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gonzo chemist
climber
Crane Jackson's Fountain St. Theater
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Jun 20, 2011 - 03:31am PT
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lots of awesome photos! By the way (sorry--I've been buried for the last two months), where is Eliot going?
-N
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p-owed
Trad climber
Ramona ca
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bump
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Horvath
Trad climber
CA
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Jul 12, 2011 - 03:06pm PT
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Just to keep the memories of a great season going, here's a couple photos I've been sitting on for a while.
This was the day of Eliots party (see heavy cooler). Also a sweet sequence of Dan bouldering on the Jaws boulder. Plus some new route potential!
most photo credits go to Doug- good eye mate.
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p-owed
Trad climber
Ramona ca
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Jul 13, 2011 - 12:05am PT
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nice pics
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frog-e
Trad climber
Imperial Beach California
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Jul 13, 2011 - 12:10am PT
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Really neat pics - thanks for sharing!
Hey, how 'bout one of those coolers w/ wheels??
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p-owed
Trad climber
Ramona ca
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Jul 13, 2011 - 12:16am PT
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Full moon Friday night climbing!! Woodson be their TR and boldering leave the racks at home!
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gonamok
climber
dont make me come over there
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Jul 15, 2011 - 10:48pm PT
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Great shots Greg. What have you been up to lately?
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Jul 16, 2011 - 12:15am PT
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i'm curious about this route to the right of jaws. i'd scoped that line many times, but it just didn't seem there. were we just bone heads, or has it been enhanced?
looks sw0le.
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Truthdweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Jul 16, 2011 - 02:47am PT
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Hey Bob, that line was a topic of discussion earlier in the thread where I arrived to find broken flakes all over the ground. I took a few photos of the broken pieces and suspected a guy to have done it but nobody came forward to claim it. A bit later Dan Beall approached me and I was told that he didn't have any part in the activity but that he had done the line WITHOUT utilizing the "enhanced" section. Here is the vimeo link of him doing it....SWOLE is an understatement!
http://vimeo.com/24804042
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frog-e
Trad climber
Imperial Beach California
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Jul 16, 2011 - 02:53am PT
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yes, bvb, you were bone headS...
we all were.
haHA!
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Truthdweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Jul 18, 2011 - 01:23am PT
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Where the chalk/tick marks are above and to the left of Dan is enhanced...C'est la vie, it's there now!
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c22
Boulder climber
Poway, Ca
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Jul 20, 2011 - 04:11am PT
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Pretty sure you mean up and right. All the brown exfoliated crap. The stuff up and left is good old woodson pink. It's been there a while.
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Truthdweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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So, where again did these flakes come off from Dan? The yellow or red area, or a bit of both?
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Jonnnyyyzzz
Trad climber
San Diego,CA
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I showed this in another thread and thought I'd share it here as well. saw a link to this the other day on MP. It's in a pdf file so it can download to and work with a smart phone.Woodson Guide/Map .
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Truthdweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Yeah, I was turned on to that link and had it posted on rc.com before it appeared on Mountain Project....rad!
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cragnshag
Social climber
san joser
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Aug 20, 2011 - 04:13pm PT
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Hi Woodson climbers!
Some of you may know Ben Spilman. He posts here as P-OWED. If you see him please let him know that he either needs to return my cams to me or pay me for them. He won't return my emails and for some reason thinks that he can just steal my cams and just go about his business like nothing happened.
I will be filing a complaint with the San Diego County Sheriff's Office if this is not resolved soon.
Bob
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Banquo
climber
Morgan Hill, CA (Mo' Hill)
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Aug 21, 2011 - 03:20pm PT
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Sounds like you are "Pee Owed."
Not only pissed off but owed by P
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c22
Boulder climber
Poway, Ca
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Aug 28, 2011 - 05:54am PT
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Okay, so obviously I'm kind of a slow responder. The lower left yellow squiggly is totally clean. The red stuff looked largely broken but is unused. The bottom portion of the right yellow line looked broken but is also unused. Kinda hard to describe here, but I think it's reasonably obvious if you go and look at it.
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gonamok
climber
dont make me come over there
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Sep 27, 2011 - 04:16am PT
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Maybe people arent posting because the heat has been keeping them off the hill? I know it did me, but the 90+ degree weather that stuck with us from july to late september is over now, and woodson is coming into season as the days grow shorter. I went up 3 times this week, and its been beautiful in the late afternoon and evening.
Still on my trail building binge, expanding the trail system from the playground down the south slope and east-west across the southern escarpment from ricks ramp to slant crack. Virgin rock and much new route potential can be found all over the place if anyone is interested. Also doing some clearing around the southern fringe of the masters of the universe boulders and finding good rock there too.
Being deep in the brush as the sun goes down is a wondrous thing. The breeze stops, and right after sunset all is almost silent for about 5 minutes, then the noises of the night fade in from near and far (if you are quiet, that is). Scurrying, clicking, rustles, chirps etc. are everywhere, punctuated by the occasional sound of something way too big moving around out there. Coyote? Puma? Wild dog? Feral hog? mule deer?
It adds some spice to the outing to be out there in the dark when everything is feeding. You definately feel like part of the food chain, which keeps me from lingering too long, but being immersed in the environment like that is good for the soul.
Heres a self portrait I took right before this evening's bout with woodsons ornery bush.
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gonamok
climber
dont make me come over there
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Sep 28, 2011 - 04:36am PT
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I showed this in another thread and thought I'd share it here as well. saw a link to this the other day on MP. It's in a pdf file so it can download to and work with a smart phone.Woodson Guide/Map .
The newest stuff on those topos is about 20 years old, and many (even older) 5 star classics arent shown at all. The guy puts his own names on features that were named decades ago, and there are mistakes galore. "Water tower boulders"? The masters of the universe boulders were discovered long before there was a water tower there. Slapstick is not on the center of the TV screen, its on the east end - no mention of HDTV.
The author has some gall to put his own name on one of the oldest and most highly trafficked problems on the hill - the right side of the TV screen. A clear case of "almighty author syndrome", where guidebook writers delude themselves into thinking that writing a guide gives them the authority to ignore or rewrite history as they see fit.
So how is it that the king of the television screen knows nothing about the playground? Or maybe all those problems were left out because he didnt deem them worthy?
Ratings are arbitrary and many changed and there are dumb, unnecessary comments like calling silk banana a 5.12c with "some serious liebackin". Really? Its an undercling that nobody does because nobody can. You have to be tall, long limbed and as strong as hercules just to pull your feet off the ground - Piggot fit that bill, but Ive never heard of anybody else doing the thing.
The guide is junk, but it fills a void for beginners or out of towners - too bad no research went into it other than copying previous guides. 90% or more of the content should be attributed to earlier guides - notably Michael Pauls landmark guide, that introduced the format that this guide uses.
I will never understand why people write guides to areas they know little about.
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