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Mungeclimber
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 30, 2008 - 01:10am PT
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It was dry, well the air and most rock was dry, but the waterstreaks. All wet. But the plus is you get this...
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Anastasia
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Califlower
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Jan 30, 2008 - 01:12am PT
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Ahh... Nice!
Give it to us dear, we so need you.
AF
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Mungeclimber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2008 - 01:20am PT
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loading a few more pics...
stand by please...
[cue elevator music]
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Mimi
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Jan 30, 2008 - 01:21am PT
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More sunny rock shots! PLEASE!
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Mungeclimber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2008 - 01:26am PT
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It all starts back in 71, a good year. My year.
Year of the pig.
Skip to 2008, year of the pig, er diet challenge. Taking the day off work. Rain is maddening. Work is beyond ridiculous. Very little climbing has been in 2008. Time for a change.
So I eventually, after 2 Sam Adam's Light, 1 Black Butte Porter, and reviewing many weather forecasts to determine what would be dry I settle on Pinnacles. It's a favorite area for me. Even if it rains, like it's supposed to, I can still hike to the High Peaks and get a work out.
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Mungeclimber
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sorry, just posting out loud.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2008 - 01:35am PT
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Rain I expected, but I noted that out the passenger window, there is snow on the coastals. WTF?
It's all good. No drops so far. 50% chance of precip I can work with. Forecasts are almost always wrong for pinns. Except that one time with a cat, some old E, and a prehistoric bird. Another story for a different forum.
Before you can get to the West Side (East Side Pinns is a sport ridden, heathen infested cesspool, of imitators; least that's what I tell myself to get me to try new areas out) you have to go thru Soledad.
Soledad, derived from Sol, or Sun, "e" or prouncounced in Spanish as "y" with the suffix 'dad' as "ny"...
Soledad = Sunny
sure, right, fricking marketing department for Soledad really needs to work on it.
so i think they have, note this sign "Feel the Momentum"
and this one...
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Anastasia
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My Mama!
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Jan 30, 2008 - 01:37am PT
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BUMP!
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Mungeclimber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2008 - 01:37am PT
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intermission for sunny rock shot...
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Mungeclimber
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sorry, just posting out loud.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2008 - 01:41am PT
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New stuff at Pinns, signs signs everywhere the signs...
some like this, where I think it's a self evaluation type sign. It asks the question and you decide. Today, I'm thinking it's safe...
yup, no fire danger, but we're at flood stage cap'n!
NOT A F*#KING SOUL IN THAT LOT.
and I showed up late too. Are we sure this is a national mon?
oh, wait, then there is thing...
for the love of all that is chossy, why?
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Mimi
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Jan 30, 2008 - 01:42am PT
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Munge, I never knew you were such a tease!
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Mungeclimber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2008 - 01:44am PT
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it gets worse, don't worry
the climax of this thread, well, won't.
hahaha
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Anastasia
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My Mama!
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Jan 30, 2008 - 01:45am PT
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Ooh...
He IS GOOD!
AF
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Mimi
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Jan 30, 2008 - 01:49am PT
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It does look a wee bit chossy. But hey, it's Soledad!
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Mungeclimber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2008 - 01:51am PT
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so first things first, finish my coffee, pack the pack, dump in some of the cleanest bathrooms ever. and reconnoiter the closures...
good Machete is open, tallest formation in the mon. Not that I go to the top mind you. It is supposed to rain today, right?
On the way in, sunny, hrm? "What's that I see? A glint of metal, steel hanger? from here? hrm, forgot to bring paint, have to hit it next time.
"sunlight falling on your steel, death in life is your ideal, life is like a wheel and it's rolling steel [stil?]..." free carabiner to the first person that guesses who sings that song...
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Mimi
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Jan 30, 2008 - 01:53am PT
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That's a really bad song.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jan 30, 2008 - 01:54am PT
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Iron Maiden. (Mr. Google helped.)
Not to be impertinent, but when do we get, you know, the munge report?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2008 - 01:57am PT
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My objective is The Dawn Wall, well, at least its poor "son." And only it's first pitch at that. You see, I'm running solo today. The only person I saw was a gov't employee that checks the bathrooms. Unfortunate that he checked after I went. And we had such a good morning chat. Hope he doesn't see me this weekend. doh!
This route checks in a heart wrenching A1. You see why I had to stop at the bathrooms first, right? This sh#t is skarrrreeee!
Take pics, lollygag a bit, note a newly fallen try by Destiny. 'Brad's' book, just out in print, and already out of date.
Things are dripping, maybe I'm out of luck...
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2008 - 01:58am PT
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We interrupt this post to bring you a special news bulletin.
Today, outside of Soledad, munge was climbing. It was chossy, with occasional moss and flurries of mud.
Film at eleven.
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caughtinside
Social climber
Davis, CA
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Jan 30, 2008 - 02:01am PT
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11 is my bedtime. I'll read it tomorrow, mang!
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Mimi
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Jan 30, 2008 - 02:07am PT
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
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