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r2d2
Trad climber
East Bay
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Jan 11, 2010 - 02:12pm PT
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Congratulations! I wish I were there. Maybe I will do the 900th climb with you. Nice pictures of T girl. She is my hero!
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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Jan 11, 2010 - 02:27pm PT
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Wow, Brad! 800 of any thing is alot (except microbes or quarks) especially Pinnacle climbs. Congratulations.
Cute kid. Happy New year.
Roger
PS: I think I read that you calculated there were about 900 routes in Pinnacles as of the end of 2008. I am curious if there is any characteristic of the 100 or so that you haven't done? Too solid maybe?
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Slater
Trad climber
Central Coast
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Jan 11, 2010 - 02:29pm PT
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ha ha, I'm from the Central Coast... bad rock is our daily bread, and bread ain't so bad. We do have exceptions (Bishop Peak and Cerro Romualdo) but most is just marginal. It's about adventure and fun, so eat up!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 11, 2010 - 03:20pm PT
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Is Romualdo open? Sorry, don't have the book and I ferget which sisters are open to being crawled on?
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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Jan 11, 2010 - 03:24pm PT
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good stuff..
stuff you can be proud of.. you know.... later!!!
Cheers to the 800 route guy...
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msiddens
Trad climber
Mountain View
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Jan 11, 2010 - 04:15pm PT
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Brad, again great job and I've got years of catching up to do.
Joe, keep posting! Trish looks like she is having fun.
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Slater
Trad climber
Central Coast
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Jan 11, 2010 - 04:16pm PT
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Munge, looking manly.
Cerro Romualdo has limited access.
If you want to climb there, pm me and I'll hook you up.
It took 4 years, but it's back open! ASCA helped me upgrade all to 1/2" SS.
Best climbing in SLO for sure.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 11, 2010 - 05:07pm PT
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It's just the helmet that makes me look that way.
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mrtropy
Trad climber
Nor Cal
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Jan 11, 2010 - 06:08pm PT
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Neat photo feature and you can see the climbers.
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Gagner
climber
Boulder
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Jan 11, 2010 - 06:25pm PT
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Nice job Brad. Keep it up.
The Pinns, as you know, is a unique and fun climbing area.
Here's to the next 800!!
Paul
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Jan 11, 2010 - 07:45pm PT
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bad rock is our daily bread
i know a devil worshipper when i see one.
i bet those condors in qtnl's pic are really turkey vultures.
funny how we learn to tolerate or even appreciate choss when it has some emotional connection.
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rhyang
climber
SJC
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Jan 11, 2010 - 08:06pm PT
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I enjoyed the condor pics. Do turkey vultures usually have wing tags ? :)
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Jan 11, 2010 - 08:15pm PT
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Do turkey vultures usually have wing tags ?
It's California. We have a budget deficit.
You have to buy a license from Fish and Game to enter the feasting-on-carrion lottery.
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mtnyoung
Trad climber
Twain Harte, California
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Jan 11, 2010 - 09:54pm PT
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From below, the back two thirds of a Turkey Vulture's wings are grey/white. The front third is black. California Condors are the opposite, the front third is grey/white.
My wife took video yesterday with her camera and then set it to music. At one point a condor flies so close to me on top of the pinnacle that I reach out to it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2rWXLUnocQ
So who can name the music she set it to? (The video itself provides a very big hint.)
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rhyang
climber
SJC
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Jan 11, 2010 - 10:05pm PT
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Beautiful .. the flutes on the Simon & Garfunkel track seemed to compliment the birds perfectly.
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Jan 11, 2010 - 10:13pm PT
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El Condor Pasa (If I Could) by Simon & Garfunkel
awesome video! Just beautiful.
And well done on the 800. Oh these crazy obsessions...
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mtnyoung
Trad climber
Twain Harte, California
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Jan 12, 2010 - 09:48am PT
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Yeah, the video is set to El Condor Pasa, a nice song. I've always liked Simon and Garfunkel. My grandma's name was Robinson (Mrs. Robinson, and when the song came out I had no idea that the song was tied to the Mrs Robinson in the movie!)
I downloaded my photos and I'll post two more. One for Gagner, hoping he reads this again: Paul, of course you've seen this guy drilling on lead many, many times. He's still at it, still incredibly fast. His shoulder seems much better now. And he still gives me the same answer when I ask how he'll explain to his young daughter names like "Heat Seeking Moisture Missile," and "Even Coyotes Like it Doggie Style." He always says "oh, those were Paul's names."
This one of Mucci, who posts here. Drilling on lead. He's a young guy who already loves Pinns for what and how it is:
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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Jan 12, 2010 - 10:44am PT
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Nice video. Do you ever see wild boars at Pinnacles anymore? We followed one running down the road for a short time (late 60s). For some reason it didn't immmediately take off into the brush.
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Gagner
climber
Boulder
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Jan 12, 2010 - 11:25am PT
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Ha ha -nice shot Brad - my daughter just turned 5 and I'm thinking I'm going to be so old by the time that question pops up I'll be able to pull the amnesia card!!
Nice job again.
Paul
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mtnyoung
Trad climber
Twain Harte, California
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Jan 12, 2010 - 11:38am PT
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Paul, I can't believe your daughter is 5 already. The amnesia card - I never thought of that. Brilliant. No matter what you do though, she'll always think that your life before fatherhood was weird and irrelevant.
Roger, I haven't seen pigs (javalinas) in the monument since the very early 2000s. During the last ten or so years the Park Service has anti-pig fenced the whole of Pinnacles (which now goes clear out to Highway 25 on the east side of the park). They're a feral species and apparently cause a lot of damage. So, I think they're gone in the monument. But they're still plentiful in the surrounding areas.
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