Nov 13, 2012 - 05:07am PT
hey mike -yeah i didn't want to ask about those moves on the last pitch -kind of figured it would come out in the tale....
nice one though!
No worries gf. I considered that before I posted it, but for me it's such a small part of this story. The most important thing for me was that we faced adversity and conquered it. I can't remember the last time I wasn't sure we would be able to send one way or another.... Tr coming very soon. I'm hoping tonight!
HaHaHa.... ya... check out my Farouk??????? thread. :)
I saw that at a gig and had to have it as my new avatar.. you like it Ryan?? :)
Not being sure you'll send is one thing...
Not being sure you'll live is another thing entirely.
Exactly and at that point going up seemed the fastest way off. It worked out. Luckily. We knew we were pushing it. It seems pretty silly in retrospect. Skill, Luck and Determination came through for us.
I posted the tale in a TR so it doesn't get lost in the matrix that is squamish photos and stories. Sorry it is so late but i hope you will find that the extra time I spent on it is worth it.
So back in June of this year I climbed my first multi pitch after 15 years on the couch, up this world class 13,000 ft. alpine peak the Yanks call a "crag" for some strange reason ....
Temple Crag 12,982 ft (3,957 m) - Astro Squatch South, Grade V 5.9 - June 15th 2012 BK & bmacd
Credit: bmacd
Things went well in spite of my rusty route finding skilz and my "fresh out of the box" TC Pros from Wilsons Eastside Sports that felt like a pair of alpine roller skates and only a single skinny 7.5 mm 60 meter cord. We established a classic new 2,000' line we called "Erotic Venusian Blind Nubian Princess Dancer" 5.14d R **
I even managed to have Bruce Kay safely back to our bivy site at Second Lake by 2:30 pm, just in time for his afternoon nap.
Second Lake bivy site
Credit: bmacd
He didn't like getting his picture taken very much
BK over the hill @3:00 pm
Credit: bmacd
My first Sierras route and I am hooked now. Many thanks to BK for the adventure !
The next Day BK soloed Cathedral and Matthes Crest. The day following that we climbed the reg route on Fairview Dome in 2.5 hours, after hiking halfway into Mt Conness and then bailing to Tenaya lake for a couple six packs on the beach pre-Fairview.
BK Version 2.0
Credit: bmacd
Over 3,000 feet of rock & nearly 30 miles of hiking in three excellent days for two guys both over 50 years old.
Way to get after it Bruce's, those sierras are good drugs. I've seen that dude who's crying in the sleeping bag around town before. Gonna have to sneak up on him next time:-)
OMG.... you can see why my film career never took off. Bmacd kept taunting me about gondolas and I'd mock his sasquatchs but we agreed on one thing - No Poofters.
Hey Bruce I went back and did coness in September. Pretty good but not a real mountain. No mosquito's, Moss, Mud, cedars, glaciers, slide alder, devils club, old logging equipment, rednecks, sasquatchs, Ogopogos, shitty weather, cross border drug runners, Sledders or BCMCers so it hardly rates as a mountain but it was a pretty good rock climb,
Bruce, I dun keerected yer post to dat udder plitical tred for ya:
Bookworm and you will be happy to know that our right wing provincial government is doing its best to bleed our provincial parks system of the required funding and human resources it needs via lowering taxation of corporations and higher incomes and depending on wildly oscillating resource royalties, which of course they low ball to start with.
Sounds familiar? If you deliberately make it weak, you strengthen the case for an alternate system - privatization.
Pretty good but not a real mountain. No mosquito's, Moss, Mud, cedars, glaciers, slide alder, devils club, old logging equipment, rednecks, sasquatchs, Ogopogos, shitty weather, cross border drug runners, Sledders or BCMCers so it hardly rates as a mountain but it was a pretty good rock climb,
This describes almost every mountain in the Sierra
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