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Captain...or Skully
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Oct 23, 2012 - 11:38pm PT
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Livin' Large over there, Big Mike.
I think Silver & the Ghost are both making pretty good sense.
It is what it is.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Oct 24, 2012 - 12:31am PT
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Luke, maybe I can help get you home. If you and Ais can get to Oakdale I'm sure I can get you to the Oakland airport and help you get north from Seattle. As I said before, I will be at the Oakdale fest until Sunday and I can get you to the airport on Sunday evening or Monday. I know places you can stay in the Oakland/Berkeley area.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Oct 24, 2012 - 12:56am PT
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Topaz Lake is way cool. When I lived in Mammoth we took a trip up there on Xmas and hung out and ate and gambled and even went fishing on the lake in a snowstorm. We didn't catch anything, but there are some big fish in that lake. We got snowed in for a couple days but it was fun, in a cheesy cheap Reno kinda way. Now you guys get to see a big chunk of the magic that is US Hwy 395.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Oct 24, 2012 - 12:59am PT
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Depending on day and time, if you get them to the border, perhaps I can meet them there.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 24, 2012 - 01:01am PT
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Ya, Lake Tahoe looked sick in the dark!
Standing outside a Starbucks in Reno leeching wi-fi trying to figure out where to stay.
How can you 3.99 all you can eat spaghetti at the topaz lake casino??
Sounds like Luke has arranged a rental car and the lucky bastards will be staying until the 31st!!! Go send Half Dome for me!!!!
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Oct 24, 2012 - 01:23am PT
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The big casinos can actually be cheap if you play your cards right. Plentiful food anyway. I would frequently just sit at a bar in the casinos and play the poker machines. I would get free drinks as long as I was playing. Make it look like you can afford to lose a little, and they think that maybe a few drinks will loosen up your purse strings.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 24, 2012 - 02:20am PT
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Circus circus baby!!! 38 bucks and free wi-fi can't go wrong!!!
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 24, 2012 - 04:49am PT
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After dinner on Sunday night we met up with dan at Starbucks, and rolled up the his site at the Buttermilks.
When we awoke it was raining....
Things were starting to look nice towards town so we decided to head down to grab some breakfast, and a sandwich from Schat's.
After breakfast we headed out to the Happy's.
This gully has some amazing rock!!!
And some beautiful views
We warmed up on a nice V0
Then headed over to a very cool looking V1
I managed to send both but nearly bailed in a bad spot on the V1
With a few warmups under their belt we headed over to Solarium V4
It was perfect sending temps.
Dan got it done 3rd try
Relic sent it too and they joined the group working on the Hulk. I took some shots with my rebel, but after awhile got bored and wandered up to the rim.
As I was shooting this pano one if the guys in the group came up to me and told me that Dan had blown his knee in a twisting fall off the hulk.
I rushed down, and sure enough Dan was lying there and we had to help him hobble out of the boulders.
I ended up grabbing all our stuff and snuck this one off on the way down.
We took him to the emergency and then went back to
camp to tear down his stuff
This river gully was alive with color
Relic scared the crap out of me with the horn right b4 I took this
We set up our tents somewhere a little more accessible for the avenger.
All this pretty much ended our day so we dropped off dan's ride at the ER and leeched the hospital wi-fi to check out the thread.
We took mouse and Ryan's suggestion and checked out the Petite Pantry.
It was awesome! Excellent service! I got the chicken enchilada all you can eat special, polished off my plate and got another. About one bite in I was super full so I got her to wrap it up burrito style for lunch today. So awesome!!!
Wow it's late again... Flying out tomorrow from sac unfortunately.... More then.
Peace!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 24, 2012 - 07:27am PT
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Better than Snookie, damn sure!
Very nuch hope that knee isn't too twisted. OW, vucking, shutty!
There was the Sky-Lab Burrito at a Mex restaurant in N. Hollywood that was a two-mealer easy. Glad you guys liked the
Double P. http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-petite-pantry-bishop
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 24, 2012 - 10:48am PT
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Sick Pano the Chief!!!
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 24, 2012 - 11:04am PT
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Before we went to bed Monday night, Relic advised me that I should get up for the Buttermilks sunrise. Damn was he ever right!!!!
The definition of beauty???
You know I got more!! ;)
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Oct 24, 2012 - 11:08am PT
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If he couldn't set up the portaledge fly he was probably hypothermic and not thinking clearly. Not something to hold against someone, and also for yourself, it's not easy to recognize hypothermia. I think the better decision would have been to go down and at least make sure he could set up the ledge, but I wasn't there and don't know what the weather was really like.
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Oct 24, 2012 - 11:12am PT
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By the way the title of this thread is also the name of a famous salsa song. It is about Cali, Colombia. I just passed through the Cali aiport last week.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 24, 2012 - 11:13am PT
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Don he had the choice to go up and abandon the gear just like Luke did! Would that not have been the better choice???? He ascended the rope after his fall, why not the one attached to the rim???
Mouse- Dan's knee was well fvcked. He is a doc and was thinking acl mcl pcl but won't know exactly till he gets home as he refused to pay for x-ray/ MRI whatever here choosing instead to fly home immediatly and deal with it there.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 24, 2012 - 11:34am PT
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Dave I haven't even got to my rebel pics yet!!! Everything on the thread was taken with my IPhone!!!!
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 24, 2012 - 11:34am PT
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HDR pro is the secret.
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Oct 24, 2012 - 11:57am PT
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No bag of stuff is worth risking your life, unless it was some of that vintage Airplane sh#t.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 24, 2012 - 12:06pm PT
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HDR pro is a really cool app for iPhone. Rebel xt is my slr
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MH2
climber
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Oct 24, 2012 - 01:01pm PT
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As a bystander I have no need to know and probably shouldn't have asked. It's just what we do around here. Thanks for the details, Luke. Big time on a big route. Hope you feel good about the other 99%.
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Oct 24, 2012 - 02:17pm PT
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What a trip. Thanks for all the pics and the running TR. Anytime you guys are back in Cali, you're welcome at my house. Come check out Soyo.
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