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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Sep 23, 2016 - 03:32pm PT
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Would love to see a picture of that from a different angle.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Sep 23, 2016 - 03:52pm PT
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Wow. So badass!
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scaredycat
Trad climber
Berkeley,CA
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Sep 23, 2016 - 07:54pm PT
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It's really an effing lovely looking face.
[edit, wrt stuff below]
Photo Credit Jim Thornburg. If anyone asks me, I'll pull it of CMac can. Jimmy works for a living. The real photo is 100x more beautiful than my shitty screen shot.
I have NO right to post this, but this thread needs photos. Sorry.
I used to surf "the mouth of the Kalamath", which I think was the cove in the distance. And I boulderd (S->N) at Moonstone, Patricks Point and Trinidad back in the early 70s. Man I wish I had a least seen that face.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Sep 24, 2016 - 11:37am PT
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It's sandstone or greywacke?
-edit, read the mtnproject page. its sandstone
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bixquite
Social climber
humboldt nation
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Sep 24, 2016 - 12:11pm PT
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Thats wilson creek in the distance, ok surf spot. Klamath is about 4 miles south and foot steps is about a mile north. Magic stretch of coast.
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Floorabove
climber
The Gunks y'all
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Sep 24, 2016 - 01:32pm PT
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Hmmm. I thought the consensus was F U C K Him after the whole tree cutting BS.
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Sep 24, 2016 - 01:51pm PT
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Amazing. I started climbing in the 70's, so I've watched climbing standards improve through the years. 5.14 and 5.15 seem other-worldly. Anyone who has done one of the Dawn Wall aid routes knows that a free route up there seemed absolutely impossible. Cosmic Debris is easy to get to, and it looks insanely hard. Now it is a solo, like the Phoenix.
The amazing thing is how the human body is holding up. When hard 5.12 came around, we started seeing a lot of flamed out elbows and finger pulley problems. It seemed like we were approaching the limit of human capability. I remember seeing that opinion in print more than once.
We were all quite wrong, of course. Routes like this are proof. Who knows where the limits of human strength and technique will be?
As an aside, I'd love to see that cliff, just to check out the geology of the rock. Coastal California is cursed with a lot of kitty litter. This cliff looks amazing from the photos.
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Sep 24, 2016 - 09:19pm PT
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Once you pop you can't stop.
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caughtinside
Social climber
Oakland, CA
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Sep 26, 2016 - 07:59am PT
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Hmm, not much interest here in a crack that is one of the ~10 hardest in the world. How many .14 cracks are in CA? Magic line and meltdown?
Way more fun to bleat about some old tuolumne route that got retroed then chopped.
The Instagram photo above was taken by Jim Thornburg.
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Matt's
climber
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Sep 26, 2016 - 08:23am PT
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Hmmm. I thought the consensus was F U C K Him after the whole tree cutting BS.
you got your climbers confused (joe kinder vs. ethan pringle), you may want to remove your slander.
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snowhazed
Trad climber
Oaksterdam, CA
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Sep 26, 2016 - 09:18am PT
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oh hell yes
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scaredycat
Trad climber
Berkeley,CA
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Sep 26, 2016 - 09:54am PT
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wrt geology. I'm not sure I believe it was sandstone despite what the article says. In my long ago experience of Humboldt and Del Norte Co beach cliffs, it wouldn't still be that big, steep, standing and sandstone all at the same time. I could of course be wrong.
I edited the photo credit with:
Photo Credit Jim Thornburg. If anyone asks me, I'll pull it or CMac can. Jimmy works for a living. The real photo is 100x more beautiful than my shitty screen shot.
Go buy his book!
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caughtinside
Social climber
Oakland, CA
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Sep 26, 2016 - 02:15pm PT
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Deleting because this website sucks and people aren't interested in climbing.
couch master and his list both suck
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