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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 27, 2002 - 03:59pm PT
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For free climbing, I can right off think of 3 places that are better than Yosemite: Squamish, the Needles, and Moab.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 27, 2002 - 04:06pm PT
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Not as quiet as being 100 ft. off the ground in the Black.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 27, 2002 - 04:08pm PT
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... and there really is better adventure wall climbing out there... Baffin Island, Trango, etc...
Oops, sorry, you mean bashed-out pin scar seams with cozy anchors and rap routes where a rescue is always a cell-phone call away. I guess that's what you meant.
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AW
Novice climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 27, 2002 - 04:25pm PT
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OH, I just CELEBRATE the fact the fact I can bail from 2000 feet of rock and not even lose a biner. I once saw PHISH play on El Cap.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 27, 2002 - 04:27pm PT
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Florida so i can climib the materhorn and bone miny mouse
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 27, 2002 - 04:39pm PT
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That's best place to LIVE and climb. Yeah Trango, I'm sure you'd do real fine living in Pakistan. I can't think of a more friendly place. One of the few places I'd choose Boulder over.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 27, 2002 - 04:57pm PT
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Just trying to dispell the myth that Yosemite is the best climbing area on the planet, buddy. If it were, then it might justify living in the hell-hole of Fresno or even 4 hours away in the Bay Area. California is an OK place to live, but certainly not one of the better places to combine life and climbing.
Do you Californians ever actually get out anywhere? Have you climbed anywhere else besides Yosemite?
I love the Valley too but I prefer making my annual trip to the Valley from a comfortable distance, thank you very much.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 27, 2002 - 05:11pm PT
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You're welcome, and we're thankful for that. We wish more would keep that comfortable distance.
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Eastern Geek
Novice climber
Lookout Mt. TN
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 27, 2002 - 10:04pm PT
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Ya’ll rant and rant and lordy you’ve missed, forgotten, or never heard of the answer I found………….
I live a block from a trail head that is a 2 minute downhill walk to the first of hundreds of year-round high quality bullet hard sandstone climbs.
Lookout Mt. TN boys.
Sunset Rocks. It Rocks.
Yea- the East sucks. But living a casual stroll from a lifetimes’ wealth of rock is not a bad thing…
Oh and~~~ you’ll have to save your pennies. It’s a bit of a upscale neighborhood. Maybe that’s for the best. Come visit awhile. Just don’t stay long……….
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 28, 2002 - 11:55am PT
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We've argued Boulder and the Valley for 80 posts before we got an easterner. And I'm really kicking myself over these forty-foot (I guessing here) sandstone cliffs--now, back to the Naked Edge and the Nose.
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wallhauler
Novice climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 29, 2002 - 05:45pm PT
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camp 4. nowhere else comes close.
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AK
Novice climber
California
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 29, 2002 - 06:21pm PT
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Ranger harassment rules out CAMP 4, even if Yosemite is the best place to climb, it is not the best place to live
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 29, 2002 - 06:24pm PT
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Do people in Camp 4 shower? I have heard that people there are not very hygenic.
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Eminem
Novice climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 29, 2002 - 06:33pm PT
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In the hammocks outside tent 12 Huff House, Curry Village, Yosemite CA 95389
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radical
Novice climber
formally Canada
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 30, 2002 - 03:26am PT
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Squamish is better than Yosemite????
Well, it took 3 months but you have beaten the last "most stupid thing I have heard" on this website.
Have you really been to both these places?
Squamish is much smaller, much dirtier, it rains more and the summer days are hot, greasy and humid. There are at least 100 climbs in Yosemite that are more classic than anything in Squamish. Sure there is that 5.11 traverse that runs along the road, but that is before Squamish.
oh ya and here is my new "cooperhead rating" for this post.
4
pissy and argumentative
still the floor
1 beer.....yahoooo
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mb
Novice climber
boulder
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 30, 2002 - 08:36am PT
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IMHO if you are getting out and having fun it doesnt matter where you live, anyway opinions are like as#@&%es everyones got one. and if you come to boulder and dont want to deal with the stuck up competitive pretentious climbers head to RMNP. plenty of granite and solitude.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 30, 2002 - 10:05am PT
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Radical
Did you ever do the Grand or Freeway? How about Crescent Crack or Diedre? Rock On? Loads of excellent freeclimbing (and aid) in Squamish. Visit in the fall sometime. You may be surprised.
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Novice climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 30, 2002 - 11:24am PT
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there are many excellent granite crags. there is only one Yosemite Valley. Until global warming kicks in and we can all go to Baffin Island and Greenland and put up the 1000's of sweet new free lines that must be waiting there . . .
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LFCfanofNJ
Intermediate climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 30, 2002 - 03:17pm PT
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Well, I might take some stick for this but... how about lovely new paltz, ny? Cool, arty town with great climbing community. Some really cool people who don;t climb. Culture to a certain extent, live music and some drama. Lots of stuff to do besides climb. Beautiful area.
Some of the best trad climbs you will ever lay your hands on, good bouldering, local ice climbing is not allowed but is done, catskills ice 1 hr away, dacks 3 - 4 hours, New Hampshire 4-5 hours or less, vermont ice even less. And it's 90 miles to the capital of the world!!!!
Damn, why did I ever move. Would love to move back asap but it's a long communte to NYC.(2hrs or so.) God bless the gunks, it's a very special place.
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FT
Novice climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 30, 2002 - 04:10pm PT
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Very funny. Everyone is a comedian eh? Now lets cut this eastern US stuff out. We've all had our laughs, I know I have. Now lets try and keep this thread at least somewhat serious.
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