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Shack
Big Wall climber
Reno NV
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Oct 24, 2007 - 08:21pm PT
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What's with that tiny chalkbag?
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Oct 24, 2007 - 08:38pm PT
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Right on man!
No falls or anything...
Jean-Luc Ponti in the background.
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Jobee
Social climber
El Portal
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Oct 24, 2007 - 08:52pm PT
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This made my day; no need for supper thanks!
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WBraun
climber
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Oct 24, 2007 - 08:57pm PT
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You free-soled that.
That's fuking scary, and then you Yaboed it out on some insane face with tiny edges to the top.
And you weren't even a bit scared were ya, eh? Betcha a little bit.
What kind of celery have you been eating back then.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Oct 24, 2007 - 09:03pm PT
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i remember how nice it is to get to that first good hand jam. one of the things i miss about jtree.
tx for posting all the vid--
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James
climber
A tent in the redwoods
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Oct 24, 2007 - 09:16pm PT
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Werner didn't you know? Russ = Hardman
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Shack
Big Wall climber
Reno NV
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Oct 24, 2007 - 09:19pm PT
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Werner, there was probably some beer on top for motivation.
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bachar
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Oct 24, 2007 - 10:07pm PT
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Promoting free soloing eh?
Nice....
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Oct 24, 2007 - 10:14pm PT
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Hidden wires...
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand.... man.....
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 24, 2007 - 10:24pm PT
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John... you told me a long time ago that the Left Track was a boulder problem.
Funny story about the Left Track.... BITD these bad assss™ climbers would run a train on that thing every morning AND evening..... and many other "boulder problems" in the loop too. So at some point Lechlinksi decides it is my time to do this thing. No worries that I had never done it before, not even on a rope as I recall..... so he goes first and hangs out just above the crux giving me beta..... I get it on my third try! Dropped off the fin a couple of times (too pumped to downclimb) and straight popped to the talus once, landing kinda hard. Remember that that was the method back then..... Largo made us all solo the Waterchute once, with him up above us barking directions... we had never done it before, and we only lost the last guy in the train who took a wicked ripper out of that thing, and high up too.... Same with Strawberry Jam.... never done it.... Largo drags us all over there, shows us the beta, and then starts calling on guys to "come on up". Results come quick with those methods, one way or another.
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susan peplow
climber
www.joshuatreevacationhomes.com
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Oct 24, 2007 - 11:03pm PT
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Oh to be young again.
Fake wife, fake kid, fake job = solo circuit dream wreckers!
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Oct 24, 2007 - 11:06pm PT
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It's more manageable if you think of LST as basically a black mt. boulder problem to a 5.9 handcrack. But I wouldn't want to pop from the fin . . ..
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand.... man.....
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 24, 2007 - 11:16pm PT
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klk is right..... V0- boulder problem to slammer hands to 5.7 face. Who would worry about that?
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tetonhack
Social climber
jackson wy
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Oct 24, 2007 - 11:40pm PT
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It is a boulder problem, but a boulder prob that you don't want to miss, early one morning Hamish and I watched a well known so.cal soloer, (not Bachar) tater from the crux, straddle the rocks at the bottom and walk away. We all pretended it didn't happen.
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James
climber
A tent in the redwoods
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Oct 25, 2007 - 12:01am PT
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I've seen the 9 am express on that route. Never wanted to do it myself though. I prefer falling from higher.
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Matt
Trad climber
primordial soup
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Oct 25, 2007 - 02:00am PT
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well yeah-
plus, there are too many rocks at the bottom of that one, so you can hardly make a really cool crater of your own...
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Oct 25, 2007 - 03:14am PT
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It was about near dusk when Yabo wandered over to our Blue Goose night club (an old VW micro). Tom was playing banjo and John was having fun with some brown tar he found in Nepal. Yabo wants some tar, so we managed to find some for him. Half an hour later, now pure dark, somebody's pounding on the door again. Apparently Yabo found a way to dissolve the entire tar ball and, within a minute or two of the dissolution, solo Left Ski Track. He described how he almost dashed it at every move, it was dark you see, and now was so amped that he demanded more tar. One way or another, we managed to knott find any more...
That route is proud, nice 3rd Russ.
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Watusi
Social climber
Newport, OR
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Oct 25, 2007 - 03:42am PT
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Awesome time capsule tid-bits here to be sure!!
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bachar
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Oct 25, 2007 - 10:40am PT
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Russ - never knew that story - makes it even more impressive. I saw Gibb fall off the fin once....sheeeet, he sure got lucky. His ankles missed everything and he was OK!
Pretty cool - your sequence looks very familiar....hmmmm.
Cheers, jb
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