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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Sep 10, 2017 - 08:16pm PT
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Stimbo...Hold on a minute ... I'll be down with my sister and a flash light...
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Sep 11, 2017 - 07:44am PT
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East Walker is such a neat place. Not a fisherman, but I've cycled through there a bunch. Great pics!
BAd
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micronut
Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 11, 2017 - 11:26am PT
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Awesome trip. Back at work now and thinking back on the smell of sage, the stone under our hands and meeting a new friend. What a great few days in the wild.
Thanks again Stimbo!
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clarkolator
climber
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Sep 11, 2017 - 01:26pm PT
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Darn, should've checked my phone! We were in TCG.
Only one party all day Saturday on West Crack. Funny how that works.
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le_bruce
climber
Oakland, CA
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Sep 11, 2017 - 11:39pm PT
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Love it, Micro! Man do I mis that country, been too long. The "smell of sage" part is hit like an arrow, deep pang of self-pity for being so long without getting out of the city.
This pic is great, man:
A friend's been trying to convince me on those hand jammies. You like em?
Hope to catch you out there again some time! But if not we'll always have the pizza deck haha
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micronut
Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2017 - 07:06am PT
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Le_Bruce,
On the hand jammies......yeah, they rock. Especially on delicate satin skinned mitts like mine. I have beautiful hands. It's a fact. Strangers often stop me and ask if they have seen my hands somewhere, assuming I'm a hand model. They are more steady than a brain surgeon's and more supple than fine Corinthian leather.
I was borrowing them that day and honestly they were a bit too small. I felt pumped all day and did not like the feeling, Kind of like I had over wrapped too tightly with tape. but I thought they made for more secure and less strenuous hand jams. Especially on that knobby kind of sharp granite in the Meadows. I'll be buying a pair in my size asap. Gobies are for poseurs if you ask me.
Also.....in my opinion they look better when photos are inverted.
#cameratiltking
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Sep 12, 2017 - 11:33am PT
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If it makes you feel any better, I go swimming almost every time I fish the East Walker. It just sort of lulls you into thinking you can do it and then you take that one extra step and ack!
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micronut
Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2017 - 12:15pm PT
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G_Gnome,
I was surprised how quick I went down! Up to my chin for about 4 seconds and 15 yards downstream. Spooky!
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Stimbo
Trad climber
Crowley Lake
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Sep 12, 2017 - 08:52pm PT
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Micro and Macro, getting after it.
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Sep 13, 2017 - 07:01am PT
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I used to fish the East Walker with my dad, back in the seventies. Seems like we caught a lot of carp.
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Sep 13, 2017 - 11:23am PT
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Bruce Morris
Trad climber
Belmont, California
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Sep 13, 2017 - 11:40am PT
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Is this the prow with all the big dikes to the right of "Escape From Freedom", Vitally? Sure looks like it if my memory serves me well. Starts with a long discontinuous crack system leading to a ? blank spot giving access to the upper headwall. Looks like you solved the puzzle?
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