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Sierra Ledge Rat

Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
Apr 20, 2013 - 08:03am PT
BITD (70s) I used to smoke it up, and free solo around Yo-sem-ite and Tu-a-lum-ne with a fanny pack and tape player blasting Jimi Hendrix. When I free-soloed the Great White Book I also liked to carry an open can of beer with me. Anchor's Away was my first 5.11.


Man, I love the Apron


Rawl Drive (?) on Lembert

mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Apr 20, 2013 - 08:14am PT
OK, is 4.20 some rating thing?

No pro, maybe a rope, no rope, we smoked it...

Is it Lembert Dome yet?
Rick A

climber
Boulder, Colorado
Apr 20, 2013 - 11:07am PT
BITD, we named Stoners Stoners because we liked to be on the stone.

Kinda like surfers like to be on the surf.

I had no idea this many climbers were actually climbing under the influence of illegal narcotics.


shocking - how can you guys participate in such a dangerous activity while impaired?



Warbler as Captain Renault in Casablanca: "shocked, shocked!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Apr 20, 2013 - 12:20pm PT
"herbal interactions"--*giggle*

"no shit"--man, that's FUBAR, unlike 1/4" bolts

It was Ganja that gotcha in the frame of mind to climb.

I climbed once on hashish, never again.

It wasn't on the Apron slab, however, whose location alone makes all things seen seem to come under the climber's sway, a refreshing, liberating feeling. Pot would logically expand this natural feeling of superiority.

Rather, it was on The Green Strip, a route which is apparently lost to the mists of time, but was or is part of the Open Books left of Yosemite Falls.

I was ill-at-ease and vaguely quasi-queasy/iffy-wiffy on TGS and told myself it was uncool/stupid to feel so helpless/incompetent.

T-SHIRT

It is what it is,
Or is it what it seems it is?

Think of anything but the move,
Or nothing.

Ganja will do that,
So can you.

My certainty was in question, certainty,
Now that I,ve thoughten about it.

5.9 slab, let's go to the bistro.


DITHER & SLITHER

It seems I took too
long,
Thinking too much,
and was
Not reacting smooth. [ly]



EDIT

I've changed my mind.
I could climb and enjoy it.
Hash butter rocks.

Evel

Trad climber
Nedsterdam CO
Apr 20, 2013 - 12:45pm PT
So if you're getting high in order to ease the stress of harrowing run-outs can this be considered "doping"?
throwpie

Trad climber
Berkeley
Apr 20, 2013 - 01:45pm PT
throwpie

Trad climber
Berkeley
Apr 20, 2013 - 01:48pm PT
wstmrnclmr

Trad climber
Bolinas, CA
Topic Author's Reply - Apr 22, 2013 - 12:04pm PT
Talk about six degrees of seperation......
We did a climb on the apron this weekend called "deep throat".
Then I saw that people have been bumping the pot thread and read about an older adventure up the thing.

We were shooting for the mouth but our stuff was on a ledge a pitch up under the route so we didn't do the traverse as we were afraid of not being able to get the stuff and the green guide didn't show a "b" belay at the mouth so we thought we'd finished it. First pitch is no beginners 5.7 either.

Yowza! Wish I was stoned for it! Jaywood got the 5.9 run. He was so into trying to survive that he didn't see the bolt which is off and up right, ran it straight passed the anchors and clipped the bolt to the beginning of the traverse before I reminded him that there was a belay up there somewhere. The technical crux was by far the easiest part of the climb. I'm thinking of buying some old EB's and a ounce before I head over to the Apron again. We get into nothing but trouble over there.
kunlun_shan

Mountain climber
SF, CA
Oct 22, 2018 - 09:21pm PT
Legal in Canada now, bump!
Zclipper69

Trad climber
mill valley
Oct 22, 2018 - 10:31pm PT
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Oct 22, 2018 - 10:56pm PT
Not just for slabbin` 'KARL & NANCYOverlook drive
i'm gumby dammit

Sport climber
da ow
Oct 22, 2018 - 11:09pm PT
To answer the OP's question, yes, I believe that the ethics of the FA require that you also blaze first if you want to claim an onsight.
ec

climber
ca
Oct 23, 2018 - 12:05pm PT
I named an FA ‘Waiting to Exhale,’ not after the movie, but for my two partners getting baked at the belays. I’d look back and even from around a corner, there were clouds of weed billowing upwards.

 ec
Scole

Trad climber
Zapopan
Oct 23, 2018 - 12:05pm PT
Smoking was not just limited to free climbing. Hard aid climbing is pretty heady stuff, and it is important to keep your focus. More than once I have pulled up the smoke on the trail line and taken a bong hit or two while standing on a tied off blade or RURP. I don't know what people do in the modern age of beaks and heads, but that's how a lot of it went down in the iron age.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Oct 23, 2018 - 12:55pm PT


What is it about cracks that can't be solved with a little psychic help?

Is it that slabs do not require so much physical effort (in the lower grades, especially)?

Or is it much more FUN to put your mind in cruise control n just do the moves with seeming grace and fluitidy (as Norwegyne might say)?

Ponder this while toking up next time.

And don't use your chalk to get high. It's not gonna work.
originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
Oct 23, 2018 - 07:59pm PT

No slab, but I am twisting der spliff at our 20th hour of movement.
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Oct 23, 2018 - 08:14pm PT
Never liked pot or slab climbing that much but, back in around 73 my girlfriend (who became my second ex wife) showed up in Camp 4. Somehow a bunch of us ended up at the Apron and several, me included, dropped acid. I proceeded, so I am told, to climb a 5.6/7 slab barefoot and naked and sit down at the halfway point.
Those were the 70’s.
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