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Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand, Man.....
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Jun 21, 2006 - 11:44am PT
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Good stuff Levy!
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Levy
Big Wall climber
So Calif
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Jun 21, 2006 - 11:53am PT
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Free climbing onto Peregrene Pillar
Cybele's mignight visit
Fireworks on Big Sur
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guyman
Trad climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Jun 21, 2006 - 02:33pm PT
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Way to go! More pics please.
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Levy
Big Wall climber
So Calif
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Jun 21, 2006 - 04:10pm PT
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That's too funny! I don't remember getting burned though but maybe I was drunk on Tequila or something
Levy
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 21, 2006 - 05:29pm PT
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Here's another shot of the lovely Cybele, fresh off some El Cap adventure
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Levy
Big Wall climber
So Calif
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Jun 21, 2006 - 09:24pm PT
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Yet another shot from high on the S.O.D.
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Levy
Big Wall climber
So Calif
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Jun 21, 2006 - 09:40pm PT
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Here's a look at the Don't Skate Mate pitch w/ E leading
More of the hooking at the top of Groovy Arch
This is called To the Tooth
and finally a shot of the Laura Scudders flake, A3.
Levy
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jun 21, 2006 - 11:46pm PT
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Forget the wall photos, er, I mean,
*Not that there's anything wrong with it*,
And it's fab fun takin' a peak at the big danger on SOD,
But is that upthread shot of Cybele not the Siren call or what?
sincerity, vulnerability, strength...
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Levy
Big Wall climber
So Calif
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Jun 21, 2006 - 11:54pm PT
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"Caught between Scylla & Charybdis" is more like it, I'm thinking. It is a good pic of Cybelle however. I'll post up some others gimme a few moments to get 'em into photobucket & I'll blow 'em on here.
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Some shots of the lady who visits climbers in the middle of the night, oh wait, isn't that what a succubus is?
Levy
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Jun 23, 2006 - 10:44am PT
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I remember driving out the Suicide with E and we both were so psyched to climb we could barely stand it. That was 30 years ago and the old fart is still going strong. Same with Bill. Amazing to think they´ve stayed psyched this long. One of the great things is how much fun I´ve had with these guiys. A couple years ago Bill and I were involved in doing aome new routes in Malibu and on some obscure areas in the Santa Monica mountains. These were piss ant little routes on absolutely garbage rock (remember Mt. Olympus?? Just a giantic dirt clod). But Bill was still so psyched we could barely keep him tied down. So we´d do the routes with all the likely subjects (Katz, Oliphant, et al) and then those jokers would smoke like 100 pipeloads and climb everything five more times for good measure and tell jokes all the way out on the hike.
There´s a lot of love for just being alive in all of this, and that´s a good thing.
JL
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hashbro
Trad climber
Not in Southern California
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Jun 23, 2006 - 12:29pm PT
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I was just waitin' for the right instant to chime in; thanks Largo. This seems to be it.
Eric, has been one of the big brothers and mentors I often think about in stressful moments. What would the great E do now? Probably load up a big bowl and do what has to be done.
As for this face (as was mentioned before), Mr. E has amazingly gotten better by the year. I quite remember my first visit to Suicide the morning after our White Maiden epic, though we were a bunch of geeks, he warmly took me up a host of routes like Arcy Farcy etc. Then a few years later, while I suffering from a high school breakup with a girlfriend, Eric hauled to to Tuolomne to clear my head. Boy E, Golden Bars, Fort Knox and Handbook sure seemed hard back then!
I quite remember E's ability to eat a hamburger in record time. By the time I had my wrapper open, he had the entire slab in his mouth and masticated it down. Of course neither of us eat such junkfood these days.
Levy and Cybele are way cool too.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jun 24, 2006 - 01:45am PT
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E put me out on my first good 5.10 leads.
He'd usually hand me a diet rack, and the number six stopper was key.
I recall some left slanting 10A thin flake over by the drain pipe, leading to something much harder which E floated on lead...
Would that be Caliente?
Whutever, that was next...
Thanks E for the Good Times!
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Gene
climber
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Bump from the Beta files
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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I just re-read some of the things Bill wrote. Nice to hear that someone with his experience [at the time, 25 different El cap routes] still found it stiff.
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Double D
climber
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Nice pics and writing Bill. It's good to know that this isn't a walk in the park laced with bail-out bolts after all these years.
It's interesting to hear about all the scary, loose stuff, I remember some mammoth trundles (the "Z rurp" pitch...leading to the rurp belay and the original 9-5 pitch) but a lot of the stuff was avoided on the 1st ascent like the pitch after the Laura Scudder flake which we originally rated A3 because it was pretty solid rurps leading to good hooks to avoid all the loose stuff. I heard horror stories from a couple of second ascent attempts about that pitch and never could figure why they just didn't hook around it.
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Scoop
Mountain climber
Truckee, CA
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Mar 28, 2011 - 02:36pm PT
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Wow! Those are some of the west wall photos I have seen in a while. Thanks for sharing. What a route! Yikes!
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