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Boulder climber
bouldering
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Mar 20, 2013 - 02:15am PT
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Uphill from the CC Home Depot the other day.
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kennyt
climber
Woodfords,California
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May 27, 2013 - 10:46am PT
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Oh that's a C under the flag!I always thought that was an O for Obama
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Footloose
Trad climber
Lake Tahoe
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 5, 2013 - 06:40pm PT
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What a difference a 20mph West wind makes!!
Today, it's the clearest it's been in two weeks around here.
Because of the Rim Fire, August 2013, near Yosemite.
Looking south to Woodfords from Clear Creek Mt you can see a thick bank (about 5,000 vertical)
of smoke blowing east. Looks like folks in Topaz area, maybe Woodfords too, aren't getting any sun today.
Tahoe is blue skies, too. Great!!
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i'm gumby dammit
Sport climber
da ow
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Dec 23, 2013 - 03:25am PT
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gonna be hitting it up with the mini me's tomorrow before some xmas shopping. thanks for all the work and beta.
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Footloose
Trad climber
Lake Tahoe
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 23, 2013 - 02:06pm PT
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gumby, nice to see the Sentinel has caught your attention. Remember its glory is when it shines under full sun, this time of year beginning noon to early afternoon. Go too soon and you'll be in the shade, go later and it will please you every time how toasty the rock is, it's a real delight in the sun this time of year. Happy climbing!!
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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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Dec 23, 2013 - 02:45pm PT
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I've climbed at sunny D back in the eighties with Kirk Miller, I was there, he was there, but I don't totally remember. Maybe check it out again this year after the holidays. The pics of the rocks on C-hill is where I cut my teeth. The backside (not a wintery climbing destination) has a couple treats on it. The obvious dihedral finishing into the wide crack has only seen 1 on sight, to my knowledge. We used to aid practice it with inverted leeper lie backs in the seventies. Then free climb up the crack. A friend placed an old salewa type bolt somewhere near the top of that thing. Knott quite sure why.
The needle up kings canyon by the waterfall is a good top rope at 5.9ish. Bring a broom to first clean off the broken glass from the face on rap first. We used to set a Tyrolean traverse from the rocks above the needle across the canyon to the obvious ledge on the north side. It used to be fun to take the jocks up there and see if they could handle the swing. Only a few did. An important note is the exact amount of tension you need on the rope, knott enough and you get stuck swinging over the creek. To much is just as bad because you'll hit the wall (Hard) on the other side and you'll be about 10' in the air over the needle (tricky to get down). Have fun, the hidden gems around there have a lot of charm and memories. Also Voltaire canyon?
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jonnyrig
Trad climber
formerly known as hillrat
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Dec 23, 2013 - 06:04pm PT
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well damn. been lookn at rocks in those areas thinkin nobody ever bothered. anyone ever bother with the rock way up kings cyn you can just glimpse from 50?
and id join ya gumby, if i wasnt stuck at work.
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jonnyrig
Trad climber
formerly known as hillrat
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Dec 23, 2013 - 10:36pm PT
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you mean I gotta go, like, to Bolivia to find something unclimbed?
ok.
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i'm gumby dammit
Sport climber
da ow
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Dec 24, 2013 - 12:15pm PT
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made it up there yesterday. definitely will go back this winter for more.
the furthest climber's left of the three bolts at the top seemed kind of janky.
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mrtropy
Trad climber
Nor Cal
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Dec 24, 2013 - 12:56pm PT
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Nice we had 60 degree weather in CA too, any beta on how to get to the climbing around Bolivia? Looks fun! (and how is the ghost town?)
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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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Dec 24, 2013 - 07:43pm PT
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jonnyR, If it's the stuff off fifty northwest of the meadow half way up? I was there the day before we got snow and was checking it out in a T-shirt. Take the old Kings Canyon road to about a 100+ yards under neath it. Quality seemed about like everything else it the area the for first few ascents. Probably a few 50'+- /5.9- routes available to the motivated. You'll want to catch it before the sun goes behind the hill though. Probably about 10 till 2 right now.
Ron I've run into some old school dudes that have probably rake this stuff even 10 years earlier. Dr. Long, TM. Their were a lot of good climbers in that area for a long time. Do you remember those crazy (tuff) brick layer brothers, I think one was named Gordon B. He was always up for an adventure.
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jonnyrig
Trad climber
formerly known as hillrat
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Dec 24, 2013 - 08:46pm PT
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Bolivia's a far cry from Carson Valley. You have to drive up over the top of the Stillwater range about halfway through, or have a buggy to come in from the east side I hear. Not much left of the ghost town, but a lot of holes in the ground out there.
Looks like Sunny Delight was fun. I was stuck at work til 3:30. Hoping to go do a little chukar hunting/climbing tomorrow for Christmas chukar nuggets and entertainment.
Mark, that little crag as you described it is the one. Worst part is the several hundred yards of uphill sage-whacking in loose sand to get there. One block I think I'd avoid at the top on the canyon side, pretty much all detached an ready to peel off, size of a lazyboy recliner. Didn't have time to climb it when I hiked up there.
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Footloose
Trad climber
Lake Tahoe
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 25, 2013 - 11:14am PT
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gumby, nice pics!
There's a real nice sequence pulling the roof off the bottom, maybe you found it. :)
Assuming you didn't grab it, the first onsight of Sunny D still awaits.
Top anchor is in weathered granite. Be assured though at least two anchor bolts are 4" and for added safety there's even a fourth backup in top quality granite across the top on North side. Anchor was placed on the very top (as opposed to side where granite is harder) so one could TR either side of the bulge.
I'll be hittin it probably this week. Need some sun!
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i'm gumby dammit
Sport climber
da ow
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Dec 25, 2013 - 01:47pm PT
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No way man I was on top rope too.
The bolt I mentioned is just very loose and wiggly. Still left two solid ones and i used the one on the north side for my personal while I set up the tr.
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Footloose
Trad climber
Lake Tahoe
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 22, 2014 - 07:34pm PT
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Happy to report, Child's Play on Middle Buttress at Carson Valley Sentinel finally got its anchor. (Thanks Mr. Smooth.)
To toprope, bring a 70m, you'll use every foot of it. 80m even better.
It's winter of course but on days like today it feels like summer. Just what's needed after 10 degree overnight lows.
Amazing variety. Full value at 115-plus feet.
5.8-5.9. Variations harder.
The belay's a winter's haven. Real beach-like. Warm sands. Secluded. Great views.
See you out there!
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knucko
climber
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Jul 16, 2014 - 07:55pm PT
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I went out in my back yard and thought that it was another spectacular sunset until I realized why..
Fire just north of me. Probably near Footloose's crag Sunny D.
I hope everyone is safe out that way.
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knucko
climber
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Jul 16, 2014 - 08:09pm PT
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