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F10
Trad climber
e350
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Jan 30, 2010 - 11:01pm PT
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Maybe you mean Korean Cowboy,
Too hard for me
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illusiondweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2010 - 11:10pm PT
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F10...those are potential names if nobody identifies them ie; Korean BBQ is a play on Korean Cowboy.
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F10
Trad climber
e350
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Jan 30, 2010 - 11:30pm PT
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One of the few things that I can remember about Woodson is you used to park in a little dirt lot where that house is now.
Might be kinda nice now for some of us duffer's to get a head start on hoofing up the hill
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Jan 31, 2010 - 12:39am PT
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i don't recognize that scoop problem but it looks great. where on the hill is it?
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Johannsolo
climber
Soul Cal
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Jan 31, 2010 - 12:49am PT
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Here's another shot...
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Jan 31, 2010 - 01:44am PT
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oh, it's beneath that big boulder across the road from big grunt?
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illusiondweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 31, 2010 - 03:46am PT
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You got it Bob.
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gonamok
Trad climber
poway, ca
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Jan 31, 2010 - 04:37am PT
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Korean Cowboy is a short but muy difficult problem on a solitary boulder thats hidden in the bushes south of the road a bit before the jump off to seminar wall. Another epperson harder-than-it-looks (his specialty) problem that we called B1, but nobody ever did. Allenby may have repeated it, but he was a gorilla back then. I tried it many times and always fell at the same spot, where your body swings to the left and youre supposed to counter the swing with a RH huck to this shallow little dish that amounts to a cruel hoax.
Greg is way underrated as climber. At his peak he was one of the best boulderers anywhere, and on mantles he was in his own class. Gregs routes and problems tend to be aesthetic and difficult and always climbed in exempliary style. Greg has produced so many classic test pieces that have stood the test of time, and his personal committment to the highest ethical standards is uncompromising.
His success as a photographer sort of overshadowed gregs climbing career, but he didnt just make his mark on san diego climbing, he left a legacy.
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Watusi
Social climber
Newport, OR
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Jan 31, 2010 - 04:41am PT
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I remember doing Korean Cowboy myself back in the day...It was quite hard if I remember right...
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gonamok
Trad climber
poway, ca
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Jan 31, 2010 - 05:05am PT
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youre right bob, rick was in on the FA of pit bull too.
On pit bull- im pretty sure theres only one route with that name, which is a reference to the narrow gap or "pit" in which the line is situated (pit viper was also considered). Its not uncommon for route info to get confused over time and morph into some totally erroneous thing at woodson. Everything is so spread out it just happens.
Ray always put alot of work into his routes - clearing access, landings and down climbs, fixing anchors etc...and if he doesnt remember the route you are talking about im pretty sure i would. Hey Ray, the altzheimers catching up to you? welcome to the club then. If a pic doesnt solve the mystery we will have to drag the woodson brain trust up to look at it. One of the woodson living history dudes will know the story
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gonamok
Trad climber
poway, ca
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Jan 31, 2010 - 05:15am PT
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Sorry mike, i forget to credit you sometimes because back then you were doing literally everything on the hill. Didnt mean to gyp you. As i recall you cranked it handily, but if rick got it, and im pretty sure he did, it was after weeks of trying. I know because he drug me there against my will until i was totally sick of it.
I put up a thing nearby for a consolation prize that i called cowboy polka, now faded into appropriate obscurity
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gonamok
Trad climber
poway, ca
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Jan 31, 2010 - 05:22am PT
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3 anonymous hardmen casting their shadow on the east wall of the vomitorium. The chalked hold beneath the lefthand figure is Allenbys desperately sick and unrepeated "death vomit"
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gonamok
Trad climber
poway, ca
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Jan 31, 2010 - 08:54am PT
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Heres one for you Michael from way back inda day...
MP on the FA of General Dynamics 5.10d/11a at Mission Gorge 1979
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gonamok
Trad climber
poway, ca
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Jan 31, 2010 - 08:56am PT
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Heres whats left of Amick today...still out there, but nobody knows why
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Graham N
Social climber
temecula
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Jan 31, 2010 - 11:53am PT
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gonna be wandering around with a friend today. if you see a guy in a burgundy cap and a matching red beard, dont hesitate to come over and criticize my climbing. haha
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Watusi
Social climber
Newport, OR
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Jan 31, 2010 - 12:40pm PT
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Wow, classic Ron!! You remember after we did the FA on General Dynamics a young and psyched Rick Corbin ran up the trail to bag the second? We stayed around the parking area cheering encouragement until we saw him fire it, yelling our praise up at him! RIP, Rick Corbin, a real brother...
Tweaked a little in Photoshop:
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Jan 31, 2010 - 01:08pm PT
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what year was that vawto? yer lookin' like you got a proper sw0le on...
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Jan 31, 2010 - 01:11pm PT
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One of the woodson living history dudes will know the story
i'm here for ya, babe. wadda ya wanna know?
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henny
Social climber
The Past
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Jan 31, 2010 - 02:42pm PT
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i'm here for ya, babe. wadda ya wanna know?
Oh great all knowing wise one, keeper of all Woodson knowledge, great seer and understander of the mysterious Woodson continuum. I humbly request that you peer (well, as old as you are, maybe squint would be a better term) into the dark swirling black clouds that now seem to so completely obscure those magical boulders and days of yore, from the time known as BITD. If you would be so considerate as to conjure up an answer for me, from back in the days of magnets and miracles...
Sheesh, I just hate it when I gotta grovel like that cause I can't remember something.
I called Powell recently to try and sort out some past history. That dude's memory is so bad I'm lucky he remembered to answer the phone while it was ringing. Talk about a complete and utter waste of my time.
Back to the shoe doping days... Dan, KP, and me had the usual Woodson/Rubidoux thing going but with doping thrown into the mix. Dan even came down to Rubidoux a couple times in an attempt to hook us on the juice. Pretty good story from one of those trips, but more appropriate for Rubidoux. Anyway, how many problems did Dan do while using performance enhancing compounds on the shoes? What were the hardest 3 or 4 of those problems? Top Secret File was the hardest, right?
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henny
Social climber
The Past
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Jan 31, 2010 - 03:01pm PT
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Trip reports would be good. There had to be a bunch of you that made it out today, post some pics, eh?
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