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Josh Higgins
Trad climber
San Diego
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Nov 30, 2013 - 10:19pm PT
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I climbed Captain Cook (5.11a) at Corte Madera. It now has a new shiny bolt replacing the old ratty first one. It's an amazing lead, and I highly recommend it! I also put a bolt in on End of an Era, a route I did the FA of a few years ago. I didn't have a drill back then, so I just ran it out. It is now a beautiful 2 pitch 5.11a, not a 5.11a R/X. There was not a single soul at the crag, which was surprising given the perfect climbing weather.
Josh
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Rollover
climber
Gross Vegas
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Nov 30, 2013 - 11:19pm PT
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x15x15 is that Ginger Cracks??
That was a fun route..
More fun than Crimson Chrysalis IMHO..
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Bela rapping into yesterdays "adventure" a mellow multi-top-rope session in the warm sun high over Yosemite Valley...
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 6, 2013 - 01:15am PT
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Taken skully out for his second time ice climbing with Jack at 5am it is supposed to be -20. It was a balmy -6 today.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 7, 2013 - 07:18pm PT
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it was all the way up to twenty below when we went out this morning and a whopping minus thirteen when we went out again at 1pm
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Your hand looks kind of funny?
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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A beautiful day in Southern Arizona.
Minus the attack by aggressive Africanized bees.
This pissed me off for a number of reasons.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Bah humbug.....four pitches of ice in the Skylight area above Ouray. Cold temps in rock climbing areas are forcing me to embrace Winter......again, bah humbug.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 7, 2013 - 08:30pm PT
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We know you secretly love the cold. It certainly makes the garden grow.
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Nemesis
climber
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Too many of these thread titles look like illiterate people wrote them. A question that ends with an exclamation point looks dumb.
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thebravecowboy
Social climber
Colorado Plateau
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Did you make climbingz today Nemesis?
Jealous of yr weather Jefe
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Did you make climbingz today Nemesis?
Yesterday I am climbing the White Route in the gym real good, but many trouble having on the blue route!
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speelyei
Trad climber
Mohave County Arizona
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The rolling clove hitch aid solo sucked. Especially with no aiders. Ordered me up some stuff like I see y'all sportin.
Figgered easing back in off a ten year hiatus maybe solo tr is better'n solo aiding anyway.
Found a virgin blob of rock, and it took every sling and both cordolettes to get me an anchor rigged, but it finally came together.
Walked around to the bottom and thought "I wonder if I can even climb this? It looks 5.10!"
Uh, more like 5.6.
It was good though. It's been a long time since I built an anchor, rappelled, or climbed rocks at all. Felt good, even if it was 29 degrees with a steady 25mph wind.
Trying to get used to the new gear, I must've weighted the rope about 100 times "just to see", and transitioned to rappelled at 10', 15', 20', 35'... Never did climb up and touch the anchor. Everything felt creaky... The face holds, my placements, the new unfamiliar gear.
Still, it's a start.
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10b4me
Ice climber
Bishop/Flagstaff
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Speelyei,
Hope you ordered yourself a proper chest harness.
Jim, how is the ice?
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 9, 2013 - 10:46am PT
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Tradman I had to take off the glove to be able to take the selfie. Did get out yesterday and did some ice climbing with Jack. I think it got onto the low single digits around here, but that was the first time in 91 hours above zero. That is by far the longest cold stretch I remember in twenty years of living in Spearfish. Regardless we grew a lot of ice in the last week so we should be good to go for the next four months.
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speelyei
Trad climber
Mohave County Arizona
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Amen to that Dingus.
10b4, no, I didn't. Since the slings just position the mini traxion, I figure the rig I've got is safe, and I didn't notice that they were there.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 9, 2013 - 04:25pm PT
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the flow behind the pillar in the center.
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