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tradryan
Big Wall climber
San Diego
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 19, 2014 - 12:16pm PT
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Howdy folks,
No 5.12 for me for a while longer while I continue to rehab from trauma/ortho surgery. Anyone know of any good aid routes in the San Diego or greater area? I'm thinking multi-pitch, A2/A3, maybe clean, or maybe some pins, heads, hooks, and that sort of tomfoolery. I would expect Corte Madera would have an ideal line for what I'm looking for. I need to take a browse through my books, just so far looked at mountainproject and all they have listed is the 30' boulder aid problem below the base of El Cajon.
Cheers and happy holidays,
R
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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Dec 19, 2014 - 03:24pm PT
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PM Mucci - he's down that way now.
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Dec 19, 2014 - 03:26pm PT
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FWIW, be careful if you are rehabbing shoulders/elbows/wrist/finger. Aid climbing, for all that it appears physically easy, standing in stupid aiders for hours, can be surprisingly hard on joints.
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Dec 19, 2014 - 03:32pm PT
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Well.... as a San Diegan that tried to do what he could locally....
You basically have three options - short woodson cracks, established free climbs and Lowenbrau pinnacle. There may be an odd aid route or two at El Cajon or Corte Madera but likely they will be guarded by some free climbing - my teeny El Cajon/Corte/Eagle peak guide lists nada.
Your best option is to head to McCain valley where Lowenbrau is a decently long seam. I haven't been on it myself, it's pretty far from North County and has some kind of bullshit dirt road, but a few of my friends have practiced on it and had good things to say.
Outside of that, there isn't a positive story about aid climbing in San Diego that I've heard.
http://www.mountainproject.com/v/lowenbrau-pinnacle/106198880
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Friend
climber
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Dec 19, 2014 - 05:46pm PT
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Warbler
Any photos of scylla or charybdis you'd care to share? They sound killer.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
in the oil patch...Fricken Bakken, that's where
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Dec 19, 2014 - 05:50pm PT
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Man, I've been up here too long....I saw SD & thought South Dakota.
Meh.
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Dec 19, 2014 - 07:39pm PT
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Great shot Kos! I'll have to check it out! Thanks :)
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Dec 19, 2014 - 08:47pm PT
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Aid routes in SD county . . . are you kidding?
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Dec 19, 2014 - 08:58pm PT
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^^^^No, it's true. THere are at least 2 short bathole routes at Woodson along with some thin seams and micro flake hooking fun.
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