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jcory86
Big Wall climber
Grass Valley, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 28, 2013 - 03:37pm PT
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Trying to find out pertinent info on Re-animator:
-has anyone done it recently?
-lots of fixed gear or no?
-really, how many heads? Can't I bring more beaks?
-is a #6 necessary or can one get through the 6.5" section on the topo with groveling and a 5?
-speed record on this route?
gonna be there the 13th for it.
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j-tree
Big Wall climber
Classroom to crag to summer camp
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Aug 28, 2013 - 04:00pm PT
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Reanimator
11:56 Chris McNamara and Jacob Schmitz. June 1999
http://www.speedclimb.com/yosemite/washington-column
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I've heard that it'd been spitting people off a while ago due to a feature being missing or something like that, but that's third-hand info at best.
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RP3
Big Wall climber
Sonora
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Aug 28, 2013 - 04:32pm PT
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I did it in 2010. A feature is gone on pitch 4. It is bypassed by some (spicy!) A3+ hooking in batholes.
We did not place any heads although a handful are fixed.I don't think that the head placements would readily accept beaks. Bring the recommended head rack in case you rip a bunch.
Bring the #6. That part is WIDE and ugly.
Tons of fun. We called it "aid-sport climbing". Lots of hooking between rivets. Killer position. ENJOY!
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E
Ice climber
mogollon rim
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Aug 28, 2013 - 05:04pm PT
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done it twice...broke in a new girlfriend on my second time up it.
as a sidenote we did it completely clean xcept one arrow that i nailed in on the second to last pitch. and that was only because she was pissing me off for many reasons. Theresa a ton of fixed heads on the give em enuf rope pitch and others so it really wouldnt of been clean anyway. wild country micros got used on the hangin curtin of rock pitch. got tooled by leo and a ticket for huckin shitbags on that as well.
that is an awesome route that is for sure the best one on the column
E
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briham89
Big Wall climber
san jose, ca
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Aug 28, 2013 - 05:07pm PT
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that is an awesome route that is for sure the best one on the column
hmmmm if this is true sounds like another column wall is in order.....after southern man
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Aug 28, 2013 - 05:43pm PT
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i rope-solo first three pitches in winter. i bailed cuzz of the nerves!!
good look'n wall route.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Aug 28, 2013 - 06:06pm PT
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We did it a couple days after the Cmac record. Fantastic Route. Great job By Walt and Eric. the hanging curtain is one of the coolest features I've ever experienced. Awesome. I hope it hasn't suffered from excessive traffic by mere mortals (relative to FA Party, not me).
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jcory86
Big Wall climber
Grass Valley, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 28, 2013 - 08:57pm PT
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rp3 - thanks, I will bring the #6 and my old school #5. Any recommendations on hook selection?
J-tree - thanks for the link
klaus - that would be rad.
Wade - that sounds epic. Shiplery and Kohl are incredible.
So...judging by the speed record it's either a little time consuming or hasnt been tried in a push recently. We will be shooting for In-A-Day but
Im thinking its likely going to be on the 24 hour end or more.
Thoughts?
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E
Ice climber
mogollon rim
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Aug 28, 2013 - 09:08pm PT
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so who ya climbin with?
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jcory86
Big Wall climber
Grass Valley, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 28, 2013 - 10:17pm PT
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E - I have a 17 yr old kid that I know and have climbed half dome in a day with. I'm looking at trying to get whitemeat on the team.
I need to try and big wall with you tacoers more!! I always have lots of partners willing and then they all disappear when I want harder aid.
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RP3
Big Wall climber
Sonora
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Aug 28, 2013 - 10:34pm PT
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Bring all hooks. Hooking is the name of the game on this one.
We spent 2.5 days on the route in October (the nights were long). It would be a proud push...GO GET IT!
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Ice climber
mogollon rim
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Aug 28, 2013 - 10:36pm PT
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thats the nature of the game...dont worry its not bad at all
reach foe the sky my friend
Erik
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Aug 28, 2013 - 11:49pm PT
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Klaus, nowadays the barriers to publication (in an electronic form) are a lot lower... post it up if you still have it! No editors here. No paycheques either though.
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jcory86
Big Wall climber
Grass Valley, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 28, 2013 - 11:59pm PT
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Klaus!!!
I would love to see that article. Post it up.
Looks like this will be a fu?kin rad adventure. I've got all the hooks heads and screamers in the bag. I will work hard to leave the iron and the heads in the bag with the hammer until I'm way to gripped.
Ill be leading every pitch except p1, short fixing where I can and hauling a little bag on a 8mm static line.
Lower out line? I've got a 100 foot 7mm line. Enough? Maybe a 60' 6mm line to tag up the haul after short fixing?
Also, climbing mag was dumb to not listen to ya klaus. They have definitely gone downhill. I especially "liked" their "how to big wall" article last year.
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briham89
Big Wall climber
san jose, ca
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Aug 29, 2013 - 12:16am PT
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I need to try and big wall with you tacoers more!!
I have monday through friday free all month....just sayin' ;)
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Aug 29, 2013 - 01:11am PT
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Bummer, look at Climbing Magazine today. It's a 20 page pamphlet filled with advertisements and tips for beginners.
+100. Majority of magazines talk about sport climbing/bouldering and which new gear you need to get into trad. That's about all. Last year there was an article with tips of how to improve crack climbing TECHNIQUE. One of the tips was to tape...that gave me brain freeze.
On the other hand I found an old climbing magazine with an article about Klaus and Pete Takeda (who pushed him off the roof a few years prior) doing a FA on Porcelain Wall (?). That article was entertaining to say the least.
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briham89
Big Wall climber
san jose, ca
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Aug 29, 2013 - 01:32am PT
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^I agree, although Alpinist seems to still have some cool articles / stories
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jcory86
Big Wall climber
Grass Valley, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 30, 2013 - 10:04pm PT
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Bailers!!!!!!! My lil sh#t partner bailed for legitimate reasons. Going off to OSU the next weekend for school.
I need a partner that's willing to go suffer for at least 24 hours on this push. Maybe less but I will not guarantee it!!!!
Whitemeat?
Briham, only weekdays?
Vitaly?
It's gonna be a bitch to solo. Come on gents. (Or ladies)
Arrive fri night the 13
Start early on 14th
Top out and drive home sometime before Sunday at midnight.
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Aug 30, 2013 - 11:26pm PT
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Post it up or try Rock & Ice. They are always dying for submitted articles, and can edit any writing.
Climbing has changed, though. There are zillions of sport climbers and just climbers in general. An aid route isn't very with it these days, but R&I loves a good story if you can make it funny as hell.
They printed a story about Walt less than a year ago. It was super good, and caught the flavor of the time.
Here we are still talking about Walt. Why was Walt such a character?
As for bathooks around a missing feature, fill em with steel.
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jcory86
Big Wall climber
Grass Valley, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 31, 2013 - 09:27am PT
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Bump for partner.
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jcory86
Big Wall climber
Grass Valley, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 31, 2013 - 09:28am PT
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And one for whitemeat and his buddy who blasted on a NIAD attempt at 4 this morning!
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E
Ice climber
mogollon rim
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Aug 31, 2013 - 11:05am PT
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when I climbed this in 2005. there was a rumor of a missing feature on pitch 4
There were no bathook holes then...but there was a place where a feature had pulled off. A big ass reach in top loops solved it...looks like somebody took it upon themselves to fix that route.
on Genesis I was nailing a short corner...the second pitch off off El Cap tower after the expanding traverse. I came to a pretty committing move on a natural hook and found that I had missed 3 bathook holes in a row, These looked new and were made with a 3/8 drill....probably put in on a winter ascent the season before and not on the topo. That would have been a good pitch.
When I started if you got busted impoving routes you would be slandered by your peers so bad that your rep would be shot and nobody would talk to you anymore....and fear of that made me a better climber
Most of my adult life has carved out of experiences on those stones...good and bad and Im glad to have had the opportunity to get after it when the drill stayed off the rack.
Just sayin.......
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Aug 31, 2013 - 03:23pm PT
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Hey jcory, that sounds fun but I want to do a few more outings in Sierra before summer season ends. Was away most of the summer and miss the peaks here. Plus that 24+ hour push thing does not match my mood now. I had that last weekend (solo of evolution traverse car to car) and am more excited about bird-watching and eating good food. :)
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Aug 31, 2013 - 05:19pm PT
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E,
Yeah, that has always been the deal. Drilling on established routes is good for decades of slander. I'm just saying that if a flake did fall off, then the only thing to do is to put in some rivets. On most routes you can bail, leaving fixed ropes if you can, and talk it over with everyone, particularly the FA'ist in a perfect world.
I'm just saying that if you have to drill, put in some metal.
Practically every route on El Cap has had chicken bolts added. Have you seen that old chopped bolt on Boot Flake? I've heard who placed it, and was really surprised. I won't post the name because I don't know.
There has always been a camp of no alteration to the rock, and then the other camp who thinks that artful carving is OK.
Walling probably did the best thing. On one of his attempts to do the 2nd ascent of Born Under A Bad Sign, he missed some bathooks and found himself doing some nailing that was total psycho. So he placed a rivet and finished the pitch. At that point he bailed, and chopped the rivet on the way down. That is the real way to do it.
Aid climbing has some hard rules to enforce, and I have a bud that was forced to drill on a route. They bailed, but he had put in bathook holes, or little doctored dimples or whatever.
That was about thirty years ago, and he has taken a ton of sh#t over it. I asked him what he would have done now that he is all grown up, he said he would have down hooked it to the point that he could and then have just taken the fall.
I guess that most people just drill and don't tell anyone. Russ's solution should have been more widely known. It is the only correct way to get off of a pitch that is too hard. Russ saw the bathook holes as he was rapping the pitch, so he came back again and did it with them.
Remember when rivets were really rivets? Bridwell's idea was to put in dowels that wouldn't catch a fall, because a bolt would make the pitch safer, fall wise.
I'm an old guy, but I see pics of old rivet ladders that have been replaced with 3/8" fat bolts. Boy does that change the difficulty. Nowadays a 1/4" buttonhead is a "rivet." They used to be belay anchors. Man, I remember a belay with a whole bunch of big copperheads tied together with a single quarter incher. I was pretty glad when my buddy reached a bolt on the next pitch.
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j-tree
Big Wall climber
Classroom to crag to summer camp
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Aug 31, 2013 - 09:34pm PT
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Great post Base104, wish more were like it.
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briham89
Big Wall climber
san jose, ca
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Aug 31, 2013 - 11:48pm PT
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Man I wish I could join you. I'm guiding that weekend.
Edit: that's crazy V. Can't wait to hear about it.
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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I may be free to climb that weekend. I'll check and get back with you.
Congrats Vit!!! Can't wait for the story.
-matt
Edit: word on whitemeat? Nose is on the short list but all my partners at the moment don't quite have enough experience to try it IAD and that's how I seem to be set on doin it.
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j-tree
Big Wall climber
Classroom to crag to summer camp
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As per a post from Clint Cummins on the "New Bolts on the Nose" thread, Sloan isn't associated with ASCA anymore so a boycott would seem an inefficient use of time at best.
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jcory86
Big Wall climber
Grass Valley, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 1, 2013 - 02:12pm PT
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Matty- let me know. Also, no word on whitemeat. Hopefully he and partner made it okay on their NIAD attempt. Webcams and Instagram showed the valley to be a smoky mess.
As far as drilling on established routes. Seems like if a feature has fallen off or the anchor bolts are sketchy then thoughtful placement or replacement respectively would be ok. If an old rivet ladder is full of rivet about to fall out what is the norm?
I don't even own a drill. And I don't hammer often cause its a bitch/slow to pull hammered pins. So there will be no beezy drilling on re-animator. Ill do what I can to remove crap fixed gear too.
Thanks for the post klaus.
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Seems like if a feature has fallen off or the anchor bolts are sketchy then thoughtful placement or replacement respectively would be ok.
LOL Not at all ok if you want to climb one of Klaus' routes. He would make anchors from a rivet, equalized to a body weight placement behind an expando-flake (semi-joking).
I was looking through beta for 'Jesus Built My Hotrod' once and had a good laugh: http://www.supertopo.com/rock-climbing/route_beta.php?r=yblejesu
Mr. Klaus should post more often, I like his sense of humor.
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j-tree
Big Wall climber
Classroom to crag to summer camp
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Sep 17, 2013 - 10:50am PT
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Bump for TR. How did it go up there?
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jcory86
Big Wall climber
Grass Valley, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 17, 2013 - 06:50pm PT
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ALAS...NO CLIMB = NO TR
I hadn't been able to find a partner that wanted to join me so I called up my "one-wall-a-year" buddy (who's one wall was already in the books for 2013) and asked what he was up to...He informed me that he wanted to do a quick trip up thunderbolt peak. So...we did thunderbolt in 29 hours car to car.
Quite slow for real alpine climbers but I was very happy with my performance on a somewhat technical 14er, being something that was way out of my norm. Priority now is getting married in a few weeks and backpacking from mammoth to Yosemite for the honeymoon.
Looking at re-animator in early nov over a weekend though...
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