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MisterE
Trad climber
One Step Beyond!
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 6, 2009 - 02:09am PT
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Those brief respites from washes and mazanita, boulders and scree...
I Loves Me Some Log-Walkin'!!!111
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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OK, I'm not too proud...
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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There use to be a fallen tree on the approach up to Suicide in Idyllwild and I remember we use to bet who could walk out the furthest on this tapering log without it breaking. It laid in a position so the further out you walked, the higher off the ground you got and if the log broke on yer walk out you would plummet into talus far beneath. I was lucky to never have suffered a fall or broke the log, but over the years this log showed evidence of breaking repeatedly until it was widdled to a thick stump. Anyone out there remember this or worse, have taken a chuck off the log?
Peace
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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There's a classic picture in Beckey's "The Challenge of the North Cascades", of Leif Patterson front pointing across/up a log across a creek, I think Nooksack. Bush all around, roaring torrent below.
Caulk boots are essentially crampons anyway, and an axe is a reasonable facsimile of an ice axe.
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MisterE
Trad climber
One Step Beyond!
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Topic Author's Reply - May 6, 2009 - 09:55am PT
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Bump (on a log):
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