Trip Report
Grapevine, Grindhouse & Sally (Backwaters Bouldering, MT)
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Tuesday March 10, 2009 1:36pm
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More fun out in the backwaters
Pat on the FA of Grapevine
Grape Slab
The Grindhouse Project
The brother got through with a slight 'diet', soon to go...more pads and psyche is needed as the crux is pretty weird to spot...
Sally
Hope y'all have been getting out too...
Cheers,
Tom
more at http://boulderbatholith.blogspot.com/
TKingsbury
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About the Author
TKingsbury is a trad climber from MT. |
Comments
P.Kingsbury
Trad climber
the jeep
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Mar 10, 2009 - 01:58pm PT
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that was a fun day!
tryin' to recruit an army for the grindhouse....that exit is SCARY!! more pads/ spotters needed as the ground is a good 12-15' below the lip....
cheers,
patrick
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Author's Reply
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Mar 10, 2009 - 02:54pm PT
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Cool video about the Boulder Batholith and its history and role in mining on this page:
http://www.thisisbozeman.com/#top
bottom right corner called
"Butte, Montana: A Mile High, A Mile Deep"
I've heard an addition to that phrase/motto:
Butte, Montana: A Mile High, A Mile Deep.....and on the level
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Author's Reply
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Mar 10, 2009 - 04:37pm PT
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Thanks Jeremy! Hopefully you'll post some pics up!
There's rock in these hills...
This zone has yielded a great amount so far...lots more to do though...it's about 1/2 mile from the hill in the foreground to the gully in the background...
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Mar 10, 2009 - 04:39pm PT
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I'm really starting to hate how much climbing you guys get in.
rawk on
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Author's Reply
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Mar 10, 2009 - 04:47pm PT
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It's a hard life to be sure munge ;-)
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Mar 10, 2009 - 04:53pm PT
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Damn, there sure is a lot of bouldering out there.
Grape Slab looks especially sweet to me (I'm not much into those inverted o/w thangs).
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Mar 10, 2009 - 05:04pm PT
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Do you have a pocket in your pads to hold the bear spray?
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Author's Reply
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Mar 10, 2009 - 05:07pm PT
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Thanks Blue, climbing of all styles to be had out there it seems...The OWs have been getting alot of attention from us though...
It's fun to go out to these zones with new people...many different ideas and eyes scanning the rocks makes for problems I don't even consider...Y'all need to motivate out here and give us some input :)
just to the left of 'Sally' is a good looking mantel problem...campus up to that dark blob and pull over...
EDIT:
Do you have a pocket in your pads to hold the bear spray?
Not too many bears to worry about in this area...big cats are more on my mind than anything...though I've yet to have an encounter...
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Mar 10, 2009 - 05:51pm PT
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Keep the cat talk on the down low, guys. Lyddie had a traumatic cat incident when she was one that has since been forgotten.
knott photoshopped (but taxidermized).
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Mar 10, 2009 - 07:50pm PT
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you guys have a great thing going on and "backwaters" i take to be code for fully blessed to be right here, right now with these buddies in these crags. that ow wrestling match on that gritty stuff is only for the truly inspired, driven and gifted. in my day i threw myself under every roofy grotto i found and the exuberance blinded me one time to the "paddle cactus" prickly pear that i plopped myself down onto for the start. it was a long hike back the to mouth of the clark's fork (of the yellowstone) holding my carhart's off my cheek full of needles. want to thank mojede for his comments about the passing of rob hart, good friend.(more soon) your thread is what led me into supertopo from a basic google search on rob and i'm thrilled to see so many old friends on this site. montana day's meant a lot to me and appearantly donini too, as he named his daughter Montana the night before we scaled some cliff in leavenworth. i guess he'd know the date...Jim?
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Author's Reply
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Mar 10, 2009 - 08:39pm PT
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Thanks hooblie!
Looking forward to seeing your posts, always interested in hearing about the MT climbing. You might cause a stir with talk of the Clarks though :) Though I'd still like read about it!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Mar 10, 2009 - 10:15pm PT
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Hooblie I named my son Montana. You can't not like places that have grizzlies, wolves and wolverines in sufficient numbers that they are not endangered. 147,000 sq. miles and less than a million people- you have to like that. Just a little to far north for me at this stage in my life.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Mar 10, 2009 - 10:22pm PT
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Who did you guys pleasure in another life, to keep getting all those goodies in this one?
Or, is it just map skills, cooperation, and patience?
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Mar 10, 2009 - 10:51pm PT
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Location, location, location...
edit: The 3 most important things in life to remember.
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Author's Reply
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Mar 10, 2009 - 10:52pm PT
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I think it's more a matter of population and that the larger more obvious formations were the objectives BITD...there seems to be still a good amount of bouldering and shorter single pitch stuff if you're willing to explore. I do have to say I'm always pleasantly surprised in what we ind out there....
Working in GIS helps though...
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Mar 10, 2009 - 11:01pm PT
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Bruthas- I have lurked through probably all your bouldering posts and while this one maybe isn't the raddest, it's the one i finally respond to!!!
There's nothing quite like exploring for boulders in the woods- and finding gems. What a great lifestyle it is, living close to so much rock, with new stuff waiting around every bend.
It was a major part of my trip living in Prescott and I miss it!
I'll probably go back to lurk mode, but just wanted to let you and your gang know I dig how y'all do it. Good on ya, dudes!
jefe
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P.Kingsbury
Trad climber
the jeep
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Mar 14, 2009 - 03:41am PT
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bump for the butte mission in the morning!!!
think we're doing the roped thing though...aka simul?-soloing hahahahaha
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Author's Reply
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Mar 14, 2009 - 09:54am PT
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Thanks jefe! Glad to hear that you're enjoying the posts!
I hope Pat got some sleep...I'm gonna be going to pick him up here pretty soon...
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