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mooser

Trad climber

seattle

Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 16, 2007 - 03:39pm PT

For some, they're probably no-brainers. For others, they may be...uh...yes-brainers?

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4.

bluering

Trad climber

Santa Clara, Ca.

Jan 16, 2007 - 06:32pm PT

That first one has got to be somewhere in Josh.

426

Sport climber

Buzzard Point, TN

Jan 16, 2007 - 06:52pm PT

looks like diego/poway to me.

4 looks like some lime, I'm guessing "socal" on 1-3

Bart Fay

Social climber

Redlands, CA

Jan 16, 2007 - 07:01pm PT

#3. Big Rock, Lake Perris,CA
Above & between the flakes.

mooser

Trad climber

seattle

Topic Author's Reply - Jan 16, 2007 - 09:22pm PT

426 is closest
Bart is right on #3

Ricardo Carlos

Trad climber

Off center, CO.

Jan 16, 2007 - 09:32pm PT

#1 singing hills aka crest, La Cresta
# 2 Crest or lakeside
#3 Parris
#4 is a trick question
OK Tom IM feeling brain dead but did you .. No I think not
#2 Woodson ? I know I have been there
Tom Who are the climbers in the pics?

mooser

Trad climber

seattle

Topic Author's Reply - Jan 16, 2007 - 09:34pm PT

RC:

1-yes
2-no
3-yes
4-no

climber

Cardiff by the sea

Jan 16, 2007 - 09:37pm PT

#1 Crest
#2 Woodson
#3 Santee boulders
#4 ?

crotch

climber

Jan 16, 2007 - 10:12pm PT

Given the SD theme, is #4 Torrey Pines?

mooser

Trad climber

seattle

Topic Author's Reply - Jan 16, 2007 - 11:04pm PT

T2:

1-yes
2-yes
3-no

crotch:

4-no (sorry...out of state)

Klimmer

Mountain climber

San Diego

Jan 16, 2007 - 11:12pm PT

Yep.

1) Crest, the most classic lie-back ever, what's it called?
Memory failing me. Can we even climb at Crest anymore???

2) Woodson, Marshmellow Tower.

3) Big Rock, Lake Perris, name of climb ??? See above.

4) Looking very limestony there, so not in San Diego, but where? I-dun-no. Stumped.

mojede

Trad climber

Butte, America

Jan 16, 2007 - 11:53pm PT

Let's try and narrow down #4, I'll start--is it Montana limestone ?

mooser

Trad climber

seattle

Topic Author's Reply - Jan 17, 2007 - 12:50am PT

3 out of 4! Whoever gets #4 has a knowledge of the relatively obscure.

Klimmer: that is the most incredible lieback of its size, and its name escapes me too. There's also that one up the hill that is smaller, harder, and pretty much just as cool.

Have you done the two finger cracks on Marshmallow Tower? They're funky, yet fun.

mooser

Trad climber

seattle

Topic Author's Reply - Jan 17, 2007 - 01:53pm PT

Ricardo: the climber in the first pic is Bruce Nyberg (I have no idea where he is these days, but would love to say hey if anyone knows where he is). I used to climb with him quite a bit in San Diego in the early 80s. He looks (intentionally) like Bucky Beaver in the first photo, but here's a better one (also at Crest) on a seamy nailup:

The guy in the Big Rock shot is my little brother, Keith.

So anyway, I hate loose ends, so I'm gonna put this thread to bed. The 4th pic is at Mississippi Palisades State Park, between Hanover and Savannah, Illinois. The climb is called "Pretzel." Nice guesses, and ID's, y'all! Isn't it incredible how, if you've been climbing for a while, you can accurately identify small glimpses of rock from all 50 states?

Peath out.

michaellane

climber

Spokane, WA

Jan 17, 2007 - 02:26pm PT

That route at Crest ... called, simply, The Classic Dihedral ... I think. Took my first leader fall onto a #2-ish Friend on that route.

--ML

mooser

Trad climber

seattle

Topic Author's Reply - Jan 17, 2007 - 02:38pm PT

Yeah, not hard to imagine, given how featureless the right side of the dihedral is.

Ghoulwe

Trad climber

Spokane, WA

Jan 17, 2007 - 02:40pm PT

Mooser:

Last I heard of Bruce Nyburg was about 10 years ago while climbing at Tahquitz. He was working in Idylwild for the Park Service in the Summers and I believe teaching school in the Winters (maybe over in Palm Springs or something like that?). Didn't sound like he was climbing much at that point. He was a great guy and I had the opportunity to climb with him a bit back in the 80's also.

Eric