That's awesome Luke are you building a shed or something?!
Looks like its time to pound out some FAs.
I like Luke's grammar, it cracks me up. It has been a gradual decline here for his spellllling although on his blog it's much better. U bringin that rack on the Chief's challenge? I'm sure some of those pieces have been in some of those pitches somewhere along the way?????
Does anyone have any beta how to aid past the fats if they're too wet to free climb!
Hell yeah. I think they're called bolt ladders. I think Ed Cooper posts here sometimes!
But the truth is if Hamish Mutch can get up Angels crest in a K mac and WW2 era vibrams in a post Pineapple Apocolypse the year after I was born then I think you'll manage somehow
The flats too wet? I think you know that doesn't happen. Not on such a well-travelled route. Rubber sticks fine on clean wet rock and holds up there are veddy clean.
Just kidding. Calandar winter is an artificial construct. If waves of spindrift are flowing down the wall I don't suppose it maters what the date is! By the way I'm not a face booker so I'm not sure how to pledge so .... how does 5 bucks a pitch sound?
It seems that we need both a correction and a clarification.
Correction. The date on the photo above should read Dec,1961 not 1962. BK was still a cute [?] newborn.
Clarification. Dick and I were climbing the Acrophobes, not the Crest. Although the caption says "Hamie and the Acrophobes", I should have been more specific.
The Upper Crest was not climbed until the following summer, when Les MacDonald made the FA. He was so pumped by his new route that he invited me back the next w/e for the second ascent. Fun, fun.
Several years later I made the third ascent with Roger Marshall, a feisty 'working-class' Brit, who was always great company. Sadly he later died while attempting to solo the north face of Everest.
It's just a straight donation. I just donated thirty bucks towards the cause. That's 3 bucks for every lead pitch and if he succeeds I will donate another 20 for a total of fifty. If not i expect at least a couple pitches at the gym or cragging somewhere.
Hamie- Yes quite. Except for interspersed with moments of "Oh sh!t I better make this turn or I'm gunna die!" And going exceedingly fast while floating on a giant flowing pillow...
Cruised by theChief before work today, in hopes of providing a quick live report & snap a few of Luke's ascent. The wall was desolate, I called Luke to see wtf was going on or if was in need of assistance to drag something up there & his phone was off, I hope u guys haven't been had :-)
Luckily there was some boulderer friends around trying to embrace the blobs with their heels so the 7min trip from the couch was not a total loss as some sort of climbing action was observed.
Let us know!