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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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