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Josh Higgins
Trad climber
San Diego
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Jan 30, 2007 - 03:08pm PT
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I just repeated Hear My Train A Comin last weekend. What a classic line. I can't wait to get on more of the hard stuff out there. My friends and I tried to make it to Boulder 13 too, but it's WAY overgrown from the way we tried to get there. I'll have to go back with clippers or something.... Is there a trail there that I'm missing?
Josh
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Jan 30, 2007 - 03:31pm PT
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hootervillian -- greg epperson was the first guy to get up airstream. had these huge, flat, ultra-sticky first generation fires and perfect woodson conditions -- sunny, cold, and dry immediately after a good winter storm cleared out.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Jan 30, 2007 - 04:18pm PT
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Josh,
The trail that used to go to Boulder 13 was absorbed by the private home owners who built between the road and the boulder. Might have to crawl on your belly like a reptile through all that stuff!
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Hootervillian
climber
the Hooterville World-Guardian
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Jan 30, 2007 - 04:26pm PT
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thanks bvb.
studly, i'm sure i couldn't touch it in Fires.
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mtwoodsonguide
Big Wall climber
San Diego
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Jan 30, 2007 - 04:40pm PT
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You just walk through their back yard from boulder1 and hope noone comes out and yells at you. Then it's just 20' of thick stuff on the W side of the bouder.
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Splater
climber
Grey Matter
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Jan 30, 2007 - 04:43pm PT
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Boulder 13:
You get there from the entrance boulders near the entrance gate.
Do NOT go next to the house.
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Josh Higgins
Trad climber
San Diego
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I tried Greg's Crack since Boulder 13 has access issues currently. I got my ass handed to me spectacularly. It's going to be a long hard road to get that son of a bitch. I plan on making some sort of trail out to Boulder 13 that avoids the house sometime this season (if I can't find one, I'll look again before snipping).
Josh
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Watusi
Social climber
Joshua Tree, CA
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Wow Greg! That's a super old drawing! Done before my guide was published in 1988, in Craig Fry's "Southern California Bouldering Guide," and subsequently copied by every author afterwards. Next time someone looks at any of these guides, cross-reference it with mine, and you will definitely see what I mean!
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Anyone ever come across a tiny little plaque with a lost arrow pinning it to a boulder (not far from Boulder 13) that is in memory of (I think) Stephen McKinney? I used to know his brother a way long time ago, and wondered if that little plaque that his family installed was still there.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Yes Mike Paul, I had some "other" real cool drawings you did during the early 80's besides that sleek Woodson Topo, but shucks, I mean -I disposed of them a while back to keep us both out of trouble, if you know what I mean. Man they were gems. I think Bachar and Fish drew up some similar "Topos", remember?
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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c'mon roy, share the love. post 'em up under a NSFW link......
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Sorry Beebs,
They went out along with a super polaroid of The Fish doin' that hang board thang: showing an alarming degree of plumber's butt.
...regrets, regrets.
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Brunosafari
Boulder climber
Redmond, OR
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Eee onk ee Grug, the Boy From Cameroon! That gobbler, Jum, still hasn't given me your phone #, so now I have to get ahold of you via supertopo. (This is Bruce Adams in Redmond, OR.) (Not to be confused with the Colorado "Bruce Adams," who is actually a closet cousin of the Lowe brothers...) Give me a call 541-350-3139. I may be able to get out to Colorado this year- want to bolt ladder all the Kor classics in my boxers and RRs.
I approve of your beautiful photographer!
Thought this Woodson thread would be the best place for my first supertopo post. Do you know how to find Piggott? Heard he was doing stunt work in some of the new Eastwood flicks.
I can easily reach back into smoke-ringed shadows of early Woodson adventures: Blood was always involved. Rattlesnakes, poisen oak, and horrendous manzanita forests were just as fearful as the nasty landings and highball nightmares. Offwidths were tough with our hammers and plastic "dolt" holsters attached to two-inch leather belts, our rack of stubai pitons and aid slings at-the-ready. We seemed to prefer these joys during mid August at three o'cock in th eafternoon. "Major" discoveries and ascents were the results 100% of the time, but we usually were barely able to navigate our way back to the road, much less return to any of our nameless hero-makers a second time. And it didn't matter, because in any direction, glory could be found, or at least gory could be found. Thank God for the large sack of golden, seedless manderines from my Dad's tree in the Poway lowlands.
Kinley, my brother Brian and I were up there in 1966, long before we met RR at PHS; when Denny boasted to him of Tooth Rock while ascending the vacant and curvaceous Ramona Highway up to that Great "Alpine" Massif. On some mornings, one could look out upon a vast, mystical ocean of clouds below- I expect that is still possible for the would-be Woodson devotee. May there me many more. BA
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Brunosafari
Boulder climber
Redmond, OR
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Yea Mooser, TC has mentioned you quite a few times. I could sure tell you lots of stories of his climbing--we called him the "Friction King." He possibly still is the Friction King, but maybe now a different kind of friction.
One fun climb was the regular route on Fairview Dome which we did at age 15 in 1970.
Hope you get down here in Central Oregon with Tim someday. I do expect to be in Seattle this Summer however!
BA
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Hi Bruce. It'll be good to connect with you and "the Friction King" together. Tim and I have talked about coming down your way quite often. I think when he and I were at Leavenworth, it was the first time he'd been on rock since his accident in JT. In any case, see you sometime in the not too distant future.
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Brunosafari
Boulder climber
Redmond, OR
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Ooooo, Mooser...I was there. I can still hear his bones crushing! BA
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2007 - 07:54am PT
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BA. EEEYONKEEE! Glad to hear from you. Finally, another Poway Mountain Boy. Coming to Colorado? No way. Sending you my number.
Don't know how to reach Piggot. His name gets mentioned here a fair bit - he just kept getting better while most the rest of us trailed off a bit in the 80's. I'd love to see some old Woodson pictures - or Tahquitz/Suicide/Valley for that matter.
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426
Sport climber
Buzzard Point, TN
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Englekirk might have Rick's contact info...and Reno/Tahoe locs seen RP's big red rig lately?
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Brunosafari
Boulder climber
Redmond, OR
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Thanks 426. Englekirk is in Mammoth, right?
Both my parents grew up in Tennessee. Where is Buzzard Point? Near any climbing? How do you survive summer? Ever been to Woodson? BA
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Watusi
Social climber
Joshua Tree, CA
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TAR! Oh yeah I remember some of those...A while back Mussy said he still had some of the really gnarly ones. They cannot fall into the wrong hands! Or else they might be coming after all of us with the butterfly nets!!
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