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Dan McDevitt
Trad climber
yosemite
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Jul 12, 2016 - 02:41pm PT
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great shots guys!
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Dan McDevitt
Trad climber
yosemite
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Jul 12, 2016 - 02:46pm PT
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Dan McDevitt
Trad climber
yosemite
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Jul 12, 2016 - 02:48pm PT
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Alexey
climber
San Jose, CA
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Jul 12, 2016 - 07:13pm PT
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Dan, the route on your middle photo above looks like Anticipation, did not it? I know it is not , but resemble very much
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jeff constine
Trad climber
Ao Namao
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Jul 12, 2016 - 07:25pm PT
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New Route somewhere.
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Tork
climber
Yosemite
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Jul 12, 2016 - 08:02pm PT
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Regular Route on Fairview after work.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jul 13, 2016 - 08:15am PT
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Did the Great White Wall in the Black yesterday. Some stellar pitches with just enough spice and the occasional choss to give it BC classic status. You could give the crux pitch an 11- rating and not get an argument from me.
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Dan McDevitt
Trad climber
yosemite
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Jul 13, 2016 - 08:24am PT
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Alexey, those shots from tioga, that middle pic silver bullet. you will love it!
Here's another from the lower area you might like
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Jul 13, 2016 - 11:13am PT
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Bravecowboy, is that first pic One of These Days? (edit: guess not based on the foliage down below)
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Jul 14, 2016 - 10:48am PT
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Gaby is in Victoria for an IBS (Google will tell you Irritable Bowel Syndrome but in this case it means International Biometrics Society) meeting and yesterday we checked out Mt Wells. My daughter snapped some photos.
Started up doing some easy slabs
Gaby on a fun 5.9 face higher up
Looking over at the climbing area on Mt. Macdonald
Me on a 10a bolted face
Pacific madrone trees
The guide book called this short, sweet 5.8 crack "an old-school test piece".
Some of the old-school test pieces are short at Mt Wells
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Jul 14, 2016 - 11:17am PT
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naw NA, that's Melvin's Wheel at Lumpy
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Jul 16, 2016 - 10:58am PT
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Another day out to Mt. Wells Regional Park. This time at Mt. Macdonald (photos ... mostly butt shots ... courtesy of Cecilia Jane).
Started up on a 5.9 sport route
then the 10c next door
A fun, easy 10a up a steep 25 meter wall
I couldn't do it without Gaby
Higher up the 10a
My favorite climb of the day: a 10b "mixed" route (I hate that terminology). There was a bolt near the start to protect a steep move into a crack and then a couple of bolts near the top to protect the 10b bulging-face crux, but the bulk of the climb was a strange and elegant 5.9 crack.
Hard to believe it wasn't done until 2011 (maybe they had to do a lot of cleaning to make it go)!
All in all I really enjoyed Mt. Wells: easy access from the hotel (took less than an hour to get to the climbs from our downtown hotel), a nice assortment of 1-pitch routes (both trad and sport) in 5.9 to 5.11 range, it's far from the maddening crowds (we saw very few people, having Mt. Macdonald all to ourselves) and best of all: cool breezy summer weather conducive to all-day climbing. I wish we could stay here a few more days (tomorrow we're set to leave)
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Jul 16, 2016 - 04:03pm PT
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Bunch of stuff in Tetons, Wild Iris an a bit at Ophir Wall. Did the Telluride Via Feratta today with Isa,s kids. Pretty cool. No photos. Have not done laundry in awhile. Laundry is usually when I can g on the computer.
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Jul 16, 2016 - 04:16pm PT
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I couldn't talk my kids into going climbing with me, they were having too much fun mountain biking with mom so I headed out solo and did the North Face variation on Crystal Crag solo. I had done the regular North Arete a few years back with my son when he was 11 years old and it was a fun easy climb so I figured the variation couldn't be much harder. It was a fun climb, I turned on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's Will The Circle Be Unbroken and after just a few songs i found myself on top in just under 30 minutes. What a fun way to spend an afternoon.
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Radish
Trad climber
SeKi, California
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Jul 16, 2016 - 04:24pm PT
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Had a good time climbing with Limpingcrab and friends just the other day on Moro Rock, Seki !!
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jonnyrig
climber
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Jul 17, 2016 - 03:04pm PT
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Ballbuster at Tahoe with some new non-Taco partners. Some clean, some French free. Even got the kiddos in a harness and had them climb the real easy super short corner on the right, that probably classifies as 4th class. All of it was fun. Then had frozen yogurt. Home now watching Ice Age. F*#k the news and the related opinion pages here. The rock outside is better.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Jul 17, 2016 - 03:29pm PT
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a route on hollow detached flakes that over the first 30 feet creaked and groaned and, according to the belayer, visibly shifted in place. then I got to the runout. the buzzworm near-miss was stimulating to boot. wild razzleberries made up for the emotional damage on the way out.
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Jul 17, 2016 - 06:13pm PT
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We might have seen you at Ballbuster on the way back from Tuolumne today.
The highlight was being first chair on Crescent Arch. My buddy cruised all the leads while I broke in the new TC Pros and pulled on pro.
Shared the rappel with two young hardsters. They came simul rappelling down to her gleeful "That was my first rappel!" Timeless.
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jeff constine
Trad climber
Ao Namao
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Jul 17, 2016 - 07:53pm PT
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More new Ground up routes. At the new Cosgrove Wall.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Jul 18, 2016 - 10:31pm PT
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and SHOCKED AND PERSUADED MY SOUL TO IGNITE
osfs
and some other things, also chaconewlicious
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