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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 15, 2009 - 11:05am PT
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Classic bump!
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Jan 15, 2009 - 11:51am PT
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it suddenly occured to me: in the summer of '77 everyone mysteriously had money to travel abroad.
heh.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 17, 2009 - 10:12pm PT
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The magic dole......LOL
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Step into action with EB! From Mountain 54.
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Cracko
Trad climber
Quartz Hill, California
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Michael H,
Had to laugh at your description of the top of the unconquerables. Was there in the late seventies, and had a time with right and left unconquerable. Can't remember which one I finally made, but the "slapfest" at the top was worse than anything below!!
Cracko
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TYeary
climber
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All that smoke up in money.....er ...ah..
well you know......uhm..
Nice shots Rick.
That bit of air time, was just testing gear, right Mike?
Tony
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 27, 2009 - 04:55pm PT
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Bump for Joe and Don's testpieces!
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Lasti
Trad climber
Budapest
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Nov 28, 2009 - 06:16am PT
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Ahhhhh, the Grit.
So fine.
Very nice pics, happy to see quite a few familiar faces (the rocks, not the people).
Jeremy Handren, you are my hero, that really is Horla at Curbar and it really is back to front. Very good visual imagination/memory. I am truly dumbfounded. How did you do it?
Graham, nice 'whipper', of course Walleye does not know that you slipped from the very very wide stemming up where the angle eases and couldn't (or chose not to?) place the small RPs or ballnuts in the corner and that that last piece is pretty off to the side. Not a whipper by Yosemite standards, but when the entire wall is 50' falling 15' seems like a lot.
Steve, so sweet scans. Peapod: you'll be laughing all the way to the top where you WILL vomit from the pain in your burning calves. Great slab is a solo. Nothing to be placed, so why take a rope?
Michael Hjorth, that is a very fine route, but not Robin Hood's, that's Inverted V! As you can see from Steve Grossman's scan right after your post, Robin Hood's is just to the right (crack) and you under the overhang in the corner to the left.
Oh the memories. Probably going there next May too, so come on over we'll make a riot out of it.
Lasti
p.s.
Not '77, but same routes:
For the rest I will have to blackmail friends into surrendering their pictures of this year's outing.
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Michael Hjorth
Trad climber
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Nov 28, 2009 - 01:49pm PT
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Lasti,
Ofcause, Inverted V! It rings a bell - far off.
Did the Peapod also then. What I remember most is getting out of the pod, fixing some pro above, not the burning calves. Have a B/W negative somewhere needing to be scanned. Will look and come back.
Michael
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 28, 2009 - 07:39pm PT
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Great pics, guys! Pester your friends, by all means...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 28, 2009 - 09:12pm PT
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A classic shot of Almcliffe grit from The Book of Modern Mountaineering edited by Malcolm Milne, 1968.
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dogtown
Trad climber
JackAssVille, Wyoming
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Nov 29, 2009 - 12:01am PT
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You older dudes freak us out! It amazes us how many of you asse’s had a camera . Back then! We never had one, nor did we care. Foolishly.
Dogtown.
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Michael Hjorth
Trad climber
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Nov 29, 2009 - 05:38pm PT
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OK, found the Curbar/Peapod/me/1985 picture:
As well as more from Stanage/Right Unconquerable.
Preparing for bellyswim...
While I am at it, I'll scan some more from that trip, where we continued to Wales & Llanberis Pass. Wales, dark rhyolite, and rain goes well with black & white! Possibly a new thread?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 29, 2009 - 05:50pm PT
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This one is pretty easy to expand and I bet Ricky and company climbed in some other areas on their trip! Post away!
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Lasti
Trad climber
Budapest
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Nov 30, 2009 - 10:03am PT
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Steve, I've pestered them for the past six months. Results? Nada. But I am going to step up the pestering till they break.
Until then last year's outing...
Quite close to Quietus, much easier and much less straightforward: Kelly's Overhang, Stanage
And this one for Tomcat. John Allen's masterpiece from '76, the aptly named Strapadictomy.
The pestering continues for this year's pics.
Lasti
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Lasti
Trad climber
Budapest
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Alas, my constant pestering finally broke the resolve of one of the guys. So here goes nothing.
Remember L'Horla at Curbar upthread? The one that was back to front? L'Horla is the adjacent crack to the left. Ever tried liebacking when the wall for your feet disappears? Welcome to Insanity, Curbar.
Something personal... You got the big cam present, now climb the friggin' offwidth Birthday Boy!
Aron putting the #6 Camalot to good use on Right Eliminate.
Did someone say Peapod?
So much for now.
Lasti
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Apr 18, 2010 - 01:18pm PT
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A classic grit montage from Mountain 13.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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May 15, 2010 - 11:14am PT
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No lack of wind in your sails, mate! LOL
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