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mike a.

Sport climber

Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 10, 2013 - 11:42pm PT

It was a crisp cold morning this morning,so got up early and headed up to Castle to boulder some classic problems before the park became a mob scene. Arrived at the parking lot before 10, the temp at the parking lot was 38, brrrrr!!!. Hiked to Castle Rock proper, not a pad person in sight, the area was mine :-), One cool thing about the boulder scene is a alpine start for them is 1:00pm, and by that time i am done and ready to go home for a cold beer.It was a great day at Castle, but cold.

mike a.

Sport climber

Topic Author's Reply - Feb 10, 2013 - 11:44pm PT

mike a.

Sport climber

Topic Author's Reply - Feb 10, 2013 - 11:46pm PT

mike a.

Sport climber

Topic Author's Reply - Feb 10, 2013 - 11:48pm PT

mike a.

Sport climber

Topic Author's Reply - Feb 10, 2013 - 11:50pm PT

mike a.

Sport climber

Topic Author's Reply - Feb 10, 2013 - 11:51pm PT

mike a.

Sport climber

Topic Author's Reply - Feb 10, 2013 - 11:53pm PT

RyanD

climber

Squamish

Feb 10, 2013 - 11:55pm PT

Cool stuff Mike, I'd love to climb there someday.

Mike Bolte

Trad climber

Planet Earth

Feb 11, 2013 - 12:09am PT

nice mike - thanks

damo62

Social climber

Brisbane

Feb 11, 2013 - 12:30am PT

That's a fat crash pad Mike, how the hell did you carry it in there?

ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber

bouldering

Feb 11, 2013 - 12:46am PT

Gnarly mike, thanks.

Fat Dad

Trad climber

Los Angeles, CA

Feb 11, 2013 - 04:22pm PT

Such a pretty area. It's might Stoney Point might look like if it had alot more oak trees, no graffiti, no broken glass, no trash, etc., etc.

Bruce Morris

Social climber

Belmont, California

Feb 11, 2013 - 05:08pm PT

Don't worry, FatDad, but Summit Rock in Sanborn County Park, only a stone's throw from Castle Rock, has plenty of grafitti, broken bottles and trash. Mostly because it's now off-limits due to a pair of nesting peregrines, only partyers and drunks go there at night. However, Castle and its surroundings are now in very good shape, largely due to the climber presence there. Climbers don't like to see their routes spray painted and are also enraged when drunks throw bottles down on them from above.

Thanks for posting these here, Mike. Illustrates what a really nice bouldering area Castle is.

mike a.

Sport climber

Topic Author's Reply - Feb 19, 2013 - 12:17am PT

mike a.

Sport climber

Topic Author's Reply - Feb 19, 2013 - 12:17am PT

mike a.

Sport climber

Topic Author's Reply - Feb 19, 2013 - 12:19am PT

mike a.

Sport climber

Topic Author's Reply - Feb 19, 2013 - 12:20am PT

mike a.

Sport climber

Topic Author's Reply - Feb 19, 2013 - 12:22am PT

ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber

bouldering

Feb 19, 2013 - 12:47am PT

Nice with the rug and towel instead of pad-stacks and spotters.

Chinchen

climber

Way out there....

Feb 19, 2013 - 12:47am PT

Geezer points ;)

Bruce Morris

Social climber

Belmont, California

Feb 19, 2013 - 02:04am PT

Beggin' your pardon, Sir Mike, but the "true" Rug Head finishes up the lieback flake just right of the Tree Route. You pitch from there, you really pitch.

Jingy

climber

Somewhere out there

Feb 19, 2013 - 10:08am PT

strange as it may seem….. that's not how that problem goes..

It's certainly easier that way… but that's not the problem at all…

Luckily, climbing provides for rules not man made so you're golden. As long as you're climbing, that's all that matters.

Thanks for taking me along for this early morning pre-parade-o-f*#kness, with the photos

darkmagus

Mountain climber

San Diego, CA

Feb 19, 2013 - 01:28pm PT

mike a.

Sport climber

Topic Author's Reply - Feb 19, 2013 - 01:51pm PT

mike a.

Sport climber

Topic Author's Reply - Feb 19, 2013 - 01:52pm PT

darkmagus

Mountain climber

San Diego, CA

Feb 19, 2013 - 03:00pm PT

I love The Spoon!!

Two of my favorite problems EVER are "The Slap" and "The Slope", both on the same boulder. Anyone have pictures of those gems?

Jingy

climber

Somewhere out there

Feb 19, 2013 - 03:46pm PT

I don't say this often, but you're an idiot, Jingy.

Well, I don't say this often, but I agree with COZ. I am an idiot.

Pay no attention to anything I say, but please keep climbing and taking photos and posting them here so I can see them… It is literally the only contact I have with climbing theses days.

Cheers all

(possible inside joke I think COZ may have took literally… while a dude is pulling onto a problem just yell out "that hold is off…. but for you it's ok" or "uhm, yeah, that's not really the problem, but for you…."…

Like I said, the rules are provided by the nature of the stone and one's own imagination. So really, what some jackass says on an online forum means total shite when it comes down to it.)

Post Second Review Edit: Is that by any change an old Santa Clara PG staff shirt? Maybe Sunnyvale PG?

darkmagus

Mountain climber

San Diego, CA

Feb 19, 2013 - 03:50pm PT

Not a huge fan of eliminates. Castle does have a few...

I am a fan of SLOPERS, and there's no shortage out there!!!

mike a.

Sport climber

Topic Author's Reply - Feb 19, 2013 - 04:01pm PT

the only rules in climbing is, be safe and have fun :-), and yes coz mr. morris is mr. castle rock for sure!!! happy climbing mike a.

Dr.Sprock

Boulder climber

I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!

Feb 19, 2013 - 04:23pm PT

did they remove the fallen tree from the parking lot boulder?

anybody been down to the green monster lately?

Bruce Morris

Social climber

Belmont, California

Feb 19, 2013 - 04:32pm PT

Hate to point out the striking likeness, Mike A.: But back in your younger years you certainly looked like a dead ringer for George W. Bush, don't you agree?

I don't think anyone has done the "true, bona fide" Rug Head route since the FA back in the Dark Ages, mostly because it's too dang scary. Now, it's safely slipped into oblivion; that is, until dementia invades and takes over the hippo-campus and the brain goes dark forever.

Long before then, the South Skyline Property Owners Association and their Nature Nazi allies on the Portola Valley and Castle Rock Foundation may have eradicated climbing as a legitimate activity at Castle Rock anyway.

http://www.southskyline.org/skycasgp.html

http://www.portolaandcastlerockfound.org/who.html

Interesting how Julie Grote, the president of the SSA, is also the president of the Portola Valley and Castle Rock Foundation. Money and property always speak first.

So there are plenty of good reasons to document named boulder routes up there.

"O Tempora, O Mores!"

Cicero 50 BC

darkmagus

Mountain climber

San Diego, CA

Feb 19, 2013 - 04:38pm PT

Is that by any change an old Santa Clara PG staff shirt? Maybe Sunnyvale PG?

Yes, it's a PG "Bloc Party" shirt from 2010, which was held at the Sunnyvale location!

Bruce Morris

Social climber

Belmont, California

Feb 19, 2013 - 04:47pm PT

Yes, Herr Sprock, the tree next to the Tree problem fell down long ago, sometime in the middle 90s.

mike a.

Sport climber

Topic Author's Reply - Feb 19, 2013 - 05:19pm PT

nutjob

Sport climber

Almost to Hollywood, Baby!

Feb 19, 2013 - 05:30pm PT

I'm especially happy to see pics of the easier boulder problems that I've actually done and can relate to (V3 was pushing it for me). Thanks for triggering memories. Do you have any pics of Waimea?