4 new routes at Lover's Leap near Lower Buttress

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Chris McNamara

SuperTopo staff member
Topic Author's Original Post - May 31, 2005 - 03:01pm PT
Over the last week or two i put up 4 new routes near the Lower Buttress at Lover's Leap. They are mostly bolted with a few pieces of protection required here and there. Unlike most Leap routes, it is relatively easy to walk to the top and set a toprope on all climbs. The routes are rated 5.9, 5.9, 5.10a, 5.10d. None are mega classics. But they are all fun face routes that are relatively safe to lead and easy to toprope.

Below is the topo:
http://www.supertopo.com/topos/obscurities/billy_butt_topo.jpg

you can also find the topo for this and other climbs at:
http://www.supertopo.com/topos/yosemite/obscurities.html

The cliff is named the Billy Buttress because most of the work on the routes was done by a group of Strawbillies. We had trouble coming up with names to go with the Strawbilly theme so I just gave up and went with what the cliff looked like: a map with tons of big horizontal cracks that form meridians/latitudes. and from there i went with the ocean theme for the route names. I guess we could have named the routes billy names like "All em' chillin" but i thought it would be more fun to say you climbed a route like high Seas or Latitudes or Pirate Bay. if i could come up with some good Strawbilly names... then i guess i would rename the routes... suggestions welcome.
Lambone

Ice climber
Ashland, Or
May 31, 2005 - 07:47pm PT
Hey Chris, nice work man!

(tell Mitch hi for me)
Chris McNamara

SuperTopo staff member
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 2, 2005 - 12:47pm PT
Ill got try to get a photo soon. dont have any at the moment.

i thought all you had to do was live in strawberry to be a billy... ok, ill check around and make sure i didnt botch the naming
Clair

climber
Jun 3, 2005 - 11:26pm PT
You have too much time on your hands to get your hackles up over something like billy names. I figured being born and raised in Strawberry and one of NINE children and spending a majority of my time climbing and bare foot made me a billy. You should be nice. Chances are you would have NO idea what is new with climbing without Supertopo.com. Don't judge. Clearly you don't know Chris.

Clair Nicholas
akclimber

Trad climber
Eagle River, AK
Jun 3, 2005 - 11:45pm PT
"What the f*#k?

A group of Billies?

The Nichols are hardly billies, they don't drink, they don't smell, and the last time one of them offended me or passed out drunk at my house was.....wait....the Nichols don't do that. They are actualy really nice people. You should know, you sponge!! Don't you make enough money to afford your own place? Besides that Mark climbs harder than any of the billies, except for that really smelly one. I know its hard to tell which one smells more, but the guy who's almost as bad as coiler. Heck, Coiler is Billy and buddy you ain't so don't go frontin' like you belong to something you are not a part of and never will be.

Why don't you name the routes Bible Study and Damn the Souls of the Heathen, something more in line with the whole born again christian thing. Even better, name them after your exploits. Call it the Spoiled Rich Kid Choss Pile with routes like Bed Wetter, Pussy-Ass Wienie, and I Am Not A Billy.

If anything is going to be named after the Billys, it should be done and named by the Billys. Back off you overachieving bed wettter."


Hey KLAUS! STFU! You are just jealous that Chris is smarter than you,has an absolutely hot GF, is richer, contributes more to society, and the list goes on. Shut up loser!

akclimber

Trad climber
Eagle River, AK
Jun 3, 2005 - 11:59pm PT
Bullsh#t, just look at your writing style and choice of words in other posts. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. You have an unhealthy addiction to following Chris around and ripping on him. WTF did he ever do to you?
akclimber

Trad climber
Eagle River, AK
Jun 4, 2005 - 12:19am PT
I don't know Chris from friggin' Adam. I just know that this A-hole Klaus has an unhealthy obsession with Chris. Eric, Chris is heterosexual and has a hot GF, he is not attracted to you.
akclimber

Trad climber
Eagle River, AK
Jun 4, 2005 - 12:22am PT
I just know these things.:)
akclimber

Trad climber
Eagle River, AK
Jun 4, 2005 - 12:23am PT
I don't know if Clair is Sarah but Sarah is definitely hot.

akclimber

Trad climber
Eagle River, AK
Jun 4, 2005 - 12:25am PT
I just know these things.:)


And she is a very sweet girl, too.

akclimber

Trad climber
Eagle River, AK
Jun 4, 2005 - 12:26am PT
So, when did he dump Sarah?
Clair

climber
Strawberry,CA
Jun 4, 2005 - 12:26am PT
you should check out the new routs. They are nice!!!!
akclimber

Trad climber
Eagle River, AK
Jun 4, 2005 - 12:29am PT
"Clair" you are a troll. Chris did not dump Sarah and you are not his GF. Nice try.:) You are probably Klaus with another name...

P.S. Did I mention how hot Sarah is?
akclimber

Trad climber
Eagle River, AK
Jun 4, 2005 - 12:32am PT
"so how do you think I look?"

With an e-mail like azzkicker_firefighter you are probably butch...LOL!

Haven't been to the routes yet, but when I get back to CA in the fall I will try them out.

P.S. No, I will just be wrong, but I won't feel like an idiot. This is cyberspace.
akclimber

Trad climber
Eagle River, AK
Jun 4, 2005 - 12:35am PT
This is too much. EJEEEEEEEEEEEEECTTTTTT!!!!
mrtropy

Trad climber
Nor Cal
Jun 4, 2005 - 12:46am PT
One time my friend made his little stepbrother beat off his dog. No Joke
akclimber

Trad climber
Eagle River, AK
Jun 4, 2005 - 12:48am PT
"One time my friend made his little stepbrother beat off his dog. No Joke "

Thanks ahole! I just spit food all over the monitor. LOL!
akclimber

Trad climber
Eagle River, AK
Jun 4, 2005 - 12:50am PT
Whose point?
akclimber

Trad climber
Eagle River, AK
Jun 4, 2005 - 12:57am PT
"No im not butch ...If you saw me you wouldn't think i am a climber."

So, are you saying climber chicks are ugly? I wouldn't think you are a climber? What would I think, that you are a sumo wrestler? I wouldn't think a sumo wrestler is a climber if I saw them. Sarah is extremely hot AND she is a climber.
akclimber

Trad climber
Eagle River, AK
Jun 4, 2005 - 12:57am PT
"so you think im a wannabe?"

Yes. You wannabe Chris' GF.
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