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tenesmus
Trad climber
slc
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 30, 2008 - 09:09pm PT
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post up your Thanksgiving weekend pics!
IBEX!!
Rattler's arete?
Severity Disparity
Looking out on the hardpan
Hardpan Heroics - no broken holds this time! Its cool because you can keep your weight on your feet even though its steep.
be sure to clean your lens next time!
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Dwain
Trad climber
Apple Valley, California
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Nov 30, 2008 - 11:54pm PT
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The climbing I did on Thanksgiving
is not worthy of a Trip Report
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Dirka
Trad climber
SF
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Where is the pumpkin pie?
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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After T-day week in Josh, I am ready for another diet challenge.
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spyork
Social climber
A prison of my own creation
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Sliced my foot open, visited the doc and got patched up. No hiking, climbing. Limped around for a week, still waiting for full healing so I can put climbing shoe on. :(
Edit:
Everyone knows the where the most accidents happen:
In the home!
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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J-B: I think I actually lost five pounds.
Steve: Bummer... did you slice it in Sedona? Hope it heals up fast!!!
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Get it to the right vortex and it will be cured, spyork, you're in Sedona, afterall.
That's about the amount I assimilated in the compound, Greg. gee, thanks.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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The last couple of weeks in Josh are a blur. Can't remember all the routes we did...
Yesterday is still with me though. Did Decompensator of Lhasa and this little gem:
(photo by Michael Ybarra)
Saturday we climbed in Indian Cove, did Apparition, Sweatband, Goodbye Mr. Bond... (yeah, I know, serious slackin')
One highlight of our stay was a lead of a high quality obscurity called "No Perch is Necessary." A most interesting bit of face climbing leads to a nice tips crack. Also, UberBabs got into some trad leading with nice ascents of Sail Away, Nurn's Romp, Lazy Daze, Cakewalk to name a few...
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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High desert climbing goodness
then a quick picnic near here...
I wonder what the names of those peaks are...
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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kewl, good to hear it's feeling better and you snagged a couple more peaks.
what's the tally for NV?
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nutjob
Stoked OW climber
San Jose, CA
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Planned to go to Yosemite for all 4 days... finally made it to Camp4 Friday night. Climbed Saturday @ Reed's, and cruised around the base of El Cap on Sunday.
I didn't climb many pitches, but I'm proud of what I did:
Stone Groove 5.10b (I weighted the rope once, didn't lower)
Lunatic Fringe 5.10c (on site lead, no falls no tape)
Sacherer Cracker 5.10b (on site lead, no falls no tape)
Lunatic Fringe really was a step up for me in terms of mental commitment combined with difficulty. It took some digging deeper to just go all out when falling on my cams placed from strenuous positions was a high likelihood. It took some recalibration of my brain to be OK with stepping up into such steep and thin positions, to find such pathetic pseudo-rests from which to place gear. I stitched up the beginning, but got into a flow by the end.
Sacherer Cracker... I was psyched up for the end part, looking forward to saying "I cruised it" to bolster my credentials on the Hardman OW Circuit. I had a reality check and was lucky to get through the lower finger crack part that almost kicked my arse. The day before on Stone Groove and Lunatic Fringe gave me the confidence to just plow through this awful slippery wide fingers section and hang in there for the cruiser hand jam section. I felt very comfy running out the gear on the wide hands part, and then I was stumped for a minute at the wide part at the top. Just before I launched, my foot knocked out the #4 Camalot, and maybe 15 feet below that I remembered the #2 Camalot that was tipped out all the way because I wanted to save big stuff for later... and there was another 15 feet or so below that to the next small cam. I slid down on a knee lock and repositioned the #4. Then like Luke Skywalker recalling Yoda's advice, the voice of Scuffy B reminded me: "focus on your outside foot." With this jedi guidance, I did indeed cruise the OW part.
And of course, no good Yosemite trip is complete without a stop by Taqueria Agave for some green chicken enchiladas.
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salad
climber
Escondido
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relaxed bouldering at castle rock, then scared out of mind at the pinnacles. mini tr to follow.
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