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Dorje

Trad climber
Mid-Atlantic
Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 9, 2011 - 12:22pm PT
We all have one. A place where we climb, or have climbed, that we have a deep connection with.

It can be a local choss pile that you learned to climb on, or maybe a destination climbing area. What qualifies it as your Mother Crag is the hold that that it has over you. That if you were to leave or if you have moved on, the place still has strong sentimental attachment.

I'll start. Lion's Head in Ontario. Climbing limestone on the crystal blue waters of Lake Huron's Georgian Bay. Rappelling from the top of the escarpment to a hanging belay station and clipping bolts to get out.

Post up!
looking sketchy there...

Social climber
Latitute 33
Feb 9, 2011 - 12:26pm PT
atchafalaya

Boulder climber
Feb 9, 2011 - 12:30pm PT
It all goes back to here...
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Feb 9, 2011 - 12:32pm PT
Three Sisters in Oregon.





Did my first route at Smith Rocks in 75. It will always be THE mother crag.



Of course Steins Pillar is one of the first Holy Grail destinations too....
Greg Barnes

climber
Feb 9, 2011 - 12:42pm PT
ydpl8s

Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
Feb 9, 2011 - 12:55pm PT
Taylor Canyon - Gunnison Colorado

donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Feb 9, 2011 - 01:20pm PT

The North Patagonia Ice Cap- lot's of crags.
Dick Danger

Trad climber
Lakewood, Colorado
Feb 9, 2011 - 02:27pm PT
Mama...

Cathedral Spires, South Platte.

chill

climber
between the flat part and the blue wobbly thing
Feb 9, 2011 - 03:01pm PT
The sweet granite cracks of Turkey Rock!!
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Feb 9, 2011 - 03:05pm PT

(Image filched from the intardnet.)

The Larry

climber
Moab, UT
Feb 9, 2011 - 03:07pm PT
Where I first cut my teeth.


God I love this place.


wayne burleson

climber
Amherst, MA (currently in Lutry, CH)
Feb 9, 2011 - 03:25pm PT
Skytop, Gunks.
How could they have taken it from us...
TKingsbury

Trad climber
MT
Feb 9, 2011 - 03:52pm PT
Gallatin Canyon
Buju

Big Wall climber
the range of light
Feb 9, 2011 - 04:50pm PT
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Feb 9, 2011 - 04:53pm PT
The Squamish Chief

blackbird

Trad climber
the flat water trails...
Feb 9, 2011 - 05:34pm PT
T-Wall....
mctwisted

Big Wall climber
Feb 9, 2011 - 05:46pm PT
micronut

Trad climber
fresno, ca
Feb 9, 2011 - 05:49pm PT
Tollhouse Rock. 55 minutes away. History, cracks, slabs, a great view. Never gets old. My first climb was here.
ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
bouldering
Feb 9, 2011 - 05:55pm PT
Sherwin Plateau
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Feb 9, 2011 - 06:02pm PT
The one with Horn's Mother in it, of course.
Not my first, but when I first got there, I knew I was home

Years later, Ed seemed comfortable crashing on her couch
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Feb 9, 2011 - 06:11pm PT
I'm with Atch
Pie

Trad climber
So-Cal
Feb 9, 2011 - 06:22pm PT

steelmnkey

climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
Feb 9, 2011 - 06:23pm PT
+1 for Atch as well.
Chinchen

climber
Way out there....
Feb 9, 2011 - 06:28pm PT
cintune

climber
the Moon and Antarctica
Feb 9, 2011 - 06:40pm PT

MisterE

Social climber
MEEP MEEP
Feb 9, 2011 - 07:33pm PT

The best part is the swim in the Skykomish across the street after a day of climbing, right next to your free camp-site...

Exquisite!
Brokedownclimber

Trad climber
Douglas, WY
Feb 9, 2011 - 07:42pm PT
For me it's the Redgarden Wall in Eldorado; sorry no pictures until I get some 35mm slides digitized.
the museum

Trad climber
Rapid City
Feb 9, 2011 - 10:31pm PT
Ksolem

Trad climber
Monrovia, California
Feb 10, 2011 - 12:30pm PT
For me this is the "Mother" of all crags.


ydpl8s

Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
Feb 10, 2011 - 12:41pm PT
Cintune, I framed that pic from Fragile and put it on my wall at age 18. It pretty much said it for me (I wore out 3 copies of that album).

Where is that 2nd pic?
Ksolem

Trad climber
Monrovia, California
Feb 10, 2011 - 06:35pm PT
I think I have multiple mother disorder...

kpinwalla2

Social climber
WA
Feb 10, 2011 - 08:47pm PT
The Red River Gorge - back when it was still "The Gorge" and not "The Red"..... (no one that climbed there then had ever heard of the "New" or the Owens River or any of those other dad-blamed gorges).
Ksolem

Trad climber
Monrovia, California
Feb 10, 2011 - 08:51pm PT
This one looks more like a "Dad" to me...

Elcapinyoazz

Social climber
Joshua Tree
Feb 10, 2011 - 10:55pm PT
Rednecks, graffiti, humid as sh#t, in a dry county, car break-ins...but I'll always have a fondness for:
Image shamelessly pirated from the t00bz.

And my home...or second home...or something:

cintune

climber
the Moon and Antarctica
Feb 10, 2011 - 11:17pm PT
ydpl8s:
Cintune, I framed that pic from Fragile and put it on my wall at age 18. It pretty much said it for me (I wore out 3 copies of that album).
Where is that 2nd pic?

It's Chickies Rock on the Susquehanna River, Pa. Nice little quartzite crag, home of many a bold and noobish adventure.

"I still remember the talks by the water, the proud sons and daughters,
Who knew the knowledge of the land, and spoke to me in sweet accustomed ways...."
nutjob

Trad climber
Berkeley, CA
Feb 10, 2011 - 11:42pm PT
My first answer was Yosemite, but seeing that pic of Headstone brought back fond memories and made me realize that Yosemite was my adoptive mother.

I entered the climbing world through Joshua Tree, so many wonderful pent-up memories, mostly before I knew any official "climbers." Man oh man, so many wonderful full-moon escapades, spur-of-the-moment runs from San Diego on a Friday night at 10pm, or driving in a Noah's Arc style deluge for 4 hours only to have the rains stop minutes before arrival and then a crazy blue pristine day with the world to ourselves. Such an amazing place. So innocent for me as a climbing destination, just reveling in the sheer wonder of it all with no climbing knowledge and no jade to limit my sense of awe.
HHL

Trad climber
Stumpcreek, WV
Feb 11, 2011 - 12:11am PT
I'm with Hank, E-rock is my mother!
Seamstress

Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
Feb 11, 2011 - 12:37am PT
Cathedral. I fell in love with climbing in NH. It was months before I knew there was very nice climbing close to home. I got married under Cathedral Roof. I celebrated my 40th birthday repeating RecomBeast with my long lost cousin, finding my husband on top with cold beverages.

Live free or die!!
hoipolloi

climber
A friends backyard with the neighbors wifi
Feb 11, 2011 - 01:07am PT
I learned to climb with my dad at Lovers Leap. Him and my mom spent most weekends there through the later 70's, taught me and my brothers to climb there. A very special place for me, I love climbing there, always will.

pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Feb 11, 2011 - 01:40am PT
classic.
Wayno

Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
Feb 11, 2011 - 01:56am PT
It's either CRSP or the Leap for this one. If I really had to choose it would be Castle Rock, though. I learned on boulders with guys like B.Bates and Yabo and Morris and the Daoist.
Dick_Lugar

Trad climber
Indiana (the other Mideast)
Feb 11, 2011 - 10:11am PT
You should see what's just around the corner, or behind, or directly below..


Moving back soon to suckle mother's nipple...
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
Feb 11, 2011 - 10:38am PT
I share the same mother as Wayno. Castle Rock State Park.


(posted from cloudy Florida...the land without a crag)
Derek

climber
Feb 11, 2011 - 10:47am PT
Pokomoonshine, Adirondacks. Devious, funky climbing. Fiddly small gear. Stout routes. I learned a ton there, and I learn more every time I visit. After growing up climbing in the Adirondacks, I've never been anywhere, ever, where the grades felt stiff. There are a number of places that certainly seem on par, but let's just say I've always felt well prepared.
this just in

climber
north fork
Feb 11, 2011 - 10:47am PT
My home is Shuteye.
In the winter I hang out with my step moms, tollhouse, Squaws leap, and Yosemite. My dad's a whore!
Adamame

climber
Santa Cruz
Feb 11, 2011 - 11:51am PT
I have the standard two of any Santa Cruz Climber.

I first went climbing outside with Chris Bloch and James Conn in the fairy tale forests of Castle Rock when I was 13. For pure fun bouldering with friends close to home Castle Rock will always evoke a special feeling. Castle Rock is my boulder mother.

Not long after first going to Castle during the first week at high school, I was invited to Pinnacles by King Humann, one of the math teachers at my new school. This was my first time outside of The Pacific Edge gym to do real roped climbing. I rode down with a fit old guy named Pete King, who preceded to warm up on and almost send Ranger Bolts (13a). I later watched Hans Florine and Chris Bloch send the Yabo route Hot Lava Lucy (12c/13a). I watched King on a spectacular lead called Foreplay, which he bought all of us dinner for having sent. I hangdogged POD, which would be the only time I ever hung on it. I met a whole crew of incredible people that day, which helped implant an attitude of just having fun in the outdoors. Pinnacles is my rope mother.

Attempting to climb Ranger Bolts 15 years after first seeing Pete King on it.
Branscomb

Trad climber
Lander, WY
Feb 11, 2011 - 12:14pm PT
Lover's Leap, Cosumnes Gorge and the obscure and difficult Mosquito Bridge. My old stomping grounds there. Go back once or twice every year when we go see the parents in Placeville and I make it a point to spend at least a day bouldering as much as I can in Cosumnes and Mosquito and a day or two free soloing easier things at the Leap in the summer. Really puts me back in touch with what I love about climbing, every time: the touchstones of my soul. There's just nothing like California granite..I really miss it a lot.
Disaster Master

Social climber
Born in So-Cal, left my soul in far Nor-Cal.
Feb 11, 2011 - 02:57pm PT
Climbers call it Lost Rocks, because the tides scrape and fill the beach. THis make today's high-balls dissapear after a storm, and other gems are revealed. Ever changing, self cleaning, and wild. It is also the center of the Yurok Native World and a National Park and World Heritage Site.

Surreal and spiritual.

mooser

Trad climber
seattle
Feb 11, 2011 - 03:22pm PT
Woodson...Tahquitz/Suicide...JTNM.
mooch

Trad climber
Old Climbers' Home (Adopted)
Feb 11, 2011 - 03:35pm PT
Aaaahhhh, the amazing goodness of the Shuteye region!! ALL OF IT!! Screw the Big Ditch (and the photo pixel police)!

mooch

Trad climber
Old Climbers' Home (Adopted)
Feb 11, 2011 - 05:52pm PT
dat be tru Toastmaster!
Nate D

climber
San Francisco
Feb 11, 2011 - 06:05pm PT
credit goes to my buddy Jeff Routsong for snapping that fine pic after we topped out on Chiquito Dome one beautiful spring day. The Mother of all Shuteye crags indeed, although the Queen might fight for the Throne...
G_Gnome

Trad climber
In the mountains... somewhere...
Feb 11, 2011 - 07:06pm PT
Stoney Point will always be the cradle that I grew up and learned to play in...

Good friends always in attendance...


Josh would be my Step Mom though, and Tuolumne would be that stern father that no one enjoys while growing up but always learns to appreciate the life lessons given.
Bad Climber

climber
Feb 11, 2011 - 07:51pm PT
Lover's Leap and the crags/boulders of Marin County--Split Rock, Turtle Rock, Mt. Tam. I started climbing there--gulp--in 1977. Had my first climbing lessons on Mt. Tam and the Leap. In fact, on that first trip to the Leap, Chris Vandiver (sp) led me and my buddy up Bear's Reach. I have, mostly, climbed it every year. This year will be my 34th anniversary ascent. Holy catz! A couple of years ago, a met a young lad on his first trip to the Leap. He was about my age when I first went. Dang, so many great memories of that place--a true crag home.

One fun memory: I was on the last pitch of Eagle Buttress Right Side and rounded a corner, out of sight of my best climbing buddy. It was our first time on the route. The climbing at this point was quite easy, but my partner couldn't see that, so I started making noises about how sketchy it was, desperate, "WAAATCH ME, DUDE!" I hung out on these huge holds for a long time placing every piece of gear that I possible could, tons of slings, just a serious art installation of hardware. Ah, what a grand and glorious cursing I got when he rounded the corner and had to remove all the gear from the "desperate" crux! We laughed hard over that one.

Climb on.

BAd
mctwisted

Big Wall climber
Feb 11, 2011 - 08:45pm PT
deepnet

Boulder climber
San Diego
Feb 11, 2011 - 08:50pm PT
Mission Gorge, Mt. Woodson and Santee Boulders.
San Diego Gems
JohnRoe

Trad climber
State College, PA
Feb 11, 2011 - 09:56pm PT
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/2216206.jpg

image:
RonV

Trad climber
Placerville
Feb 11, 2011 - 11:10pm PT
I was out at the mother crag today, Bob. Cosumnes. See you at the leap this summer.
Wade Icey

Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
Feb 11, 2011 - 11:59pm PT
RonV

Trad climber
Placerville
Feb 17, 2011 - 12:12am PT
Dingus,I stand corrected, Brother.
I think the soup you refer to is consomme.
Anastasia

climber
hanging from a crimp and crying for my mama.
Feb 17, 2011 - 12:54am PT
Joshua Tree...
bjj

climber
beyond the sun
Feb 17, 2011 - 04:10am PT
I learned to climb in the Tahoe region so there were multiple mother crags for me. Donner, Big Chief, cave rock, pie shop, the boulders of bliss and old county, lovers leap, pie shop were all visited very often. I feel fortunate to have lived somewhere with so much diversity.
ladyscarlett

Trad climber
SF Bay Area, California
Feb 17, 2011 - 04:39am PT
This is an awesome thread!

Been poking around in the past, but have finally been inspired to post.

Seeing these posts, I thought it would be easy, but what can I say, I'm young enough as a climber, that I still have my bib on, so my perspective is a little skewed.

Still, the place that always feels like I'm coming back, even though I haven't even come close to exploring it all, is the place where I got REALLY high for the first time.


Sometimes I feel like the High Sierras are an addiction, and Tuolumne was/is my gateway drug.

However, I AM a bay area girl at heart and often find myself staying out late, getting in and out of trouble, playing with dykes,


experimenting with crack and the such. Yeah, I still can't help having fun at The Leap.

Man, all this thinking...I want more! Maybe it's time to learn how to climb in the rain...

cheers!

LS

hooblie

climber
from where the anecdotes roam
Feb 17, 2011 - 06:46am PT
rincon

Trad climber
SoCal
Feb 17, 2011 - 10:03am PT
The good old Kernville Slab is the site of my humble beginings
The Kern Canyon always feels like home to me, even though I have never lived there.

pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Feb 19, 2011 - 12:07pm PT
always consider this place my mother crag!
NigelSSI

Trad climber
B.C.
Mar 15, 2011 - 12:28am PT

Mount Maxwell, Salt Spring Island.

Is it choss? Yes. Yes it is.
Is it fun? More so when it's over.




dfinnecy

Social climber
'stralia
Mar 15, 2011 - 08:42am PT
Very good thread.

For me it is CRSP. Tuolumne played a very important but minor role.

When ever the family had a day out when I was a kid my answer was always CRSP. I think I was around 10 when I climbed Castle Rock proper for the first time up the polished access slot. That was the day I learned that getting up is only half way. I tried every which way I could to get down, walked around and around on that ledge. I sat up there, probably cried a bit, and tried to hide the fact I was stuck from my parents who were milling around the boulders. Finally some hippie guy with a big shaggy head of curly black hair, a chalkbag and real climbing shoes helped me down.

'This is something real'. I was a foolish kid who always was hungry for adventure. I realized early on that everything was sanitized in this world and I was baby sat no matter what I was doing. The margin of safety in the everyday world is wide and calculated for us. But here was something that could kill you. No one is selling tickets or asking for certification. Its just nature and you can walk up and take a swing. See how you measure up. When I finally got an older friend with gear to take me out to Goat Rock to learn a bit of proper rock craft that was it, I was done.

It was in Tuolumne that I first stood at the bottom of a big(ish) climb and literally shook with fear and anticipation, having spent the previous weeks with the welling fear of leading these famous cracks invade my every thought and dream. Looking forward to it carried terror made up of such ridiculous pleasure. This is real, measure yourself. Measure twice, cut once, right? Cut it right or you might die. Do you measure up? Well you'll know soon enough.

Over the next decade I was a deeply unhappy person for a lot of reasons. All the common reasons. I hated my lack of drive, my inability to have an intimate relationship, my lack of faith in my chosen but neglected religion, my generalized anxiety and fearfulness, my crippling shyness. Maybe you know the bill.

Except at CRSP. Now, I'm not a good climber. Some may stand on the shoulders of giants but the best I could ever muster was maybe get a piggy-back ride. But when I was up there around the boulders things changed. I had ambition and dreams. Problems here and there started to fall, problems I never imagined I would ever be able to pull off. I felt capable for the first time in my life. I actually carried on a few conversations with people.

When i first started climbing at Castle Rock the Yabo Roof had moss on top of it, the Jensen book showed a problem there but I refused to believe it was possible. When I finally pressed over that lip I stood on top and felt higher .

My father had a series of strokes over a those years. His intellect and body and dignity were assaulted from inside by the slow, cruel failing of his own instruments. My family and I kept vigil at the hospitals, took care of him at home, and loved him and each other the best we could through those years. What had been the testing ground of CRSP became a bosom of misty beauty and sanctuary. 15 minutes up Hwy 9 are arms of interwoven redwood and fir and a manzanita ribcage around a passive, quiet heart of stone.

I'm much happier now, a bit of age and young kids will do that to you. I go through long periods where life circumstances allow climbing and long periods where they don't. Right now circumstances don't so I daydream and pick around at old subjects of fancy on the internet. I think about the experiences that molded me, or sent me off on a tangent, or just enabled me to get past one more day. CRSP was the place.

martygarrison

Trad climber
Washington DC
Mar 15, 2011 - 09:11am PT
jopay

climber
so.il
Mar 15, 2011 - 09:26am PT
Jackson Falls
Tork

climber
Yosemite
Mar 15, 2011 - 02:06pm PT
Wawona Dome
























Here I am being born




Looking out the womb

Ksolem

Trad climber
Monrovia, California
Mar 15, 2011 - 02:18pm PT
My mother is frigid now...
Tork

climber
Yosemite
Mar 15, 2011 - 02:21pm PT
Wow!!!!

Nice shot Kris!
Mungeclimber

Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
Mar 15, 2011 - 03:55pm PT
really nice Kris!


my momz is bipolar or DID

Sonora and Pinnacles, but could have been Joshua Tree just as well

Pinns...




TrundleBum

Trad climber
Las Vegas
Mar 15, 2011 - 08:28pm PT


I hear yah Kris:


I'm hoping to see Mom again late summer/early fall ;)
Nate D

climber
San Francisco
Mar 16, 2011 - 02:02am PT
I like your post dfinnecy.
And nice pics here!
schwortz

Social climber
"close to everything = not at anything", ca
Mar 16, 2011 - 04:59am PT
its the gunks for me (too bad i dont have many photos)
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Dec 6, 2014 - 06:58am PT
watt u see BUMP
Mark Force

Trad climber
Cave Creek, AZ
Dec 6, 2014 - 07:20am PT

Granite Mountain, Prescott, Arizona.
martygarrison

Trad climber
Washington DC
Dec 6, 2014 - 07:44am PT
This place too
clarkolator

climber
Dec 6, 2014 - 09:19am PT

It's not much, but it's home. Great thread!
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Dec 6, 2014 - 12:38pm PT
Pinnacles
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Dec 6, 2014 - 01:54pm PT

Eat yer hearts out.


This was my alternate...
(That's an Outward Bound instructor getting the ride)
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Dec 6, 2014 - 02:25pm PT
Reilly: how would you compare Prusik Peak to Cathedral Peak in Tuolumne in terms of climbing aesthetics?
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Dec 6, 2014 - 03:24pm PT
Wow so the Cannabis is toms thumb!? Clarkolator what is that column formation where is it should I stalk your pics or can you say and is it my favorite DIABASE?
Studly

Trad climber
WA
Dec 6, 2014 - 04:14pm PT
Just another day at the crag.

http://vimeo.com/108074326
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Dec 6, 2014 - 04:32pm PT
TT, Prusik definitely gets the nod. More routes of sustained quality in a
fabulous setting, not that Cathedral is in some kind of slum, mind you. :-)
I don't know how many it has now but it could easily have 15-20.
skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Dec 6, 2014 - 05:02pm PT


That's not really my mother crag. I was adopted.
apogee

climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
Dec 6, 2014 - 05:17pm PT
Mine's a little frigid, too:

thebravecowboy

climber
walking, resin-stained, towards the goal
Dec 6, 2014 - 07:25pm PT
That is some supremely disturbing sh#t DMT.

Even after my family connecting me to this place is gone, this will be my genetic nexus, the original body from which I spawned, in which I self taught the jammage, the composure needed for 30' badfall freesolos, the inexplicable embrace of the unprotected fissile flake run on the hands. This place will supplant the loss of my parents. This place will give some imagined stasis in a dynamic world.

nah000

climber
no/w/here
Dec 6, 2014 - 08:48pm PT
smith.

the smell of sage tells me i am home.

formative months living on the grasslands... before porta-potties, fenced off camping areas or fees... wiling the late fall and early spring away...

always wonder what happened to a crew of four (three dudes and a chick) from iirc mammoth. they all lived in a tiny camper and for much of the time were the only people living out there with me. from what i gathered/imagined the story was that they were on the run from crooked drug dealing cops? all i know for sure is that they sure became law abiding whenever we passed a cop car.

one of them had been in one of the early "extreme" skiing comps in alaska. he had a portfolio with a photo of him dropping a +100' cliff. the shorter dude had dreads but was quite bald... one morning the other other dude was brushing his hair and with each brush, quite literally, handfuls of hair would fall out. the dreaded dude was sympathetic and said something about how he remembered when that happened to him. and that's when the hair brushing dude explained that no his hair wasn't falling out rather it had been pulled out the night before by his irate girlfriend (the chick) because they had been pulled over by the cops while he was drunk and had only remained unbusted due to pure unadulterated luck...

the proish skier met a chick at a cafe and moved in with her within weeks of arriving...

a lot of dreams. and probably nightmares as well.

but good people.

they let me stay in the camper when they left to go back and visit friends before christmas...
thebravecowboy

climber
walking, resin-stained, towards the goal
Dec 6, 2014 - 08:56pm PT
the smell of sage tells me I am home



Yep that's the ticket!
SicMic

climber
across the street from Marshall
Dec 6, 2014 - 09:35pm PT

Two miles is NOT too far to go.
Todd Eastman

climber
Bellingham, WA
Dec 6, 2014 - 09:35pm PT
The sound of breaking glass tells me I'm home!

Rocks State Park in the land of pleasant living
nah000

climber
no/w/here
Dec 6, 2014 - 09:49pm PT
^^^^

hahaha.
wstmrnclmr

Trad climber
Bolinas, CA
Dec 7, 2014 - 12:21am PT
Mickey's Beach. I climbed here almost every day for three years when I first started climbing using a soloist and bouldering.......
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Ksolem

Trad climber
Monrovia, California
Dec 7, 2014 - 07:55am PT
clarkolator

climber
Apr 26, 2015 - 10:52am PT
Gnome it's the Skinner's Butte Columns in downtown Eugene, OR. Don't get me started about my irrational fondness for the place, I could go on forever
rgold

Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
Apr 26, 2015 - 12:08pm PT
'Nother vote for the Gunks.











RG solo, High Exposure, Trapps, Gunks, in the days before chalk

RG Yellow Wall, Trapps, Gunks

RG Feast of Fools, Trapps, Gunks

RG The Spring, Trapps, Gunks

Father and daughter, Bonticuo Crag, Gunks


tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 26, 2015 - 03:02pm PT
I have at least two.. this place where I learned to climb rock and this place where I put up almost all the climbs
richross

Trad climber
Apr 26, 2015 - 06:21pm PT


bob

climber
Apr 26, 2015 - 06:32pm PT
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Apr 26, 2015 - 07:50pm PT
Same^^^^^^^^^^^
bob

climber
Apr 26, 2015 - 08:23pm PT
Here you go Jefe.

Jah Mountain circa 1993. Check out Jefe!
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Apr 27, 2015 - 08:14pm PT
Awesome BobbyJ. Thanks bro.
WyoTrad124

Trad climber
Wyoming
Apr 28, 2015 - 07:11pm PT
Gnarly action at the Voo!!!!
Batrock

Trad climber
Burbank
Apr 28, 2015 - 09:07pm PT
Williamson Rock. My dad climbed there in the 1960's and he introduced my brother and I to it in 1975 and have been climbing there until the closure.
Gary

Social climber
From A Buick 6
Apr 29, 2015 - 09:42am PT
Christmas Tree Pass

Where I learned about commitment
steelmnkey

climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
Apr 29, 2015 - 10:04am PT
Count me in Bob and Jefe!!!

FA of the Nose in 1969

Treiber in bivy pose - FA of Nose, 1969

Treiber on (guessing) early ascent of Candyland, c.1970

RIP Larry.
tolman_paul

Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
Apr 29, 2015 - 10:41am PT
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