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Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 30, 2008 - 06:43am PT
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BWAAA HA HA HA !!!!!!!
Buggs, ye bastard!! Here ye go laddie..
Voodoo and Buggman hoistin' the mainsail off the top 'o' the good ship Warlock! Arrrrr!
Buggs was tripped out cause he didn't know that I snuck my kite with 600 ft of string up Igor Unchained. The look on his face was worth it all.
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ec
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Apr 30, 2008 - 06:49am PT
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Man! Do you climb in those boots?!
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 30, 2008 - 07:18am PT
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Hell yeah man, you wouldn't believe the stuff he does in those things!!
I've seen 'im walk on the moon an' fight demons in 'em.....
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survival
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A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 30, 2008 - 08:21am PT
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Speaking of Igor Unchained, I believe that's where this is?
I think these are from the first pitch.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 30, 2008 - 08:58am PT
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The incredible incomparable indelible invisible
Nurse Ratchet Seizys tryin' to get UNCHAINED!
Lovin' it a little harder!
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 30, 2008 - 11:05am PT
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Thanks Riley,
I think the trees are a little tilty in the background....
Oh well, it looks cool anyway!
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 30, 2008 - 11:08am PT
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Here's Keith getting some crack, and showing some too!
Color and Form:
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Apr 30, 2008 - 11:50am PT
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This looks like the start of the last pitch of Fancy Free, if you belay on top of the pedestal which has the Spooky ow/lieback; you could also finish Spooky this way.
Here's one of my photos, with a nice sunset tone on the Wizard:
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 30, 2008 - 12:01pm PT
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Clint,
Wow, that is a seriously cool shot. Thanks.
More please???? :o)
What's this then?
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Off-Width Loving Crack Whore
Trad climber
SLO
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Apr 30, 2008 - 01:48pm PT
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This looks like the start of the last pitch of Fancy Free, if you belay on top of the pedestal which has the Spooky ow/lieback; you could also finish Spooky this way.
yep, beat me to it...
What's this then?
that's about 30-35 feet up the first pitch of Fancy Free
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survival
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A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 30, 2008 - 08:45pm PT
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OK, Thanks. Fancy Free it is then...you could have told me anything!
Here it is again.
I liked this pitch a lot. Well I think I liked 'em all.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 30, 2008 - 09:43pm PT
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Form and Color....
And a colorful shot of Buggs forming himself into a rock star....
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survival
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A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - May 1, 2008 - 12:40am PT
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Keiths turn on Fancy Free.
Buggs was moving around to take photos.
And a party on another route.
Form and Color......
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - May 1, 2008 - 12:47am PT
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What a great place, to share with guys I have known for so long. Keith since I was 15, Buggs since I was 21.
Another party. We didn't have to share the place that much.
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L
climber
The salty ocean blue and deep
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Survival,
What is it about that place and these photos that just causes the blood to sing in your veins? I haven't been there in over 5 years, yet I remember being spellbound by the incredible beauty and mystery of these formations you've captured so beautifully. (Spooky, however, scared the bejezzus out of me!)
And some of those pix with climbers in them...simply amazing.
Clint's photo was a shock--that's the first time I was actually able to see the Wizard in that formation. Like an animated still, it just came leaping through.
Thanks for taking the time and effort, B, to share these with us.
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Buggs
Trad climber
Eagle River, Alaska
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bump, some one's got to have some more from this beautiful place...
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survival
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A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - May 1, 2008 - 06:35am PT
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L,
There is just something magic about having all those incredible shapes crowded together like that.
And the location / altitude/ moisture that creates all that outrageous yellow!!
I've seen so much granite in different tones of grey, gold, silver, black and white....but man that electric yellow in this place just makes it seem like you're trippin' as soon as you see it!! It has all the shapes and color combinations kind of melting on top of and into each other.
Clint, thanks for the nice additions.
ANYBODY ELSE GOT STUFF FROM THE NEEDLES!?!?
Geez...no wonder it didn't seem crowded.....
What about you L?
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survival
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A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - May 1, 2008 - 09:04am PT
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Punked out Buggz. The man of many disguises. International man of mystery. Always talking sh*t about his own climbing and cracking black humor in his own language. And yet guiding me in ways he doesn't even realize. He is one of the great compasses in my life, and he rarely points north with any consistency...
And then there is the color deepening when I reflect on the day. The place is a museum of LIGHT!!
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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I agree about the magic of this place!
Atmosphere, connoisseur granite, and that electric green lichen.
Erik and Lou and I used to bust up there from LA on weekends.
Lou would say: "the Needles are more popular than the Beatles!"
Well, not exactly, but they sure are hip.
Erik following the first pitch of Atlantis:
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