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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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Aug 10, 2011 - 03:18am PT
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A nice way to enter the canyon is a fairly obvious 3rd class ledge skirting the base of Liberty Cap. It gets high enough that you kind of wonder if it connects back to the ground.
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tom woods
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Aug 10, 2011 - 10:06am PT
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I've hung out in the canyon a fair amount. I remember that exact patch of rock we calling the scoops. It's beautiful.
I don't think the scoops go anywhere, and if they did, it might be a shame to bolt it.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Apr 21, 2013 - 12:38am PT
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Release Broderick Bump...
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Apr 21, 2013 - 12:42am PT
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good bump, Mr G.
I love those pics and that area!
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Apr 21, 2013 - 12:46am PT
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One lifetime is simply not enough to wander the creation, to meet and enjoy the folk that wander also.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Apr 21, 2013 - 01:07am PT
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Reading this tonight and it seems to fit the Thread.
"The true mountaineer is a wanderer, and by a wanderer I do not mean a man who expends his whole time in travelling to and fro in the mountains on the exact tracks of his predecessors...but I mean a man who loves to be where no human being has been before, who delights in gripping rocks that have previously never felt the touch of human fingers..."
"The gaunt, bare slabs, the square, precipitous steps in the ridge, and the black, bulging ice of the gully, are the very breath of life to his being. I do not pretend to be able to analyse this feeling, still less to be able to make it clear to unbelievers. It must be felt to be understood, but it is potent to happiness and sends the blood tingling through the veins, destroying every trace of cynicism and striking at the very roots of pessimistic philosophy."
A.F. Mummery as quoted in "Everest the West Ridge" by Thomas F. Hornbein.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Apr 21, 2013 - 01:34am PT
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Mummery was a fully-realized climber, an anchorite.
Thanks for the quotes Lynne. Sounds like you got inspired at the AAC gathering.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Apr 22, 2013 - 12:03am PT
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Didn't get to attend, Steve. Wish I could have.
Reading Mummery's words, especially the last several sentences, made me realize it's so much how I feel when I get off into the meadows, streams, lakes, hills, and mountains of the Sierra, Eastside.
Peter's pictures made an even greater impression on my heart and soul.
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Nov 23, 2014 - 06:50pm PT
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Haan classic!
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bpope
climber
Sunnyvale, CA
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Apr 21, 2015 - 12:26am PT
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Bump for some sweet looking stone in a beautiful place.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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May 28, 2015 - 02:40pm PT
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From around 1980
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christinafreschl
climber
Berkeley
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Jun 14, 2015 - 04:38pm PT
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Peter,
Any information on the climb to the left of the lightning bolt crack. I would like to go up there in the next couple of weeks and check out these routes. Lightning crack beta, gear? etc.
Thanks,
Christina
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