Most precarious spire ever climbed.

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Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jan 10, 2013 - 12:34am PT
Is that Elvis hammer Fsck I got to climb it with Cho and Fluoride and this fall. There was a breeze and I was sure I could feel it moving. Felt like tremors. I was glad to rap off!

Woody the Beaver

Trad climber
Soldier, Idaho
Jan 10, 2013 - 12:16pm PT
Well, this is probably kind of feeble for this thread, but this is the best we've got here in our part of the Idaho desert. This is a 50' or 60' beauty called The Funnybone. Friable tuff or rhyolite or something. A creepy steepie.
steveA

Trad climber
bedford,massachusetts
Jan 10, 2013 - 12:55pm PT
My good friend, John Ewbank bagged the 1st ascent of the Totem Pole, in Tasmania. I climbed with John last year in New Hampshire.
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 10, 2013 - 07:49pm PT
I heard that thing fell into the ocean steve
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jan 10, 2013 - 07:59pm PT
I think that thing at Seneca qualifies ...
Fossil climber

Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
Jan 11, 2013 - 01:56pm PT
Climbed an obscure and precarious sea stack north of Bodega Bay back about 1957 with a college bio prof named Clark Nattkemper. Great guy. The top ten feet was just dirt. No rappel point. We tied the ropes together and rappelled off opposite sides, simultaneously.

Went back a few years later to look at it. It was gone.
Snowmassguy

Trad climber
Calirado
Jan 22, 2013 - 11:06am PT
Not all that precarious but cool none the less
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 2, 2013 - 10:06pm PT
Pin Point Pinnacle. Pretty skinny and only 5.6,m but with no anchor and a rather bulbous summit with no groove for a needles style rappel you apparently wrap the rope around the top a couple of times in the middle and then bring the two strands together to rap. You then unwind the rope by walking around it a couple of times. Scary.
whitemeat

Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo, CA
Sep 2, 2013 - 11:14pm PT
I dont know about precarious but iv baged 3 pretty cool ones!

mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 2, 2013 - 10:45pm PT
Possibly the largest unclimbed spire in the Black Hills?
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Topic Author's Reply - Apr 4, 2014 - 01:34pm PT
Anybody climbed some good ones lately?
alxj

Trad climber
Calgary, AB
Apr 4, 2014 - 01:49pm PT


This one gets climbed a couple times of year for those in and around Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Dapper Dan

Trad climber
Menlo Park
Apr 4, 2014 - 03:52pm PT

Arrowhead Arete route...
sangoma

Trad climber
south africa
Apr 4, 2014 - 06:32pm PT
crunch

Social climber
CO
Apr 4, 2014 - 07:11pm PT
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Topic Author's Reply - Apr 4, 2014 - 10:59pm PT
Awesome crusher
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Apr 4, 2014 - 11:29pm PT
The Turkey monster is sketchy. stein's pillar is also precarious.
( did it a few years ago and it still had Roper's entry in the register)

But if your pillar hasn't fallen down since you did it, you got nothin'.



speelyei

Trad climber
Mohave County Arizona
Apr 4, 2014 - 11:55pm PT
The Poplar at Smith. From some angles, it looks like it's gonna fall over imminently. I got vertigo on top, couldn't wait to get down.

The Steeple in the Ochocos, not far from Stein's. I got about 1/2, maybe 2/3, broke off a piece the size of a cinder block, and my nerves were shot. My buddy declined to complete the lead. No summit.

Unclimbed, Golden Valley, AZ

Thumb Butte, Bullhead City, AZ
Others have climbed this. I'll be needing a partner.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 5, 2014 - 06:53am PT
Mike M. You and Jack should get after that unclimbed spire:)
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Topic Author's Reply - Apr 5, 2014 - 11:15am PT
Might have to, but it looks to be guitar chossy and currently buried in 3 feet of snow.
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