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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 23, 2007 - 04:59pm PT
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It's high summer, high time for another of these threads.
After too much rain and a month on the couch we took our doggy to the White Mountains this weekend.
Perfect weather and find-your-head-again cragging at Echo.
Where were you?
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L
climber
Alaska once upon a time
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Jul 23, 2007 - 05:18pm PT
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Tell Leslie she's the strongest-looking couchpotato any of us have ever seen... :-)
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goatboy smellz
climber
colorado
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Jul 23, 2007 - 05:19pm PT
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Staying cool by climbing high or climbing cool by staying high, whatever way it seems to be working.
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GOclimb
Trad climber
Boston, MA
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Jul 23, 2007 - 05:22pm PT
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Cool! Love the blues against the rock! I too was in the Whites of NH.
I was stuffed inside the wide.
It claimed very little of my hide.
GO
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Jul 23, 2007 - 05:48pm PT
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Wazat? Go?
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summerprophet
Mountain climber
Cali Via Canada
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Jul 23, 2007 - 06:04pm PT
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I was in Yosemite, seeking cooler temps than the valley floor. Found it on the East Buttress of Mid Cathedral (50 crowded var.)
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 23, 2007 - 10:24pm PT
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Tell Leslie she's the strongest-looking couchpotato any of us have ever seen... :-)
Heh, I'll pass that along!
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 24, 2007 - 08:52am PT
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summerprophet -- is that a vertical panorama? Nice effect.
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snakefoot
climber
cali
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Jul 24, 2007 - 09:26am PT
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Chiloe
will be in NH Aug 10-11, what are your plans?
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tradchick
Trad climber
White Mountains
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Jul 24, 2007 - 09:31am PT
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GO - looks like Vertigo?
Tomcat and I were in the traffic jam on Moby on Sunday. We hung in there for the roof pitch and then bailed. The couple ahead of us were new to trad and taking forever. Her first time crack climbing...quite the initiation on Reppy's!
Sorry to say no pics from us. Seems I had the camera set on video...oops!
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emac
climber
New Hampshire
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Jul 24, 2007 - 09:32am PT
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Not last weekend but the one before... Shagg, Maine. Sooooo good.
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Freddy Jones
climber
holland
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Jul 24, 2007 - 09:38am PT
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emac,
Nice photo!
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dirtbagger
Ice climber
Australia
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Jul 24, 2007 - 10:10am PT
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Here some pics of our recent (07/09) wkend trip to Piz Medel (3210m) here in Switzerland
You can see the peak of Piz Medel in the background
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something for the geologists out there! Wierdest area, everything well deformed.
not really climbing let alone aid, but was a beautiful view up there
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BadInfluence
Mountain climber
Dak side
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Jul 24, 2007 - 11:03am PT
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emac is that Will M climbing?
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emac
climber
New Hampshire
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Jul 24, 2007 - 11:20am PT
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yeah, it's Will.
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426
Sport climber
Buzzard Point, TN
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Jul 24, 2007 - 11:33am PT
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L
climber
Alaska once upon a time
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Jul 24, 2007 - 11:43am PT
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emac--The color composition of that photo is amazing!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jul 24, 2007 - 11:52am PT
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missed first line parallel construction opportunity... maybe should have been:
It's high summer, high time for another hijinks thread.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 24, 2007 - 12:38pm PT
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missed first line parallel construction opportunity... maybe should have been:
"It's high summer, high time for another hijinks thread."
Damn, he's right!
These hijinks posts are funner to read than "Hot Flashes" in Climbing, don't you think?
Or maybe that's further proof of my overthehillitude.
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summerprophet
Mountain climber
Cali Via Canada
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Jul 24, 2007 - 02:21pm PT
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Chiloe,
Pseudo vertical panaramic, actually a digital stitch. Poor little point and shoot digital is pretty weak when it comes to wide angle stuff.
Justin
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Jul 24, 2007 - 02:35pm PT
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426, captions, plaease!
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Big
climber
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Jul 24, 2007 - 02:42pm PT
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Captions?
T-wall
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 24, 2007 - 03:00pm PT
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summmerprophet--
Pseudo vertical panaramic, actually a digital stitch. Poor little point and shoot digital is pretty weak when it comes to wide angle stuff.
Nice effect, though. I've done the climb and seen photos, but not one like that.
Snakefoot -- We should be around most of August, can't say yet for sure but the chances are good. These are great days for afternoon climbs on Cathedral.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 24, 2007 - 03:05pm PT
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Cool photos from Tennessee and Colorado to the Alps, notable contributions from New England.
Here's one more non-notable shot from our own low adventures.
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GOclimb
Trad climber
Boston, MA
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Jul 24, 2007 - 03:21pm PT
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Khanom and Jaybro: Yup, TradChick's right, it's called Vertigo (5.9), on Cannon Cliff.
Another angle: Look ma, no hands!
A really good knee-bar is practically as good as a ledge to stand on. Just... a little more strenous.
GO
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Jul 24, 2007 - 03:27pm PT
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Looks like a classic, go! Yup, knee jsam often make great hands free rests, but check out the scar tissue on the knees of old guys who've been jamming 'em for decades; I'm just guessing, here.
Big, thanks, but, I'd awready gotten that, far.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 24, 2007 - 03:34pm PT
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GO, I liked your downwards shot especially -- nice sharp view of that pitch.
Have to agree with L that Emac's color scheme in the Shag Crag photo is striking.
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wiclimber
Trad climber
devil's lake, wi
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Jul 24, 2007 - 03:44pm PT
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We went to Shasta and it was low on snow. No big surprise this year aye? We did the Muir route, which was of the punter variety but made a bit more spicy given the lack of proper snow.
They had gotten 4" of the white stuff the night before we arrived. Made things look pretty:
Here's a closer shot showing the Red Banks(crux):
The clouds were thick through this area. Route finding was easy though:
Here's the crux chute through the Banks. Usually there is lots more snow. The lack of it made it a thin, mixed affair:
Coming out above the clouds made for some scenic views:
Misery Hill wasn't all that:
Climbing towards the summit above Misery:
Finally, the summit:
All things considered, Mt Conness north ridge would have been a better choice given the lack of snow on Shasta, but we had a fun time nonetheless.
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crøtch
climber
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Jul 24, 2007 - 03:52pm PT
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Not this weekend, but the one before. Matthes Crest under cloudy skies.
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atchafalaya
climber
California
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Jul 24, 2007 - 04:17pm PT
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love random tr's, thanks Chiloe.
After scanning the memory banks, a NW TR popped up.
Camp on Rainier...
climbing/hiking on Rainier
summit shot
view from the summit shot
later, fishing off the coast of the Hoh Rainforest
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wootles
climber
Gamma Quadrant
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Jul 25, 2007 - 09:59am PT
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The trail was pretty rough. We almost didn't make it. We struggled onward and upward fighting gravity's mighty pull. The only thing that kept us going was the hope of plump, ripe berries of blue.
Best friends at the top:
ps: daddy was a real fu%&*%g a$$hole making us do this.
 Maxine
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emac
climber
New Hampshire
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Jul 25, 2007 - 11:21am PT
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wootles:
BOSS!
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wootles
climber
Gamma Quadrant
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Jul 25, 2007 - 12:23pm PT
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emac, dude, that pic of Will is BOSS!
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GDavis
Trad climber
SoCal
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Heading up Cathedral for my first Tuolumne visit months ago
And another classic down the line...
puffy clouds, tiny trees and calf-wrenching slabs on Snake Dike
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hoipolloi
climber
A friends backyard with the neighbors wifi
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Random TR's? I have a few things I always wanted to share with somebody who maybe cares a little? Well probably not, but anyways..
The second person climbing is 76 years old, he was bagging FA's in 1950 at this place, with wooden pitons and hemp shoes!
Scariest rock I have ever climbed on, like Pinnacles but 600 feet tall, when its good, its great, when its bad it breaks just looking at it.
Some limestone alpine climbing
Headed to a wonderland of rocks (not the wonderland of rocks though)
bustin' a little move on some rad friction climbing
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 3, 2007 - 07:27pm PT
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hoipolloi, are those last few la Pedriza? I've driven by a few times and wondered, but not stopped.
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hoipolloi
climber
A friends backyard with the neighbors wifi
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Yeah they are, how could you have driven by but not stopped?! and done it a few time!? Whats wrong with you!?! Go climb there, it is so fun. Lots of stuff to do, but I thought the slab climbing was such a blast.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 3, 2007 - 07:45pm PT
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Heh, we weren't in climbing-trip mode at the time, just visiting our daughter who lives in Segovia. The cragging did look fun from a distance.
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
Fresno, CA
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just priceless, wootles!
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 4, 2007 - 08:16pm PT
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just priceless, wootles!
Dad can climb too, when not hiking for blueberries.
Today, uncoiling a new prototype 9.4 at Cathedral:
And leading the first pitch of Intimidation.
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hoipolloi
climber
A friends backyard with the neighbors wifi
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wow, that rope is bright
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 5, 2007 - 10:11am PT
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We thought it felt a bit stiff, a few changes needed before one shows up at your store. Still, it's fun trying out the new stuff.
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murcy
climber
San Fran Cisco
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Been a rainy week in the Telluride area, but we got some really fun bouldering in at Ilium, and a quick climb before getting rained out at Cracked Canyon in Ophir.
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wootles
climber
Gamma Quadrant
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Well that rope was not too stiff for Emac to "accidentally" forget to take it out of his pack today.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 5, 2007 - 10:01pm PT
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So what did you and emac climb today, something enduro? Leslie thought it was a good day for face climbing, and looking at my left hand I could not disagree.
It might be rainy in Telluride but northeastern climbers had no excuse. Bluebird skies and temps in the 70s -- surely 'bout everyone must have got out.
One of Echo's best routes, but widely-spaced bolt protection ensures that only the fittest will survive. A 5.8 face climb for 5.10 leaders.
Who can resist a route description like that?
Or this one?
Five feet to the right of Broken Dreams, a line of widely-spaced bolts leads up a steep face.
And finally a mellow arete, with afternoon views of the lake.
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Marshall
climber
bay area
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couple shots from the meadows in the last few weeks:
Tioga Pass crag
Olmstead
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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really good stuff everyone - thanks for posting!
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 7, 2007 - 12:33pm PT
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Yo wootles, I saw mention somewhere that this thing got upgraded to 11b because a hold broke. Do we like that theory better?
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wootles
climber
Gamma Quadrant
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Emac mentioned that the Webster guide gives it 11b because of the broken hold. The RockFax guide gives it 10b. I don't know which guide is more recent. Emac is going with the Webster rating since the pitch gave him a good thrashing. There is definitely a discrepancy somewhere because Passing Thoughts (11c) gave me more than one letter grade worth of a$$ kicking.
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scuffy b
climber
The deck above the 5
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Marshall, which climbs are those Olmstead shots?
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the chemist
climber
Palo Alto, CA
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1st Ohlmstead shot is Lord Caffeine, Second is Ivory Tower Center.
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Marshall
climber
bay area
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them's the ones...
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