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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 20, 2018 - 12:29pm PT
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Pretty sure it was 1981- Thanksgiving weekend. Joshua Tree. Indian Cove. Near where site 63? is today maybe? Low angle slab split with a crack that was kind of wide and scruffy.
Tennis shoes for footwear. A goldline hip belay above me protected me as I whine'd my way up.
Later that weekend... Short Wall and other climbs would be tried.
later, and much much later, Rubidoux, Suicide and Tahquitz would infuse me with a much needed life long pursuit.
Changed my life.
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Jan 20, 2018 - 12:46pm PT
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The Dolphin at JT, 1985, bagged a few firsts
First roped climb
First lead
First OW
Not the first time I almost killed myself
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okay, whatever
climber
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Jan 20, 2018 - 01:03pm PT
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First roped climb? Kiener's, the easy way up the east face of Longs Peak, in August 1971.
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Jan 20, 2018 - 01:16pm PT
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Spring 1962, Tahquitz Rock. Failed to complete the White Maiden.
Did a lot of bouldering at Stoney prior to Tahquitz, starting in September of 1961.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 20, 2018 - 01:26pm PT
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Climbing onto a horse at 5 was pretty scary.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
Of THIS World (Planet Earth)
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Jan 20, 2018 - 01:33pm PT
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Other than TRs at Stoney Point, Angel's Fright, Tahquitz with my Dad and Lincoln, 1967/68 (10 yrs. old).
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jeff constine
Trad climber
Ao Namao
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Jan 20, 2018 - 01:34pm PT
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Dave's Deviation to Gallwas Gallop 1981. Tahquitz Rock With just perlon slung nuts.
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Jan 20, 2018 - 01:35pm PT
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Sixty years ago as of this past summer, I was fourteen years old on a camping trip to the Tetons. Did the Grand with the Exum guides.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Jan 20, 2018 - 01:43pm PT
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Where: An known private conglomerate cliff in Rhode Island, about 50 feet high and 1/4-mile long. Reminds me a lot of climbing at Pinnacles.
When: Early 1970s, I was about 12 years old. A high school friend took me free-soloing.
What: We climbed the cliff, walked along the top about 30 feet, and then down-climbed he cliff, walked about 30 feet along the base, then climbed up, etc.
It was all a game, and I was hooked.
We spent a lot of time learning to climb there throughout high school. The rock was heavily covered with lichen. The cliff wasn't very high, but it was pretty long, so we did a lot of girdle traverses, equally as scary for the follower as the leader.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Jan 20, 2018 - 02:50pm PT
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A guy we took climbing for the first time, with the Brown-Pembroke Outing Club, put it this way; "It puts chemicals into your bloodstream." He was a musician, or at least a good singer, who did a memorable, "Mammy's little baby loves shortnin,' shortnin',..."
Well done, Munge.
edit: and others
Did you receive any encouragement from your mentors?
The very first roped climb I did was Friction Face (5.0) at Quincy Quarries in the autumn of 1967. I remember terror. What I think may have been equally if not more influential was getting praised by the trip leaders later in the day for getting up a 5.4. In my sneakers, but I had no idea that made any difference and it didn't, really.
I am curious about what hooked Don Lauria.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jan 20, 2018 - 02:55pm PT
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Somewhere in Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina in the Summer of 1964. I was with my Special Forces A Detachment doing mission training. Two British SAS were with us. One day they set up a top rope on a small cliff near our camp. I spent a couple of hours top roping and never looked back.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 20, 2018 - 02:58pm PT
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"Failed to complete the White Maiden."
ah, but what a spectacular place to not complete something.
Same here. We backed off of Hard Lark on an early trip for me.
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Jan 20, 2018 - 03:18pm PT
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Well, seeing some of the comments above, let me add that in 1939 I used to chimney to the roof of my garage in the space between the garage and an adjacent brick walled hotel in Hollywood.
Incidentally, at that time I was living 8 blocks from Royal Robbins and attending the same grammar school - Vine Street Elementary School. We never met until 1962..
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Jan 20, 2018 - 03:18pm PT
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Good topic- Munge
Whilst on a family camping trip at Mono Hot Springs, when I was 5, my cousin Gordon and I climbed a shallow groove chimney thing to the top of a small granite dome. The parents flipped out cause they couldn’t climb up to us and summoned the Rangers to rescue us.
10 years later I was on a ski trip in Garmish, Germany. Because there was no snow, one of the German ski instructors asked if anyone wanted to climb the Zucspitse (sp?) Germany’s tallest peak. I was down immediately and a swami, along with runner and a locker were given to me to use. That was fun and scary, 2,000 feet of exposure will really wake up your senses, and I loved the feeling.
When I was twenty I was invited to come out to Stoney Point and join in a Sierra Club RCS group. I learned how to hip belay and catch the “sierra sow” and how to rap... down the huge face and finally they let us top rope. As the day was winding down I asked about one of the TR’s that was hanging down over by Turlock boulder and I asked if I could try that one. One of the group leaders sort of laughed and said “that’s for experts only”. Anyway they let me try it and I flashed it!
Ever since that day I have been addicted to climbing. And that’s a good thing. I still get the
excited feeling when I tie in.
Climb on.
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Jan 20, 2018 - 03:19pm PT
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Chockstone Dome, Pinnacles National Monument(Park) 9/80
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Jan 20, 2018 - 03:40pm PT
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Some obscure rocks in North Georgia in 1953. Before names and ratings existed.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Jan 20, 2018 - 03:42pm PT
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My French Canadian friend Jean Guibord lead me up Three Pines, at The Gunks. Then, after we hiked back down to the Uberfall he said "Okay, now it's your turn to lead." It seemed fair enough. He pointed me to Horseman. With a few old Clog nuts and hexes, EB's, and no technique, that was something to remember. Looking back at the consequences of a fall after traversing across left out of the corner was motivation enough for me and my totally pumped arms to finish that weird move up onto the ledge. We did it in two pitches.
Did I mention I was instantly hooked?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 20, 2018 - 03:58pm PT
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"The First Climbs Are Always Free"
-Climber Dealer to Potential Addict
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hellroaring
Trad climber
San Francisco
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Jan 20, 2018 - 05:14pm PT
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My first roped climb was on some nondescript cliff band just off the Beartooth highway near Cooke City Montana. It wasn't very high and I was pretty freaked out, but I too got bit by the bug...
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duffer
Trad climber
Sonora, CA
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Jan 20, 2018 - 07:22pm PT
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August 1970 on an outcrop near Lake Ediza in the Ritter Range. My brother, Jerry, brought a rope along on our backpacking trip and we tried to rappel with the knowledge (or lack thereof) he had gleaned from a library book. Later, some "real climbers" with ice axes and ropes came through our camp. They showed us how to belay and rappel and we top-roped a short pitch. They were members of the Rock-Climbing Section (RCS) of the Sierra Club. I went home and looked up the RCS in the phone book. Signed up for their basic class that winter and one of the instructors was Armando Menocal. I have been happily hooked ever since.
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