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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Sep 27, 2016 - 06:04pm PT
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Tom
I found this the other day in my archive of the Arches Register but it seemed too sad to post. For you and Kim, the two Kims!
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Sep 27, 2016 - 06:39pm PT
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As I recall the time when Lionel Terray climbed the Rotten Log with Al Steck and Leo LeBon, Royal was along also. At the time Lionel had a broken arm in a sling from his ascent of Chacraraju a few weeks earlier. Rather than do the pendulum with one arm, Lionel ran across!
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Sep 27, 2016 - 07:41pm PT
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Wow! I followed in the footsteps of the great Terray, five months later! I did the climb with a "pick-up" partner from Seattle, who had done McKinley [now Denali] that summer. Snow plodding isn't the same as slab climbing, and he fell off at least 5 times!
I don't remember finding/signing the book.
[EDIT] Anyone have the date for Cassin's ascent?
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TomKimbrough
Social climber
Salt Lake City
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Sep 27, 2016 - 09:47pm PT
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Thanks Joe.....
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DrDeeg
Mountain climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Sep 30, 2016 - 10:16pm PT
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As I recall, the first ascent party in 1936 thought that the Log would not last the winter.
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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I just checked: It's still gone.
It's because you checked that it seemed gone.
At other times, it's back.
Schrödinger's Log.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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I'm told relics, consisting of pieces of the True Log, have found their way into the possession of various climbers.
John
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Outside the Asylum
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The following rumours are completely untrue:
1. That the rotten log removal was an early special project of the Facelift.
2. That it is now in the custody of the same people who have the Ahwahnee Hotel sign.
3. That so as to make America great again, Trump will replace the log with a rotten politician. Himself.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 17, 2017 - 03:20am PT
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Rumor has it Trump's gonna replace the Rotten Log with the Access Hollywood Flake.
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Jul 17, 2017 - 09:44am PT
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Make Arches Great Again
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English fellow
Trad climber
UK
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I climbed the rotten log in 1982 and could pull bits off it easily. I didn't know there was an alternative route at 5.7 or I would have taken it.
English fellow.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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The log was the highlight of the route
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Climbed it on June 25, 1965 with George Sessions. The log was always approached with apprehension.
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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About 1977. Slick as snot, creeky, bouncy but classic.
Peace
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Well never belonged to that club, but my knickers were the blue cords by Chouinard.
Another shot, before the fixed line on the traverse, was called 5.9 then I think.
Peace
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Zay
climber
Monterey, Ca
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Mar 18, 2019 - 10:44am PT
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so my meyers guide is in storage... but was the log on the same pitch that has the awkward stemming under the canoe of a rotten branch (that is now also gone)?.
i believe it is the vertical pitch after the pendulum?
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