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426
Sport climber
Hanging Limb(yeah. it is), TN
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Oct 31, 2005 - 10:46am PT
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"It's practically a bolt ladder now and a "proud" FREECLIMB."
Actually, the original route remains~the crux freeclimbing dodges left to avoid the original ladder on P2 and goes left again below the Window Pane.
You can 5.10 A0 the 'free var.' with pretty mandatory .10...
...Or you can do the original 'bolt ladder'/Window Pane...
Much respect and kudos to the "13c slab climber crew". It's way, way out of my element and looks amazingly blank...
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salad
climber
San Diego
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Oct 31, 2005 - 12:27pm PT
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mom,
be sure and ask em bout the silverfish when they get down...
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Mom
Social climber
So Cal
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 31, 2005 - 09:16pm PT
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Salad - you gotta be kidding --- silverfish? out of doors?? this isn't like snipe hunting, is it?
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426
Sport climber
Owsley County (yeah it is), KY
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Oct 31, 2005 - 09:41pm PT
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No...first, a hideous sound, then truly... a 'lurking' fear.
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BeBe
Sport climber
Phoenix
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Mom-
Glad someone who loves her kids & their sense of adventure & nature on this site.
I wanted to take my niece & nephew climbing in J-Tree over the Thanksgiving Holidays. I thought the big issue would be taking them during a 'family' event.
Oh no. The kids are too young. My niece is 16 yrs. old & my nephew is 13. They have been all over the state bouldering with me, and doing small climbs around the base of other, bigger climbs without any incident. (And, if there were a problem, I am a registered nurse.)
Yes, They are my brothers kids. I know that. And I know I am tranferring here, a bit.
But, how young is too young?
I mean, really, they could be injured more on the way to school.
This also comes from a woman who hitch-hiked her way to J-Tree, alone, Easter 1995, at age 15. And it was the very same brother who dropped me off on the highway to hitch!
Let the slaughter & slander begin!
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Mom
Social climber
So Cal
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 2, 2005 - 02:50am PT
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BeBe - gosh, any of my daughters at the age of 16 would have been more than anxious to go the JT ANYTIME!! with all the guys to look at; my son at age 13 would have wanted to prove that he could DO IT as well as any of the locals... Did you ask your brother to come along? and make it an entire family event? and that you'd get him up a wall too? How young is too young? I couldn't say... but I always figured when my children were teens, the best thing I could do was keep them busy during the day either surfing, swimming, or skiing so that they would be too tired at night to do anything but go to sleep. When they hit about 18 years old they figure out how to conserve enough energy to sneak out and do whatever .... Easter 1996 my 15 year old daughter and 18 year old son and a slew of others kids wore out the days climbing and partying at JT - and not all of us got very far 'up' the wall... Don't take it personally; just ask again; your heart is in the right place.
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Mom
Social climber
So Cal
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 4, 2005 - 09:24pm PT
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Salad -- talked to son this morning... the weather got pissy and colder than anticipated, so called it fair after three days on the route. Asked him about the 'silverfish'... he laughed and asked how I knew about 'silverfish'. Told him about your comment/request... Son told me to tell you, Salad, that the silverfish were there a plenty, as well as many frogs and birds... in fact it was probably the most 'animalistic' route he's ever done on El Cap'. From our discussion, believe the hybrid forms of the silverfish are capable of carrying a stuff bag or two on the wall... perhaps the makings the new Yosemeite sherpas...
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