Trip Report
South Face Of Mount Watkins!!! +VIDEO
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Wednesday February 4, 2015 10:09pm
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Well, as I was siting in my first period class (English) "learning" about things... I couldn't help but think about a Yosemite adventure! So After about 2 minutes of contemplating if I should get a plan together.. I texted Eric, "Watkins?" after about 1 minute, a text came through that was pure stoke!
We were going to do the south face of mount watkins this weekend... only 1 day away!
OOOOGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!
Video:
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Here are the pics!!
Eric in the parking lot getting ready to hike.
Me on the skateboard early on the approach!
looking up at the wall!
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I may upload more pics later! but this is it for now! hope this gets people stoked to go to yosemite and climb a big rock!
OOGGHH!!
whitemeat
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About the Author
whitemeat is a trad climber from San Luis Obispo, CA. |
Comments
WBraun
climber
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I'm way stoked now.
Someday I want to go to yosemite and climb a big rock too!
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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White, the sooner you can learn that learning happens while sitting, well, the better. M'kay? /sarcasm
F*#K YEAH DUDES!
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Ezra Ellis
Trad climber
North wet, and Da souf
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Nice meat, the 5.5 glory pitch looks right up my alley!!!
GNAR!!!!
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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mickey you pacified this mob.
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telemon01
Trad climber
Montana
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Well done! Riding the skateboard with the haul bag looked like the scariest part.
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whitemeat
Trad climber
San Luis Obispo, CA
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Author's Reply
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Feb 5, 2015 - 07:18am PT
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the 5.5 glory was for shore one of my favorite pitches!!!!
and ya, bombing that hill was the scariest part!!!
OOGGHH!!
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Grippa
Trad climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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SICK! Makes me wanna stop bouldering this winter, and do a real rock climb.
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Fish_Products
Big Wall climber
FishProducts.com
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MEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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That skateboard descent is just the hottest sh#t ever.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Superb! I'm with Largo on the skateboarding.
John
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RP3
Big Wall climber
Newbury Park
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How dare you post some climbing stoke.... This site is supposed to just be for bellyaching old farts.
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kaholatingtong
Trad climber
The fake McCoy from nevernever land.
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skateboard descent with the haulbag on back for the win!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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You need to get a skateboard sponsor NOW, young Mick.
Primo TR. Love the music.
No counting sheep helped you go to sleep
On your frozen bivy ledge,
so you ended up counting stars, right?
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Your skateboarding at the end was totally gripping!
Now, above you see your McTopo photos that are way too small to be any good. So you definitely want higher res and wider size.
EDIT: Another thing you can do is hit CTRL and + together a few times until the page gets bigger on your screen, which makes the photos bigger and better to look at, but the resolution is lost a bit.
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johntp
Trad climber
Punter, Little Rock
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Back to the front page with this one. BBST.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
https://nutagain.org
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Lord knows you should be paying attention in English class, but those pictures are pretty sweet and the joy of being there would be hard to resist.
And writing with flashlights- I never saw that before. Genius!
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melski
Trad climber
bytheriver
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how cool is that,,some good ideas come in the class room,,thanks for the share,,takes me back to our second bivi somewhere btween the glory pitch and the no fun pitch,when after a fair amount of tequila was passed around ,survival says something like ,I feel just like a Prince with my subjects and kingdom at my feet,,to which,Bugs replies,your just a drunk on a rock "" we all had to laugh,at ourselves of course,,
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Under Achiever
Trad climber
Los Angeles
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Stellar climb and TR!
Five out of five.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
On the road.
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Mickey, you are my fricken' hero!
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Jeff Gorris
climber
Not from Portlandia
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You made it look to easy. Good fookin job!
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Epic post
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Ken
Trad climber
Arroyo Grande
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