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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 13, 2006 - 01:22pm PT
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Can people please post pictures of the rotten log so I can get the dimensions correct.
Thanks
Juanito
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Apocalypsenow
Trad climber
Cali
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Mar 13, 2006 - 01:32pm PT
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Perhaps a new line of work Juan. How about a fiberglass Old Man on Cannon... New Hampshire...while your at it, someone stole the pipe from the pipe pitch. Think you could get that replaced?
Oh yea...and a replacement of the bush of Bushy Ledge at the Leap (so confusing).
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TradIsGood
Trad climber
Gunks end of country
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Mar 13, 2006 - 01:35pm PT
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Before it fell, or after? Please if you do this make sure you engineer it so that it does not seem in any way superior to the original. Not stronger, better friction, etc.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Mar 13, 2006 - 01:35pm PT
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If you are talking about the Arches, is that log still there?
Did that climb in 1973 and the darn thing looked like it wouldn't last much longer.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
LA, Ca
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Mar 13, 2006 - 01:56pm PT
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I think it was '81 when I did it. It seemed truly marginal. I recall hearing about it's demise. Anyone remember when that was?
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Apocalypsenow
Trad climber
Cali
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Mar 13, 2006 - 01:57pm PT
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It was there in '91.
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 13, 2006 - 01:58pm PT
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I lifted it out of it's groove and told my partner, here it goes.
Juanito
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Wade Icey
Social climber
the EPC
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Mar 13, 2006 - 02:03pm PT
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"this rod's dust.I'm yarding it."
-D_ _
Pretty sure it was pre '91.
Wade
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Mar 13, 2006 - 02:37pm PT
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You'll need to make it out of styrofoam if you want to authenticaly replicate the texture it had.
And that was in 70 or 71
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 13, 2006 - 02:41pm PT
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I plan to bolt it to the wall.
Will need some help hauling it up as it will probably weigh a few hundred pounds.
Juanito
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Mar 13, 2006 - 03:01pm PT
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Could you install a soda machine up there while you're at it?
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Bilbo
Trad climber
Truckee
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Mar 13, 2006 - 03:10pm PT
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A restroom should be installed on the Sandy Ledge below the penji also..
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fareastclimber
Trad climber
Hong Kong & Wales
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Mar 13, 2006 - 03:33pm PT
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Wonderfully eccentric goal.
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Gunkie
climber
East Coast US
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Mar 13, 2006 - 03:37pm PT
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It needs to creak, vibrate, and flake away as you climb it.
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TradIsGood
Trad climber
Gunks end of country
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Mar 13, 2006 - 03:39pm PT
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See Supertopo - Yosemite Valley Free Climbs.
On page 129, according to Steve Roper, the log "finally parted company with the rock in the spring of 1984."
It was 25 feet long and one foot thick.
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Elcapinyoazz
Mountain climber
Anchorage, Alaska
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Mar 13, 2006 - 03:46pm PT
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Well, the only times I did the RA the tree was long gone. I don't even know where it used to be? Guessing that lieback right facing corner thing a pitch or two from the raps?
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Apocalypsenow
Trad climber
Cali
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Mar 13, 2006 - 04:59pm PT
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I know it was there in 91...I remember climbing on it. I wasn't offroute. I have only done the climb once, are there more than one log?
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caughtinside
Social climber
Davis, CA
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Mar 13, 2006 - 05:01pm PT
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Hmm, normally I like my routes to be free of 'rotten logs' left by climbers, but in this case I will make an exception.
Senor deFuca, you have my full support.
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thedogfather
Trad climber
Midwest
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Mar 13, 2006 - 05:59pm PT
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Boy, I thought there would be a lot of pics of the log.
Yes, in EB's and a Willans harness.
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thedogfather
Trad climber
Midwest
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Mar 13, 2006 - 06:58pm PT
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The pic was from 1976. I recall it was my first climbing trip out of Kansas City and was told to be sure not to put any slings on it for pro just in case it fell away when I was on it!
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