Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jan 24, 2013 - 09:32pm PT
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Who has the goods on Peshastin Pinnacles? They are pretty saucy-chossy.
Lemme see, 'been across the Martian Ridge, also done crawled up Dr. Leakey. Didn't have the jeans if you know what I mean, for Bomb Shelter, an overhanging sand romp free climbed by Henry Barber.
Or how about that stuff outside of Grand Junction that Duane Raleigh and Pete Takeda climbed with ice tools ... Suggested in crunch's earlier post.
All hail the BOSS CHOSS!
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MisterE
Social climber
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Jan 24, 2013 - 09:36pm PT
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Ah! The elusive Olympic Peninsula climbing area - finally!
HV hinted at this during our Smith Rock rendezvous, but to actually lay eyes upon it!
How long is the climbing season at that choss? Like 25 days a year?
;)
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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Jan 24, 2013 - 09:51pm PT
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Hey Roy,
Peshastin pshtt... why climb on that sh#t when it is mostly bolted sandy slab climbin and there's all that nice granite nearby. However if its a rainy day up near Leavenworth both Vertigo and Empire State are worthy slightly overhanging cracks very out of the norm for Peshastin.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Jan 24, 2013 - 09:52pm PT
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Who is this Manny?...
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jan 24, 2013 - 10:00pm PT
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Peshastin pshtt... why climb on that sh#t when it is mostly bolted sandy slab climbin and there's all that nice granite nearby
ha ha. Because my darling, loose living has its rewards!
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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Jan 24, 2013 - 10:01pm PT
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Mister E,
The tuff is probably dry 200+ days a year (forms a sharp ridge line in the forest so no dirt on top to hold water) so it dries within 2-3 days after a heavy storm and stays dry in showery periods. The sandstone April to late Ocrober good to go in any weather due to overhang.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Jan 24, 2013 - 10:02pm PT
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We got yer choss. Oh yes. Idaho is a Sea of Choss with pockets of World Class Stone.
Stupid Choss!
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MisterE
Social climber
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Jan 24, 2013 - 10:04pm PT
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Stupid Choss!
it's not stupid, it's nice - you just have to treat it gently. Like a woman.
Embrace the choss, caress the choss...
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jan 24, 2013 - 10:08pm PT
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Tim Messick, following the fourth class northwest ridge of Mount Maclure, on the way to Mount Lyell.
Like dancin' on dinner plates .... Yeah Baby!
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Jan 24, 2013 - 10:13pm PT
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Gentle. Um, not so much. We tend to thrash.
It does get more solid when it's frozen.
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MisterE
Social climber
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Jan 24, 2013 - 10:21pm PT
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Hardly Visible: Who knew? And within 50 miles of one of the temperate rain-forests of the world...will wonders never cease?
CHOOSE THE CHOSS.
AVOID THE CROWDS.
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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Jan 24, 2013 - 10:35pm PT
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Roy,
Yer partner might be too much of a distraction for me, prolly too much time on the boobs thread... But I'll see your choss and raise you by a couple of alpine seafloor scrapings.
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wstmrnclmr
Trad climber
Bolinas, CA
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Jan 25, 2013 - 01:24am PT
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Mount Morrison. A partner of mine wanted to climb the Northeast Buttress. It looks beautiful from a distance but everyone I talked to who's climbed it (and they are few) said it's the scariest death climb they've ever been on. My friend Mark Wagner got on it and said it was one of the worst experiences of his life but that I needed to do it because the suffering would be an experience unequaled in all of climbing. He said leading it was like climbing hundreds of feet of giant broken dishes. But leading it was the safest way up because the belayer was the one risking life and limb as rockfall was a certainty. He climbed the crux and refused to go further as it looked grim above so he and his partner down climbed the route and bailed. Rapping was not an option.
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cowpoke
climber
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Jan 25, 2013 - 04:30am PT
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hi quality choss just a 15 minute stroll from the parking lot.
Some of my most satisfying and some of my most terrifying moments were on choss, with the former being in the Snowies of Wyo (above) and Norwegian choss and the latter being on that chimney approach to Broadway on Long's (uggh, falling rocks = bad).
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Jan 25, 2013 - 07:02am PT
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Here is some good mixed choss from one of the masters, Raphael Slawinski.
Hard mixed choss and NO bolts.
http://vimeo.com/21932853
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RP3
Big Wall climber
El Portal/Chapel Hill
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Jan 25, 2013 - 07:24am PT
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This thread is fantastic!
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Roughster
Sport climber
Vacaville, CA
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Jan 25, 2013 - 07:35am PT
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Some fine NorCal Kitty Litter choss!
Tarbuster: I can't stop looking at your 1st choss picture. Was that painted on? That shirt is simply defying the laws of fabric... :)
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jan 25, 2013 - 08:41am PT
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Was that painted on? Yes ... Handpainted with finger paints of course.
Mount Morrison!
No doubt the poster child of the whole thread.
Quote by Vern Clevenger: "Mount Morrison, [all it would take is] ... one well-placed cherry bomb ..."
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Adamame
climber
Santa Cruz
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Jan 25, 2013 - 08:41am PT
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My favorite choss "The Hand".
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