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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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nice!
anyone going to be on it in April?
gotta get back
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dogtown
climber
Cheyenne,Wyoming
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Depends if I have a job or not, if I do then no. If I don't then yes. Will keep you informed I would love to spend a week or so there. (Lots of memories)
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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no doubt a week would be about right. same here, if job, then prolly not, if not, they prolly so.
i need to do some basics I haven't done...
White Maidens
Traitor Horn
the list goes on...
a repost of an old one of me... sorry they are big but next one down was only so so
i don't think this is me, so we'll say unidentified...
scanner is working again.
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Bart Fay
Social climber
Redlands, CA
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So, who did the second assent of Muir Trail ? Not both of those 'dime' guys ?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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you're on Mike
Gordo, which route is that crack? Hernia?
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henny
Social climber
The Past
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Bart -
Dave Evans, Todd Gordon, and a bird.
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froodish
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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@Mungeclimber
> Gordo, which route is that crack? Hernia?
Looks like _The Shadow_ (5.8, just right of the Rebolting face).
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Gobi
Trad climber
Orange CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 3, 2009 - 04:12pm PT
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Next time I’m up there I'm going to try and get some good photos of The Edge. That thing is defiantly aesthetic, especially with Suicide in the back ground. It seems like you could get some really good angles of the that climb while rapping the green arch. I’d like to climb it too!
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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The Edge - better yet the Turbo Flange (5.11a/b, follows the edge from the ground up instead of traversing in the 80 foot level), is possibly the last word in Tahquitz climbing. What with new wave sticky shoes and vastly better skillz, I'd have figured the modern climber would be all over this route, done over 30 years ago.
Go figure why it remains so unpopular.
JL
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GDavis
Trad climber
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Its the number of climbers, not the percentage. There are just as many crazy sons of bitches now that there were before, but a lot more people who don't get their jollies that far above bolts. As cutting edge as Turbo Flange is, the 5.14 R/X climber isn't going to travel all the way out to Tahquitz to prove himself on it, that won't get his face on the mah-guh-zine.
The guys who respect the route and aspire to attain its lofty heights? Not the kind that self promote, I would think. No small wonder we don't hear of it...
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Largo,
On a fine day about 12 years ago Mark Wagner was on a tear and led both pitches of the Flange. Ian Katz and I tagged along for the ride. It was a hot day, less than optimal for that route (which was my excuse for not doing some of the leading) and Mark was fully desperate at the bulge getting to Sorensons famous bolt way up there. I was belaying, watching his feet sketching as he fought for it. I was genuinely concerned but he did it.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Froodish, kewl thx.
another of our unidentified blue lycra clad lady (sans noose)
intrepid leader taking photos
guided trip back then???
just random photos we were taking of climbers then.
edit - routes in this area are Nawab and Spatula and I think a third.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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You never know what you might find there.
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Gdavis raises an interesting point. Tahquitz and Suicide have fallen out of flavor with the 5.14RX crowd, but this all happened in the strangest way.
At most "old" areas, the antique testpieces are eventually dashed up by everyone with a harness, then the place slowly fades into oblivion. Funny thing about Idyllwild is that the hardest routes at both areas have never seen much traffic. Routes like The Untickable, Hades, Someone You're Not, Calente, The Hangover, etc. might have equivocal ratings since they have so rarely been climbed. Seems folks moved on before actually mastering the local fare.
I'll bet those hard Hensel routes are done once a year or not at all. Weird. . .
JL
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HighGravity
Trad climber
Southern California
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Don't forget all the great bouldering in the area
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