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squishy

Mountain climber
Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 13, 2017 - 09:40am PT
How many new rocks, boulders, routes and entire new areas will be opened in the next few years due to these fires clearing these peak forests that haven't burned in 100 years? Just like the history of Phantom Spires...but in Napa? really? Could even be some new accessible multipitch like the choss up near St Helena...who's going exploring?
divad

Trad climber
wmass
Oct 13, 2017 - 05:10pm PT
Don't know what the fires will reveal, but this post most likely reveals something about you.
originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
Oct 13, 2017 - 05:16pm PT
Yo, whats the history of the Phantom Spires? They get noticed after a fire, hence the name?
Knave

Trad climber
Oct 13, 2017 - 05:35pm PT
What divad said. What a heartless post. You want choss, perhaps look inward.
drF

Trad climber
usa
Oct 13, 2017 - 05:40pm PT
WOW...classic post.

So foul
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Oct 13, 2017 - 06:04pm PT
should be glad ST messaging sucks...
nita

Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
Oct 13, 2017 - 09:23pm PT
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Sadness and devastation is what the fires are revealing..
http://my.earthlink.net/article/us?guid=20171013/94f9a1d9-f62a-4df9-95c7-58433bfbc413
Mungeclimber

Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
Oct 13, 2017 - 09:28pm PT
I think the call of the question was more general, not specific to this 'fire' necessarily. But perhaps it is too soon.
Psilocyborg

climber
Oct 14, 2017 - 06:45pm PT
Exactly gow many fires have you started looking for new climbing areas?
Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Oct 14, 2017 - 08:00pm PT
abonimable drones
?
ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
Oct 14, 2017 - 11:52pm PT
OP just posed a simple climbing related question, and everybody shits their pants in unison.
McHale's Navy

Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
Oct 15, 2017 - 12:20am PT
What the fires are showing us is that we are woefully unprepared for them. I'm wondering if we have our best and brightest working on this task.
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Oct 15, 2017 - 12:26am PT
hey there say, mcHale's Navy...

also, nita-- i have been too sad to read anymore, and yet,
the families are FAR MORE sad, and must live with the outcome
of all this...

thank you for sharing this story ...
someone, these folks, would want her remembered...
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Oct 15, 2017 - 06:10am PT
Benefit granted, Kevin. Robert L's right, it was too soon. A bit more tactful if squishy had waited, possibly.

I know from experience in Box Canyon on the LA/Ventura line and at the old movie ranch there that vegetation re-covers things pretty densely within two years and it favors spots next to the cliffs and bases of boulders because of rainwater retention in those areas.

Jim and I, in our roving, would do one freshly-opened line/problem and come back the next year to repeat it only to have to deal with more growth.

Fires do have a way of making things accessible, for sure.

Thanks for your cool head, dude, now that everyone's vented.
Knave

Trad climber
Napa
Oct 15, 2017 - 08:03am PT
Struck a chord with me. I've got much skin in the game here in Napa and reserve the right to call out bullshit when someone pokes me in the eye, unwittingly or not. I'm over it! We were spared by 2 blocks.

Just recently retired from fire service, I've witnessed many fires, none come even close to this on the iminant death scale. It overwhelmed initial responses on all fronts in a matter of minutes thousands of people had to flee at 0 dark 30. I read this post after a long 5 day push.

Incidentally the rock here is really bad choss festooned with poison oak. But come knock yourself out, you've got spalled waisthigh sandstone or volcanic abominations on private property.

Peace, Tim
John Morton

climber
Oct 15, 2017 - 08:43am PT
Chris Jones lives on a hillside above Sonoma. He wrote that his place was under immediate threat, and his family has evacuated to San Rafael.
splitclimber

climber
Sonoma County
Oct 15, 2017 - 09:39am PT
I was thinking about Chris Jones. I'm glad he is OK

Right now some crags At mt. St. Helena are in the burn zone and some of my favorite local boulders at Sugarloaf ridge State park have undoubtedly burned.

Lame OP but can be par for the course around here.

Timid - let me know if you need anything when you are here. Even if we just meet and I buy you a beer.
Chris Jones

Social climber
Glen Ellen, CA
Oct 17, 2017 - 08:24pm PT
Just returned to our perfectly intact home in Sonoma Valley after mandatory evacuation was lifted on the 9th day. Firefighters did an incredible job. We were fortunate that the burn adjacent to our home was low intensity, and not the explosive fires that TV likes to show. But still, fire crept to within 30 feet of our house. We heard that one night a fire protection crew slept on our deck. Now that is service!
drF

Trad climber
usa
Oct 17, 2017 - 08:35pm PT
Stoked to hear you made out.

Prayers to those that got burnt

We gotta make some hard decisions to eliminate this stuff?
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Oct 17, 2017 - 10:17pm PT
hey there say, chris... glad you made it out... and that the home was okay, when you got back...
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