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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Feb 24, 2019 - 08:56am PT
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Whitehorse Ledge, NH
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Feb 24, 2019 - 11:02am PT
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My buddy John Fowler (aka Da Magnus) risked it all on a Curry Cruiser launching from the rope up spot for the Water Cracks on Lembert. A committed rush monster, he went on to lead a productive and decidedly saner life therefter. LOL
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Feb 24, 2019 - 11:45am PT
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so that story is true. With the years of telling, it had grown to having biked down the full Werner's Wiggle face.
This thread mentions two routes I have not thought about in years. Silent Running at Darrington is a classic classic. One of the lower pitches is unrelenting moves from one slightly-less steep spot on the wall to another. Back in the early 1980s it was also a bit lichen covered in spots. Very tenuous for a whole pitch. And Table of Contents up in the Meadows was one of those climbs where I said to myself "if I get off this alive, I'm giving away all my gear and never climbing again". There are a couple of spots where you just are not sure if the feet are going to hold till you stand up.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Feb 24, 2019 - 11:55am PT
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I did a lot of free-soloing on the slabs of Glacier Point Apron, and slabs in the South Platte.
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shylock
Social climber
mb
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Feb 24, 2019 - 11:59am PT
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interesting question about the bike possibilities..
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Feb 24, 2019 - 01:51pm PT
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SLR, that's Truckin' Drive, Rawl Drive takes the tongue to the left of the climbers in your picture.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 26, 2019 - 10:31pm PT
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Feb 26, 2019 - 11:43pm PT
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I think OffWhite is Right.
I backed off of Rawl Drive twice. That is some very slick rock and a nasty fall.
Now Truckin' Drive is a different game. Lots of fun.
But, hat's off to Patio solo...
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Feb 27, 2019 - 07:01am PT
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DanMerrick
Social climber
FKA Banquo from Mo' Hill, CA
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Feb 27, 2019 - 07:59am PT
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A DAMMERR at work.
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wstmrnclmr
Trad climber
Bishop
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Feb 27, 2019 - 09:47am PT
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Since Bob posted..........
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and before you start posting your photos of hooked 5.12+ power drilled monuments I offer this for consideration:
A not very good photo of an important event. Was it Mikey Schaefer who said one can’t on-site FA harder then 5.11c slab? Right where Kurt Smith left it with “Burning down the house” (unrepeated) before he jumped ship to sport? Here, Myles Moser has just placed a stance drilled 1/4”er and will proceed to pull the roof from glassy nubins above on-site to the tune of 5.11d plus decades after sport climbing had buried the o.s.-g.u.- no hooks, no power game. Easily the hardest onsite FFA of slab I’ve ever seen........
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perswig
climber
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Feb 27, 2019 - 10:14am PT
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^^
Excellent!
Dale
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Feb 27, 2019 - 11:10am PT
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Wow, what a great set of photos wstrnmclmrrrsir
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Feb 27, 2019 - 01:10pm PT
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Was it Mikey Schaefer who said one can’t on-site FA harder then 5.11c slab?
I guess Ron Carson didn't get the memo ;_)
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wstmrnclmr
Trad climber
Bishop
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Feb 27, 2019 - 01:16pm PT
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Thus the question mark. Ron Carson hookless by hand from stance on-site? Awesome! True, sometimes 12 can be found/ climbed on-site above a good stance hand drilled. But rare to find stances followed by hard slab. Myles found it and so did Ron.
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johntp
Trad climber
Punter
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Feb 27, 2019 - 02:39pm PT
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We need Base104 to post up with Quartz photos. I don't have any. Climbing at Quartz is more runout than Suicide.
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Don Paul
Social climber
Washington DC
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Feb 27, 2019 - 04:25pm PT
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The picture of a bike on a slab is nothing compared to the Utah trails. I tried the Slickrock trail in Moab and had to walk the bike up the steep climbs. Much harder than what you find in CO.
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aldude
climber
Monument Manor
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Feb 27, 2019 - 06:08pm PT
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Onsight,stanced :
Tahoe - New Blood,Pieshop...12a
The Arena,Horsetail Falls...12a
Tuolumne - Testify,Marioulumne Dome...12b
Yosemite - Gnar Gnar,Middle Cathedral.12a
I'm sure others have proven Mikey mistaken
Kurt Smith and I established Grace Under Pressure in the Meadows in 86'...12a.
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rmuir
Social climber
From the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.
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Feb 27, 2019 - 06:58pm PT
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