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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 3, 2011 - 09:53pm PT
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A classic account of an early Rowell-Jones-Faint expedition to Hetch Hetchy from Ascent 1971.
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Dirka
Trad climber
SF
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Nice bit of history there. TFPU.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 4, 2011 - 11:52am PT
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Bumps with water!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 6, 2011 - 12:13pm PT
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And a view!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 13, 2011 - 12:43pm PT
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Saturday morning Bump.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Aug 13, 2011 - 01:05pm PT
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Steve, Do you have a site where people can go to download these articles you scan and post? I'd like to read them but the type is so small, it makes it hard for my aging eyes.
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john hansen
climber
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Aug 13, 2011 - 01:12pm PT
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Mark,, hold down the " ctrl" key on the bottom right or left of most key boards. While holding it down hit the "+"(plus) key. This will make the image bigger on your screen. You can reverse it by holding "ctrl" and hitting the "-" (minus)key.
Cant remember who showed me this but it works great. That's the only way my old eye's can read most of Steve's stuff.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 13, 2011 - 01:35pm PT
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This is the place!
You may notice that in the lower right corner of your screen (by the clock)is the screen magnifier. Go to 200% and you should be fine.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Aug 13, 2011 - 01:38pm PT
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Oh yeah! Thanks.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 20, 2011 - 09:20pm PT
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Puddle bump...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 5, 2011 - 12:33pm PT
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That caption about "Napoleon's retreat from Moscow" has crossed my mind many times when the visibility begins to drop along with the snowflakes.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 2, 2012 - 12:30pm PT
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Faint Bump...
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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ec
climber
ca
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While bivied on the terrace on HH Dome, we found/used an old campfire 'ring' (extremely small). It was perfectly/cleverly positioned behind a small boulder so the flames would not be visible from the dam. When we realized this, it brought a chuckle. BTW, the 5th pitch as described in Galen's story is one badass OW indeed..."all the elegance of a dog chasing a cat through a storm drain." 'Couldn't have been said better.
 ec
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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here's from one of Rowell's books... interestingly, the image is flipped...
that story, and that particular image, sparked my imagination at a very young age, and lead to a visit to Hetch Hetchy for climbing in 1971 or 1972...
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scuffy b
climber
heading slowly NNW
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"continuous 4-inch crack" before any editors could make themselves use the
term "off width" or any of its variants.
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Powder
Trad climber
SF Bay Area
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Bump for Galen Rowell!!!!! xoxoxoxoxo *^_^*
Bump for Kolana Rock!!!!! That wall always looks so impressive...
Thanks, Steve, for posting =D
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Ed, do tell!
Strider lives!!!
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AZ-OW
Trad climber
Granite Mountain Wilderness
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Jan 23, 2012 - 01:10pm PT
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Great story of solitude and adventure. 4 inch continuous crack makes the top of the bucket list for sure. Cheers!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 23, 2013 - 09:09pm PT
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Hetchy Bump...
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Mar 23, 2013 - 09:14pm PT
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Could have been such a "dam" good place to climb.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 10, 2016 - 10:14pm PT
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Galen Bump...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2018 - 11:48am PT
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Far from the madding crowd bump...
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Is that place open yet? The few times I drove through Yosemite this summer the signs said it was closed.
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aspendougy
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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There's tons of nice rock, no people, plenty of water, you can buy basic foodstuffs at Evergreen Store. Never understood why more people don't climb there. I've always wanted to take the dam worker's boat, and start climbs from the boat on the opposite side. I heard that SF City bigwigs would take the boat and fish. I would think that the fishing up at the head where the Tuolumne River empties in is quite good.
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Footie
Trad climber
Sonoma, CA
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I was so influenced by that story as a youngster that Forrest Rade and I went and did the second ascent of the HH Dome Route in 1989, eighteen years later. We took steaks and potatoes and found that fire ring. But we didn't find the spring. We hiked and scrambled the Napolian's Retreat Traverse to find water, went back and had dinner at midnight. Finished next day in a rainstorm. Told EC the off width was 5.10 something but didn't tell him that Forrest actually solved it by putting in a bong endwise and pulling on it. I got a call back from Eddie later. He was pissed.
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ec
climber
ca
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That O/W is one Bad MotherF*kr...
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Footie
Trad climber
Sonoma, CA
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Ooops. Just checked my topo under "Obscurities" and see I called the OW 5.9. No wonder you were so pissed. I think you said it was at least 5.11. Rowell, Faint, and Jones were stout lads. Not many dogs chasing cats up 5.11 down spouts in 1971!
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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EC, here's a larger version of your ow photo, which I saved from your old site in 2007.
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ec
climber
ca
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Thx, Clint!
HaHa...see them guys down on the ledge looking-up wondering WTF did we get ourselves into?
ec
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ionlyski
Trad climber
Polebridge, Montana
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Galen rules! Even now.
Arne
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Chris Jones
Social climber
Glen Ellen, CA
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I Like that - Galen rules! A good man and solid as hell in the mountains. He was one of the leading crack climbers in his day - and damn good at off-widths. He brought a lot of fire power to the team - whatever team it might be.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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The Kiwis had a name for Galen when he visited New Zealand-"Garden Trowell."
A combination of the often requisite clearing of munge from the cracks and a play on his name to taunt and entertain in only a Kiwi way......
It can rain over 12 meters in the Darrans on a "bad" year.
Galen did bring an immense amount of energy to any endeavor he was involved in.
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