Trip Report
Skull Queen - Washington Column - Happy Birthday to Me
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Thursday May 17, 2012 2:01am
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JSpencerV
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About the Author
JSpencerV is a trad climber from Santa Monica, CA. |
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eKat
Mountain climber
Less than a second shy of 49 minutes
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May 17, 2012 - 05:09am PT
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VERY NICE!
TFPU!
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jfailing
Trad climber
PDX, North Slope, The Open Road
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May 17, 2012 - 07:00am PT
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Nice dude - good send! Dinner ledge would be a great place to spend a birthday...
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Morgan
Trad climber
East Coast
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May 17, 2012 - 07:07am PT
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Cool adventure. That would be my favorite way to spend my Birthday.
RE: differentiating Metolius Master Cams from Metolius Offset cams (And I do the same with hybrid ALIENS). I rack all standard cams normally like you would for free climbing. I rack the offsets with a single biner in the cable loop. That way it is easier for me to see the color coding. Even more important with hybrid aliens, since mine all have the same silver sling color.
Alternatively, you could always just keep the offsets in a dedicated place on your racking sling, somehow separate from the normal cams, so you always know where they are.
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kc
Trad climber
the cats
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May 17, 2012 - 07:09am PT
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Wow--looks good! And the TR was pretty nice too! ;)
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Ezra Ellis
Trad climber
WA, & NC & Idaho
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May 17, 2012 - 08:40pm PT
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Looks like a great birthday, thanks!
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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May 17, 2012 - 09:51pm PT
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I liked your TR, man. I climbed the Skull Queen once upon a time. Looks like you had more fun. You shared it with a friend.
You took better pics, too. I do think you could've relaxed a bit about the descent, though. It's all there. But...to each his own in that respect.
Thanks. Big Fat TFPU!, over here, boss.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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May 17, 2012 - 10:04pm PT
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Poop Tubes are nice
well, there's a first.
hahaha, cool TR
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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May 18, 2012 - 05:16am PT
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hey there say, jspencer v....
wow, thansk for the share...
also, say:
happy birthday!
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Dos XX
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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May 18, 2012 - 05:17am PT
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Cool send, and write-up!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 18, 2012 - 06:48am PT
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That sounded great, birthday Boy. Glad to see a guy and a gal can get along so well on a wall.
The photo of W.C. is super. I don't recall seeing it from the angle you present it. There is more grandeur, some how. The photo helps reveal its size.
The profile, from which the W.C.'s derived is so over-used (and so are a lot of others) that it is refreshing to see it like this. Also, the photo with Half Dome rates, too. I like the skewed angle--it's more real that way.
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Skull Queen. Photo: Chris McNamara
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