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matisse
climber
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Mar 24, 2009 - 01:46am PT
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Classic. You guys rock. thanks for the TR
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crøtch
climber
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Mar 24, 2009 - 02:33am PT
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righteous tr
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nutjob
Stoked OW climber
San Jose, CA
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Mar 24, 2009 - 07:07am PT
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Awesome adventure, and extra points for the witty and stylish write-up!
Can I keep you in the list of potential partners if I get so desperate for acknowledgment that I try for ANAM?
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Mar 24, 2009 - 08:10am PT
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wowza
glad to hear to tale
Cheers!
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Mar 24, 2009 - 08:30am PT
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Just as I'm losing hope in Supertopo, lately swamped by soapboxers who hate, along comes
another fine climbing tale. Well illustrated too, that was a fun read.
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KlimbIn
climber
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Mar 24, 2009 - 10:11am PT
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This is very good.
Glad you're here humorously to tell us about it.
and when read with this TR:
"The Idiot's girlfriend's Guide to Descending Lone Pine Peak"
It is excellent.
Thank you both.
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Bertrand
Trad climber
SF
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Mar 24, 2009 - 11:17am PT
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Now I understand why you didn't want to tell me in person. Can't wait for the musical.
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sneville
climber
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Mar 24, 2009 - 11:28am PT
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Drc,
Glad to hear you are ok. I knew you were up to some kind of sufferfest. I love the pictures. Let me know if you just want to do some climbing close to the car. Does anyone have a picture of the correct descent?
Sean
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Dolomite
climber
Anchorage
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Mar 24, 2009 - 01:20pm PT
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Awesome report, thanks. I had my own epic descent on Lone Pine a long time back in different circumstances: 105 degree July heat. It involved dehydration, blind rappels, general disorientation and eventual wandering onto the valley floor, a day or two late and miles from the car. All good, when you live to tell, eh?
I know we all have different ideas of what the purpose of ST is, and that's as it should be. But I find it a little odd that a thread as great as this one can't stay on page one for 24 hours. I'm bumping yosgun's "tr" too--a sweet pairing.
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Paulina
Trad climber
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Mar 24, 2009 - 01:28pm PT
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Glad you're ok. Hopefully nobody will follow your instructions, though. :-) Thanks for the great writeup!
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mack
Trad climber
POKE-O-MOONSHINE
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Mar 24, 2009 - 02:02pm PT
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Great TR...Funny read. Glad you made it back ok. I love trip reports with wonderful pics.
Leslie
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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Mar 24, 2009 - 02:20pm PT
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Great TR and HR (yosguns' home report).
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corniss chopper
Mountain climber
san jose, ca
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Mar 24, 2009 - 02:22pm PT
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The views of a wintertime bivi on LPP are awesome due to the low sun angle.
I've walked this route. Water may be had on the summit plateau above the tree line in the grassy clumps.
The sand/gravel line is best for going down if you can find the
ledge to cross over to it.
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yosguns
climber
San Francisco, CA
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Mar 24, 2009 - 02:49pm PT
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Bump...cause I'd like to keep us together too!
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Mar 24, 2009 - 02:50pm PT
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So dissimilar and yet so much climbing spirit, between the 2 Lone Pine TRs and Southern Belle
on ST's front page today.
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mucci
Trad climber
sf ca
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Mar 24, 2009 - 04:20pm PT
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Bump for being an honest Iron curtain cowboy!
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Brutus of Wyde
climber
Old Climbers' Home, Oakland CA
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Mar 24, 2009 - 06:59pm PT
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Nice TR!!!
Keeping off the rappels really isn't hard at all:
If it looks like you're heading toward cliffs (That huge south face seen when looking up Tuttle Creek) don't go that way.
(If you haven't looked up at the South Face, then remember in Gladiator when the hero is trying to get back to his wife and kid before the Praetorians kill them, and pauses to have a campfire... That's the Peak in the background, and the left escarpment is the thing you DON'T want to descend unless you like to write TRs like this one)...
ANYWAYS, don't go that way.
If it gets dark, bivy before getting into trouble (Done that two different times on the way down from the summit plateau)
Hope this helps!
Brutus
"Experience is the worst teacher: It gives you the test before you have taken the course."
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kev
climber
CA
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Mar 24, 2009 - 07:16pm PT
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Does DRC have a new nickname ? The chef suggested
"iron curtain cowboy?" Kinda fitting
kev
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