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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.

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