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salad
climber
Escondido
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May 11, 2009 - 06:37pm PT
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nice munge!!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 12, 2009 - 12:43pm PT
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thx mang. you should get on that rig again. maybe not this coming weekend. looking ripping hot temps.
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nutjob
climber
Berkeley, CA
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May 12, 2009 - 01:42pm PT
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Now that sounds like a good adventure - good job guys! And it took an appeal to BAWC to get a slab partner!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 12, 2009 - 02:00pm PT
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LOL!! no doubt nutjob, no doubt. Something is really wrong there.
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Zander
Trad climber
Berkeley
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May 13, 2009 - 12:37am PT
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You guys are awesome!
Z
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 13, 2009 - 01:30am PT
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LOL, and by awesome, he means really not quite mentally together.
:)
seriously, the not shuttling a car was a little silly to forget to do. But it really did add to the experience. Literally you start out up high, drop down go around and practically meet your high point again, and then do it again. I must admit the park service does a pretty good job with their trails. Easy to follow in the dark. Only used my headlamp for the last quarter mile and one drainage crossing.
just got done with 2 hours of basketball tonight. gotta post up on the flaccid thread, I'm on a roll.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
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May 13, 2009 - 03:01am PT
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140 is a lot faster and easier, and you have plenty of rest places.
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cleo
Social climber
Berkeley, CA
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May 13, 2009 - 11:08am PT
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Well done Fun Fun! I might have to try that sometime...
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 13, 2009 - 11:26am PT
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Dr.Sprock, I think you may be right. I usually go 120. Do you mean 140 is better if you are going to back to The Grey Area?
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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May 13, 2009 - 11:35am PT
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w00t!
good stuff!
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BoKu
Trad climber
Douglas Flat, CA
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May 13, 2009 - 12:44pm PT
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Sort of off-topic, something I wondered about a bit on the first pitch:
In his day, John Muir did some pretty burly fourth-class climbing. I know that he'd been to Cathedral Peak, which at a minimum requires some DFU fourth class scrambling. And there's not many places around the Valley that he didn't go to at least once, right?
So, did Muir ever stand at the southwest shoulder of Half Dome, look up at those dikes, and think about following one to the top? Did he maybe scramble up the easy flakes at the start of that first pitch for a better look? Did he maybe test his hobnail boots against the friction above?
Hmmm.
Bob K.
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mucci
Trad climber
sf ca
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May 13, 2009 - 12:52pm PT
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Nice TR Munge! Looked like you guys had a grade III marathon, good to see the training is going well.
Mucci
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Bob Palais
Trad climber
UT
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May 22, 2009 - 02:09pm PT
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Great report! The first time I did Snake Dike was from Glacier Point with Dave Altman, after my first year of grad school resisting the magnetic pull of the Valley. Dave said after my prelims he'd give me an introduction, and this was it. He had a 140 foot rope, so on a couple of pitches I'd have to unclip and start climbing before he got to the next anchors. He told me he could hold a fall without them, and of course that was true, though we never had to test it. The most recent was last August, with John Gilardi, after Conness W. Ridge, and Tenaya Peak the two previous days. From the top each day we could see the other two climbs.
http://picasaweb.google.com/robert.palais/Sierras08#
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TMO
Trad climber
Puyallup, WA
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Oct 19, 2010 - 10:37pm PT
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BRAVO! A year an a half too late. What a fabulous effort, and read! I must do SnakeDike.
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