Trip Report
The Seasonal Dose of....
Monday January 11, 2016 9:23am
...SPRAYYYYYY!!!!!

http://vividrea1ity.blogspot.com/2016/01/whats-next.html

It took me a long time to compare the pros and cons of spraying on the supertopo forum. Days of non stop thinking brought me to the conclusion that nothing will stop me before I get to 100 TR posts on the site. Even if I have to divide future climbs into trip reports about individual pitches. :)

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http://vividrea1ity.blogspot.com/2016/01/whats-next.html

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Delicate Arch through another arch...pretty place.
Delicate Arch through another arch...pretty place.
Credit: Vitaliy M.
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Year of the monkey...here we go.

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Vitaliy M.
About the Author
Vitaliy M. is an annoying gym climber from San Francisco.

Comments
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
  Jan 11, 2016 - 09:26am PT
Dood, I think you got off route in yer fourth pic.
Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
  Jan 11, 2016 - 09:28am PT
good luck on 100 TRs

like so many artificial goals, the accomplishment pales in the face of the actual doing...

keep stoking V
skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
  Jan 11, 2016 - 09:46am PT
Speak into my good ear W.L.

Reilly, I don't think that route is mixed enough for him. All that mixed stuff; looks like V and Scotland could be an item. Gnarley scary stuff! Thanks!
johntp

Trad climber
Punter, Little Rock
  Jan 11, 2016 - 09:48am PT
Huh?
Impaler

Social climber
San Francisco
  Jan 11, 2016 - 09:55am PT
I made it into your TR! Schweet pictures, by the way. I hope we get to climb some together in 2016!
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
  Jan 11, 2016 - 10:01am PT
Oh, Oh, I know where that third pic is from! Cool place.

A swim to the island in the lake is a good place to chill after climbing.

EDIT: Did you do the awesome chimney slot, foreground of yer pic?
John M

climber
  Jan 11, 2016 - 10:30am PT
Great set of pictures! Thats living!
RyanD

climber
  Jan 11, 2016 - 10:40am PT
It would be really great if Vitaliy got himself banned and W.L. Could put his sprayguard on and post his TRs and messages for him a la the master format from beyond the intergrave.
RyanD

climber
  Jan 11, 2016 - 10:41am PT
SC seagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, Bozeman, the ocean, or ?
  Jan 11, 2016 - 11:05am PT
That you! I'm waiting on the edge of my seat for the next "pitch report"
Works for me...I'm retired and need lotsa reading material.

Susan
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
  Jan 11, 2016 - 11:14am PT
I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for the next installment. If 2016 is the year of Monkeys Sending, what was 2015?

Keep up the good work.

john
Vitaliy M.

Mountain climber
San Francisco
Author's Reply  Jan 11, 2016 - 01:52pm PT
2015 was a great year. Hopefully one of many. Was really lucky to climb with good friends and to get good weather when we needed it/time off work etc.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
  Jan 11, 2016 - 10:43pm PT
bump!
ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
  Jan 11, 2016 - 11:07pm PT
Dirty and dangerous, but a complete traverse of the Ritter Range is yet to be done.
i'm gumby dammit

Sport climber
da ow
  Jan 11, 2016 - 11:13pm PT
haha never seen anyone crop out the lake. may i suggest one change to your plan. 200

this bluering a bell? the youngest at the top. seems like the easiest 5.8 i've ever done but i am way better stemming than any other part of my climbing.
RyanD

climber
  Jan 12, 2016 - 12:27pm PT
Back to the top.



bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
  Jan 12, 2016 - 04:01pm PT
Yep, Gumby, that's the chimney! Pretty fun, a bit awkward at the top...

You can see the little island we swim to in your pic as well.
guyman

Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
  Jan 12, 2016 - 04:28pm PT
Very nice... spray away my man.

You do know its knott spray, when you back it up with photographic proof....

thanks for the TR

Ezra Ellis

Trad climber
North wet, and Da souf
  Jan 12, 2016 - 06:00pm PT
Nice V, doesn't look like you need a seasonal girlfriend!
this just in

climber
Justin Ross from North Fork
  Jan 12, 2016 - 07:37pm PT
Sh#t yeah! Thanks.
Spider Savage

Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
  Jan 12, 2016 - 09:58pm PT
I hope to catch up with you somewhere this year and do something cool. Maybe in SeKi. Come back and spray about it.

Keep up the good work.
Sierra Ledge Rat

Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
  Jan 13, 2016 - 04:58am PT
More V!
More V!!
More V!!!
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