RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Jun 25, 2012 - 04:48pm PT
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Very cool photos (& moustache) Ghost & Hamie. Always wanted to do the entire T wall. Did the bottom half once & felt like pukin after the ow. Top looks brilliant. Who can chime in on the rumor that PC freed the roof pitch shown in that photo?? Guidebooks seem slightly cryptic about confirming it??
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Jim Brennan
Trad climber
Vancouver Canada
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Jun 25, 2012 - 05:50pm PT
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I was the fearless belayer when Peter drilled the bolt variation. It was a perfect high summer day with that great warm breeze you know is up on the walls when you're dying of heat down on the ground.
Anyway, I was lounged out on the broad cedar under the roof when my name got called.
"Were you asleep"?
Uh, why?
"I called your name 3 times" !
A nice afternoon, the free climbing came later.
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Tami
Social climber
Canada
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Jun 25, 2012 - 06:08pm PT
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I was the fearless belayer when Peter drIlled the bolt variation.
And I was the fearless belayer when Peter may have freed it but I don't remember exactly. It wasn't the roof crack he freed anyway, it was a step from the tree and then those bolts above . I know for a fact that when I followed it I sure didn't free it !!!!
That cedar scared the crap outta both of us, it was this gigantic hunk of tree exuding from a 3" crack. So we belayed from a Friend shoved into the crack.
Hey Peter, if yer reading this , why not fill in the gaps in the story left by Jim & I ??????
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Jun 25, 2012 - 07:26pm PT
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Relic: No hot choccies at the Ahwahnee in our budgets. $1.00 a day, including 35 cents for smokes. The snow and ice didn't come til next month.
Here's a pic of Frank Sacherer, Gary Colliver, Penny Carr [FA Moby Dick] and a waitress from the coffee shop, hiking to the base of the lower falls.
EDIT: I just remembered that Frank and Gary made the FA of Bishop's Balcony, photo on previous page. Not really Frank's kind of climb!
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gf
climber
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Jun 25, 2012 - 07:41pm PT
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Ghost,
So classic. You in the "all i do is dream about sex" shoes and Don demonstrating yet again the maxim from one of the great wall masters (robbins) to a solid alpine climber (petty) on some stack climb in the UK-petty recounted in One Man's' Mountains when he pulled onto the top, Robbins inspected his paws and announced "In the states they say you can tell a good aid man by his hands". "Lots of scars?" enquired Petty hopefully, "No Scars" was the reply as Robbins gently shook his head.
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Jim Brennan
Trad climber
Vancouver Canada
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Jun 25, 2012 - 08:40pm PT
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I thought you could tell a good aid man by his shirt:
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gf
climber
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Jun 25, 2012 - 08:42pm PT
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jerk!
Edit-lest anyone take this the wrong way -see the anthology of the worlds' toughest milkman
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hamish f
Social climber
squamish
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Jun 25, 2012 - 08:53pm PT
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Just counting the minutes until someone (like Tami) makes some comment about your hair.
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Jim Brennan
Trad climber
Vancouver Canada
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Jun 25, 2012 - 09:02pm PT
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gf
climber
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Jun 25, 2012 - 09:04pm PT
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Back in line Tarzan!
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Scrubber
climber
Straight outta Squampton
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Jun 25, 2012 - 09:18pm PT
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Wow Greg! That shirt would be what? Fuchsia? Did you help to bring that colour into MEC's lineup? Maybe the brightness of it fried your hair follicles. :)
What route is that on in Yos?
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Jim Brennan
Trad climber
Vancouver Canada
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Jun 25, 2012 - 09:22pm PT
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It's entering the white circle on Zodiac Wall Kris.
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Tami
Social climber
Canada
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Jun 25, 2012 - 10:04pm PT
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"78c or I piss in your flowers"
Love Reid Fleming :-)
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jun 25, 2012 - 10:05pm PT
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All this while Harry K sneaks in on another thread. Some welcoming committee. Sheesh!
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gf
climber
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Jun 25, 2012 - 10:07pm PT
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scrubber-i've always made it a point to never let a little cragging get in the way of a clean shirt....
Hamie -so what exactly did the other .65 go on back then. I assume that the gals whose company you were keeping hadn't got around to hearing the gospel of vatiican 2 at that stage? :/
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Jim Brennan
Trad climber
Vancouver Canada
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Jun 25, 2012 - 10:21pm PT
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David Boswell...
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 25, 2012 - 11:37pm PT
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Awesome tale and photo Hamie! Once again, making us modern folk look like a bunch of pussies! :)
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 25, 2012 - 11:37pm PT
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Ghost- I freed a 5.5 in my runners today, did you free much of that climb? ;) Luke and I had a similar tale getting off Milk Run, he had the light and I had none, I was following him, but kept falling behind and having to ask him to shine the light for me. Oh and we had a well established trail ;)
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 25, 2012 - 11:37pm PT
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Halarious Greg. Nice shirt indeed, a photographers dream. ;)
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 25, 2012 - 11:37pm PT
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POST #3000!!!!!!!!!!
WWHOHOo
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