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steve s
Trad climber
eldo
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Jan 21, 2017 - 04:30pm PT
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steve s
Trad climber
eldo
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Jan 21, 2017 - 04:31pm PT
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Living the dream
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Jan 21, 2017 - 08:09pm PT
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Zero entry shower Steve?
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steve s
Trad climber
eldo
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Jan 21, 2017 - 08:23pm PT
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Contractor, yes on the zero entry shower. Our tile guys do a great job with the pans. Cheers
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Jan 21, 2017 - 09:42pm PT
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Nice job- those are a pain!
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Jan 21, 2017 - 09:44pm PT
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I noticed your pan goes past the pony wall so you can have slope past the center line of the shower door. Thinking like a drip- smart.
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Edge
Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
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Jan 25, 2017 - 12:13pm PT
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Jan 25, 2017 - 03:23pm PT
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Edge, I've never built box stairs, or whatever they're called. Do you taper the rout from back to front to ease installation? I've got to build some new steps up to the back door in the spring, and I've been thinking about making them this way.
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cmcc
Trad climber
Redding, CA
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Jan 25, 2017 - 08:57pm PT
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Edge
Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
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Jan 25, 2017 - 10:12pm PT
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Brandon, I just routed 1/2" deep pockets slightly smaller than each tread, and the finish sanding on the treads make them fit tight. I'm just going to use Gorilla glue in the pockets, clamp it together, then mechanically fasten each tread to each stringer with toenailed construction screws from below.
If you route the tread pocket all the way out the back of the stringer, you can taper the bottom from wide in the back to zero at the front with a dovetail bit, then cut dovetailed wedges to fit. Glue the tread, set it in place, then drive the glued wedge in from behind and below.
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Jan 26, 2017 - 05:24am PT
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Edge,
Your latest project reminds me of when I built my house stairs. I was pretty nervous about making a housed stringer stairway, since I had no experience with building anything like that, and I only had just enough wide oak.
It went well in the end.
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Jan 26, 2017 - 05:25am PT
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Edge
Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
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Jan 26, 2017 - 09:50am PT
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And, it's done.
Now to figure out how to make the rail panel removable.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Jan 26, 2017 - 01:44pm PT
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Looks great, thanks for the beta!
Steve too!
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Jan 28, 2017 - 09:36am PT
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After a couple of weeks of contemplation I decided the box did need a top. So went at it yesterday. Not sure which will get you better shape quicker, climbing or hand tools; it's a toss up.
Not quite ready to tackle the existential questions posed by Edge's complaint about there being no bottom to the box. That could take another couple of weeks of serious thinking and I may have to bring it up on the 'What is mind?' thread as that's where all the pithy philosophy questions get answered.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 28, 2017 - 10:14am PT
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Now to figure out how to make the rail panel removable.
Uh, Sawzall?
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Happy Cowboy
Social climber
Boz MT
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Jan 28, 2017 - 10:34am PT
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Boy, some awful nice work ^^^ ALL involved.
SteveA: great job and choice of the classic method, housed stringer.
I built a large Maple stairway 10 years ago using the same method. I especially appreciated your backside photo. I still remember driving the wedges and my partner from topside yelling, "this is coming together so nicely". It was rather spooky to cut and prep all pieces before actual assembly. I'll post pics when I can locate.
Steve, there's a climb in the Tetons on Owen, the "Run don't walk couloir".
You and John Bouchard did the FA, and Jay Wilson and I did the second ascent a year later. I'd love to hear your remembrance on it. Perhaps it's own thread. Donnie Black
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Jan 28, 2017 - 02:42pm PT
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Hi Donnie,
I went up to do "Run Don't Walk" the previous year with Yvon Chouinard, and Yuri Krisjansons. We bivied at the base, and next morning Yvon went up to take a look, and said the conditions weren't right.
The following Summer, I bagged it with J. Bouchard. The conditions weren't perfect then either, and in the narrowest part, there was little ice, and I had to do a bit of tricky rock climbing.
I hope you had perfect conditions!
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Happy Cowboy
Social climber
Boz MT
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Jan 28, 2017 - 06:45pm PT
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Thread drift! Thanks Steve for the reply. Great to see your mention of Yuri (Juris). He later married a good friend of mine Margo and I visited them on his ranch in Canada.
I was a good friend of Pete Carman and knew of your 1st attempt, then next year's FA.
Conditions are key to that climb, you certainly know, and some years it's rarely in shape.
Our ascent was early June and conditions were marginal for the first pitch. A pillar of melting, detached ice, free standing for 75' and separated from both the big rock overhang, and the waterfall behind. I was able to lead by grabbing the pillar's outer edges and cramponing up. My hands were easier to set than the ice tools, bitd. Had to mantle onto the very tip to which I could then barely reach a crack splitting the overhang, that took a solid pin. This felt great as my last pro was 60' below set in the right wall. Fortunitly the water was flowing behind the overhang (actually a huge chockstone) or my ascent would've been flooded.
Jay lead a rolling second pitch then I attacked the gleaming solid ice of the 3rd, a 100' steep ice flow. Because of the ice tools I used, Chouinard axe and hammer, this felt harder than the first, a complete opposite when done with modern ice tools.
This was Jay's first big ice climb, next he headed to Torre Egger w' John and Jim, lol though RIP Jay Wilson
Would love to hear your experience. Thanks Donnie
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away from the ground
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Jan 28, 2017 - 07:11pm PT
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