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splitclimber
climber
Sonoma County
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 10, 2016 - 12:24pm PT
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Location: Round Table Pizza, 2065 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa
Time & Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 @ 7:30 PM (Social hours and free beer for members at 6:30)
Directions: From Highway 101 at Santa Rosa go west on Highway 12 to Stony Point Road Exit. Go straight from the middle lane at the light onto Occidental Road. The Round Table Pizza is on the right just down the road.
Southern Yosemite, located in the Sierra National Forest, has always been overshadowed by Yosemite Valley. Twenty-five years ago, Doug Robinson brought Mike Arechiga to climb in the Southern Yosemite area and he has been hooked ever since. The history of Southern Yosemite is a bit cloudy at best as early climbing pioneers kept no records of climbs or climbing areas. In the early 1970’s, Fred Beckey was the first to climb on several of the prominent domes in the area. A couple years later, Royal Robbins brought his Rock Craft School to the area to climb many fine routes but they did not keep documents on any of the first ascents they did. Over the next four decades, many notable climbers arrived to the area and established many good and sometimes bold routes.
Southern Yosemite is still wild and entices climbers to search out places like Fresno Dome, Shuteye Ridge and The Balls. Mike, along with his family and friends, established a handful of routes in the 1990’s and then started to document routes and climbing areas to add to the climbs that were included Mark and Shirley Spencer’s Climber’s Guide to Southern Yosemite. In 2009, Mike made self-produced climbing guides to Shuteye Ridge and Fresno Dome. Even with Grahm Doe’s release of A Rock Climber’s Guide to California’s Shuteye Ridge in 2013, Southern Yosemite still feels remote and wild.
Mike Arechiga currently lives in Oakhurst, CA but has been an integral part of the San Francisco Bay Area climbing community at Castle Rock State Park and beyond. He has been involved with Planet Granite climbing gyms for the past 14 years as a route-setter, climbing instructor and construction builder. He is always willing to share climbing beta and loves to meet and climb with people who share the same passion in climbing.
http://www.rockicemountain.org/
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Feb 10, 2016 - 01:38pm PT
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Will do my best to make it. Mike is a super nice guy and I would love to see his photos and hear his stories. Anyone going up from SF?
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mike a.
Sport climber
ca
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Feb 11, 2016 - 12:00pm PT
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Thanks RIM, hope to see youall there and i can give youall a super big Mike A wive in person :-), have a happy climbing day, Mike A.
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Daphne
Trad climber
Northern California
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Feb 11, 2016 - 03:49pm PT
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Thats mike's trademark wave! (Wish i could be there)
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splitclimber
climber
Sonoma County
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 12, 2016 - 11:38am PT
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I'm tempted to find all of Mike's waving pictures and post them here. ;)
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splitclimber
climber
Sonoma County
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 18, 2016 - 04:09pm PT
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tip of the iceberg ;)
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Daphne
Trad climber
Northern California
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Feb 18, 2016 - 04:14pm PT
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I tried to find one from the taco shuteye gathering last year but I've lost it 😥
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Feb 18, 2016 - 04:41pm PT
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Bought the Spencer guide and spend a week climbing, early nineties. Logging roads, manky bolts and solitude. Good times.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 19, 2016 - 07:17pm PT
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hey there say, splitclimber...
WOW, great pics!!!
just a bump, for all the folks to see this...
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Klass7
Trad climber
Windsor, California
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Feb 24, 2016 - 03:48pm PT
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We refer to that as giving "the princess wave."
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splitclimber
climber
Sonoma County
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 26, 2016 - 09:46am PT
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Nice Klass,
Hope you can make it to the meeting next Tuesday. You're so close and I don't think we've met before.
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mike a.
Sport climber
ca
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Feb 26, 2016 - 07:54pm PT
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mike a.
Sport climber
ca
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I would like to give a super big thanks to the rock & ice mt. club for inviting me to give a slide show and let me share my love of southern yosemite, shuteye, and fresno dome, great group of people, and if I lived in the santa rosa area I for sure would be psyched on being a member of this group, thanks again for the great time, cheers, happy climbing mike a.
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splitclimber
climber
Sonoma County
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 4, 2016 - 09:13am PT
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Thanks for the kind words. It was a great slideshow with a nice soyo history. Even better to share a rope with you. Waving pic will get posted when I get back from lassen.
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this just in
climber
Justin Ross from North Fork
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Mikea signature pose is trending, my favorite is when a beer is in his other hand. Mike is a great guy, thanks for all your work in SoYo. See you at Southgate.
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