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tadhunt

Trad climber
Sunnyvale, CA
Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 16, 2008 - 02:51am PT
Been too many non-climbing threads recently. What did ya'll do this past weekend? I'll kick it off.

I went backpacking with a bunch of friends. Luckily one was a climber, and was willing to laden himself with chalk, shoes and a harness for the oh-so-long two-day hike out to Island Lake in Dinkey Lakes Wilderness. I lugged out the rope and a small rack.

The first taste of the wilderness: Night hiking under a (practically) full moon to Mystery lake, roughly midnight-to-1pm timeframe on Friday night (looong drive from the bay area).

The next day, since we had to hike a oh-so-far 4 miles or so to Island Lake, and we arrived at our campsite by noon (even with 9 people in our group!), we were forced to climb, what with the Three Sisters calling out to us from just above the campsite and all (oh the horror!).

After the long scramble up, we found something climbable. Some nice fingers on sharp granite, a few hand jams, and before I knew it the difficulties on the first pitch were done with (about 30 feet up a slightly-right-leaning block with a bit of a finger crack behind it before topping out onto the prominent ramp). Yo, this shiz fun!

As you can see, my buddy forgot his helmet. No big deal since I found him this spacious-alcove-with-a-view to chill in while I tossed rocks down from P2. Dude man, check it out!.

P2 kept it real, starting with pulling over that roof we're sittin' under. After an aborted attempt trending left immediately over the roof (I couldn't find good pro), I went straight up for a while, then wandered across a blocky ledgy type feature before finding something else to throw myself at. I found a nice lichen covered horizontal finger crack / lieback / mantle for the topout. Oh yeah!

From there, we scrambled across all the summits of all Three Sisters, ending on the tallest one where we found a summit register and so recorded "Mounting a Sister", 2 Pitches, 5.8.

Yar!

[edited to fix some typos]
jbar

Mountain climber
The Dirty South
Sep 16, 2008 - 03:09am PT
I should have brought my camera to work with me. I got off of work at 4:30am on sun and drove up to a huge local slab area. When I got to the top it was windy, covered in blowing clouds and dripping from the left overs of hurricane Ike but I climbed anyway. worked my way up some 4th and low 5th until I could set a rope. Soloed a 5.6 150' route and another 5.7 with a nice flake at the start. I've climbed both of these without a rope numerous times to help people stuck at the middle rap but I just could't bring myself to do it up there all alone. Found a nice dihedral I'm going to go up and play on next friday.
Tork

climber
Yosemite
Sep 16, 2008 - 10:27am PT
Yep, but no pics. This is what we did the week before.

We did this

and this

and this


Jeff
Batrock

Trad climber
Burbank
Sep 16, 2008 - 11:44am PT
No pictures but I climbed Flower of High Rank and Graham Crackers last week at Suicide. My first lead in at least 2 years. Experience made up for lack of strength.
Tork

climber
Yosemite
Sep 16, 2008 - 07:51pm PT
Nice job Batrock! The flower of high rank is such a cool climb.

Jeff
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
Sep 16, 2008 - 07:55pm PT
Dinkey Creek/Lakes is a nice area.

I did climb last weekend, just some local Castle Rock stuff though. No pics.
Zander

Trad climber
Berkeley
Sep 16, 2008 - 08:16pm PT
Cclimbers climbing!
What a concept. Thanks guys,
Zander

Nice pics too.
happiegrrrl

Trad climber
New York, NY
Sep 16, 2008 - 08:17pm PT
I did manage to follow Arch on Saturday. Everything else, I fell off of. Fell of the crux of Frogshead. And then, after getting up Arch, I fell off a relatively easy spot on Strictly From Nowhere by moving to the left when I should have gone right.

Then I got to the crux and buttered off nearly immediately. Instead of making another try, I lowered off, knowing there was just no way I would get it.

Then... we headed towards the Uberfall and I fell off the crux on No Picnic, a route I have done three times before cleanly. I'm blaming wet rock, since it did rain from Friday afternoon til about 6am that morning. That's right, wet rock.....what other explanation could there possibly be!?
hollyclimber

Big Wall climber
Yosemite, CA
Sep 16, 2008 - 08:37pm PT
Skull Queen. Hungover. In one bivy. Fun.
brat

climber
El Portal
Sep 16, 2008 - 08:47pm PT
Did the alcove swing on Saturday and then Tenaya Peak on Sunday morning. Drank waaaaaaaay too much Friday night... kinda shot my weekend.
HighDesertDJ

Trad climber
Arid-zona
Sep 16, 2008 - 09:01pm PT
Climb about climbing. Talk about politics.

(I hit Paradise Forks last Sunday, the Overlook this past Saturday, the Forks again today and the climbing gym 3 times last week yo)
Captain...or Skully

Big Wall climber
up Yonder (the edge of Treason)
Sep 16, 2008 - 09:07pm PT
Hey, Holly, I did Skull Queen....I was hungover en route, though...That was my 1st solo. Kinda cool, that.Try Afroman.
Now that is a cool route.
couchmaster

climber
Sep 16, 2008 - 09:55pm PT
FA of a new route called "Bride of Wyde". Here's a link with lots of pics.

http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=677817

Yeah, wide, like in pants filling wide (for me). Your route looks infinity mo' better to me:-) Great Trip report, thanks!
rockermike

Mountain climber
Berkeley
Sep 16, 2008 - 10:05pm PT
I climbed Fairview Dome, Regular. First day rock climbing in over 12 months. Didn't feel too bad all things considered. Nice route.

pictures to follow.
Salamanizer

Trad climber
Vacaville Ca,
Sep 16, 2008 - 10:42pm PT

Did a little cragging on Half Dome.
ZeHardcore

Trad climber
San Diego, California
Sep 16, 2008 - 11:39pm PT
Drank some brewskis Sat. night at El Diablo and listened to some jazz/blues in the small local town of Idyllwild. On Sunday we climbed two fun/easy classic routes on Tahquitz which were Angels fright and Left Ski Track!

Angels

Partner Topped OUT!
Captain...or Skully

Big Wall climber
up Yonder (the edge of Treason)
Sep 16, 2008 - 11:42pm PT
Super shot, Salamizer!
Stanley Hassinger

climber
Eastern US
Sep 17, 2008 - 12:01am PT
Does two weekends ago count?

If so, then I took a couple med school buddies up to Moore's Wall in NC. For one of them, it was his first time trad climbing outdoors! Always great to get new people into the sport.

We started out with an easy two pitch 5.5/5.6 called Sentinel Buttress. Then we did one of my favorite 5.6's in the whole state - Whaling Wall. And we finished off the day w/ a 5.7 called Golden Earring. All in all, it was a great day!

Oh, and thank you to Tropical Storm Hannah for moving along just in time for us to get out on Sunday.
BeeHay

Trad climber
San Diego CA
Sep 17, 2008 - 12:33am PT
Tahquitz, Open Book and El Camino Real. How's that for classics? "The path of Royal".
Paul Martzen

Trad climber
Fresno
Sep 17, 2008 - 03:12am PT
I was up at Dinkey on Sunday. Going again this coming weekend.


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