Manure Pile Buttress - all known ascents

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A very

climber
Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 23, 2015 - 09:15pm PT
I'm putting together a list.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Jan 23, 2015 - 09:16pm PT
Aid and free?
limpingcrab

Trad climber
the middle of CA
Jan 23, 2015 - 09:18pm PT
Have Ed H. write a formula that can predict the number of ascents using the coefficient of friction on the mandatory holds.

Considering they feel like greasy glass I'll estimate one million +/- three
john hansen

climber
Jan 23, 2015 - 09:32pm PT
A very long list...
Texplorer

Trad climber
Sacramento
Jan 23, 2015 - 09:33pm PT
Probably easier if you limit it to climbs using hands and feet and only the rope to catch them if they fall.
Avery

climber
NZ
Jan 23, 2015 - 09:45pm PT
Another list!! Where do I sign?
apogee

climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
Jan 23, 2015 - 09:46pm PT
A dawn-ting task. Good luck with that.
RyanD

climber
Squamish
Jan 23, 2015 - 09:52pm PT
Before I add my name to this list i'd like to know what the data is going to be used for?
MisterE

Gym climber
Bishop, CA
Jan 23, 2015 - 10:08pm PT
This thread has legs!

8-)
madbolter1

Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
Jan 23, 2015 - 10:52pm PT
Over the decades I've ascended so many buttresses that were piles of manure that they all fade together now into one vague and faintly ever-present odor. So I don't remember if any particular ascent was relevant to your present topic. I just remember that there were a lot of ascents of what could only be described as manure pile buttresses.

I don't know if that vagueness of "known," seeing as it picks out almost nothing in particular, could be worthwhile to you.

Perhaps that question about clarity is me descending into the manure pile that is analytical philosophy. But that would be a descent, about which it seems you would not care, seeing as you expressly said "ascents."

Also, philosophy probably could not count as a buttress, even metaphorically. Any particular philosophy could be buttressed, but it seems clear to me that this is not the sense of "buttress" you have in mind.

Sorry. The more I've thought it through, the more convinced I am that I can't help you in your quest.

But I shared the above anyway just to let you see the process of my trying to be helpful, so that you could see how seriously I have taken this thread.
ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
extraordinaire
Jan 23, 2015 - 11:02pm PT
clinker

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
Jan 24, 2015 - 06:14am PT
Many special and ingenious people climbed Manure Pile.

Wasn't it also called "Ranger Rock"?

Same thing.

Bad Climber

climber
Jan 24, 2015 - 08:35am PT
A mildly interesting question. The number must be over 10K, yes?

BAd
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Jan 24, 2015 - 09:02am PT
I thought it was called El Teniente?
Camster (Rhymes with Hamster)

Social climber
CO
Jan 24, 2015 - 09:20am PT
I don't have enough fingers for this exercise. But, luckily, I do have enough for several other exercises.....
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Jan 24, 2015 - 09:51am PT
Well I've got a number of IAD and IAP ascents myself.

I hope I make the book.


I even guided a Norwegian girl up it and broke all the pitches into two so we had good comms, and could see each other.

I may have the only 16 pitch ascent of Nutcracker.....
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Jan 24, 2015 - 10:05am PT
I assume belays were all hands free stances....
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Jan 24, 2015 - 10:17am PT
Hey now, I didn't say there was no aid involved, I only said IAD and IAP!!
RyanD

climber
Squamish
Jan 24, 2015 - 10:28am PT
A Norwegian girl gave u aid on a 16 pitch push of the nutcracker Survival?!

That sounds like a book in itself!
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Jan 24, 2015 - 10:37am PT
It was epic Ryan, that's for sure. It was a complicated love triangle sorta thingy...

I was dating Norwegian woman #1, who asked me to take her good friend, Norwegian woman #2 up a long route. Woman #2 was not as good a climber as the rest of the Norwegian contingent that summer. Everyone was trying to fill their personal tick book, and lady #2 had trouble finding solid partners. She was a great gal, so I agreed to do it.

Actually it was a great day in the sun, only one of many great stories to be had from MPB.

If only that stone could talk.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Jan 24, 2015 - 11:01am PT
What's the pro like?

Can I get up it in a day, or should I plan on fixing a couple?
Big Mike

Trad climber
BC
Jan 24, 2015 - 01:47pm PT
Hmm.. Sounds fun! Topo? :)
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jan 24, 2015 - 02:17pm PT
well now,
Let see was it me that YA are aiming for ?

Trolling the high seas of the stormy weekend?
It was my Pirateship that's just the half of it.

On weekends I would do six trips,
up to where ever the n00bs, had, had enough.

I could make enough to live for a month off one weekend !
(with tips and chow n drinks some times)</;^D
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Oregon
Jan 24, 2015 - 05:42pm PT

Jan 24, 2015 - 10:17am PT
Hey now, I didn't say there was no aid involved, I only said IAD and IAP!!

I wasn't talking about the climbing... I meant the Norwegian.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Jan 24, 2015 - 06:19pm PT
Oooops, ha ha hahahaaaa!!!
Fritz

Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
Jan 24, 2015 - 08:08pm PT
Yeah! Put me & Gary Clark on the short list of known ascent parties. 1975. Gary wanted to "top-out" on Manure Pile. Maybe Nutcracker? I remember it was towards the center, or left side?

A fair number of leads with a 150' rope.
snowhazed

Trad climber
Oaksterdam, CA
Jan 24, 2015 - 10:03pm PT
wow it looks like a big line of bird poop is running down the pile of manure
Don Paul

Big Wall climber
Denver, Colorado
Jan 25, 2015 - 08:28am PT
This rock needs a new name.
Don Paul

Big Wall climber
Denver, Colorado
Jan 25, 2015 - 09:29am PT
^ now that you mention it, I think I have heard of Ranger Rock. This is a reference to Werner Braun?
Big Mike

Trad climber
BC
Jan 25, 2015 - 09:54am PT
Isn't it just called "picnic area" now?? ;)
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Jan 25, 2015 - 09:56am PT
Also known as n00b Tower!
Mungeclimber

Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
Jan 27, 2015 - 03:24pm PT
My hummocks are my own business. You leave them out of this.
snakefoot

climber
Nor Cal
Jan 27, 2015 - 03:29pm PT
does preplaced gear and a rap preview count?
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