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Tricouni
Mountain climber
Vancouver
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Jan 15, 2014 - 10:56pm PT
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Never done Cataract Crags. But I think Caramba might be worth a bit of an adventure. It's on the slabs under the Acrophobes. Probably 5.8 today. My brother, Bob, recalls it as being very pleasant.
Go for it!
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Tricouni
Mountain climber
Vancouver
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Jan 15, 2014 - 10:57pm PT
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Ghost, I vaguely remember that I thought that the main rock was some sort of volcanic breccia. The alien looks like a piece of limestone.
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Jan 16, 2014 - 12:14am PT
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I remember an article in Gripped about 10 years ago wherein someone, Colin Moorehead or Kai Hirvonen, described Caramba Crags as "a classic moderate route, great moderate climbing, never crowded".
Think that was the best troll Gripped ever prnted, moreso because at that time none of the Ontario-based editorial team had any idea how much they were getting bent over and lubed by printing those comments.
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Jan 16, 2014 - 01:18am PT
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Ryan
The best rack imo is ribs. You mentioned 'prime habitat'. Did you perhaps mean 'primal habitat'?
Hey BK.
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Jan 16, 2014 - 01:24am PT
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Hamie, you'll need to be more specific.
From the back or the side? If we are dealing with swine it's obvious but if there is a heifer involved you will need to clarify before I get short, if you know what I mean :-)
Something about old Squam routes with the word "crag" in the name that created the deepest esoterica.
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Jan 16, 2014 - 01:31am PT
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Little or no resemblance to today's 'cragging'---fortunately!
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Jan 17, 2014 - 06:49pm PT
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I also have a sneaking suspicion that "Amazon Slabs" next to Echelon (and partly climbed by the present Ultimate Everything) was named after a famous rainforest rather than a woman warrior.
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Jan 17, 2014 - 06:51pm PT
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And so I would expect a modern route called "Carmanah Crags" to be one I would stay far away from.
Unless the turf was frozen that is.
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brownie
Trad climber
squamish
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Jan 19, 2014 - 01:58am PT
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Any dirt on the bolts linking features on the face to the right of caboose?
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Jan 19, 2014 - 02:07am PT
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Last Train to Hicksville
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brownie
Trad climber
squamish
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Jan 19, 2014 - 02:17am PT
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Excellent! Any fun stories?
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Jan 19, 2014 - 03:05am PT
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Last I looked the bolts may need a replacement, quite rusty. Would you sanction such a thing Perry? Looks like a really cool line. BK boasted about toproping after chief cruised it awhile back when I asked about it but that's all the stories I've heard :-)
Edit- Brownie informs me thru offline communications that it has been recleaned & that he fell on the bolts so they must be ok.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Jan 19, 2014 - 11:10am PT
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Invertigo has one of the weirdest moves I've ever seen. If I ever went back to it, I'd wear some kind of kevlar armor on the back of my calf.
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Jan 19, 2014 - 12:34pm PT
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Ahh good morning Bruce. My use of the adjective "boasting" was only in efforts to get u to pipe up cuz I recall you saying something about LTTH. Finally getting the hang of this trolling thing:-0
What's invertigo? I haven't heard of that one but it sounds wyde, just from the name.
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MH2
climber
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Jan 19, 2014 - 01:42pm PT
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Speaking of Amazon Slabs, there is this other slab to the right of it which appears as a white-space-on-the guidebook maps.
People have been up there. Or down there?
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supafly
Trad climber
vancouver, bc
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Jan 19, 2014 - 03:28pm PT
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What are the bluffs looking like fellas? Thinking of heading over there tomorrow (Monday).
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 19, 2014 - 04:37pm PT
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Looking pretty nice there supafly!
Live from skulldugery
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supafly
Trad climber
vancouver, bc
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Jan 19, 2014 - 06:41pm PT
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sweet mike! cheers for the live feed.
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Jan 19, 2014 - 09:34pm PT
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Andy that slab is a climb left of and iirc accessed from Teddy Bears Picnic.
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MH2
climber
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Jan 19, 2014 - 09:52pm PT
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Sounds right. There are anchors up in the final cleft of the Prow. Climbs in the vicinity would be best accessed by rap in as suggested for Teddy Bears Picnic. That anchor in my photo is probably arranged that way for rapping rather than sport. But no published routes that I know of despite a good-looking face. The upper part of the face may not have a good line?
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