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Joe
Social climber
Santa Cruz Mountains/Los Gatos
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 10, 2009 - 12:31pm PT
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anyone done either?
gear beta? 1 each green alien through #1 BD?
would it be unreasonable to do either with only an 8.5 half rope?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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May 10, 2009 - 01:40pm PT
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hah! was just looking at this stuff...
couldn't see the bolts to determine if they had been replaced with decent bolts yet. hrm, wasn't there a deuceldike thread around here somewheres?
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Joe
Social climber
Santa Cruz Mountains/Los Gatos
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Topic Author's Reply - May 10, 2009 - 02:16pm PT
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yeah, we did the snake last weds. stellar.
that's why I want to go back out and do one of the others.
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Joe
Social climber
Santa Cruz Mountains/Los Gatos
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Topic Author's Reply - May 11, 2009 - 04:43pm PT
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has anybody done either of these climbs?
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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May 13, 2009 - 10:10pm PT
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I've climbed the DeucelDike! Stellar route. People line up all the time, Snake Dike is a ghost town...
just kidding.
I think the single 1/4" taper bolts at the belays have put most folks off. Call out CC3 on that one though, the single 1/4" bolt belays were his idea! I think he was saving his bolt supply for the Autobahn, which we did soon after.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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May 14, 2009 - 10:53am PT
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We went round and round over that quality of effort issue! If Charles does something really heinous in his old age then we will have the perfect punishment. He will simply have to go back and repeat all those nasty face climbs on his scrawny little rusted legacies! LOL
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Adamame
Trad climber
El Portal
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May 14, 2009 - 12:22pm PT
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Joe and I went out there yesterday to have a day before the cables go up event. One more trip up 1/2 Dome before it gets squashed by the Tourons and one week before our annual Tuolumne migration. We wanted "Dome Polishers" but it ended up looking a little more mysterious than we expected so we did "Eye In The Sky" instead. 5.10B is always easier than 5.9 right? Eye In The Sky was great but most of the bolts were pretty risky looking and the unspoken no fall rule was set between us. The 10B pitch up high was brilliant and was such a perfect passage into "The Eye In The Sky". It was a damn good and exciting R rated route.
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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May 14, 2009 - 05:01pm PT
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Yes, Steve, it seemd like only CC3 and Bachar who liked those Taper bolts. They're just a little blob of lead with a long tapered threaded bolt screwed into the lead. Dicey! The specs looks good, and they seem firm initially, but I wouldn't trust those old ones...
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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May 14, 2009 - 05:21pm PT
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paging Greg Barnes, paging Greg Barnes
next May before cables go up?
then let's go look at this side...
aren't those bad ass looking?!
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Greg Barnes
climber
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May 14, 2009 - 05:42pm PT
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I'm not the only one with a hand drill!
I did in my IT bands running up and down Half Dome years ago - makes me nervous to do another "sure to be running down the trail in the dark" day up that way...
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spyork
Social climber
A prison of my own creation
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May 14, 2009 - 06:29pm PT
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I was just looking at the Reid guide. The 5.9 routes around Snake Dike look like fun. Sounds like they need some bolt replacement though.
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Levy
Big Wall climber
So Cal
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May 14, 2009 - 06:39pm PT
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I did Dome Polisher in 1988 or 1989 by accident! I had helped my then GF move up to UC Davis & stopped in the valley on the way back to So Cal. I thought I'd Solo Snake dike but I had no topo but figured I would find it & it would be no big deal. I passed a party of 4 on the hike in & tried to hurry so I would be above them. I got to the base & looked for a roof like feature I remembered from the topo. I saw such a feature. saw a few bolts leading up to it & started up. I was thinking it was hard for 5.7 but I was well attuned to runout granite slabs so I climbed on. I got to a spot where the wall steepened to near vertical & a steep crack led to a ledge. I now realized my error when I saw the party of 4 way off to the right on the Snake dike. I figured the crack to be 5.9 or 5.10 and from the ledge I saw a dike angling off right, which I realized was part of the Duceldike. I remembered the Duceldike was only 5.8 so I figured if I could get to the ledge I would make it.
I did some hand & fist in the crack & got to the ledge. The rest was easy. I asked around back at the Deli what was it that I had climbed. Locals told me I did the 2nd ascent of Tucker's new route.Later Tucker Tech approached me with a series of questions designed to catch me in a lie. He asked me if there were two bolts at the ledge. I gave the corect info that there was a fixed hexentric & a sling on a knob. His face grew long & Tucker realized I had indeed done it. I have never gone back to climb it with a rope but it was fun. From what I remember, you would want a couple of hand sized cams & a fist size too. The initial pitches had only a few bolts and were kind of heads up but not too bad.
Levy
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Joe
Social climber
Santa Cruz Mountains/Los Gatos
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Topic Author's Reply - May 15, 2009 - 10:55am PT
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hey levy thanks for the reply. very much interested in dome polishers. as adam said, we went back to HD for the second time in a week intending to do it, but looking up had some questions. but the deciding factor was that it was still in the shade and eye in the sky was in the sun, so we climbed the latter.
the bolts were manky quarter inchers sticking out from the rock about 1/2 inch. we cleaned up some tat, but the bolts looked like they could pull if tested. adam had a piton 'fall out' in his hands up higher. the run out was serious on every pitch.
as soon as I learn how to post photos on st, I'll put some up.
the uprights went up yesterday, going to be more crowded up there now.
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Doug Hemken
climber
Madison, WI
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May 15, 2009 - 12:06pm PT
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For "Dome Polishers" we're only talking eight bolts & hangers, according to Reid (2 lead bolts and 1 belay station on "Dome Polishers", two more belay stations on "Deuceldike"). Someone could do that in a day, not too expensive.
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mankymonkey
Trad climber
Oakland, CA
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May 23, 2009 - 10:01pm PT
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Would love to replace the old mank on a few of snake dike's immediate neighbors. I believe 'Eye in the Sky' also has old 1/4"-ers too (anyone, anyone?).
Cool photo of those magical dikes!
Doug: Do the last few pitches of blondike take reasonable pro? Looks like easy dike and face climbing. Almost convinced someone to try the A0 variation of two hoofers this weekend... maybe sometime soon. I'll let you know if we get up there.
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Joe
Social climber
Santa Cruz Mountains/Los Gatos
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 10, 2009 - 02:34pm PT
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I screwed up!
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Joe
Social climber
Santa Cruz Mountains/Los Gatos
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 10, 2009 - 02:39pm PT
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okay, we'll try again. hubris comes before the fall. thinking I was techno savy, boasting that your kids have nothing on me, considering applying for a job in the tech sector, I proceeded to post 4 photos of the same picture.
try again:
some water running on the hike
a walk in the park takes you to the base
there's a little uphill on the hike, but with views like this you hardly notice
not so lost lake
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