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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Dug out a few pictures of the day a couple of years ago that Wayno and I climbed DGS...
You might have to click on this one to enlarge it a bit...
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Wayno's smiling on that ^^ pitch. That's encouragement for me. It was hell'a hot up here last weekend, and I didn't get out climbing. I did walk up a nearby road that I think Ghost knows well, when I spied this. The bizzaro color wasn't intentional, but just resulted from auto color balance and contrast expand applied to a very flat color depth hazy day image. I want to call it something like "The Portal on Dana Barrett's Refrigerator".
That ^ would probably not be a moderate. ;-)
In the quest for Index moderates, I came across photos of a really nice looking pitch on Peanuts To Serve You . Although I'm being way optimistic considering an Index 5.9 "moderate" for me. Here's a link to derekpearson's photo on mtn project.
The link is http://www.mountainproject.com/images/69/67/107396967_medium_c63b16.jpg
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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I did walk up a nearby road that I think Ghost knows well, when I spied this.
The only road near Index that I know anything about is the road that goes up to the top of the clearcuts below Zeke's Wall. Closed to vehicles since the ORV guys trashed it. But I don't remember anything about psychadelic refrigerator portals. Only fabulous climbing on the wall above.
From the end of the road a pleasant 40 minute hike gets you to the base of the wall. Although the trail is probably overgrown now.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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This was up the gated FS-62 (aka Proctor Creek Rd ) up towards Persis. I was thinking Ghost had been up there, but I was confusing it with;
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1570361/Killing-your-partner-seriously-uncool
which I guess was up towards/at Zeek's(?)->Zeke's.
Actually my walk up gated FS62 was kind of neat 'cause on the nicest day of the summer so far, I didn't see a human soul. I did see neat birds and heard a lot more. I didn't get any photos for the bird thread though.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Wayno's smiling on that ^^ pitch.
I had fun on that climb but don't confuse a smile with a grimace. It was effing hot that day. Ball soup. We didn't even do the the last easy pitch, it was so hot. The only other climber we saw was none other than Dick Cilley, going up to do some traxing.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Jun 13, 2015 - 08:05pm PT
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I had fun on that climb but don't confuse a smile with a grimace.
All smiles and no grimaces today. Mari and I made our annual pilgrimage to DGS, the best moderate climb at Index, and had nothing but fun.
Darwin, you really should get up there and get on it. Long hike, and it's undergraded at 5.9, but it'll eat as much pro as you can carry.
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