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squishy
Mountain climber
sacramento
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 26, 2009 - 10:20pm PT
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[photoid=132537]
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cragnshag
Social climber
san joser
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Oct 26, 2009 - 10:29pm PT
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might be time to open up a hot dog and beer stand at the base... perhaps my next job?
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ShibbyShane
Trad climber
Sacramento, Ca
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Oct 26, 2009 - 10:42pm PT
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Wow, when we did it there was nobody else within sight... Guess we were lucky.
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luggi
Trad climber
from the backseat of Jake& Elwood Blues car
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Oct 26, 2009 - 10:56pm PT
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are you sure you were on the Grack...Marginal should be to the right and I don't see it?
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Dapper Dan
climber
Menlo Park
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Oct 26, 2009 - 11:30pm PT
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Marginal is right there , you go over that little roof.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C. Small wall climber.
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Oct 27, 2009 - 12:39am PT
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Where are the Stovelegs on that picture?
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Oct 27, 2009 - 12:48am PT
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"are you sure you were on the Grack...Marginal should be to the right and I don't see it?"
You can't see Grack Marginal even when you are ON Grack Marginal!
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Oct 27, 2009 - 01:22am PT
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I thought all those rumors of Curry-killing rockfalls had scared all but a very few off the Apron. I guess, since it's one of the best areas in the Valley, you can't keep a good spot down.
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squishy
Mountain climber
sacramento
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 27, 2009 - 10:21am PT
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imagine a rock fall hitting the route with that many people on it...
damn toilets on the point, how could they...
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Oct 27, 2009 - 10:49am PT
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Christ Anders! What is it with you Canadians? How much beta do you NEED?? You are wearin' me thin here, Anders.
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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Oct 27, 2009 - 11:00am PT
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nice one Peter Haan!
Thank you for placing this photo in the space-time continue-uhmm!
I thought stove legs were much longer......
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Oct 27, 2009 - 11:15am PT
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Sign of the times; waiting in line for three hours to get on a so so climb- the herd instinct is alive and well.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Oct 27, 2009 - 12:02pm PT
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I know, Jim. Just amazing. And right in that area, namely the Apron, it is just riddled with routes of that grade.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Oct 27, 2009 - 12:38pm PT
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Those two folks in the pic have enough baggage to do the Nose OLD-OLD style! What does that route need? For a competent 5.7 leader maybe three-five nuts and a couple of runners? Even if you wanted to sew it up I think 10 nuts would make it a veritable ladder.
Oh well... as long as they had fun.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C. Small wall climber.
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Oct 27, 2009 - 12:43pm PT
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Sign of the times; waiting in line for three hours to get on a so so climb- the herd instinct is alive and well.
Yeah, the commercial climbers - guidebook writers, climbing guides, clubs, and manufacturers - have a lot to answer for. Good thing we're all innocent, eh Jim?
Peter: Nice photo. Way closer-up than the ones that Tom posts - I guess he likes it down at the bridge.
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Mittens
climber
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Oct 27, 2009 - 01:36pm PT
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Wow, It pains me to see so many people effortlessly hiking my project.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Oct 27, 2009 - 01:42pm PT
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WAIT! If that is the Great Roof then the pic is flipped because those upper parties are on the Shield!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Oct 27, 2009 - 01:53pm PT
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To the contrary MH- with the plethora of info. now available you would think that climbers would range farther afield. It has more to do with the human instinct to cluster together as if there were still Sabertooth Tigers around the corner ready to pounce.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Oct 27, 2009 - 01:56pm PT
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First off, Donini, that is "au contraire", for craps sake.
Next, Plastichater, you are SO right, Squishy the Original Poster, obviously got his slide flipped backwards.
Mighty Anders, Tom Evans is gone for the season as of yestereday and so all hell will cut loose.
Here we are Pilgrims, all better:
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Oct 27, 2009 - 01:59pm PT
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There is danger afoot! Beware! Beware!
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