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murcy
Gym climber
sanfrancisco
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Gorgeous days and lines.
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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What a couple o' mixed nuts :-) Looks like fun and killer Sierra weather to boot!
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Nice Ed! Great job on the route up over the pass. Good to see you up there.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 5, 2012 - 12:33am PT
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ho man Mike! you got me going over the "5.6" exit to the top... the last piece I would put in was about 8 feet below me in that picture... the rest of the way is run...
Eric said he found some ASCA anchors half way between the belay and my end point, but I didn't see them, just motored on by apparently.
Great to run into you, thought I saw you two over on South Crack.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Ed! Thank you for sharing your adventure!
So few people venture away from Guidebook-land and venture out to new adventures!
There might be dragons!
or trolls!
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pvalchev
Social climber
Mountain View, CA / Calgary, AB
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Just on Saturday I was looking up at those pinnacles while driving down to Lee Vining and wondering about them - cool!
ablegabel - we ran into you at the parking lot for Third Pillar on Sunday morning and chatted briefly - nice to meet you!
Peter
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Reminds me of the days when Roper's red guidebook was the only beta we had for any route, and often not even that. Props for taking that spirit to climbing in 2012.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 4, 2012 - 11:06am PT
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still working out the developing issues for the black & white film, in the end, without a local photofinisher, I've decided to do it myself...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Yip-yip-yip!!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 15, 2016 - 12:41pm PT
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Warren Towers, Lee Vining Canyon... re-imaged TR
June 2, 2012
Ed Hartouni
ablegabel
Eric's been eyeing various pinnacles along the road down from Tioga Pass for some time. This weekend we headed up to do one of them.
for us old and out-of-shape this was a 2 hour walk up to the pinnacle on the left side, the tallest and proudest looking one.
The view looking across the canyon is of Mt. Dana, the Dana Plateau and the Third Pillar of Dana
we had little information on this pinnacle. We were out for a first ascent, as usual... we picked a line to the left of some prominent wide cracks, which traversed over to a gully between from which we ascended an arete to the summit. 3 pitches, 40m length, 5.8 difficulty. Quite fun. I didn't get many climbing pictures, here's ablegabel on one of the belay ledges, probably the first.
The summit was quite a nice place, though a part of a sharp ridge with plenty of blocks. There was a cairn on top under which an old can which had contained "French Fried Salted Mixed Nuts" was located
now containing an summit register.
This was in bad shape, though it was from 1930. The only legible page:
informed us that Claude Fiddler and Rick Cashner had done the FA of the wide cracks in 1987. Rick went up the next year with Roy McClenahan (tarbuster). Great that we picked another line...
From the top it appeared a long way down to our pullout
walking off the peak to the north, then rapping twice to the talas got us on our way.
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