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Fry Guy
Ice climber
Bondale, CO
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Nov 18, 2010 - 12:53am PT
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Yes Camp four is the bowels of the earth!
Brent, good link to the origionator of this thread. Good to see a prodigy for Jonny and Mike exists. Makes me think......hmmm could I do that;) What's Pennings been up to anyways? Haven't heard much climbing wise. He grow up too?
The Blacks only an hr away, I figure I get the kids to bed at 7:00, an hr early and I got the night to scheme.
My rope dope and I get psyched in the garage gym using our various medicinal performance enhancing drugs for reasons still unknown. Eventually crashing in a heap wherever we end up. Hopefully remember to set the alarm and wake at a respectable 3:00. Hop in the truck and make our way over the winding drive through the night. Take the shortcut. Avoid deer...or not. Park. Slap on the rope and rack. Run. Run. Run. Avoid falling at all costs. Hear the river. Begin to see the light. Greet the green monster and dance through it. Anticipate. Breath. This is what you've come for, the unknown. Find the approach. Wait it's farther down here.....but the routes up there? Approach the base and be glad to have survived it. Sit down. Sip the water....and other rituals. Strap on the shoes and ascend flowingly because you know you have too. Time is too short. You reach higher than usual. Feet find their way. The sun is up and your in love............
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 18, 2010 - 03:02am PT
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So I hear that the fishing isn't too shabby either...
anyone?
I have fished the Valley and the Meadows and some areas just outside the park. So-so. The Merced below the park and the Tuolumne canyon beyond the meadows are the best. I have never been to Gunnison.
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Nov 18, 2010 - 07:40am PT
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I was just kidding about the tie. I love that campground at the Black's north rim. I'm assuming that nobody would claim to love camping at Camp 4.
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Handjam Belay
Gym climber
expat from the truth
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I wish I could distill, scrape, or just get a bigger lighter and smoke some more of whatever we were on in 2001.
I'm sort of glad this exists so that I can remember how amazing this time in my life was. Out of control...
For instance...a reference predating RJ's wife to someone named "Meghan". Wasn't she barely 18? Didn't we triple date at a period of time where NONE of us had a job?????
Still remember RW's 12 piece anchor as he trained for NIAD.
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Throughout all these years Ryan and Robbie remain great friends. So proud that Ryan is still a real climber.
That last sentence mispoken, I couldn't care less if any of us still climb.
I'm glad Ryan got an opportunity to truly uncork what he's about. I never saw any schmack talk about Mt. Johnson on the Taco, sad, cuz that was real deal.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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I'm assuming that nobody would claim to love camping at Camp 4.
I can't compare climbing in the Black Canyon, since I haven't done it, but I loved the Camp 4 scene when I first started climbing in the late 1960's. Even though I didn't really participate until later, I felt like I belonged there, in contrast to how I felt in a lot of the rest of my life up to that point.
John
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