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Rhodo-Router

Trad climber
Otto, NC
Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 16, 2006 - 08:32pm PT
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Mar 16, 2006 - 08:36pm PT
google picasa2'd

Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Mar 16, 2006 - 08:37pm PT
'Looks kinda stiff.
Thanks Healybejesus.
Rhodo-Router

Trad climber
Otto, NC
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 16, 2006 - 08:38pm PT
Nice, thanks.

Hint: there is no pile of leaves at the bottom
we didn't toprope it
nobody calls it 5.11
and it was too cold for chalk

hee hee
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Mar 16, 2006 - 08:40pm PT
turkey rocks veedawoo josh city 'o rocks needles west needles mid west baja ...
I declare I'm lost.
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 16, 2006 - 08:43pm PT
The Ear? aka animal crackerland?

in any case, it's Never too cold for chalk.
Rhodo-Router

Trad climber
Otto, NC
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 17, 2006 - 12:38am PT
Tarbaby's real warm. narrow it down some and yer in there.

But yeah, it's granite.
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Mar 17, 2006 - 12:41am PT
Hey-
Rather than name it.
I'd like to do it.
Where can I find that made for me and the restofuswholikejamin' crack?
Rhodo-Router

Trad climber
Otto, NC
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 17, 2006 - 12:43am PT
Du-ude, that's not how we play the game!
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 17, 2006 - 12:58am PT
inner-outlet area? I don't thinks so, but it looks like that.


While we wait, here's an easy one, same genera. Bonus OE's for the the climber and two climbs on the right.

Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Mar 17, 2006 - 01:16am PT
'reminds me of those things on reynolds hill and hung like a horse would be the right hand fist thingy.

dang, tho.
(and don't haze me on any other 3 cracks in close prox)
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 17, 2006 - 01:21am PT
one OE to TB,

how about this one?
bhilden

Trad climber
Mountain View, CA
Mar 17, 2006 - 02:10am PT
That first photo looks a lot like Quivering Quill at Turkey Rocks, CO. The "classic" shot of that route is from the other side of the climber but, it looks like the Quill.

Bruce
Rhodo-Router

Trad climber
Otto, NC
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 20, 2006 - 12:10pm PT
Ding! Ding!

Nice one, Bruce. Meet me there sometime and I'll bring the beers for you.
taco bill

Trad climber
boulder, co
Mar 20, 2006 - 12:28pm PT
Penis dimension on the first 1 Jay?
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 20, 2006 - 12:33pm PT
Penis Dimension is the one in the middle the climber (Rick Derrick) is on Climb and Punishment. Hung like a Horse (as was noted above) is on the right.


How about this one?

Rhodo-Router

Trad climber
Otto, NC
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 20, 2006 - 01:52pm PT
Turd on A String?
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 20, 2006 - 02:32pm PT
Descriptive, if not literal.
andy@climbingmoab

Big Wall climber
Salt Lake City
Mar 20, 2006 - 07:32pm PT
that looks like lucille at vedauwoo
Larry

Trad climber
Reno NV
Mar 20, 2006 - 09:42pm PT
Squat. Tore my shoulder on the "approach."

Right Torpedo Tube?
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 20, 2006 - 09:54pm PT
Bingo-Larry!

A victim of the deceptively hard vertical part before the business?

Were you on some of the early forays larry? Bob only showed me after it was a done deal, I'd moved to SLC by then.

the other one is not the right tube, but that's the right formation.
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 20, 2006 - 10:04pm PT
BTW, moandy, That's Lucille, & Best 'o' the blues and agony of dafeet.

yo

climber
I'm so over it
Mar 20, 2006 - 10:26pm PT
I'm so very afraid.
Larry

Trad climber
Reno NV
Mar 20, 2006 - 10:31pm PT
Squat was history by the time I got dragged out there. I think "The Cracksmen" was even out.

Bob didn't take me on too many of his projects...but for one, out at Sweetwater Rocks (Lankin), that he called his hardest. Have I asked you if you've been there, Jay?

That other one must be one I haven't tried. Crankenstein maybe?

...I just noticed in the new book (I had to cheat) that it says Ron Matous did the FFA of Hung Like a Horse. I thought it was Steve? (Of TV/AF fame.)
phoolish

Boulder climber
Athens, Ga.
Mar 20, 2006 - 11:20pm PT
Get this thread out of the west.

Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 20, 2006 - 11:27pm PT
I dunno Larry, I thought Steve & Gary Issacs were buddies and did a bunch of stuff together, so I would have thought like you on that one, but who knows? besides those guys, anyway.

Never got out to sweetwater but Bob gave me a glowing report and I want to get there sometime.

The other one was BG crack. Book sez cairns, could be,I was thinking issacs/Garson, do you know?

Didn't you live in Tucson for awhile? did you ever do Matracide?

o-o, looks like the thread is drifitng east.
Larry

Trad climber
Reno NV
Mar 21, 2006 - 12:09am PT
I would have guessed Cairns on BG, even if you hadn't said. I followed him on the 2nd ascent (I think) of Fowler/Hurley, next door. Was Isaacs that really tall skinny guy, or was that Gary Pousch? My old buddy Nick followed Bob on October Light. A friend named Diana belayed Doug on Flying Buttress.

That very first pic...I would have guessed Needles (SD) too. Nick of Time maybe.

I still go to Tucson a lot. Is this Matricide on Mt Lemmon? Not that I'm fit nowadays.
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 21, 2006 - 12:29am PT
Larry
Wierd. Doug C was The Man in Vedauwoo there for a while! Diana, diana, did she become a cop in Gillette? Or am I thinking of someone else?

You ever hear from Nick (Mike Nikzich [sp] I presume) I think you said something about him a while back, but dodderers like myself sometimes forget. I think I did the second ascent of October Light( there wasn't exactly a line) with Chris Raypole about the time of that Squat photo above. I thought it was classic, Chris didn't dig it, and he'd never read the book.

Matracide is an 11+ bombay squeeze chimney roof on Mt Lemon; a lowerdown through an obstruction crux kinda like Lucille, great stuff.

Issacs was (is?) tall and skinny,lanky, even, but I think Pausch was too.
Larry

Trad climber
Reno NV
Mar 21, 2006 - 12:46am PT
I wonder if DC still climbs? Diana was from Sheridan, so she might have gone to Gillette, but I don't think she'd be a cop. She was always a very gentle person. Married a guy from Israel. Yes, that's Mike Nicksich I mean. I've completely lost touch with him.

Scarpelli often had literary references in his route names. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, or Tripmaster Monkey.

Matricide sounds like a blast (!). I've found a reference - in Steiger, it's not in the older EFR. Ah - a toprope climb! FA by Swedin - is that the same person of Swedin/Ringle?
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 21, 2006 - 01:00am PT
Probably not the Diane I was thinking of.

I don't know if DC still climbs. He's a college proffesor in Montana now. Leubben interviewd him a year or so ago for an article on Vedauwoo in Climbing™. Told Craig an obscure story about him and Bob that rarely sees light but you probably know, how weird is that?

Gotta be the same Swedin.

oh yeah, another literery bob route- Freddy's Book, he climbed it with Mike (Fred) Fredreichs. bunches of others, but mind is getting small right now.

I'm looking for one to call Vlemk the boxmaker.
Rhodo-Router

Trad climber
Otto, NC
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 21, 2006 - 10:19am PT
Ah, the Swedin-Ringle: place TCU, lunge for chains. Too pumped to stick the chains. Repeat.

Phoolish: Currahee?
Rhodo-Router

Trad climber
Otto, NC
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 21, 2006 - 10:22am PT
How 'bout this one, y'all. Hint: not in season.

(No peeking)

Rhodo-Router

Trad climber
Otto, NC
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 21, 2006 - 10:36am PT
Get over yourself, man, who here's in CA? Look who's on this thread!

Ease up.

plus, toproping 40' slabs is proud, how could you deny this?
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Mar 21, 2006 - 11:13am PT
Leapfrog + drift adjust/who cares where we're from.
This is Cyberville:

Rhodo, that last shot down the corner, Devils Lake or Rumney...
Rhodo-Router

Trad climber
Otto, NC
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 21, 2006 - 01:11pm PT
You're on the right side of the Mississippi...

[Edit]Hint: It's on the Chattanooga 'Yosemite Training Circuit'
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Mar 21, 2006 - 09:46pm PT
I move that all "name that route!" posts be given top spot, front page, now matter how obscure, until some savvy cocksman names the bride, so we can enlarge our repertoire of climbing related astuteness and gallop on to the next one...

Ta hell with the technical conundrums of such a plan.

Yours,
West of the Mississippi.
[edit: gosh, I'm appaled how few try these, they're fun]
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Mar 22, 2006 - 01:01am PT
Sewelly Mon: you meant to say, you know the climber, not the route, eh?

While we're waiting on the last 2 nice offerings, let's try an easier target.
"Name this Pitch?"
Hint: it's on the ID Tag, oops.
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 22, 2006 - 01:07am PT
Das boot?
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Mar 22, 2006 - 01:10am PT
A Score!
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Mar 22, 2006 - 01:23am PT
OK: it took this long to select and scan another;
You could be gone ta beddy-bye already.
JayBra- this is yer dept:
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 22, 2006 - 02:28pm PT
i'm stumped.
First I thought it was getting into the wide at the top of the good book, but how would you get that angle?\
The Wilson overhang?
The thing is, I'd swear I've climbed it.
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Mar 22, 2006 - 03:33pm PT
Ding Dong, Yes SewellBra, Atlantis: E on the follow.

JayBra, The OW: Mike Paul following my lead.
The crux is really leaning/overhung and I hang my head, as I laybacked that tiny, hardest bit. Just like I did on Geek Towers, Just like I did on that thing out by the Vector at Josh...

Valley is correct and the angle opportunity is another good clue.
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 22, 2006 - 03:55pm PT
Edge of Chopper?
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Mar 22, 2006 - 06:46pm PT
Shite!
I lead the thing and I don't even remember what it's called!
Camp 4 Wall.

Edge of night or Chopper.
I think it's Chopper.
Russ and Dick Might Know-
Ofcourse they hazed me for layin' it back at the crux.
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Mar 22, 2006 - 06:49pm PT
Let's call it good.
Here's another:
I really enjoyed this.
Multi Pitch, Obscure and you are looking at a really neato fist to tight hands bit.
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 22, 2006 - 07:21pm PT
"Not brain surgery"? -Rixon West (didn't remember it as a corner so maybe I'm experiencing RSF

"Russ and Dick Might Know-"
-Maybe they will chime in, as I dragged their sorry asses up one or the other of those-haha-that one? I'm leaning toward Edge o'
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 22, 2006 - 07:23pm PT
Meanwhile, paradigm shift -first phot had tech difficulties, try this one
scuffy b

climber
S Cruz
Mar 22, 2006 - 07:48pm PT
I'm not clear on all the Jaybro fotos here. Is Squat the one with
the white-shirted climber? What about the red-shirted guy?

Also, I can't find the answer to the one from Rhodo-router.
Still up in the air?
sm
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 22, 2006 - 07:53pm PT
White (stripes)=Squat, 11+ OW
Red=Bg crack 11a fist
Larry

Trad climber
Reno NV
Mar 22, 2006 - 08:21pm PT
Carol's Crack?

11+ right...
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 22, 2006 - 11:40pm PT
other side
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Mar 23, 2006 - 01:32am PT
Jaybra: Not having done it, but taking a wild guess on the Devils Tower route, I'm gonna say Belle Forche Butress, due to the rightward traverse to gain the crack.

JayBra: No, the left facing corner not Rixons, although it does match that pretty well, with its upper fist pitch in a Left Corner.

Scuffy B: No, we don't have the Rhodo 2nd route yet.
Leroy

climber
Mar 23, 2006 - 06:25am PT
Being called asorry ass is the thanks I get for organising our grand expedition to CHOPPER Jay.Hey I want to see some pics of me with long hair .If anyone has pics of me in the 70s its u Jay.
Rhodo-Router

Trad climber
Otto, NC
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 23, 2006 - 10:26am PT
We need some TAGgers to weigh in here for that one. I don't have a scanner, so my continued input on this game is going to have to wait until I go and climb something.

Additional Hint: Ranger is a Menace!
MC

Trad climber
Boulder, CO
Mar 23, 2006 - 10:31am PT
Rhodo,
Your shot of the corner has got to be Alpha Omega at Sunset Rock. Right?? Nice route.

You're right Dennis the ranger is a dick of legendary status.
Levy

Big Wall climber
So Calif
Mar 23, 2006 - 10:44am PT
Roy, Is that the crux pitch of Windfall on the Tower of the Cosmic Gods? I did that w/ EE 2 or 3 years ago. My addled brain cells are saying that's what that big left facing corner is.

Levy
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Mar 23, 2006 - 10:48am PT
Nice Job Levy!
How's that for obscure.
Tucked up in that ampitheater, near Widows Tears, I recall.
Cool route too eh?
Levy

Big Wall climber
So Calif
Mar 23, 2006 - 11:08am PT
Hell-yeah that was a great route. I led the first 3 pitches in 1 with a 60 meter rope and some judicious use of long slings. E led the next one, the one in your picture and we had to bail before the final pitch(a .10c thin hands rig that looked great. I'd go back there anytime.
Rhodo-Router

Trad climber
Otto, NC
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 23, 2006 - 11:33am PT
Mark-- right on! excellent eye. I made up the Chattanooga 'Yosemite Training Circuit', but this route gave me the idea. Others: The Cob, Days' Work, maybe Walk in the Park...

You should recognize this one:
Rhodo-Router

Trad climber
Otto, NC
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 23, 2006 - 11:44am PT

Also should probably be on that list.
MC

Trad climber
Boulder, CO
Mar 23, 2006 - 12:08pm PT
Rhodo,
That first picture is the start to Flagstone. I can't make out what the second picture is though. For a crack climbing tour at Sunset you can't forget Stan's Crack. Or the T-wall stuff like Fly With the Falcon, Finger Locking Good, In Pursuit of Excellence and Golden Gloves.
Rhodo-Router

Trad climber
Otto, NC
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 23, 2006 - 12:23pm PT
Ah, yes, it's all coming back. Digital Macabre, short but sweet. That wide thing, Infinite Pursuit?

Here's a bit of crack-climbing aventura:


Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Mar 23, 2006 - 01:00pm PT
Somewhere on Bridger Jack?
Vision Quest?
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 23, 2006 - 02:52pm PT
re the Deto route. I think Tar gets the prise and it is Bell Fourche. But I am away from my library right now and I'm just not sure; impulse straining to leap synapse.
East side for sure, traverse right into 10a(?) handcrack.

Larry, Frank, anyone, help.

Bell Fourche Butress, confirmed.
Rhodo-Router

Trad climber
Otto, NC
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 23, 2006 - 02:58pm PT
Tarbaby, it's not on the Bridger Jacks,but you maybe could see it from there if you knew where to look.
golsen

Social climber
kennewick, wa
Mar 23, 2006 - 03:16pm PT
Lets see, only tower I can think of with a window? Washer Woman?
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 23, 2006 - 03:39pm PT
Dunn route moses?
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Mar 23, 2006 - 04:03pm PT
Dunn Route on Moses and Washer Woman cannot be seen from Bridger Jack: So I'm now guessing South Six Shooter, as I have not done it and don't ID any windows in it, but you might spot it from Bridger J...
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Mar 23, 2006 - 04:08pm PT
I think we have 'em all, except the Desert Window Pic and Rhodo's last high contrast B&W.

'K lets keep confusing one another,
With this rapid leapfrog pace:
This is a High Classic-
John Vawter

Social climber
San Diego
Mar 23, 2006 - 04:13pm PT
Hey Roy, yer footwear looks beeefy. Those steel-toed boots suitable for jackhammerin??

Hmmmmm . . . Tar buster?
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 23, 2006 - 04:21pm PT
Blue meanies?

As seen in theis previously used trivia quest (may have been pre-Tar, though)


Don't recognise the dihedral, BTW
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Mar 23, 2006 - 04:29pm PT
The DiHedral is a High Sierra Classic.
Just guess Wild and you'll likely hit.

The Blue Meanies:
A lot of closets got cleaned in Boulder in the early '90's and I scooped many pair for newer age mountain rambles (and, yes, jack-hammering).
golsen

Social climber
kennewick, wa
Mar 23, 2006 - 05:41pm PT
jay, I would guess Texas Tower
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 23, 2006 - 05:44pm PT
golsen wins!
Murf

climber
Mar 23, 2006 - 05:53pm PT

That window *has* to be Search of Suds ( Washer Woman ). I'd highly doubt you can see it from the Bridger Jack. I don't remember that bolted belay ( vaagguuee memory ). I remember a big slung block under the window.

Murf
golsen

Social climber
kennewick, wa
Mar 23, 2006 - 05:59pm PT
OK, maybe a bit harder...

Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 23, 2006 - 06:00pm PT
Let's start with, Utah?
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Mar 23, 2006 - 06:08pm PT
Or SW Colorado...
golsen

Social climber
kennewick, wa
Mar 23, 2006 - 06:12pm PT
Yes, think Piton Ron's home turf...
golsen

Social climber
kennewick, wa
Mar 23, 2006 - 06:14pm PT
I didnt recognize that dihedral either, but it looks good, so do the hat, hexes and boots!
Rhodo-Router

Trad climber
Otto, NC
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 23, 2006 - 06:14pm PT
In Search of Suds, yep. Maybe you can see it from atop the BJ's, I dunno, it's pretty far over there.

Zion somewhere? I've never climbed there myself.

The B/W one is Golden Locks. Couldn't find the slide. But he's wearing the same proud orange Joe Brown as the Utah guy.
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 23, 2006 - 06:16pm PT
prodigal son?
golsen

Social climber
kennewick, wa
Mar 23, 2006 - 06:19pm PT
Jay is very warm...
golsen

Social climber
kennewick, wa
Mar 23, 2006 - 06:28pm PT
Another hint before I sign off. It is on the same formation as Jay said and was the 1st route on that wall by one of America's Foremost Alpinists...
Rhodo-Router

Trad climber
Otto, NC
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 23, 2006 - 06:34pm PT
Lowe Route
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 23, 2006 - 06:36pm PT
Hope that was it

How about this often climbed Toulomne route first climbed by John Muir, that this happy person is about to top out on?

Rhodo-Router

Trad climber
Otto, NC
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 23, 2006 - 06:39pm PT
That's not nice!

Here's the B/W source:
golsen

Social climber
kennewick, wa
Mar 23, 2006 - 06:43pm PT
rhodo gets it, N Face of Angels Landing, Lowe Route.

jay, I cant say I can name that well travelled one...
golsen

Social climber
kennewick, wa
Mar 23, 2006 - 06:50pm PT
ah well, heres one to chew on as well....

Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 23, 2006 - 06:53pm PT
okay, what about from the summit?

Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Mar 23, 2006 - 08:43pm PT
Cathedral Peak?
Unichorn?
Coxcomb?

Is carpet bombing style guesswork fair?
I say it is.

And: so we're sure to clean up before too much leapfroggin' takes place, the cowboy/blue meanie/dihedral shot is in/at the very North End of the Yos Park...

Also, the second to last: Scenic Cruise???

I'm light on that top out ID, 'cause we bailed from the 5/6th due to rain.
Seems we got a late start, for reasons related to slow motivation for engaging the alpine start, which for some might become appparent in this next shot of my scenic partner (of the aborted bid for the Scenic Cruise...)
ID of this route should be easy
(she was not!)
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 23, 2006 - 08:59pm PT
domini, domini, domini, sure en it's Cathedral.
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Mar 23, 2006 - 09:02pm PT
whew, I almost ran out of route names.
'K whut about the Route to the North?
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 23, 2006 - 09:12pm PT
5.9 route on Coness?
Hallucinagen wall for the 'vivid' one?
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Mar 23, 2006 - 10:10pm PT
Further North for the MTN shot.

Further East, same state for the "vivid one", which I toned down a bit, in terms of saturation. (I may have confused things with my diatribe above, per the location: she was my partner on the scenic cruise, this "vivid shot" is elsewhere).

And JayBra- can you get the golsen black cnyn route?
is it the scenic cruise, up hi?
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 23, 2006 - 10:23pm PT
yeah, could be, lotta rock down there, though.
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Mar 23, 2006 - 10:36pm PT
'K,
Stand by:

I'm movin' this jalopy to round 2, the load is heavy and the tires underinflated...
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