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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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May 29, 2012 - 10:57am PT
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Looks like a "wanted" poster to me Nature. Any officer adept at profiling would want that middle guy locked up.
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S.Leeper
Social climber
somewhere that doesnt have anything over 90'
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May 29, 2012 - 07:20pm PT
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Climbed at North Shore, near Austin, Texas. It is one of our newer developed limestone areas.
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Stephanie Bergner
Trad climber
Planet Send
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May 29, 2012 - 11:31pm PT
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Climbed Static Cling on Wall Street in Moab and learned how to jug and rappel off my grigri.
GO EDUMACATION!
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - May 30, 2012 - 09:25pm PT
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Spent 3 days wandering around spectacular granite formations in LaBonte Canyon in the Laramie Range by Douglas, WY. Then spent 3 days solo toproping in Freemont Canyon. No pics as my computer took a dump will try to post up later. Also took jack on jumar camp off the bridge at Freemont. Typing on your phone sucks.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Did a route in the Black Canyon that was established in April. Cloak and Daggers is a six pitch route just right of Comic Relief. The crux third pitch is one of the best I've done in the Black. Overall I'll give it three stars. Rated 10+ but I'll call it 10b.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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i'm so bored today i'm stooping to on-topic.
horse flats yesterday, tromping out to that outcropping just east of the current entry trail, which managed to stay out of fry's guidebook. nice rock there with that typical, fascinating horse flats gnarl. did a little arete, some somewhat mossed slab, and an OTD VB. enough for an old man out by himself who would never be caught looking like sponge bob with one of those awful crashpads on his back.
also cranked the south face finger campus on the warmup boulders further up the trail after i managed to bust loose its only foothold. i'd say it's upgraded now from V0 to a solid V0+.
hey, saw a mountain quail too. gotta put that on prod's big year.
for your information, the forest service has seen fit to block, probably semi-permanently, the roads to mt. pacifico and down to little rock. dirtbikers seem to get around them okay. you can drive a car all the way down to sulfur springs campground, which is closed, but the best rock is still around horse flats.
saw a buxom buzzworm at sulfur springs. i think we're having a big year for them too.
otherwise, these past couple weeks, have been concentrating on the malibu backcountry, having done most of corpse wall and scouting some of the other rock in the area.
i can report that blackflower has a fledgling buteo lording it over the louie anderson routes.
reliable reports have it that the saddle mountain crags, which look absolutely delectable from road, are too chossy to mess with. my gut feeling is that this is not disinformation.
mariko, me and skip took a hike the other evening to check out a long rib which snakes up the SW side of calabasas peak. (mariko's nickname for this is "collapsed-ass peak".) the base is blocked by private land, but the hiking trail bisects it about 2/3 of the way up. you can 4th class up the part of the rib that's on the west side of the trail there, and, sure enough, someone put in four TR bolts, if you can call them that: allthread hammered into drilled holes, with hangers and nuts on them. safety in numbers. some of the rock is pretty good, though not quite the quality of corpse wall.
when you get to the top of calabasas, you get a great view of a large gallery of scattered rock faces all the way back up through limited-access clear creek and saddle mountain itself. an idle varmint could waste weeks bushwhacking through all that, challenging local restricted access enforcement (the great issue now seems to be the new zealand snail), developing poison oak immunity, and providing welcome nourishment to the local tick population, but i doubt you'd find anything as decent as the well-bolted lead climbs on corpse.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
the crowd MUST BE MOCKED...Mocked I tell you.
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climbed one pitch yesterday. Better than nothing!
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 3, 2012 - 09:42pm PT
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Climbed spearfish Mt, crow peak, and lookout Mt on my mountsin bike to do the crown of the queen city. 40 miles and around 5000ft on elevation gain.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Rained haRD all last night. everything was drenched. we ( me and the new GF) had Birthday cake, Iceream and sex for breakfast, climbed a few slippery humid routs @ the leap. I lead a single pitch 10c mixed climb then we went canoeing and skinny dipping. Steak, sex, cake and iceream for dinner;) Not bad for turning 50 a few days ago. Especialy since I got the FFA on my 50th Bday (friday) of my GU rope solo from last week and almost finished annother new climb @ the same spot with my Ex GF and the new GF was not mad at me for that and we had a great rest of the weekend..
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pell
Trad climber
Sunnyvale
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Hospital Corner (Lovers Leap, West Wall). The first route on my "to repeat" list.
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bergbryce
Mountain climber
South Lake Tahoe, CA
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Yesterday, Orange Sunshine on Eagle Lake Buttress.
2nd pitch rocked.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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tradmanbrags! Bastard. I did rock rings today. No actual climbing.
Doublebastard. Meh.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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FA One Shot V2 Howard's Draw
Valid little problem
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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Messed around with a rare granite cliff-band in Mammoth. Horror landings, but would be good for someone motivated I guess.
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Lennox
climber
just southwest of the center of the universe
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Soloed Royal Arches and came down North Dome Gully; good workout.
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j-tree
Big Wall climber
Classroom to crag to summer camp
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The choss inbetween routes on Taboo Wall at Riverside Quarry. Felt more like digging half the time. the best part about soloaiding is that you don't have to worry about hitting your belayer with all the debris raining off the wall.
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kc
Trad climber
the cats
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Climbed Loggerhead Ledge Route (Reid's) in the valley. Awesome 3-pitch 5.7, mostly chimney and ow. Beautiful belay ledges in the shade. Exposed top ledge with an incredible view. Great day!
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