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John Moosie
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Jan 22, 2008 - 05:08pm PT
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This thread is just getting better and better. Thanks everyone. The pictures are great. The stories are great. The watercolors are great. WOW !!!
THANKS...
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Zander
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Jan 22, 2008 - 05:21pm PT
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Nice thread.
John, thanks for the photos and cool paintings.
Steve, I was checking out several lines on the way up the Bright Angel Trail last fall. I wonder if one of them was Littlejohns?
In the interest of keeping this thread rolling here’s a few pics.
Royal Arch
A few views of Elves Chasm starting at the bottom with a Holiday card shot of me and my gal and then scrambling upwards. A beautiful place.
Zander
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Jan 22, 2008 - 07:37pm PT
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Amazing, all!
even Jody
har-har
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Jan 22, 2008 - 07:53pm PT
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Oh I know, Jody, it wouldn't have happened with out your push! still, us guys gotta dig in the elbows from time to time.
Who knew Do-C did watercolors, how cool! what will turn up next?
And thanks Steve, I've been thinking about that article since this thread began!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 22, 2008 - 11:51pm PT
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Zander- just look for the "sinew shearing bridge" area of the route. If Pat says its tough, I trust his estimation. Modern gear and sandstone is a very different than a rack of nuggets. I don't think that they spent a lot of time on the recon hiking so it should be up high. This seems like a good GC thread to unearth that one. Later on on the same trip, I had the pleasure of a ringside seat to watch Pat float Butterballs and the rest of the Nabisco Wall. All that seacliff climbing....rock solid!
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Fluoride
Trad climber
Hollywood, CA
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Jan 23, 2008 - 01:39am PT
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Great thread!! I love the life of the river rat. More paddling is on my '08 to-do list.
John, thanks for sharing the awesome photos and watercolors.
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Scout 2
Trad climber
Placerville
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Jan 23, 2008 - 06:07am PT
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Hey nice stuff john.
brings back many memories. Didnt know you were a kayaker!too
keep it up.
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hossjulia
Trad climber
Eastside
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I just saw the short film of Beth, Tommy and Chris exploring the Grand Canyon and doing the first free ascent of Grapevine Buttress.
Well done! both the film and the climb.
Part of the Tahoe Adventure Film Fest series. (I think that's the name)also included a trailer for an up coming film on Fred Becky.
Who knows more about when these film projects will be finished?
Alpine Meadows has a cool little base lodge, I'd never been there.
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tenesmus
Trad climber
slc
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From the high cliffs just below Beaver and into the nice bubbly pool. Must have done it 6 times that day...
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tenesmus
Trad climber
slc
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Spent the night on the ledge at Toroweep
From the 50th birthday trip/reunion for a boat load of Jersey Boys who remained high and drunk for 3 straight days.
Rosanne and I coming out of Deer Creek Narrows. I'd known her for years and years but this trip is when things clicked for us. I don't know if it was the full moon at Silver Grotto or the fact that she was front and center for literally every rapid.
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tenesmus
Trad climber
slc
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Looking back at the Grand Wash Cliffs the last trip I did. I'd never seen them in the rain. I had a friend who always said, "You never know when you'll get to come back to the Grand Canyon" and I look back and can't believe how long it really has been.
Dave Bigelow and I near the mouth of Havasu
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tenesmus
Trad climber
slc
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J1D The first big blue beauty Demaree Inflatable Boats made. It seemed like everyone had a ride on this thing and it was completely falling apart by the time I got it.
Robbers Roost - we had to drive through a massive snowstorm to get there but that desert kind of broke it up and we had fantastic weather all weekend.
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andy@climbingmoab
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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A few river runners/backpackers stories:
This year a party of hikers near Tapeats bummed a ride from some rafters to get to Deer Creek. Somehow, the rafters managed to go into the one big hole in Tapeats and flipped. Those hikers got way more than they bargained for - its a good thing they had on PFDs! We gave them some toilet paper since theirs all got soaked.
I ran into a hiking party above Deer Creek Falls that looked they were about dead from heat exhaustion. I gave them some water above the falls, and told them to follow me down to the river. At the river, I gave them all the water they could drink, all the beer they could drink, and took their garbage so they didn't have to pack it out. They were psyched.
I think this might be in Dubendorff, but not sure:
Logistics:
North Canyon:
Silver Grotto:
Redwall Cavern:
Me somewhere in the Grand:
Bocce at Grapevine:
Clear Creek Canyon:
Faceshots in Granite:
Elves Chasm:
Good idea?
No
Matkat:
Upset:
The sh#t is about to hit the fan:
Lava:
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tenesmus
Trad climber
slc
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I can't see your links but really want to. Sounds like a fun trip.
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Prod
Trad climber
A place w/o Avitars apparently
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Hey Tenesmus,
Were you a guide? When?
I was a Diamond guide from 89 to 95. I did my last private trip there in April 04. I think that was trip 66. Thinking about heading back sometime in the next few years.
Prod.
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Delhi Dog
Trad climber
Good Question...
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Great photos...thanks for sharing.
I just finished an amateur's attempt of a a movie of my Canyon trip from July- these photos bring back some cool memories...
I've done a bunch of trips so I know there's always a few good stories that come out of each trip...
One of mine goes like this;
We had been scouting Lava (right side) when another trip (commercial oar/paddleboat) showed up. It was good timing as we got to see them go through.
Three boats went left, 2 right.
Cool, nice runs for the most part and we got to eyeball our run.
Bubble line river right was our plan.
Anyway, my buddy pulls out and I'm right behind him with my 2 daughters and wife. Yeehaw, adrenalin's pumping, rivers thundering...
all of a sudden from Alan's boat, we hear a LOUD EXPLOSION...(he was right behind us and the only cataraft on the trip)
"WHAT THE...!"
turns out one of his tube blew a seam!
Meanwhile Steve up front(he hadn't heard the blowout), oblivious (the rest of our folks were still up at the scout ready to film...) is in the current and headed downstream-fast.
I yell to him that Alan had blown a tube..."what the f*k do you want me to do?" he yells back.
I tell him to "PULL THE F*K OVER!
Luckily he was able to. I'm already headed back to shore by then.
Alan's boat was sinking (well not quite, but at least HALF of it was) so we managed to wrestle it up aways out of the water once back.
Then I run down and manage to get the rest of our people (by then wondering where the heck we were). We spend the next 3 hours sweating our brains out and patching that sucker.
Finally we inflate it and just as we figure-"cool it's going to work!"...
ppppsssssssssssssssss out the air comes.
I tell Alan to throw a cam strap over the damn tube and let's get downstream fast!
Off we go, Steve enters... makes it to those v-waves, gets pushed sideways, almost flips, never recovers and hits the lower BIG waves sideways...again-
then......flips!
By this time I'm entering the same run only I'm a little wiser, mostly because I figured that didn't work for him so it ain't going to work for me.
I have almost a perfect run, though I got spun around backwards and hit the lower wave like that-still way fun and clean.
Alan makes it through too, only because his tube is deflating so fast, when he gets thrown to the side, his foot gets stuck between the frame and the tube. Luckily his crotch stops him from getting sucked all the way through.
The boat (once again) gets sideways... but...(Locker style space gets inserted here...)somehow stays upright and gets through.
Our other 3 boats had perfect runs, and by the time they show up, we have Steve's boat in a small eddy on river left and everyone present and accounted for. I dive under the boat,tie in two ropes, we then set up a z-rig (luckily those travertine rocks down by the spring is way solid) and flip that sucker right back over. Only thing lost was Steve's beer he had in a holder.
Tequila beach after that...then downstream away to one of the finest pebble-rock strew beaches I've ever seen (yes with plenty of fine sand too). That night we redid the patch (those guys had to pump and row at the same time after running Lava...heh heh...heh) and that patch held for the rest of the trip.
I only wish I had filmed the blowout. I got everything else...mmmmm well, actually I didn't film flipping the boat back again.
Darn.
Anyway a fine trip.
Here are a couple shots (of my bro) in Hermit, which was sweeeet!
Cheers,
DD
edit: check out the drag bag in the 1st photo. heh heh...
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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Really cool pics... What's with the fingernail painting... and men with bra'rs?
Must be a tight knit group..
But I know you had some fun, so.. all good!
Cheers all
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tenesmus
Trad climber
slc
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Andy - I didn't realize it was you! Your pictures are still fantastic and I'm completely jealous. Yesterday, I took my kids (2,4,6,9) and wife down the Green River Daily that little POS dory I bought a month or so ago. Rosanne wouldn't go near it and spent most of the afternoon in a duckie.
That thing is sooo little and its back on the 'for sale' block. I made that decision to sell it about half way through when I stood up to let one of my kids row and the bottom of the boat sickly flexed under my feet. Pretty creepy. Between that and the obvious wooden boat/weightshifting effect. It felt like a biner shift on a hard aid pitch every time my kids would lean over to touch the water on the same side... Creepy.
Prod - 2 for World Wide in Moab then Western for 3 in the Grand. Pretty fun stuff for a college kid. wouldn't have made it through without that and wouldn't have gone to grad school if i wasn't so afraid I couldn't leave it.
Prod - were you one of the guys who used to light full propane tanks and shoot the 15 foot flames? That was the craziest thing I ever saw. And I knew some Diamond guys in the day but the names are sooo far gone.
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