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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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well, hey, the modern world has plenty of appropriate adventure to offer too!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Man does that ever look dangerous! No way you'd get me to accept that level of risk for mere aesthetics. LOL
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Where am dat shid, off? too funny.
I went through a period of soloing at V-woo in shoes, running shorts, no shirt or tape, but much chalk; Horns' mother, auto supply, the climb y punishment trio, bg crack, etc. concluded that it was lame and inappropriate. use what you need, state it, and don't worry if it's okay.
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WBraun
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 9, 2007 - 09:55pm PT
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Off White
WTF is that guy doing? Hahahahaha LOL
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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HE is workin' it hard. How about that shot of Ron on Sky, Werner?
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand.... man.....
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Sky has been on my hit list for decades.... lost some interest after I found out that you can't or shouldn't OW it, but lay it away like Ronbo..... I'd like to maybe go up there sometime and do the Yabo route Elephatiasis (sp?) as a two-fer..... probably have to dog the shiit out of both of them.
Did someone ask where it was??? On Elephant rock, up near the top on the left side (?)
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Oli
Trad climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Come on, you guys, we're trying to make things less boring for Werner.
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John Moosie
climber
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Jeebus Oli, some of us are just mortals. haha... If we bleed too much, then we die.
And yes, keep up with the stories. They are great.
Perhaps if you use the back button on your computer you can find what you wrote and repost it.
Edit: I just realized that you wrote that about losing the post earlier today so using the back button might not work.
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WBraun
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 9, 2007 - 11:39pm PT
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Oh Pat
I ain't bored. I just went out to check on the Yosemite Falls. It's still falling straight down. Nothing changes ....
Now with all these theories nowadays you'd think it would go up instead? Like maybe on Tuesdays (when no ones lookin)?
Steve, Sky is on top of Elephant Rock. Far left side on the main face.
So Ray Jardine told me where. He didn't want to do it. His "Friends" (cams) back then didn't have the range for wide cracks.
I went there with Dale Bard to do the first ascent and sh'it in my pants when I saw it up close. Dale takes the lead and goes for it and takes a big whipper back to the belay. LOL
We then told Kauk that he's the man for this beast and he tamed it by lay backing it.
I think there were about 5 or 6 of us there that day.
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john hansen
climber
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Oli , your stories are great, please keep posting more.Any one of your stories is worth a hundred other's from all those non climbing post's.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 10, 2007 - 12:42pm PT
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"Let's throw a little meat at the crack," as Scott Baxter used to say. Thanks Werner.
More space cheese please.
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Jun 10, 2007 - 12:46pm PT
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absolutely wild pic
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Oli
Trad climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Jun 10, 2007 - 07:07pm PT
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Charlie Fowler and I did some sea-cliff soloing in the rain in our big warm coats and hats, while in Wales, where if you fell you'd drop into the ocean. I don't know what I was thinking. That was my chance, and I didn't take it.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 12, 2007 - 01:28am PT
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A few more seacliff shots from Sea Cliff Climbing in Britain by John Cleare and Robin Collomb 1973. Joe Brown on the Spider's Web Craig Gogarth.
Frank Cannings and Pat Littlejohn opening up Liberator on the Great Zawn at Bosigran in 1970.
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Oli
Trad climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Jun 12, 2007 - 03:30am PT
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Thank you, Steve, for those photo reminders of the good days. Some part of me, being half Irish and half English on my mother's side, always makes me feel I should have been there, that I missed something vital, that I belonged with Whillans and Brown and was born in the wrong place. When I went to England I never felt so at home, so in harmony with people and with the universe. I loved the gritstone and the wet rock of Wales. When I led the Left Wall of Cenotaph Corner, in rain, Charlie Fowler said I'd done a 5.12 lead. I actually didn't think at the time I was capable of 5.12, as I was years over the hill, but I attribute that burst of energy to the joy of being in some kind of spiritual home I had lost but now found. I felt so close to Jim Perrin, and when we stayed at his ghostly house in Wales I felt in a good way haunted by the spirits of that mysterious land... To visit and climb even briefly on those sea cliffs did something to my soul...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 17, 2007 - 04:16pm PT
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A few more seaside shots from the same source.
Joe Brown leading with Peter Crew on stance during the first ascent of the much sought after Rat Race on Gogarth's Main Wall.
The Flying Buttress, an easy classic on the West coast of the island of Lundy.
"The originator of stack climbing in the North of Scotland, Tom Patey, seen after climbing Am Buachaille- in the background."
"Tom Patey leading the final pitch on Am Buachaille, with Ian Clough below."
Post up some seaside shots folks from Mickey's Beach to Baja, the J Paul Pebble to the Malamute we got seacliffs.......
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wootles
climber
Gamma Quadrant
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MAJOR LEAGUE FRIGGIN' BUMP!!!
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Right on. I'll try to scan some earlier Cleare photos and post them on the Snowdonia thread tonight.
But that reminds me, this place needs a seacliff-climbing thread all its own.
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