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bvb
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flagstaff arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 28, 2013 - 03:53pm PT
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We were doing it as a direct-line eliminate, straight up the arete, no flinching to the left or right when things got thin. The girl in the photo demonstrates the scale...20 - 25' whipper potential onto what was basically a concrete slab. No pads. Had to be there. The landing for the thing we were doing was a big, flat, rock slab, sort of uneven. Broken legs/ankles for sure.
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bvb
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flagstaff arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 28, 2013 - 06:33pm PT
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Oh well, the "Serious Business" thead is kaput. Just when ptc was starting to seem attainable! OK, back to climbing content...oh my God! The grafitti! The trash! The crowds! The potsherds! The AYA boneheads who never figured out they should avoid roadside problems! Judging by the Desert Archaic Atlatl dart points and equisitely matched Mano/Metate set we found here, I'm guessing the grommets, posuers and maynards never thought to check this quadrant out...4X4 or half-mile hike mandatory.
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bvb
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flagstaff arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 28, 2013 - 07:09pm PT
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Motivational Wayne County posters. Automatic For The People.
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crunch
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CO
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Jan 28, 2013 - 07:25pm PT
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Wow, all those years wasted on those chossy towers, could'a been bouldering instead....next lifetime, I'll maybe figure it out.
Torrey is a real nice spot, for sure.
Hanksville is fun, too. A different world. Sure beats the crazy crowds around Moab.
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Tarbuster
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right here, right now
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Jan 28, 2013 - 08:59pm PT
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Nice photos Crusher!
The second one almost has the effect of a collage.
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bvb
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flagstaff arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 29, 2013 - 08:10am PT
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Breakfast coffee, that first smoke, and a motivational Wayne County poster to let y'all know that, well, we got it and you don't. God I love myself, er, I mean Wayne County.
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bvb
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flagstaff arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 29, 2013 - 11:27am PT
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That creamy, dreamy breast of a formation is Fern's Nipple. Trailhead is 25 minutes from "downtown" Torrey. Technical summit, ok ropeless for the experienced, but n00bs will want a rope for the last 50 feet. Hands-down one of the best dayhikes on the Colorado Plateau. Amazing summit register -- last time I was up there a woman had scattered her husband's ashes from the summit and taped her wedding ring into the summit register. Magic.
Henry Mountains in the background, Horn is just out of the frame on the right.
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crunch
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CO
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Jan 29, 2013 - 01:27pm PT
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Ahh, the Henry Mts. Last mountain range in the US to be discovered and named by anglos.
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Patrick Sawyer
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Originally California now Ireland
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Jan 29, 2013 - 01:31pm PT
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Coolaboola bvb.
But, and here it is again, my snake phobia, but that looks like rattler country.
There are a lot of beautiful places in this world that I will never see, but the American West is high on the list of places to see more. Mom took us to Grand Canyon and around Arizona BITD, but that was the 60s.
Only desert climbing I've done is in JT a couple of times and Lake Perris (does the latter count?). Are Smith Rocks considered desert climbing? If so, I'll add that to my "done" list.
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Elcapinyoazz
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Joshua Tree
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Jan 29, 2013 - 01:36pm PT
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The Henrys are cool. We used to run the kids up to the top of Pennell in the spring and fall. Our winter field area was basically from the E. border of the park to the crest of the Henry mts. There's a heard of bison ranging around in that area. We used to see them fairly often.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 29, 2013 - 01:44pm PT
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Are those the Henrys in the background?
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 29, 2013 - 02:05pm PT
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Yep. That's the Henrys. That little bump is the horn.
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bvb
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flagstaff arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 29, 2013 - 10:11pm PT
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I'm on contract with the Wayne County Travel Council! Maybe we're talking about different Calf Creeks? There's about 28 of 'em in Utah. Or maybe way downstream from the falls, southeast of Hwy 12, deeper towards the Escalante, where the Navajo gives way to splitter Wingate?
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 29, 2013 - 11:02pm PT
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Meanwhile, back at Big Rocks...this easy skankin' problem may be the best V1 south of Salt Lake City.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2013 - 12:00am PT
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weezy
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Jan 30, 2013 - 12:20am PT
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look at the rocks - ain't they purdy?
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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Jan 30, 2013 - 01:46am PT
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GC... one of the best lines EVER.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2013 - 01:49am PT
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Tarbuster
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right here, right now
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Jan 30, 2013 - 01:53am PT
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...this easy skankin' problem may be the best V1 south of Salt Lake City.
Letter box holds abound from this vantage point.
And I only need one target: that looks like it!
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henny
Social climber
The Past
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Jan 30, 2013 - 02:11am PT
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Nice bvb. Made a trip or two to Black Table and the Horn with JW. One route on Black Table had a beak protecting the crux, still not sure what that was about. Great face/seam pitch, can't remember the name of it now. I'm sure Jonny had only your best interest in mind if he asked you to go.
The Horn was killer. Great colors. One of the times I was there the lupens where in full bloom, fields of 'em. Watched a wicked lightning storm march across the lowlands one night. Too bad about the fire.
The herd of bison was cool.
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