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Location: CA : Yosemite National Park : Yosemite Valley : The Cookie Cliff : The Cookie-Center (5.9)
By: Rob Dillon When: Nov 7, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: It does appear that some of it comes straight outta Reid.
But man, the guy's got an eye with that camera!
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Location: CO : Eagle/Vail : The Aircraft Carrier
By: Rob Dillon When: Nov 7, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: "Homestake".
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Location: CA : Yosemite National Park : Yosemite Valley : The Cookie Cliff : The Cookie-Center (5.9)
By: Rob Dillon When: Nov 5, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Lemme get this straight:
"pro to 2.5"
"right-leaning offwidth"
Fortunately this discrepancy is obvious enough from the base...
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Location: CA : Yosemite National Park : Yosemite Valley : El Capitan Base Routes : Ahab (5.10a) : Photo
By: Rob Dillon When: Nov 5, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Extra credit for slippers.
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Location: UT : Moab Area : Tusher Canyon : Monitor and Merrimac Buttes : Monitor Butte, The Plunge (5.7 A2)
By: Rob Dillon When: Nov 5, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Did you pull it, or what?
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Location: CA : Joshua Tree National Park : Real Hidden Valley : Miles Of Piles Rock - West ... : Making Wind (5.10b/c)
By: Rob Dillon When: Oct 30, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: How many times do you have to climb that to add up to 60 feet?
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Location: CA : Yosemite National Park : Yosemite Valley : Eagle Creek Area
By: Rob Dillon When: Oct 29, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Maybe we were off route, but the Pinnacle is west of the creekbed.
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Location: CA : Yosemite National Park : Yosemite Valley : Finger Lickin' Area
By: Rob Dillon When: Oct 29, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: If you've never seen poison oak before, get someone to show you before you head up for this one.
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Location: NM : Albuquerque Area Climbing : Foothills Bouldering : U-Mound : Warmup Boulders (AKA Brett ... : ... : Photo
By: Rob Dillon When: Oct 4, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Spot!
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Location: CA : Yosemite National Park : Yosemite Valley : Manure Pile Buttress (aka R... : After Six (5.6) : Photo
By: Rob Dillon When: Sep 24, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: It's easier if you just tilt it back.
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Location: CA : Yosemite National Park : Yosemite Valley : Schultz's Ridge : Demon's Delight (5.11a PG13)
By: Rob Dillon When: Sep 21, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: If one were to bring, say, 4x #1 Camalots along, one would have both pro for the second pitch and for the anchor at its top. Without this things get a little scrappy, especially since the belay is pretty much fully hanging.
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Location: CA : Yosemite National Park : Yosemite Valley : Elephant Rock : Hotline (5.12a)
By: Rob Dillon When: Sep 5, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Thanks Josh T. for taking care of those last 3 bolts- they're bomber now.
Then go check out the relics at the top of the chimney..
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Location: CA : Yosemite National Park : Yosemite Valley : The Rostrum : The North Face (5.11c) : Photo
By: Rob Dillon When: Aug 26, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: This is pretty much what it's all about.
Nice shot.
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Location: CO : Independence Pass : Monitor Rock : Trailhead Wall : The Other Road (5.11a)
By: Rob Dillon When: Aug 25, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Spoken like a true FAist, Drew.
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Location: CA : Yosemite National Park : Yosemite Valley : Reed's Pinnacle Area : Chingando (5.10a) : Photo
By: Rob Dillon When: Jul 15, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: August! Bonus points for the summer ascent.
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Location: CA : Yosemite National Park : Tuolumne Meadows : Whizz Domes : North Whizz Dome : Handbook (5.11a PG13)
By: Rob Dillon When: Jul 9, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: We actually climbed a kind of exhilaratingly T-Wall-esque topout variation- rather than going left to the chimney, stayed m/l straight up on exposed arete and facey ledges and stuff. Kinda heads-up, 5.8 or -9.
I emailed Roger Breedlove about the anchor and he basically said "call Jim, it was his show."
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Location: CA : Yosemite National Park : Yosemite Valley : Lower Brother : Absolutely Free, Center (5.9)
By: Rob Dillon When: Jun 17, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: A topout variation to the right avoids the wide via finger-sized laybacking through a series of corners, 5.9.
Rapping with 2 60's is pretty straightforward. Bring a big piece of webbing/cordelette in case the slung boulder on top has been unslung.
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Location: CA : Yosemite National Park : Yosemite Valley : Sentinel Rock : Steck-Salathe (5.10-) : Photo
By: Rob Dillon When: Jun 15, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Looks kinda late in the day for that location...
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Location: CA : Yosemite National Park : Yosemite Valley : The Cookie Cliff : Meat Grinder (5.10b) : Photo
By: Rob Dillon When: Jun 6, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Greg, you gotta get some better clothes on that guy...awesome shot.
Shop 'em in if you have to.
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Location: NC : Looking Glass Rock : North Side : Invisible Airways (5.10c A2)
By: Rob Dillon When: Jun 4, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: I decided to aid the corner on my clean gear before I started nailing, and got to the anchors without having to pull up the hammer. This was in about 1994. Some fixed heads were involved near the top, but otherwise I was able to get up it with my less-than-state-of-the-art rack of that era. So folks with consideration for the resource might hold off on the bashing before following the exhortation to start nailing right off the ledge. It's still the only place I've ever got to stand on a 0 RP... more >>
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Location: NC : Big Green
By: Rob Dillon When: May 27, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: [ [ [ [ shriv ] ] ] ]
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Location: CA : Yosemite National Park : Yosemite Valley : Lower Cathedral Rock : East Buttress (5.10c)
By: Rob Dillon When: May 20, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Some beta that was useful to me:
after the terrace of the several choices, a longish leftward-trending rampy thing heads up and left towards some clean grey-white bongo flakes. The goal is to reach these, which are probably 350' above and to the left of the terrace. Above this runs a system which should get you to the top; a couple fixed pins will reassure you that the system has in fact been climbed before.
Awesome summit, too!
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Location: CA : Yosemite National Park : Yosemite Valley : The Cookie Cliff : Catchy Corner (5.11a)
By: Rob Dillon When: Apr 30, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Use the new anchor. The old one will get your rope stuck.
-PrussikMan
able to reclimb pitches with only a little piece of cord
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Location: International : Morocco
By: Rob Dillon When: Apr 27, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Does it say more about the country, or about the visitors, that every time the talk turns to Morocco the topic quickly turns to hustlers and how to avoid them?
I think, Paul, that staying in that nice hotel in Tafraoute and getting around in your rent-a-car might exempt you from a lot of the situations that generate all this talk. Folks who try and tour the entire country on the cheap could have a different view. I won't presume to say whose is more correct. Three sentences on the charm of t... more >>
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Location: NC : Looking Glass Rock : Photo
By: Rob Dillon When: Apr 23, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Viva el butt shot!
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