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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 16, 2011 - 01:11am PT
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It is cool when they only have one entry in about 40 years. Love them or hate them they seem to have some colorful history etched in them. Post up your pics and stories.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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May 16, 2011 - 02:52am PT
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I used to do a local peak every year that had a register. The last time I went up, I only found some shards of glass from said register.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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May 16, 2011 - 09:14am PT
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Climbed Bridger Jack in IC a couple of years ago and found a copy of The Book of Mormon on the summit. Those missionaries get around, all of the routes to the summit are on the burly side.
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Scott Thelen
Trad climber
Truckee, Ca
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May 16, 2011 - 10:05am PT
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Scott Thelen
Trad climber
Truckee, Ca
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May 16, 2011 - 10:09am PT
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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May 16, 2011 - 10:12am PT
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edit: Scott beat me to it!
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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May 16, 2011 - 12:42pm PT
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Two great pioneers of the 40s and 50s out for a leisurely stroll up the Royal Arches on Memorial Day 1951. Nelson and Salathe, together as a team, made some remarkable early first ascents in the Valley.
Register copyright and courtesy of the Bancroft Library, Mountain Record Section, UC Berkeley.
The common tale of the entries into the Royal Arches Register was the universal difficulty climbers had in locating it.
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PAUL SOUZA
Trad climber
Clovis, CA
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May 16, 2011 - 01:01pm PT
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^^Nice!
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Barcus
Social climber
San Luis Obispo, Ca.
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May 16, 2011 - 02:29pm PT
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Bump!
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - May 16, 2011 - 08:41pm PT
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Sometimes the register is used to extend important information.DT
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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May 16, 2011 - 11:58pm PT
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bump for on topic!
My favorite register entry was at the bottom of lost soldier cave, Ash Mountain, CA.
Pauline Chubbuck
"Some moms will follow their kids anywhere."
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dipper
climber
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May 17, 2011 - 01:16am PT
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Ed gets bonus points in my book for getting his boys on a summit at such a young age.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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May 17, 2011 - 02:30am PT
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Goofball self-portrait on Freel Peak last Thursday. Quite possibly the only photo of a register I've ever taken, inadvertently or otherwise.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - May 17, 2011 - 05:35pm PT
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A lot of them in the Needles are now gone as well. I have done quite a few fifth class summits in the Needles and a lot of the time the register is no longer there. I have never found a Conn Penny sorry to say. I have found an elvis watch and two Tom Robbins books wrapped in duct tape on top of Devil's Tower. I guess we could do like this guy did on the top on Inyan Kara and they would not go away so easily. Inyan Kara is a holy mountain to the local tribes. I guess he should have thought twice before doing that.
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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May 17, 2011 - 05:48pm PT
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Barbarian
Trad climber
The great white north, eh?
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May 17, 2011 - 05:56pm PT
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My favorite summit register is on a remote peak in the central Sierra. It consists of 4 names on a scrap of paper and is housed in a plastic 35mm film cannister surrounded by a ziplock bag all buried within a 12" cairn.
I won't tell you which peak, but if you find it, post up....Those names are getting kind of lonely.
Where is your favorite register?
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Kligfield
Mountain climber
Boulder, CO
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This site has a full description of Grand Teton National Park historic summit register information.
http://www.tetonclimbinghistory.com/
TETON CLIMBING HISTORY: THE SUMMIT REGISTER ARCHIVE
This site contains a collection of digital images of the Grand Teton National Park Summit Register Archive. The summit registers were maintained from about the late-1920s into the 1980s and they form a unique repository of Teton climbing history.
This collection is arranged by chronological order under the specific peak name. It is a complete record of all the entries that were preserved. Although a number of records have been lost or destroyed, it is generally true that any missing years or gaps in the sequence occurred because the entries never existed in the first place. For example, early season climbs often went unrecorded because the registers were buried in snow.
The images of the summit registers were made by Paul Horton as part of a project to organize the original pages and preserve them in archival sleeves. The collection is kept at Park Headquarters at Moose, Wyoming. Its existence is due to the ongoing efforts of generations of Grand Teton National Park Rangers and other Teton mountaineers. In particular, Leigh Ortenburger performed a substantial amount of voluntary archive work in past years. Rangers Dan Burgette and Renny Jackson provided considerable aid to this preservation project.
Paul Horton
2007
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chainsaw
Trad climber
CA
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Sorry cant read the label very well in this old pic. Eichorns Pinnacle Summit Cairn.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Scott/Gary, is that Starr one written in blood?
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Yes. He didn't have a pencil with him.
That register was a who's who of Sierra mountaineering. Signing the same book as all of those greats was humbling.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Nov 17, 2016 - 11:39pm PT
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Just had to make sure the Saudi-stamped passport page didn't fill up with entries since we put the jar and the anchor up there. It han't.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Nov 18, 2016 - 02:52am PT
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I love them but they seem to be getting rare. too many climbers to matter anymore....
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Happy Cowboy
Social climber
Boz MT
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Nov 18, 2016 - 09:39am PT
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MikeM I like your thoughts!
Were summit registers mountain climbers original social media?
BITD, if given the chance to linger on a summit, I'd scan along the who, what, when, where, valuable mountain secrets. Some of those who haunt ST.
Can't stop change, Ondra's every movement is very impressive.
A summit entry I most clearly remember too many years later, was on Jumbo Mountain in BC interior. Wondering if the route we'd climbed was a first I did my best with the few scattered pages. Then, in my fingers I read "First Winter ascent, March 1919, Conrad Kain (alone) From Farnham Creek on snowshoes in 4 1/2 hours"! Wow, his exclamation point was worthy!!!
a crummy pic (lost the original)from the Grand. I'm sitting on the Plaque that honored Owen's (controversial) first ascent.The plaque mysteriously vanished years later.
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Edge
Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
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Nov 18, 2016 - 09:59am PT
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When my brother visited from New Hampshire last month, my daughter and I ran him up the North Ridge of the First Flatiron, but being a fly by night type guide I neglected to point out the summit register. I remedied the situation a week ago, and texted him proof from the summit.
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seano
Mountain climber
none
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Nice photo on Ericsson, and quite the effort to get there with that much snow! What month was that?
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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What month was that?
Early-Mid July
I love the High Sierra in these conditions. We did loop all the way around the upper Kern Basin, Kings-Kern Divide, Great Western Divide, and Whitney-Tulainyo Lake, Sherpherd Pass. Climbed a few peaks here and there. Ran out of mosquito repellent 3/4 of the way through the trip.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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I'm hearing there is a summit register in the Space Station in Josh now...
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Peater
Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
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Russ should just bartack his nose together. No don't really I was just kidding.
I was completely flummoxed when I drove out to the middle of nowhere in Nevada then hiked I don't now how many miles to some pile of rubble on the outskirts of nowhere. Yea I used to do that as much as I could. Climbed the stupid thing and found a register on top. I'm thinking who would climb this stupid thing. Well here I am.
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micronut
Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
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Neat thread.
I try to doodle a bit to show my artsy side. Always seems a bit more poetic than anything I end up writing.
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mooch
Trad climber
Tribal Base Camp (Kernville Annex)
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Jan 25, 2017 - 07:29am PT
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Two great pioneers of the 40s and 50s out for a leisurely stroll up the Royal Arches on Memorial Day 1951. Nelson and Salathe, together as a team, made some remarkable early first ascents in the Valley.
Hey Guido -
Munge and I found an old Band-Aid can on the southern gendarme, next to Castle Rock Spire, that had one piece of paper dating 1949, mentioning Ax and John's first attempt at CRS. Wish we had taken a shot of it.....barely readable.
Saw the register Vernon made. Here's one from the top of Old Woman Statue. Last entry was 7 years prior.
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Reeotch
climber
4 Corners Area
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Jan 25, 2017 - 03:22pm PT
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Contents of the Castelton Tower register 10/14.
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Gooney
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Jan 25, 2017 - 03:27pm PT
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Gooney
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Jan 25, 2017 - 03:38pm PT
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TomKimbrough
Social climber
Salt Lake City
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Jan 25, 2017 - 03:47pm PT
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Once in the Tetons I found a fat joint in the register.
Along the side in tiny letters was"Get a little bit higher".
We did.
Then once on Mt. Moran an entry read, "Climb with grace, she has big ti-s".
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Jan 25, 2017 - 05:13pm PT
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When Heidi & I hiked up 11,878' Standhope Peak in Idah's Pioneer Range back in the late 1990's, we found a summit register that had been fried by a lightning strike.
We were charmed to find a charred Book of Mormon with a hole burned through the center.
In 2015, after 9 leads of climbing nostalgia (I had first climbed the route in 1972 & had not been on it since 1984) on the Three-Cracks route on Slickrock, near McCall, Idaho, I was surprised to find a nice modern summit register. Among the contents was some smoke-dope in a baggie. It may still be there folks!
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BooDawg
Social climber
Butterfly Town
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Jan 25, 2017 - 05:53pm PT
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In the old days, they were history in the making. Now...???
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seano
Mountain climber
none
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Jan 25, 2017 - 06:26pm PT
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Are summit registers these days just glorified litter? Only to the extent that climbing these days is just masturbation.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Jan 26, 2017 - 01:10am PT
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My favorite register was the one that used to be on the summit of Mount Ellen in the Henry Mountains. One year somebody failed to latch it properly. I got up there pretty early the next spring and the register was empty and filled with snow. Bummer. That register had some epic entries.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Jan 26, 2017 - 09:20am PT
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my buddy Sal Paradise replaced that one, I think, on the day that he proposed to his woman up there bvb
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Feb 17, 2017 - 11:43pm PT
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A volcano in Bali. I had the summit sunrise to myself.
As an added bonus the crater was filled with clouds/mist, and I enjoyed a Brocken Spectre. Only the second one in many years......
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Feb 18, 2017 - 10:55pm PT
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on topic bump
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Feb 18, 2017 - 11:02pm PT
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mt starr king
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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left a new one up on the new 'ting, China Cat Waving Mechanically, 't'other day.
a marascino cherry-can man glass-gimballed deal, with founding member moab and StoptheWar goLegalite stickers, stinky Mail, and a couple Saudi-stamped parcel purveyors. yeah, that was it. and some pencils and paper.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Mar 23, 2017 - 01:24pm PT
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^left that one up on China Cat
found this one the other day. replaced the tin (with writing implements, silica packet, face-shot of Snoop Dog (Lion?) from Doggystyle album art). left gud whiskey to keep register tin company under summit cairn.
this one shows record of ascents by about 30 people between 1965 and 1995. Tim Toula ('95) was right: pitch one was an absolute Cactus Festivaal!
v nice, Don! vv the one I found yesterday shows just legible print: "smoking tobacco"
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Mar 23, 2017 - 02:07pm PT
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On Polemonium Peak June 23, 1973.
Polemonium is between Mt. Sill and North Palisade on the Sierra crest. Typical of the day, the register was contained in a Velvet pipe tobacco can. That's Susie Condon holding it above her ancient Patagonia Foamback cagoule
Norman Clyde, David Brower, and Hervey Voge were not the first since they "Found cairn no record".
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Mar 23, 2017 - 08:01pm PT
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MadBolter and Reeotch. . .
I've seen that before (on Castleton. . .) I only wish I'd taken a couple
of pics of the register when I climbed it in '77--there were some BIG
names on it. I was honored to sign that thing.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Mar 24, 2017 - 11:58am PT
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Recently Left this next to the helicoptered-in, early '60s USGS benchmark after an 8 mile, much vertical approach with short 5.8 chosscrack. it appears that we were the first ambulatory, muscle-powered ascent of the formation. our register will be a bummer for the next person, but the whiskey will take the sting out of it. we were too wasted to nip off it as we looked back at the gnarly return to camp with 90 mins of light and a L of water left.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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A new, looong pitch through the wingate led to a forced dark-time descent and prevented a proper kayenta-top summit survey so we went back the next day and took the easy way up. It appears that another one has bitten the dust, fellers.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Jan 17, 2018 - 10:52pm PT
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left a new one out there today. and some courtesy anchors
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Honu
Big Wall climber
Boulder
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Jan 18, 2018 - 12:37pm PT
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Thanksgiving ledge on el cap has the coolest registers I've seen
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gruzzy
Social climber
socal
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Jan 18, 2018 - 01:00pm PT
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I remember hearing some older loud guy talking about all the ones he collected.
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clode
Trad climber
portland, or
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Jan 18, 2018 - 01:16pm PT
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Russ, that's not how Coonyard spells his name. Me thinks you got ripped off!
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ClimberDave
Trad climber
The LBC, CA
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Jan 18, 2018 - 01:18pm PT
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Great thread!!
I always manage to miss the classic ones.
Had read about that register signed in blood on Black Kaweah, when I was about to go out and climb it I had seen somebody post that the book was gone and there was a copy of it left, but when I got there in 2013 it was gone, no trace of it. :(
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Jan 18, 2018 - 02:18pm PT
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Yeah, Russ, the only correctly spelled name is yours.
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Jan 18, 2018 - 02:29pm PT
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Jan 18, 2018 - 03:47pm PT
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Brave Cowboy! That double-nail anchor looks so awesome. Are those 20 penny nails = 4" long?
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briham89
Big Wall climber
santa cruz, ca
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Jan 18, 2018 - 04:43pm PT
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Jan 18, 2018 - 06:55pm PT
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naw Fritz they're healthy 3/8 x 10 potmetal timberspikes. all the rage these days, I hear. ;-). nailstacking in fissile siltstone you can almost always nail 'em you just never know when you're gonna get f*#ked.
all of the registers that I've left atop new summits recently have included some iteration of the famous pussy proclamation for our young men's sexual education.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Jan 18, 2018 - 07:41pm PT
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Red Shirt is a popular 1000 foot long 5.8 on Yamnuska. It was put up in 1961.
I first did it in 1978 and read through the register hanging on the 4th(?) pitch.
Names like:
Fritz Weisner
Tony Hiebler
Don Whillans
Joe Brown
and many more
Register was gone in 1980
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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May 11, 2018 - 04:25pm PT
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but have you left any fudge? #noturdleftbehind
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