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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Feb 28, 2010 - 03:32pm PT
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My god Chris that was years ago. Hope you and Laura are good? Would love to see you two again. I really had a lot of fun climbing with you.
Oh..the bouldering is sh#t too. LOL
Sky..mostly hillbillies doing the stealing.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Feb 28, 2010 - 04:02pm PT
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Hey Chiloe, are you renaming and moving around your Photobucket files, too? Your link is broken.
Fixed it!
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chill
climber
between the flat part and the blue wobbly thing
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Feb 28, 2010 - 04:36pm PT
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Bob,
That was indeed a long time ago. I'm starting to think we may be getting old. Laura and I are doing great. For now we have washed up on the shores of S.F. Bay, due to economic necessity but long term we'll probably wind up back in Colo. Hopefully we'll get together again.
Chris
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Feb 28, 2010 - 06:35pm PT
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Chris...glad to hear you and Laura are well. Our oldest lives in the Mission District and plays music around town...he just played Noise Pop. You should check out his band...Tiny Television.
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o-man
Trad climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Feb 28, 2010 - 10:22pm PT
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The Platte is a bit spread out and the approachs tend to be long and quite steep!
I started climbing in the South Platte in the early 70's and never tired of it.
We were the Evergreen gang and had quick access to the Foxton/Pine area. We sure picked some Plums down there!
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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I don't recall who took this picture ... it shows Tom Gries belaying a much younger Chiloe,
who is headed up the Bishop Offwidth armed with tube chocks (1975).
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cowpoke
climber
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Great thread.
The pics of Cynical Pinnacle remind me of one of the days I spent there, likely a couple decades after Chiloe's summit shot was taken. With a couple years of climbing experience, I'd convince myself (and partner) that I was ready for Wunsch's Dihedral. Huffing and puffing up the easier pitches before the crux, we sat for perhaps an hour in that little belay alcove debating who should lead that oh-so-intimidating crux pitch.
Walking back down the steep approach, a fellow who had witnessed our shameful retreat says to me, "You didn't belong up there." It stung, but he was right...which was precisely why it was so darn fun trying.
I don't have any pictures from that day, but here are a couple lousy shots from a much easier (i.e., in my league) climb -- Gobbler's Grunt at Turkey -- a few days before we tried Wunsch's.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Walking back down the steep approach, a fellow who had witnessed our shameful retreat says to me, "You didn't belong up there."
Ouch! I'm glad there were few witnesses to most of my shameful retreats.
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cowpoke
climber
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Sadly we can't climb on Cynical Pinnacle until August now due to raptor closures.
That was true in the early 90's too (somebody here will know when it started), but never seemed to be an inconvenience; the wait just added to the aura and so many other splatte routes to get scared on in the meantime.
Speaking of, here is my not so subtle effort at getting more pics out of Ken Trout. I know I'm not the only one who spent many a shaky moment marveling at your FA skills on those domes. Thanks so much.
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Forest
Trad climber
Denver, CO
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Man, this looks so much like Cochise. I'm drooling (having just moved from Tucson to Denver last fall.)
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gonzo chemist
climber
a crucible
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2010 - 07:31pm PT
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Gobbler's Grunt! that route's a hoot! That was one of my first routes at Turkey as well.
Later in the day my partner led Great White Crime. I got worked just top-roping the damn thing. I couldn't believe it.
Vanishing Point has been high on my list of things to climb at Turkey Rocks for a while now...
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Aurora Colorado
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bump
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Break down your camp each night or you might not have a warm place to sleep, as the theivery in Colorado is legendary.
Bwahahaha . . . Yeah right, nobody will steal your sh#t in Cali.
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Oh yeah, really nice photos everyone!
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Oct 17, 2016 - 06:21pm PT
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Oct 17, 2016 - 06:24pm PT
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Oct 17, 2016 - 08:05pm PT
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Aug 30, 2018 - 12:22pm PT
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Bumpin this cuz I stumbled on to it and got immediately homesick.
The Splatte is a place where you can find rock that has seen more nature than humanity, that's nice.
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domngo
climber
Canada
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Aug 30, 2018 - 12:56pm PT
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South Platte at the end of oct/November is pretty frigid, yea? Are folks still climbing there at that time?
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