Hardest mantle in the USA?

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lucander

Trad climber
Shawangunks, New York
Oct 15, 2013 - 08:54am PT
That opening move on EBGB's at Josh is a helluva shut-down mantle.
Mark Force

Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
Mar 3, 2016 - 09:30pm PT
"Anybody got pics of Dale Bard mantling?" bump
snowhazed

Trad climber
Oaksterdam, CA
Mar 3, 2016 - 10:25pm PT
what a rad thread- thanks for the bump

Curt

climber
Gold Canyon, AZ
Mar 3, 2016 - 11:32pm PT
At least a couple of the things mentioned here I don't consider to be real mantels since (as others have mentioned) you can basically face-climb past them. Acrobat Overhang and Pinch Overhang come to mind. I've done those problems and I don't mantel particularly well.

Curt
skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Mar 4, 2016 - 08:56am PT
Good thread. There is mantel problem called "speed of leather"? I love some of these names.

Is this thing really a mantle? Death Vomit; photo from MP
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Jan 22, 2017 - 04:38pm PT
Bump for midwinter mantle insurance...
guyman

Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
Jan 22, 2017 - 06:44pm PT
Great bump... I always love it when a JB topic crops up....

With the winter rains, I do police Stoney some. I do stop when I see pads being unloaded and eager young boulders running down to climb.

I try to educate them, most are so new and wet behind the ears they don't know one is not climb on the sandstone when its mud.

I tell them, its ok to walk around and do the mantle problems, things like the Lion Head, the Wilson Mantles the Slant Rock mantles etc....

most give me blank stares and ask "Whats a mantle" .... I kid you knot

I guess those are not Set at the gyms.
ruppell

climber
Jan 22, 2017 - 06:46pm PT
Sometime in the not so distant future:

"Grandpa, what's a mantle?"
jgill

Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
Jan 22, 2017 - 08:49pm PT
Owen Glynne Jones may have started it all back in the 1890s when he'd do his gymnastic climbing stunts in the billiard room at Wastwater Hotel in the Lake District. He would mantle on a mantle above the fireplace.
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Jan 22, 2017 - 09:05pm PT
The mantle of history surrounding the historical mantel of the mantelpiece.

Before Pete blows a gasket again.

I just picked up a copy of Alan Hankinson's excellent historical examination of the Owen Glynne Jones era, The First Tigers. Quite the amazing climber was he.
Peater

Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
Jan 22, 2017 - 11:45pm PT
Mantling is a very useful tool. I've done some climbs that advertised no rests but I found them holding a mantle. You can unload your feet and shake out a hand.

On the other hand I'd be barfing on a 5.9 off width.

Used to be able to climb a pole like on a volley ball court. Hands as high as they could go then put a foot on top of the pole and stand up. And watch the VB game. Usually the VB game stopped when I did this though.
martygarrison

Trad climber
Washington DC
Jan 23, 2017 - 08:03am PT
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jan 23, 2017 - 08:53am PT
Nice one Marty! Back in the days when the bar had some class! Sofas and all.
And heck, is that Fish there, having a beer?

Did you ever get on top of that rig?



And I'm not usually into bouldering vids, but this one (reposted from above) is excellent!

https://vimeo.com/27702238

Damn that looks hard!
Mike Honcho

Trad climber
Golden, CO
Jan 23, 2017 - 10:49am PT
Well, maybe not the hardest mantle for certain, but the one I've seen as the most spectacular and ugly if you blow it. The Midnight Lightning finish mantle.
This thing. No other way to pull this mantle off than to 100% commit to the set up, the "kip", and then see it through somehow. If you're truly committed and your foot pops you WILL bounce your face off the granite and with some level of stars in your eyes, you and your now squirting nose will fall like a sack of crap into whatever spot or pads you had at the time. Truly, the agony and the glory in one crux, mantle finale'!
Here's a humorous, yet truthful and funny "pre-mantle prep" pic..

Both pics shamelessly grabbed off of Google.
adenparker

climber
Encinitas, CA
Feb 6, 2019 - 07:37pm PT
Bump for hard mantles!

Here are a few pics of some recent burly ones...

Veins popping and leg cramping.

Birthday Mantle in the Boulder Batholith near Butte, MT. Classic!

This has to be one of the hardest...Curtis Mantle at Woodson. This photo doesn't do it justice...haven't heard of many repeats, if any at all. I know I've been shut down countless times.
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Feb 6, 2019 - 08:58pm PT
Aiden. Good to see you on here. How did you like the batholith? Very cool place. Tell your dad I said hi. If you are ever in CO you should hook up with my son for a few pitches.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 6, 2019 - 09:06pm PT
'Pass the Pitons' Pete

Big Wall climber
blah blah blah

Feb 22, 2007 - 07:19am PT

It's spelled "MANTEL" damnit! As in the mantelshelf above your fireplace.
Geeeeeeeez......

Nice to know someone else is a lert.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 6, 2019 - 09:17pm PT
The oft-repeated mantel on Little Columbia Boulder (long may it serve us and peace be on those who climb on it), called The Horn, is one which for me was almost a literal stepping stone in my development as a young climber lacking in significant amounts the requisite upper development to perform the maneuver with great ease and grace instead of thrashing around with feet dangling, trying to get the angle and the thrust upwards and the balance just so and the foot up, and all that technique sh#t.

Or else it was simply a huge ego booster, one. That sounds more like.

And along comes Jerry Coe, the Fresno Flash, to show me the OTHER WAY to do it...upside f'n down, I kid not. He grabbed the greasy horn standing and looking at Big Columia and magically arches and lands atop the would-be mantel like it's no big deal. I cannot adequately recall how he managed it, but he DID, and let's see BURT BRONSON DO IT, YA CANDY-ASS!

Not really claiming this is the hardest in the USA, but it may be if it's done like Jerry done it.

--mfm


God rest ye, John Bachar, wherever you are.
You're in our hearts so you ain't very far.
throwpie

Trad climber
Berkeley
Feb 6, 2019 - 09:52pm PT
The fireplace hood at the lodge? We were all hanging on a rainy day when this kid came in and truly levitated up it. Who was that I asked later. Tobin something was the answer.
micronut

Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
Feb 7, 2019 - 06:55am PT
Cool old Bachar thread. Nice shots Adenparker. Keeping the lost art alive.

Scott

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