mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Jul 16, 2012 - 11:37am PT
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Got back again yesterday but it was very warm and we did not get a lot done but did do some good reconnasence(?).Great views of the Cathedral Spires from the Picket Fence.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Jul 16, 2012 - 04:31pm PT
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Anyone know what the name of the thin curved spire in the center of the last photo I posted. It is on the north side of the cathedral spire group maybe in the Spire 8 area or something.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Jul 30, 2012 - 06:57am PT
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Jan 19, 2013 - 06:18pm PT
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Got up to estes creek to day for the first time rock climibng in a couple of months. Had to be 60 in the sun late in the afternoon. Really nice once you got there but thought I was going to get stuck on the way up the steep snowy road that goes up the north side of the mountain on the way in.
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johnboy
Trad climber
Can't get here from there
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Jan 19, 2013 - 06:40pm PT
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Mike, that's eyetooth.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Jan 19, 2013 - 06:44pm PT
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Eyetooth is farther south this is north of spire seven and possibly the spire eight group. Don't know the area very well.
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Jan 19, 2013 - 08:28pm PT
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Definitely not the Eyetooth, which appears in the middle of the previous picture Mike posted and is just East of Spire 4 and right on the Northern rampart of the Cathedrals.
I think it's the Bayonet, which Piana describes as "a blade-like rib in the Eight-Nine notch." I remember doing a short but sweet 5.9 Kamps route on it BITD. There's also something called the Spike nearby with a 5.8 Gill solo route, but I don't think that what we're looking at in Mike's picture.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Jan 19, 2013 - 08:36pm PT
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I think it's the Bayonet
Yep, I think so. Ray Schrag and I did the 2nd ascent, after Kamps. I was wearing shorts and spent some time face climbing the crack leading to the upper part to save my skin. I wasn't very enthusiastic about cracks.
;>)
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Jan 20, 2013 - 08:35pm PT
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Cracks I like. Run out face not so much. Seems like better gear when there is cracks. bayonette it is I will try to find it this spring or summer.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 20, 2013 - 08:36pm PT
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I was just thinking about this thread last night. In bed with the crud and thinking of warm, beautiful climbing.
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Jan 20, 2013 - 10:44pm PT
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Cracks I like. Run out face not so much. Seems like better gear when there is cracks. bayonette it is I will try to find it this spring or summer.
A few crack climbs that I remember liking:
Nick of Time, Outer Outlet
Sore Thumb
Kamps Crack, Bell Tower
Wavy Crack, Empire State Building
Kamps Route, Edison Memorial
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jopay
climber
so.il
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Jan 21, 2013 - 04:31am PT
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A friend tells a story of climbing in the Needles, and apparently one of the "Pins" is close to a parking lot, and his partner is climbing one and getting a bit sketched out, all the while being watched by a couple of tourists and at one point the lady leans over to the husband and asks do you think we should move the car?
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Jan 21, 2013 - 08:15am PT
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I don't think there is any parking under a climbing route in the Tenpins. Maybe under Sandberg Peak? But you can park right underneath the route on the Needle's Eye, and moving the car might be a good idea; on the first ascent back in 1964 I nailed a car with a broken foothold. Full story, complete with an early version of the Supertopo boob fetish, at http://www.supertopo.com/tr/The-First-Ascent-of-the-Needles-Eye/t222n.html.
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Jan 21, 2013 - 04:54pm PT
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Still love all the shots in this thread. Someday, I have to visit there...
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Jan 27, 2013 - 06:31pm PT
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Climbed all weekend as the temps were very nice. Even camped with the 6 year old. Poor owl as we found out after this picture had a broken wing. Called the GFP to see if they could save it.
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Steve Hickman
climber
Norwood, CO
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Jan 29, 2013 - 07:54pm PT
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Re the Needles- - is Wren Fenton still around?
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Apr 21, 2013 - 08:23am PT
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OK it wasn't warm. It was kind of the Cat's Me-ouch.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Great day with Jack in the Needles.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Wow that tirst date in the register is exactly one month before I was born!
I'd watch out for some of them South Dakotans though, they seem like a quirky bunch;
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