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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 13, 2008 - 04:45pm PT
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I drove the 118 about an hour ago and it did not look good.
Juan
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Oct 13, 2008 - 05:46pm PT
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I've been burned at stoney point. I guess what goes around comes around?
Juss kiddin'
Hope everything is cool there.
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crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Oct 13, 2008 - 07:42pm PT
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Here's a link that shows where the Sesnon fire is and could go (and also the Marek fire out near Pacoima/Sylmar) - Stoney Point could get it...
http://www.fire.lacounty.gov/
Let's hope the Sesnon fire doesn't spread across the Ventura Fwy. and into Calabasas/Malibu also - it's all scorching dry and overgrown. Everyone stay safe.
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 13, 2008 - 09:04pm PT
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It took my 2 hrs to drive home. It usually takes 20 min with the 118 open. My Mom told me that Stoney did burn. She heard it on the news.
Juan
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 14, 2008 - 12:12am PT
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I saw on the news video of what looked like those horse stables burning.
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Yafer
Trad climber
Chatsworth, California
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Oct 14, 2008 - 02:59am PT
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Hello Everybody, well....Since I live in Chatsworth and I visit Stoney Point on a regular basis I was concerned with the day's events. I knew of and observed the Porter Ranch Fire as it advanced toward Stoney...my friend Cole had texted and had asked me if "Is Stoney on Fire"? Tonight I went over to Stoney and went on a hike with Guyzo after a Margarita at Los Toros...Stoney had been torched. Burned amost completely around except for the south end..There were numerous small fires still burnng as we traversed around The Point. The place looked new to me...I have never seen it like it is now..rock formations visible from out of nowhere...Well Guy called it a "Haircut". I know it will grow back...Fire Sucks.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 14, 2008 - 03:13am PT
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hey there ... hope you know when and if to leave, etc...
heard some bad stuff... it crossed a freeway, as well... (knowing calif, that is what, 4 lanes, by 4 lanes)... man, oh, man...
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Yafer
Trad climber
Chatsworth, California
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Oct 14, 2008 - 10:45am PT
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7:30 am ...more fire trucks just rolled buy the house. Going to have a hot bouldering session today.
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Oct 14, 2008 - 11:37am PT
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Stoney could actualy use a good burn every now and then.
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 14, 2008 - 12:45pm PT
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Dirving to work today I noticed from the 118 that Stoney did in fact burn. Happy Days.
Juan
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Anastasia
climber
Not there
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Oct 14, 2008 - 01:34pm PT
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No brush to land on? No poison oak? I am so happy! Stoney Point did need a good burning. It might even clean up some of the graffiti! Plus, as an old regular once explained to me after a similar episode, "there will be new boulder problems!"
Now the question is... How are the homes doing?
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justthemaid
climber
Los Angeles
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Oct 14, 2008 - 09:24pm PT
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I just drove by and saw it too.
Bar-B-Que City.
Sorry Anastasia- Unfortunately fires tend to make the poison oak more prolific. Next summer should be a joy.
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dogtown
climber
Where I once was,I think?
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Oct 14, 2008 - 09:44pm PT
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Whats to be sorry for? The place is a dump.
burning it could only help.
Getto climbing at its best.
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apogee
climber
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Oct 14, 2008 - 10:38pm PT
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Anybody get any recent pix? Post up!
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10b4me
climber
the gray bands
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Oct 15, 2008 - 12:33am PT
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it's happened before, and will happen again
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asioux
Trad climber
Rancho Cucamonga
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Oct 15, 2008 - 07:05pm PT
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Is the fire still burning?Don't have television to watch the news. Would be coming from L.A. Zoo after work. Was thinking of going to Stoney to boulder on friday, what are the conditions? Or should I wait for another day. Thank you Armando
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Barbarian
Trad climber
all bivied up on the ledge
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Oct 15, 2008 - 07:20pm PT
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neebee-
All freeways in So Cal are 300 lanes wide.
At least we'll be able to see the broken glass before we fall on it.
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 15, 2008 - 07:20pm PT
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Fire Burned all the Brush. From the 118 it looks fantastic.
It burned all the way up to the summit from the North.
Juan
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Barbarian
Trad climber
all bivied up on the ledge
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Oct 15, 2008 - 07:53pm PT
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Where will all the tweakers hide?
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Anastasia
climber
Not there
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Oct 15, 2008 - 07:59pm PT
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Hey...
Stoney might not be the greatest place to climb, but it was Kamp's corner! He was one of those special people that only come once every hundred years. Therefore, Stoney is by association a very special place.
To this day it still produces good climbers. If you can climb hard at Stoney, you can smear, edge and are naturally not afraid of highball problems. It is not a bad place to learn and graduate from...
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