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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Feb 27, 2013 - 12:39pm PT
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Wow I thought we just made this up but people already have a choss boss competition and everything. Maybe SLIGHTLY more interesting than your average rock gym comp?
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SicMic
climber
two miles from Eldorado
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Feb 27, 2013 - 02:39pm PT
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As promised: the ChossWand.
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Feb 27, 2013 - 03:03pm PT
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Well Mic I guess there's really no point wearing a rope. All you're going to do is damage the choss when you fall and the gear placement falls apart.
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kpinwalla2
Social climber
WA
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Feb 27, 2013 - 06:15pm PT
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Thanks Mic! Now THAT"S some quality choss. Here's more choss porn - we got miles of this stuff in eastern WA, and to make things even more interesting, the grass below is full of rattlesnakes.
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dave729
Trad climber
Western America
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Feb 27, 2013 - 07:53pm PT
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kpinwalla2 - seen what that stuff does to ropes and people. To scary for a spoiled Sierra punk.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
the crowd MUST BE MOCKED...Mocked I tell you.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 27, 2013 - 08:38pm PT
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kpinwalla,
How do you bolt in that blocky eastern WA stuff?
Is there a substrate you eventually get to that is stable?
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Feb 27, 2013 - 10:36pm PT
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He wishes...We have a big band of that stuff just down from the good stuff, local. I'll go take a couple pics of this bolted line through it. I doubt it's been climbed since it was put up. Much, anyway. Looks like you could pull blocks at those bolts.
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Feb 28, 2013 - 12:36am PT
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How do you bolt in that blocky eastern WA stuff?
Climb it enough and eventually you get to something solid. It makes is kinda interesting.
Plaid
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Feb 28, 2013 - 10:21am PT
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Pics from New Jack City this weekend.
Some friends climbed the Crooked Dick Spire (left of the climber) a couple weeks ago and had some incidental toaster-sized footholds crumble out from under them on lead. Gotta keep those lazy belayers on their feet ya know.
I never quite realized the "quality" of choss there until we did some 'splorin' off the well beaten routes. It's amazing the whole place doesn't just fall down BTW.
We TR'd this unclimbed 5.9 with high hopes of new chossaneering, but scuttled the proj. when no solid rock was found and we decided putting up a noob death-route was a waste of time. The dark-colored shell is basically adhered by a talc#m-mustard plaster underlayment. Kinda like climbing your kid's sand and macaroni project.
Did some hiking on the outer rim. Choss, choss and more choss.
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Chip C. Chipperson
Sport climber
Chippewall, ME
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Feb 28, 2013 - 11:53am PT
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Hey there, say...
How does your choss grow? Don't you have to clip the branches of a rose bush to make beautiful flowers?
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kpinwalla2
Social climber
WA
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How do you bolt in that blocky eastern WA stuff?
We clean off all the stuff that pulls off easily and then try to find a chunk that sounds reasonably solid when you beat on it with a hammer - but there are no guarantees...
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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On one of the many dirt roads NE of (395) Mammoth there is a hillside of tall crumbly towers, and actually white like chalk-board chalk. I had scoped it out once, but got lost when I went back later. My car is a little more reliable now, so I'm hoping to go out there again if the weather holds.
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MisterE
Social climber
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Bring the appropriate tools, B.
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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New variation on St. Peter's Dome. I call it Plaidman's Fally.
Spelled correctly.....there is a back story
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Plaidman,
I look at that and realize I am not worthy.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
the crowd MUST BE MOCKED...Mocked I tell you.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 1, 2013 - 01:29pm PT
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The beauty of choss is that it is the great equalizer. Qoute me on that.
Even on 5.1, you can have such an adventure!
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kpinwalla2
Social climber
WA
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The beauty of choss is that it is the great equalizer. Qoute me on that.
Even on 5.1, you can have such an adventure!
That is SO true! I've watched hyper-fit studly types - especially those that spend too much time in the gym, completely freak out on easy choss.
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Qoute me on that.
Munge. Consider yourself quoted.
Plaid
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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I look at that and realize I am not worthy.
Yup^^^Plaidman does seem to have cornered the market on the really scary stuff. I'm thinking of sending him some of those Polish grass screws for his birthday.
It rarely rains here, so us desert rats don't really get the opportunity to hone our moss-skills.
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