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G_Gnome
Boulder climber
Sick Midget Land
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 13, 2006 - 05:42pm PT
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And I mean the whole world, or any time of the year. I need a new vacation spot so tell me why your favorite place is the best place to climb.
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caughtinside
Social climber
Davis, CA
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Sep 13, 2006 - 05:43pm PT
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I'm pretty partial to Lover's Leap.
but there are many crags I have not visited...
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TYeary
Mountain climber
Calif.
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Sep 13, 2006 - 06:01pm PT
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For mountaineering, Peru's Cordillera Blanca is hard to beat. The dollar goes along way, approaches are easy and short, and in between climbing 6000m peaks you can camp in a grassy valley, or have pollo ala brasa and beer in Huaraz. In a day or so, you can be back up another valley for more climbing on fantastic, icy, pointed peaks! It doesn't get much better than that.
Tony
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Bryan Kent
Trad climber
Dawson Creek B.C.
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Sep 13, 2006 - 06:08pm PT
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Cirque of the Unclimables, N.W.T. Canada. Just got back a couple weeks ago, the place is magic.
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G_Gnome
Boulder climber
Sick Midget Land
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 13, 2006 - 06:30pm PT
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Ok, some caveats. I suck at hiking and don't enjoy it anyway, so let's just leave the mountain climbing for some other thread. We are talking rock climbing here. Preferably with almost bumper belays. I don't really want to walk more than half an hour to get to a route.
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TradIsGood
Fun-loving climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Sep 13, 2006 - 06:58pm PT
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With that qualification...
1) Joshua Tree
2) Gunks. (I like this best, but JTree gets the bumper nod.)
3) Red Rocks (parts of it)
4) Any number of places that I still need to visit.
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n) Cooper's Rock, WV (mostly all TR on sandstone)
n+1) West Point (sport on soot covered rock)
n+2) Grapevine in Aruba (but it only has about 12 climbs, sport and TR) Good destination, but not for the climbing.
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G_Gnome
Boulder climber
Sick Midget Land
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 13, 2006 - 07:06pm PT
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Running seems like hiking uphill fast. In that I don't like hiking uphill fast, I don't like running either. Now that's not to say that I am not gonna outrun you if a griz is chasing us, but it is not something I do for recreation.
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scuffy b
climber
The town that Nature forgot to hate
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Sep 13, 2006 - 07:08pm PT
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Southern California. I heard about this great thing
called Jan's Porch.
Actually, I'm too freakin provincial to have any good ideas.
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curlie
Trad climber
SLO, CA
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Sep 13, 2006 - 07:16pm PT
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Dude, the Italian Dolomites were pretty nice.....stellar, long routes, perfect weather, you can take ski lifts up to the base of a climb, then _down_ from the top, there are refugios everywhere with beer and GOOD coffee....it's a climber's heaven! Well, except that there aren't any lakes! Oh, and there's some loose rock. But there's COFFEE and BEER in the "backcountry"!
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atchafalaya
Trad climber
California
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Sep 13, 2006 - 07:45pm PT
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Favorite? granite Mountain, Az. Tons of other good crags around Prescott as well. Sedona, P forks, Overlook, Sullys Canyon, Promised Land, Thumb Butte, Dells, Shroom freak and on, and on...
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Jacob
Trad climber
yucky valley
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Sep 13, 2006 - 07:49pm PT
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not sure yet... ive only climbed in sandiego, joshuatree, newjack, on sanjacento (sp?) and thats about it sofar
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Abercrombie
Trad climber
Ca
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Sep 13, 2006 - 08:03pm PT
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Why settle for a bumper when theres temp. control.
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Sep 13, 2006 - 08:15pm PT
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Of the places I've climbed at, so far I would have to say OZ. The cragging there, combined with the wild flora and fauna and great beer, makes it a place that stands out in my memory.
But California still is #1, IMO
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GrandMastaD
Social climber
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Sep 13, 2006 - 08:15pm PT
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The Gorge...er, uh, I mean...Tuolumne.
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Jacob
Trad climber
yucky valley
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Sep 13, 2006 - 08:17pm PT
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bahahahha!!!! that shot is great!! i think ive found my new favorite way to belay
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Abercrombie
Trad climber
Ca
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Sep 13, 2006 - 08:28pm PT
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At least Tom is not in full recline mode.
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Jacob
Trad climber
yucky valley
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Sep 13, 2006 - 08:32pm PT
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with a hip belay.... thats hardcore
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Abercrombie
Trad climber
Ca
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Sep 13, 2006 - 08:36pm PT
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Pretty solid anchor.
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G_Gnome
Boulder climber
Sick Midget Land
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 13, 2006 - 08:48pm PT
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Can't say, any particular places there? I hear Piles is outstanding and I have a friend who is gonna be climbing there in a couple of weeks and will give me the full report. Where else did you climb that you also thought was special?
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