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Peater
Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 19, 2016 - 01:45am PT
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If you've named a first what inspired you for the route name. A rock band song, something else. I tended to the rock band theme but thought it was kind of stupid years later. Don't regret it now but I probably could have been more creative.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 19, 2016 - 06:05am PT
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STigma. Connected to Enigma. No mystery.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Aug 19, 2016 - 06:35am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]Ah yes there is this place. .
The Whole cliff I've named in keeping with the history of the now obliterated road, Sugar Hollow
The place is just so sweet.
Then as you, not mfm, I named every climb after the
Pink Floyd Album
Wish You Were Here!
All the climbs fit the lines
'Come on in'
' your gonna go far'
'Which one is pink?'
'Welcome to The Machine'
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Cragar
climber
MSLA - MT
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Aug 24, 2016 - 11:27am PT
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My first FA or whatever was with pb. We were both going through some 'different' times that required a one short step at a time kind of mindset to move through it. The route's little crux also required a similar technique to pull through it. We called it Baby Steps; it has a different name in the guide but a fun little shorty nevertheless.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Aug 24, 2016 - 11:31am PT
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Throwdown at Poundtown
Maxie Bongaducci Goes to the Deserp
Wet Turkey and Trackmarkin' Tricams
Each name reflecting the FA experience. Many others remain nameless and likely to be renamed, retro-FA'd in the future as I generally work to LNT even on proper summits
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Aug 24, 2016 - 12:16pm PT
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Playing on existing phrases/songs/movies, etc...
EBGBs
Good to the last drop
Chalk up another one
Slip sliding away
Hang em high
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Aug 24, 2016 - 01:15pm PT
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Last two:
Nylabone
Animal Control
Edit- Forgot the last one – Poi Dog.
Climbed through a small patch of chickenheads that resembled the Hawaiian island chain .
Another summer of dog names.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Aug 24, 2016 - 01:22pm PT
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Dick Williams - Gunks:
3,4,5,6 over and out Porkypine.
A listing of grade difficulty, route description, and an unusual event topping out.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Aug 24, 2016 - 01:41pm PT
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Usually has something to do with what happens while climbing the route.
There's only been a couple times that I had something in mind ahead of time that I was waiting to use.
I also suck at coming up with names so I just hope that whoever I'm with has an idea.
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Cragar
climber
MSLA - MT
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Aug 24, 2016 - 01:45pm PT
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Since Clark Canyon is on the page...
I always thought that:
coprophagic dilemma
was a good'n and quite appropriate.
disclaimer, it wasn't my route, I think it was one of Grant's.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Aug 24, 2016 - 01:58pm PT
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I forget why we named Stoners' Highway...
Too funny, Kevin!
I've done several new routes, but never publicized them, and named very few. I guess I was subconsciously hoping that others would discover them and name them after me (e.g., the Eleazarian/Schiller, the way we talk about the Steck/Salathe). Thus far, no luck.
One name I do remember, on one of our secret cliffs along Old Railroad Grade Road was "Pissants' Pestilence," named for an obvious condition at a belay bush.
John
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Aug 24, 2016 - 02:29pm PT
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By Jupiter, There are Rings Around Uranus.
Herb Laeger came up with that one. A brilliant fusion of the recent (at the time) news from our space probe that there are rings around the seventh planet, and that I was leading a desperate thin face as he looked up from below. He shouted it up to me and I very nearly fell off.
Seamstress.
Julie Lazar came up with this name which describes the route perfectly. I had to climb the damn thing but she got to name it.
Seizure.
This one was odd. Being right of Rubicon, Charlie Crist and I sat there free associating anything to do with Julius Caesar. I had lost interest in that line of thought when Charlie blurted out "Seizure". In our somewhat altered state it seemed just right.
I guess my strategy is to let my partners name them.
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Aug 24, 2016 - 04:12pm PT
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Fingers on a Pancake, a play on Figures on a Landscape, route I did in the Saline last year.
Monkey Tranquilizer was lifted off the wild writings and illustrations of a psych patient my friend treats for addiction.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 24, 2016 - 04:34pm PT
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^^^Brah! Don't drool on the holds!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Aug 24, 2016 - 05:29pm PT
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Moose, hah!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 24, 2016 - 05:37pm PT
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Something else
Generally but not always, a pun, or dual entendres, always a story, generally something about the characteristics or moves in the climb.
Literary allusions are common.
Sometimes names are topical with what was happening in climbing and the world at the time. Some of those, in hind sight were so current they've since lost their rellavency, but they're sometimes worth ferreting out. And researching.
Case in point;
There is a wall in the superstitions, past Zonerland, over the Peralta pass, before Weaver Needle, that we called the wall of world leaders. It started out with routes like Gengis Khan, and I forget what else. Two sport routes ( and this was in the very early days of sport climbing) Todd Swain and I put up were tragically contemporary in their names; 'Gore-Bosch-Ev', and 'And drop off'
Do those names make any sense today?
These were ground up routes that employed the use of Todd's Bosch. The first one I'd ever seen or touched. In those days they were the size and weight of lawn mowers.... It seemed.
But back to the name. So Gore Bosch Ev, Is a play on the name of soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev., a newsmaker of the day.
As a joke I built his name from Gore ( a future Vice peresidnet, but back then, half of a couple who was most famous for trying to Censor, or at least label, "explicit rock lyrics")
" Bosch" to celebrate our new toy, then deemed okay to use in the wilderness...
And Ev. For Evan Mecum, a crazy governor of Arizona who had recently been impeached and kicked out of office.
" And Drop Off"? Google Yuri Andropov, former soviet leader.
Edit;
One exception that I can think of, to the no rock names was, "Tarzan was a Bluesman", a rock song title, from the band Timbuktu three.
Also "Lola" in the San Rafael swell, which I had wanted to call, "Really got you."
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Peater
Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2016 - 09:24pm PT
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A friend of mine named a late 70's JT route Energy Crisis.
Now it might seem it just refers to it being strenuous but it was really about the gas shortage at the time. You could only buy gas when your license plate, odd or even number corresponded to the odd or even date of the month.
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BruceHildenbrand
Social climber
Mountain View/Boulder
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Aug 24, 2016 - 10:12pm PT
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Just put up a new route at the Monastery in Colorado last week. At the time of the ascent, Evan Jager won the silver medal in the 3000m steeplechase at the Rio Olympics by going with the big boys and not just waiting to get dropped. It was an inspired run in an event that Americans haven't been a factor in for many, many years. So, I named the route 'Jagermeister' in his honor. Plus he's a fellow UW-Madison alumni!
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Bodega
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Aug 24, 2016 - 11:12pm PT
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Found a cool 5.11 crack like feature that didn't take gear a couple years ago. Bolted it and the name naturally became: "Tough Crack to Nut"
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Aug 25, 2016 - 07:35am PT
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Jaybro,
It's interesting how different those two men were. Andropov was a very dangerous man, a KGB man who believed that war with the U.S. was inevitable, and was always watching for the moment when he would have the advantage. His ideal goal was an exchange between U.S and China.
Gorbachev, on the other hand, was willing to meet with Reagan. Both men wanted nuclear disarmament. Both men were defeated in this endeavor by their generals.
Good route names too. How about Nuclear Arms for a steep hard sport climb?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 25, 2016 - 08:17am PT
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I think there is a a "Nuclear arms" somewhere...
Yeah, scary to think what the world might have have gone through had Yuri, lived longer and not dropped off😎!!
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Aug 25, 2016 - 08:48am PT
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You're right. I think Nuclear Arms is out by Ionic Strength in Josh?
Read "Red Star Rogue", the beta on An-Drop-Of.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 25, 2016 - 08:56am PT
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I forget why we named Stoners' Highway...--Warbler
Kevin, dude, I just GOT that!!!!!!!!!!!!!
--Wobbler
Talk about a trad route eight feet long.
"MY PITCH!"
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dagibbs
Trad climber
Ottawa, Ontario
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Aug 25, 2016 - 12:01pm PT
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It varies. Something about the climb, a rock band, matching a theme at the crag, desperation.
Some climbs I've named:
Mixed Precipitation -- that's what was falling the day we cleaned the route.
Tits 'n' Ass -- climbs up through the cleavage in a pair of rounded roof sections that look like tits from below -- and the way it is climbed your ass hangs out while you pull through the cleavage.
Shining On You Crazy Diamond, Welcome to the Machine, Ummagumma, Another Brick in the Wall -- rock band theme at the cliff.
Stairway to Hell -- start of climb looks like an upside down staircase & rock song variation.
Dave, Dave, Dave of the Jungle -- lots of interaction with a tree that ran from the base to about 2/3 of the way up the climb.
Scylla and Charybdis - when the climb was originally TRed, it zig-zagged between two big stacks of loose blocks (since cleared).
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Aug 25, 2016 - 12:25pm PT
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Talk about a trad route eight feet long.
"MY PITCH!
Ooh!
John
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Peater
Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2016 - 08:06pm PT
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Not all my routes but I loved the names
Nixon Cracks: 2 adjacent crack boulder problems at JT when the then Pres was getting impeached
Alice in Wonder Jam: When psychedelic fantasy was cool, one crack getting wider and the one your on is getting small.
Zucchinis from Alpha Centuri Four: or something like that when we liked science fiction novels.
Ziggy Stardust: when we liked our Rock and roll stars.
Mickey Mantle: After the base ball pitcher. Route lives up to the name. Mantle mantle mantle.
Pink Ryoid: Or something like that. Teasing a guy named Ryoid. Not nice but still a good route.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Sep 21, 2016 - 08:14pm PT
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Not figuring out the approach to Via Aqua, and ending up with a post-midnight rap down AquaMist because we didn't know we had basically topped out the cliff, our short route to the left of there became AquaChossy.
It will clean up very nicely if it ever gets traffic, but granite ball-bearings rained (reigned?) that day, and I had big chunks of granite in my underwear when we got home.
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Peater
Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2016 - 09:09pm PT
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Hi AguaChossy
You just have to push sideways at the rock to go up. Just don't pull down. Had to do that before but didn't like it a bit.
When it's cleared will it still be "Chossy"?. I've know some routes that were cleared and were still know by there original condition: reputation.
Getting a little off target here but I once soloed a route that I was comfortable with only to find that the crux chock stone hand hold was gone. Couldn't go down and fortunately it was just different going up but not harder.
Thanks for your post.
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duncan
climber
London, UK
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Sep 22, 2016 - 01:32am PT
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Hardd. Welsh for beautiful, pronounced "harrth". I imagine Henry Barber did this version on his UK visit in the early 70s and liked the name.
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Sep 22, 2016 - 07:25am PT
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Shadows of Madness on Maniac's Delight-West Summit, Pinnacles NP
Gavin appropriately named this technical (and possibly sandbagged) 10c.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 22, 2016 - 07:31am PT
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Tough Shiites
Chemical Ali
Saddam's Spiderhole
Something must have been in the news.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 22, 2016 - 12:35pm PT
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Dump Drumpf
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Laine
Trad climber
Reno, NV
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Sep 22, 2016 - 04:10pm PT
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I typically draw inspiration from the features of the route (or formation), the experience during the FA, or prior naming conventions of established routes if it is in an already developed area.
Cleverness is always a considerations as well.
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Urmas
Social climber
Sierra Eastside
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Sep 22, 2016 - 05:40pm PT
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Two of my favorite names are at Donner Summit: Farewell to Arms, and Peter Principle. The latter, for those too young to remember, postulates that in hierarchical organisations people tend to rise to their level of incompetence.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Sep 22, 2016 - 06:40pm PT
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Songs of the time: White Punks On Dope (not mine)
or news events of the time: Little Mujahadin
These help place the FA in history
Some formations are obvious and the route names itself: Eat or Be Eaten
Dedication to my old climbing equipment: Goldline, Skyline
Liturature: Endymion, Hyperion
Science: Tethys, Pangia Wall
Dedication to a person like Sheridan Anderson: Acme Top Rope Wall
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slabbo
Trad climber
colo south
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Sep 23, 2016 - 08:49am PT
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I had taken a big fall, around 80' and John mallery noted "just gotta real in the fears man" The boys pulled in plenty of slack to keep me off the ground.
My favorite in in Wales bath time quarry "sucked away with the scum"
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Oct 24, 2016 - 04:49pm PT
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Embarrassment of Rich's
Name sez it all.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Sorta Makes Me Look Pretty Good. gwb 5.8
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Peater,
Mantle was a centerfielder, his "pitches" were long ones.
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mooch
Trad climber
Tribal Base Camp (Riverkern Annex)
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Recently added to a new section on Kern Slab called the Beer Wall:
'Hop Matter'
'Wort Nuthin'
'Lagers With Laeger' (an obvious deidcation to Herb Laeger, also involved in the FA)
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Stewart Johnson
Mountain climber
lake forest
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The third pitch on Cerro Knarle
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KP Ariza
climber
SCC
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ATF (alcohol tobacco and forearms)
De-fib-you-later
The Muffin Man
Last laugh
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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A friend was suffering from marital problems so he put up "The Separated Reality"
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Lassitude 33
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The Importance of Being Ernest (On Hemingway Buttress)
Too Loose to Trek
I Can't Believe It's A Girdle
Poodles Are People Too (and a host of "poodle" progeny)
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Garboni
Trad climber
CA
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Boldly Departed, FA’d the day we all lost the seemingly immortal John Bachar. Osama bin Gotten, FA’d the day bin Laden was hunted down. Baltic Invasion, named when I got home after the FA and discovered a tick attached to my boys while sitting on the toilet.
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skywalker1
Trad climber
co
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Stupid Human Tricks: A boulder problem exit that went from 45 degree upside down to the reverse onto a 45 degree slab with a nice"lip" that took a long time to figure out! Watch your chin!
Benthic Dweller Basically a standing start to a long overhanging horizontal cave that was mandatory that you did the boulder problem in its entirety before you moved onto the exit moves up. East Coast steep sand stone at its best!
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