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Zander
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Dec 14, 2008 - 12:16pm PT
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Nice TR,
Good job on the climb. What a place.
The time I did cathedral in was warm and there were at least 25 other people on the route. Soloists were lapping us. Logjambs at the upper belays lead to endless friendly conversation and jokes. It was fun
Thanks for posting.
Zander
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Prod
Trad climber
A place w/o Avitars apparently
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Dec 14, 2008 - 12:25pm PT
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Bravo!
Prod.
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the Fet
Knackered climber
A bivy sack in the secret campground
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Dec 14, 2008 - 12:53pm PT
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Cathedral Peak is such a great adventure climb.
I took one of my buddies up there for his first multi-pitch. We bivied at the tree line on the approach. There was a full moon and the buttress stood out in stark contrast about 1/4 mile away, reaching up to the sky.
After finishing the next day my friend told me he was so intimidated by the moonlit rock face that he barely slept all night!
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spyork
Social climber
A prison of my own creation
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Dec 14, 2008 - 01:25pm PT
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Welcome to the black hole known as the taco!
Nice TR and pics.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Dec 14, 2008 - 01:53pm PT
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Excellent TR, kep 'em coming in the future!
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10b4me
climber
the gray bands
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Dec 14, 2008 - 02:19pm PT
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one of my favorite climbs
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le_bruce
climber
Oakland: what's not to love?
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Dec 14, 2008 - 05:32pm PT
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"...proved no match for the newly minted hardman! (Last sentence with all due respect to the real hardmen but please laugh with me, not at me)"
Laughing robustly here!
Nice TR, Mike - cheered up a soggy day in Oakland. What's the next objective?
My friend and I got dinged for $70 each in the Curry lot one wintry December night as the bells tolled 3am, and got the boot to boot. Beginning that night about twenty minutes later I learned to be more creative in my bivy selection habits.
When I climbed Cathedral it was late October, I had started at Tenaya, come up the buttress, and hiked over along the ridge. My pipes were so dry with the cold by the time I got there that I was sucking ice off of frozen pine needles and breaking it out of erosion holes in the granite slabs. I have a pic of that somewhere. I was toast by the time I got back to the road, but happy toast.
There they are edit:
And Cathedral again:
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Dec 14, 2008 - 05:34pm PT
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Mike-
Thanks for coming out from the lurker den. That is a fun route in a beautiful location. Thanks for the photos; it brings back some sweet memories of days gone by.
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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Dec 14, 2008 - 08:27pm PT
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Nice TR Mike. Cathedral Peak is such a great summit.
It is amazing to think of Muir soloing that. Tough.
Welcome to ST hardman status.
Best, Roger
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Mikemcee
Trad climber
Mill Valley, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 14, 2008 - 08:58pm PT
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All these awesome replies! Glad I could bring out all the good memories. Almost made me feel ok about falling off plastic all day.
rhyang..could have used a screw for sure but we were trying to keep things moving. To protect the innocent, I won't go into detail but I got pretty lucky.
Zander, definitely stoked to do it when we heard but never saw one other party. I think they bailed when the snow started.
Le_Bruce....beautiful pics man. Dont see Cathedral from those angles too often. Next up? RA, Snake Dike, who knows? Beautiful thing when there is no end to the opportunities. Maybe I should take a poll.
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Captain...or Skully
Gym climber
Where are YOU from?
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Dec 14, 2008 - 09:04pm PT
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Well, Definitely do BOTH of those....You'll find, I think, a vast number of really great adventures up there.
I know I have....
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Fletcher
Trad climber
the campfire just a ways past Chris' Taco stand
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Dec 15, 2008 - 01:26am PT
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Good on ya, lad! This is what it's all about.
Nice to see you got tooled too... DMT beat me to it, but I was thinking, "yeah, the perfect experience with that at the end."
Fletch
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