osprey. We tried to work on "Incoming! Hit the deck!" over the winter, but she never really got it.
After spending an hour or so watching her check out her new digs and head into the nearest tree, we left a stash of grub and headed out.
Early evening I went back to check on her progress. Surprised to see her still up the original tree, just hanging out. I climbed up (see, on topic) to see if she was freaked out and frozen in place. Nope, she bopped around, nibbled some buds. Probably instinct to lay low, or high, mid-day and not attract predator attention.
We're planning to maintain a food cache for the rest of the spring, based on the liklihood that her natural gathering skills are pretty underdeveloped. Hopefully she doesn't get eaten right away and can hone her sylvan chops a bit.
I'm glad to have my office back, but I foresee some worried nights in the future.
Dale
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 10, 2011 - 08:51pm PT
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Today from the Department of Not Very Popular Routes, Three Wogs.
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perswig
climber
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Sep 10, 2011 - 09:04pm PT
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Wicked pendulum potential there, Dr. Hamilton.
Dale
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Sep 10, 2011 - 10:13pm PT
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Nice, Larry.
Enjoyed meeting you at Old Chicago this year.
Hope to climb together sometime.
Rick
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 11, 2011 - 09:48am PT
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Wicked pendulum potential there
Fortunately that's the easy pitch. The hard pitch looks much easier and it doesn't have a scare rating, but you surely would get hurt if you slipped off at the crux.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 11, 2011 - 09:51am PT
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Enjoyed meeting you at Old Chicago this year.
Yes that was a fun gathering. Odds are good that I'll be back Boulder way sometime this winter.
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steve shea
climber
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Sep 11, 2011 - 11:18am PT
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NH trad climbers I'm putting a new roof on my folks house in Franconia. I'll be there from about 10/1 to 10/12 or so. Anybody who would like to climb in the Notch or wherever get in touch. Place to stay 10 min from the notch, 2 min from Polly's Pancakes in Sugar Hill NH. I can probably do 5.8/5.9. Will try to follow anything, used to be good at offwidths. I'm an over the hill alpinist but still into it. PM for contact. Steve
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cowpoke
climber
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Sep 11, 2011 - 05:26pm PT
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"doesn't have a scare rating"
Great phrase.
Beautiful pics, too. Really like that second. This is high time for northeastern climbing...way to get it done.
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