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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Brutus, 20 pitches up a 39 pitch slab (Hitchhiker)
each blue dot is a belay. We ran two pitches together most times.
Peace
Karl
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Jim Lawyer
climber
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Slabs in Spain...El Yelmo, north of Madrid. Surprisingly runout.
Goats are good at it too...
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Those goats are rad!
I've seen Bighorn Sheep up on 5.8 on Saddle Rocks in Josh...
Here's another Josh slab. Sexy Sadie back in the day. Anyone remember those old green rand 5.10 edging shoes? They were the bomb.
And of course the real gramicci's...
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Stop me before I do it again.
Guy Keesee got this shot starting up another big slab in The Gorge of Despair. Prow of Cobra.
Phill Warrender and Gary Valle did this phenomenal route in about 1979. It is 5.9. It boasts a 12 mile approach over Harrington pass.
If this climb were near a road it would be a "50 classics" must do favorite 4 star line up at the base kind of climb. Lucky for us, it is waaaay out there....
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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" ...Anyway Johnny an American, who talks funny... "
Classic. I'll be chuckling for days.
Here's Rob Brown on a nice Kern Canyon Slab called Wake Up Call...
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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this might be a reposted image for this thread, but oh well.
famous golden slab in Tuolumne
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Chimney Rock? vicinity I forget the name.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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those Asolo's are cherry in that image!! Woodchuck country bouldering. I think on the north? end of Woodchuck lake? anyone remember the wood shitter over there?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Levy on Nancy's Crack
wait a sec, that's not a slab!!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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big rock lake perris, CA
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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hand drillin on slab, tho hard to see in shadow.
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Double D
climber
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Went out with some friends on Aries Butte in Zion high country the other day. It's a 5.6 with really no moves to speak of. It's the only "easy" way up the dome. Upon summiting I was blown away by all the big horn sheep foot prints. Go figure, the masters of slabs!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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oh sh#t, you did not paste courtright pics did you? now it's on!!
Chris on, i think, Little Nukey or Welcome to Courtright
:)
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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i think that's me on the hairy end, not sure tho.
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tenesmus
Trad climber
slc
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one of the best threads ever. thanks for resurrecting it Bob.
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lars johansen
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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It never rains at Courtright:
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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dig that lars!
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 7, 2008 - 04:58pm PT
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How nice that this thread has re-appeared.
There are some on-topic photos and stories of slab climbing at Squamish on the thread by that other guy, at http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=668163
More to follow, apparently, if the guy ever gets around to it.
We never really did settle on a definition of slab climbing, but as one of your Supreme Court justices said of pornography, I know it when I see it.
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