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KP Ariza
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SCC
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Feb 20, 2014 - 03:46pm PT
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Kick ass read Cosgrove.
Its great to hear the accounts of Yosemite history coming directly from guys like you and Gaines. Please carry on....with more!
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Feb 20, 2014 - 11:10pm PT
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Another way of looking at these climbs.
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Feb 20, 2014 - 11:12pm PT
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Coz scoping it out from the approach ramp...
July 1995
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Feb 20, 2014 - 11:19pm PT
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Coz leading the hardest crack climbing on the route (pitch 5) at the top of the dihedral, an overhanging 11+ lieback/jam capped with an "ass-kicking offwidth."
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Feb 20, 2014 - 11:32pm PT
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Coz leads the devious face traverse, pitch 6, 12b
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Feb 20, 2014 - 11:38pm PT
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crux traverse, pitch 6
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Feb 20, 2014 - 11:39pm PT
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Great account and beautiful shots Clint!
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Rollover
climber
Gross Vegas
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Feb 20, 2014 - 11:43pm PT
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Best thread in a while!
Thanks Bob!!
Obviously thanks to Scott and Clint too!
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Feb 20, 2014 - 11:45pm PT
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The moment of truth for me, following the crux traverse. To free this wall I knew it all boiled down to this one pitch, this one crux, at this moment. I took every last piece of gear off my harness and packed it in the haul bag. I pulled it off....barely!
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Feb 20, 2014 - 11:52pm PT
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All those years of runout slab climbing at Suicide Rock paid off....I led up through this 5.11 R slab section.
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shipoopoi
Big Wall climber
oakland
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Feb 20, 2014 - 11:54pm PT
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freakin awesome write up cozzy. great to honour bachar that way and bring up the memories...yeah, soloed up nutracker with jb just once, and on the bike ride back we stopped and after smoking some bad weed, he told the same story...LOL.
Great tribute to bob gaines too. he is still the master guide, i obseved an SPI course of his, and he is the master of time management.
hope you are doing great, shipoopoi
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Feb 20, 2014 - 11:56pm PT
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Scott hand-drilling, start of pitch 11
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Feb 21, 2014 - 12:00am PT
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Scott getting ready to round the corner over to the West Face route
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Feb 21, 2014 - 12:02am PT
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the Backdrop...
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Feb 21, 2014 - 12:07am PT
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Sentinel Falls is your constant companion on this route...
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Feb 21, 2014 - 12:08am PT
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Thanks Steve, it was great working with you at Josh!
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Feb 21, 2014 - 12:31am PT
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Wonderful!
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E Robinson
climber
Salinas, CA
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Feb 21, 2014 - 12:32am PT
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Very cool! Story, pics, and all.
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Feb 21, 2014 - 12:35am PT
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Thanks for sharing your photos BG . . . must be more where that came from.
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KP Ariza
climber
SCC
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Feb 21, 2014 - 02:48am PT
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This is what this sight was meant to be about I'll bet.
Awesome, thanks!
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