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kpinwalla2

Social climber
WA
Mar 10, 2013 - 11:39am PT
kpinwalla2 where the heck is that. Looks fun! We got to get out together sometime since we are in the same neck of the woods..... I personally am in the deeeeeep woods. Kinda like an ogre or hobbit. Maybe more like a dwarf cause of my little stature. 5' 7" and shrinking.

"That" is at The Dikes. Website here:

http://people.whitman.edu/~pogue/climbing/dikesguide.html

Let me know if you're ever up in my neck of the deep woods. There's also non-choss climbing available (I know, boooooring!) at Spring Mountain. Ogre, dwarf, hobbit, elf are all OK - but no balrogs, please.
mrtropy

Trad climber
Nor Cal
Mar 10, 2013 - 12:41pm PT
A few from around CA




kennyt

climber
Woodfords,California
Mar 10, 2013 - 12:51pm PT
Jeff, Have you climbed at true value?
mrtropy

Trad climber
Nor Cal
Mar 10, 2013 - 01:07pm PT
Yes, if it the one across the river near the bridge. I think I ran into a couple of buddies of yours. Every couple of years I do one of the easier climbs there. I would like to explore the area more. I have skied around Tyron Peak and I think I have seen the basalt, I have heard that Henry Peak has some basalt too.
Plaidman

Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
Mar 11, 2013 - 12:32am PT
kpinwalla2 been meaning to get out the Spring Mountain. I'll let you know before I get there so you can clear out the weak stomached.

I've been known to have a foul mouth too. So ear plugs may be required.....I'll try to be on my best behavior.

Plaid
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Mar 11, 2013 - 12:46am PT
Plaidman, eat yer heart out! I'm going' to Choss Heaven - the Dolomiti! Where it all started.
I'm gonna do Il Campanile Basso di Brenta which was first climbed in 1899! 5.8 Choss in
street shoes with hemp ropes and little else. Check out the Grossman thread:
Great Pioneers of the Eastern Alps.
Plaidman

Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
Mar 11, 2013 - 09:39am PT
Reilly concider heart eatten. Damn you man!

Got karma?
StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Mar 11, 2013 - 10:30am PT
fgw

climber
portland, or
Mar 11, 2013 - 12:31pm PT
Really enjoyed the article in the Mazama annual Plaidman. Makes me want to go back - something about the smell of Gorge moss...smells like adventure. Was craning my neck (again) yesterday looking at those piles...I mean towers above 84 just east of the dalles. Look nice.
John Leary photo 2008.
Plaidman

Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
Mar 12, 2013 - 12:34am PT
Thx John. I had fun writing that story up.

That picture was from Radek's scent via his new line on St. Peter's Dome with his wife belaying.

TR here:http://www.summitpost.org/st-peters-dome/401215

His account of pulling up onto the mossy blocks at top of the 96 foot band, to the ledge was what inspired me to bring the moss ax to assist in making that move. The heck with a hook. I'll take a moss ax any day. Here is what one looks like.....

Plaid
Plaidman

Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
Mar 13, 2013 - 02:03am PT
Don't do this to perfectly good kids. Choss is not a life style I would sign anyone up for.

Plaid
justthemaid

climber
Jim Henson's Basement
Mar 13, 2013 - 09:43am PT
Friends don't let friends choose choss. Choss isn't a choice.. it's a lifestyle you learn to lovingly embrace when every hunk of rock within 100 miles is crumbling POS and your love of climbing outweighs your fear of headwounds.

Plaidman

Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
Mar 13, 2013 - 10:29am PT
@justthemaid Ode de Choss. Someone should put music to that.... maybe with kazoos and maracas.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Andy KP

climber
Mar 13, 2013 - 07:00pm PT
Two choss belays from the Eiger North face (Russian route)

some more pics here http://www.flickr.com/photos/andykirkpatrick/
Plaidman

Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
Mar 13, 2013 - 11:27pm PT
THOSE IS TOTEMS!!!! I would recognize them anywhere. They work in choss too!
Nice job Andy.

Plaid
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Mar 14, 2013 - 02:53pm PT
Plaidman, how's yer Chinese? I think I found your Promised Land.

1000 650'-1000' CHOSS TOWERS!!!!!!!!

Zhangjiajie National Forest - it's a forest all right!

I figger it would take you about three years to work yer way
through these at one a day.
craig mo

Trad climber
L.A. Ca.
Mar 14, 2013 - 06:37pm PT
Don Paul

Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
Mar 14, 2013 - 08:20pm PT
MisterE

Social climber
Apr 8, 2013 - 10:57pm PT
Plaidman

Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
Apr 9, 2013 - 12:15am PT
I thought maybe the choss thread was dead.....
Not so.

CHOSS LIVES! LONG LIVE CHOSS!
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