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ydpl8s

Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 17, 2015 - 11:45am PT
Show a photo that illustrates "the sharp end" for you. In addition to this one below (courtesy mp.com) I'm thinking of some pics I've seen on here of - Pictures on a Landscape - Bachar Yerian - Briggs on Death and Transfiguration

Those are mostly crag examples, but any and all are welcome.

Chiloe

Trad climber
Lee, NH
Mar 17, 2015 - 11:49am PT
This from Figures on a Landscape seems to do the job.

mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Mar 17, 2015 - 11:51am PT
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Mar 17, 2015 - 12:18pm PT
why you got to set such
a high bar with the opening picture?

huh?
5.11d thin r.p.'s
10' out?

i mean, come on?

you must consider your audience,
an tiptoe thru our
complex web of emotions
and sensitivities.

now i'm ashamed to
post up some glossy
of me 3' above a #3
on some 5.9.

you get nothing from me.
come back with some humility
and then i'm yours.
Big Mike

Trad climber
BC
Mar 17, 2015 - 12:36pm PT
The mighty Weege doth not give himself enough credit me thinks...

survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Mar 17, 2015 - 12:38pm PT
Mere 5.9, but high in the sky on Ginger Cracks, Red Rock!!


mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Mar 17, 2015 - 01:06pm PT
Weege needs to teach his soloist to take pictures.
NutAgain!

Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
Mar 17, 2015 - 01:36pm PT
The palm sweating thread!


This one doesn't look bad, but the only pro is a tipped open #3 or #4 in
an exfoliating dirty pocket, could barely get the thing to stay put to
climb past it (and the ridge I'm dependent on at the moment in this pic
is flexing in my hand while I try to get something in. It's 5.9s like
this that made me afraid of trying 5.10 for a long time.
L

climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
Mar 17, 2015 - 01:47pm PT
This from Figures on a Landscape seems to do the job.


Chiloe--that traverse on Figures makes my blood run cold every time, no matter how many times I've done it. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
NutAgain!

Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
Mar 17, 2015 - 01:52pm PT
Le_bruce has been known to avoid a placement or two to keep the rope running free:



brotherbbock

Trad climber
Alta Loma, CA
Mar 17, 2015 - 02:05pm PT
Chiloe,

Got any of me from that day?

I got the killer run out second pitch!
brotherbbock

Trad climber
Alta Loma, CA
Mar 17, 2015 - 02:11pm PT
bob

climber
Mar 17, 2015 - 02:14pm PT
Chiloe

Trad climber
Lee, NH
Mar 17, 2015 - 02:19pm PT
Got any of me from that day?
I got the killer run out second pitch!

Indeed you did, bro!


brotherbbock

Trad climber
Alta Loma, CA
Mar 17, 2015 - 02:20pm PT
^^^^Awesome! Thanks for posting.
Chiloe

Trad climber
Lee, NH
Mar 17, 2015 - 03:28pm PT
Chiloe--that traverse on Figures makes my blood run cold every time, no matter how many times I've done it. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Yeah, I was pretty impressed watching him put it together calmly onsight.

Big Mike

Trad climber
BC
Mar 17, 2015 - 03:59pm PT
Kyle making the desperate, potential ground fall clip of the third bolt on Over Forty 11a.
NutAgain!

Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
Mar 17, 2015 - 05:44pm PT
Big Mike, that last pic is a classic! Pulls me into that feeling a lot more than just seeing a lot of rope out.
Big Mike

Trad climber
BC
Mar 17, 2015 - 08:17pm PT
Thanks Nut. We were both praying his foot wouldn't grease off.
richross

Trad climber
Mar 17, 2015 - 08:30pm PT
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