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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 30, 2012 - 11:26pm PT
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I think if I could choose to put a little cabin somewhere of my choosing I think I would plunk it down close to the bugs. I have never climbed there but did visit in 99. It just looks like the best granite in the most sureal setting. Knowing that many of you have done a lot of climbing there I would love to see some pictures and hear some details of some of the classic routes. Conrad Kain must of been a tough dude. It also seems as though the greats from each generation of climbers have migrated there over the years.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jan 31, 2012 - 12:26am PT
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from Mountaineering Freedom of the Hills 2nd edition, plate IV
my good friend Mike Church on Pigeon Spire's summit... 1993
Snowpatch-Bugaboo Col, 1985
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Jan 31, 2012 - 12:28am PT
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It ain't all great granite & sunshine.
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steveA
Trad climber
bedford,massachusetts
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Jan 31, 2012 - 08:24am PT
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Mike,
Went there on my 1st "big" trip back in 1967. I still remember being on the summit of Bugaboo Spire when a storm rolled in fast. Lightning and hail made for a scary decent.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 31, 2012 - 10:40am PT
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Seems like the Black Hills and Devil's Tower were just stops on the climbing superhighway coming west to the Winds, Tetons, Bugaboos, and beyond north and west to some of the gnarliest terain on this planet. It amazes me that Weissner, Cain, Muir, Petzold, the Conn's, Becky ect took on some of the best natural lines in some of the best places on this continent. Many times they were also exploring the area for the first time in Western history and then to pull off some of the climbs they did, wow. It is that sense of wonder and not being able to wait to see around the next corner is what has driven me to climb over the course of the last twenty years. I can't help but feel that the backdrats of the big rigs trucking west will some day blow me into the Bugaboos to climb.
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Timmc
climber
BC
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Jan 31, 2012 - 11:28am PT
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Bugs are OK
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 31, 2012 - 11:34am PT
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Bugs are OK
...for the odd weekend.
They would be better without the choss...
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