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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2014 - 04:15pm PT
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Nice to see this come 'round again.
Here's a shot from the late summer; homeward bound at Spring Farm after a day on the hill.
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 16, 2015 - 05:13pm PT
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Bonticuo today with the wind howling over the ridge. Icy!
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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Jan 16, 2015 - 09:55pm PT
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... just a few nice pictures really, so its fate is surely a rapid descent through the pages to an obscurity somewhat like the crag itself, and perhaps that's a good thing... Nicely put. I really appreciate your slant on the place.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Jan 17, 2015 - 08:58am PT
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Richie, what camera/device are you using? there is a distinct visual signature in all your images, please advise.
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 17, 2015 - 09:30am PT
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Peter, I have a few camera/devices, from (now old so not so) fancy Nikon to point-and-shoot to iPhone, but I think all the shots I posted are from an iPhone. I do very minimal post-processing. I almost always crop a little since (a) I don't find the iPhone frame convivial to most scenes and (b) I find it hard to see clearly on the iPhone screen, in daylight, what I'm framing, so usually try for a bit more than I want. (Then there's the sad fact that I get my finger in front of a cell phone lens a inordinate amount of the time.)
Moreover, I find that cropping often takes a very ordinary scene and invests it with some kind of tension or symmetry or asymmetry or I don't really know what, but something that makes it more visually compelling to me. Then I pull a little shadow detail and tamp down the highlights if I can, add a touch of saturation and sharpening and that's about it. It's a five or max ten minute process, but I think it is fair to say that I very rarely show anyone in any context a unprocessed photo straight from the camera. In this regard I categorically reject the notion that the original image is in any sense a more objective rendition of reality than an image altered by a few sliders in a processing program. If those alterations help to approximate my memories, then that's my reality.
I also try to be selective about what I impose on anyone else's eyeballs. We're beyond saturated with images as it is.
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Happiegrrrl2
Trad climber
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Jan 17, 2015 - 11:32am PT
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Brrr! That last shot is beautiful, but makes me glad to be out west! Will be back when the Lady Slippers, some of which can be found at Bonticou, start to come up.
Also, last September, I did a walk around the crag, just following Clearwater Road out. Lucas alerted me(silently, thankfully) to a mama bear and her twins, browsing maybe 25 yards away. Yes, I was scared, and praying Lucas didn't bark, but they seemed to not cae I was there, and eventually I just continued on, telling myself "Whatever you do, don't look back." The hike was fantastic - I love the old wood roads, imagining what life was like BITD when they were being used by those who lived near and travelled through.
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 17, 2015 - 05:26pm PT
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Not on the winter theme, but still a little different: Dave's Dong at Bonticuo:
An here's a bit o' the ridgetop on a kinder gentler day:
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Apr 23, 2015 - 11:09am PT
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Just about my almost all time favorite place!
DMT, I am some what of an acquired taste,
I am sorry that I had no idea of your visit,
but please if your here in the east let me know.
( I mean, I Know some, about them there woodz n' rocks)
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 23, 2015 - 12:07pm PT
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I was there in January this year when Rgold snapped that picture of the golden light at the top of Bonticuo. What a cool (cold!) place. We ice climbed with ice creepers that day, lol. It was epic!
An epic ice-creeper-shod moment from the day: Lady Scarlett balances precariously on Microspikes with the frigid maw of the Bonticuo boulderfield waiting to devour the results of even a momentary loss of adhesion.
To paraphrase Whymper,
“Climb Bonticuo if you will, but remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.”
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Jones in LA
Mountain climber
Tarzana, California
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Apr 24, 2015 - 07:33am PT
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Looks like a magically beautiful place. Thanks to all for revealing some Eastern wonderment to a provincial Westerner like me.
Rich Jones
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 10, 2015 - 06:59pm PT
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Well Spring is back. Yours truly on the home stretch of my third Bonticuo trail run of the season, and the first time this Spring I managed (ever so barely) to actually "run" the whole rig. Even though just a still, I think the stumbling gait of a fully-pooped runner is detectable.
I'm running with poles by the way, not crutches. Steve Molis came along, tolerated my pedestrian pace, and took the picture.
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 10, 2015 - 07:24pm PT
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I can't edit my post of Lady Scarlett braving the icy Bonticuo boulder field, but here for contrast is my daughter Sarah in a kindler gentler season.
This is part of the trail run as well.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Jun 10, 2015 - 09:03pm PT
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The part of the trail your daughter is on looks tricky to do with poles.
I note that the wounded alien has gone that way, too. Just like when DMT visited Grouse resort here in Vancouver. X-Files territory.
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 10, 2015 - 09:10pm PT
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The part of the trail your daughter is on looks tricky to do with poles.
I fold 'em up and stick them in a little running vest/pack that I wear. (It also carries water, snacks, and when the heat subsides, a light jacket.)
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Maeday
Trad climber
San Francisco
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Jun 10, 2015 - 09:25pm PT
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Great pics!!!! Looks far far Away from me
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 10, 2015 - 09:57pm PT
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Yup, other side of the country.
C'mon over sometime!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jun 11, 2015 - 07:43am PT
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Sweet! That last photo looks like a landscape by a 19th Century Master. New York may have a high population density but you can still experience a feel of wildness there.
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Jun 11, 2015 - 07:58am PT
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you can still experience a feel of wildness there.
The folks in Tupper Lake never had much trouble creating wildness...
... now Dannemora, that's a different story.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jun 11, 2015 - 08:23am PT
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Plastic pullers be ware the climbing off the grid in and around the Gunks is not at all like climbing to an anchor. You will ledge out, need to build an anchor and often climb
un protectable 'cap'rock to get off the cliff to reach flat ground.
And that 'Dave's Dong' is short and stiff with ground fall potential,into the rocks ,
Is an, every other move, reality. A true Gunks 5.9!
Rgold,
That girl on the other site? I know it is not done but I fear for her, she seems genuine.
The rock she mentions, and says she frequents is okay to teach movement, but is not good for teaching gear, leading safe actions as one raps, or any of the things that the Gunks offers in spades. I sung your praises,to her I an email , I hope you don't mind.
See you in the outback maybe?
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