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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Jan 26, 2015 - 08:24am PT
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A few poor quality butt shots climbing with Gaby in the Granite Dells while visiting my niece in "Preskit".
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Jan 26, 2015 - 07:53pm PT
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Got a real late start due to working on the plow truck (storm comming) but still managed to get to the lake by noon. It was 2F when we got there so suited up slowly;) the hike up to the cliff warmed us up and though it was 7f when we got back to the car I never got cold. nice day at the beach:)
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thebravecowboy
climber
just banana-jam it
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Jan 27, 2015 - 09:35pm PT
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Nick, Jay, you fellows have my envy.
I went up to the my local granite altar today, first time in the new year. The old locks and smears were unfamiliar. It was like making love to an estranged partner. Good but oddly self-conscious.
It was a sail until I encountered this rotten old tree-stack at the crux downclimb. It was shakier than usual, wet. To make matters worse, this song:
popped into the headphones mid-crux. To know that I had to just groove with U2 was almost worse than knowing I might be impaled on a tree just to avoid the wet 5.8 downclimb beneath. WTF is with that sh#t anyway, Apple? I don't dig the U2. (The tree pre-dates me, who would I be to remove it?)
1:32 car to car
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telemon01
Trad climber
Montana
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Jan 28, 2015 - 06:11am PT
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[photoid=396115]
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Jan 28, 2015 - 07:12am PT
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Jan 28, 2015 - 07:12am PT
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That Dude
Big Wall climber
Washington UT
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Jan 28, 2015 - 08:13am PT
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le_bruce
climber
Oakland, CA
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Jan 28, 2015 - 09:25am PT
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Midterm
Gripper
Driving west
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Jan 30, 2015 - 08:34pm PT
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Like an alpine epic only sideways and with wet lichen for verglas and steep mud for loose rock.
A party behind seemed to be rapping off.
It wasn't an FA.
I got past the cloud.
The last pitch was wet and had a mud traverse with only long-dead and extremely flimsy tree branches for hand-holds. I had to center down and ignore the SLR banging my knees and deal the backpack catching on a flake. Total concentration.
The summit looked good.
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Gal
Trad climber
going big air to fakie
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Jan 30, 2015 - 08:38pm PT
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Thanks for super big images that spin out my computer and shut it all down. Yes I'm posting on a friday, that is a SEPARATE ISSUE
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Just cragging yesterday and today. wicked cold both days.
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thebravecowboy
climber
just banana-jam it
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stunning piton there, MH2. you do that thing a lot, it would seem. how deep is the water? what kind of rock?
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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I've been in the area alot, bravecowboy, but that section was new to me. It goes past some private property with a NO TRESPASSING sign that I only saw after going past. There were 2 short sections where the risk was real and I would have landed on rock, not water. It wasn't smart of me but luck was in, that day.
Maybe Oplopanax can explain the pin. It was a complete surprise to me.
edit:
looks like granite to me, many sharp crystals, super solid because (I think) the occasional big storm waves remove anything not well attached
and the plan for that day was the usual mostly deep water traverse I have done hundreds of time, but fog and cold made me rethink. The other direction out to Lighthouse Park looked like hiking but I could not foresee the way things would develop.
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Lulz
Ice climber
North East
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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So far, the stairs to here;
But the day is young...
Edit;
And later, that very same day,
Rumors of an unclimbed ow roofcrack lured me out to an obscure corner of the desert....
But, sadly
(Obi wan voice) "these are not the roof cracks you are looking for"
But tomorrow is another day, the after work hours are getting longer, and I have a few more leads / red herrings(?) to sniff out!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Anticipation as yet another day unfolds....
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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