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Location: CO : Georgetown
By: YDPL8S When: Nov 4, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: Does anyone climb on the slab that is N. of I-70 just E. of the turnoff for Berthoud Pass (if you are headed W.)? I did some climbs there in 73-74 when I was living in Georgetown, it might be on private property. It's pretty short and has kind a cave/chimney on the top right side.
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : San Juans : The Grenadiers : West Trinity Peak : ... : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Sep 29, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: Wham Ridge's chossy brother.
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Location: CO : Estes Park Valley : Lumpy Ridge : Twin Owls : Wolf's Tooth (5.8) : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Sep 28, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: That really gives you the feel of it!
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Location: CO : Boulder : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Sep 18, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: It looks like you guys are thinkin' "where the hell are those beers?"
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Location: CO : Gunnison : Hartman Rocks : Slab of No Return
By: YDPL8S When: Sep 18, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: I thought I'd touched and at least scoped out most everything there. Just shows to go ya!
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : RMNP - Rock : Long's Peak : The Diamond : Casual Route (5.10a)
By: YDPL8S When: Sep 17, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: Gotcha, for a minute there I thought you were talking about lichen :-)
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : RMNP - Rock : Long's Peak : The Diamond : Casual Route (5.10a)
By: YDPL8S When: Sep 15, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: (On a side note, the autumn colors have arrived above tree line, and they are quite spectacular!)
Huh?????
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Location: CO : South Platte : Buffalo Creek : Top Of The World : Boulder Pile : ... : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Sep 9, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: Very cool, but I hope someone doesn't now go up there and make it their souvenir.
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Location: CO : Boulder : Boulder Canyon : Castle Rock : Storming the Castle (5.11) : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Sep 7, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: That's some slick sh&* there!
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Location: CO : Estes Park Valley : Lumpy Ridge : Little Twin Owls : Finger Crack (5.11a)
By: YDPL8S When: Sep 2, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: I saw a video of Steph Davis "WALKING" this climb (maybe the small fingers help :-).
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Location: CO : Gunnison : Taylor Canyon
By: YDPL8S When: Aug 19, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: I'm with Allen, this area has a great tradition of minimal rock defacement. Respect the area and the history.
Allen, what all did you "get on" your last trip there? Inquiring minds want to know :-)
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Location: Allen Hill : personal photos : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Aug 17, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: Who is that Allen, like Trotsky or something?
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Location: CO : Gunnison : Hartman Rocks : Bouldering Areas : The Stash : Cool Hand Luce (V5 R)
By: YDPL8S When: Aug 3, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: Welcome to Hartman's!
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : San Juans : The Grenadiers : Vestal Peak : Wham Ridge (5.4 R)
By: YDPL8S When: Jul 30, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: Matt, that is the finest group of pictures of that area that I have ever seen. It took me right back there, my brain had started to lose the memory of the grandeur of that magical place.
An old climbing buddy of mine and Outward Bound instructor (mid to late '70s), John Lafferty, used to take groups of students up that thing in K-mart flip flops that he had altered into "climbing flops" by putting Vibram soles on the bottom and Astro Turf on the top!
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Location: CO : Boulder : Eldorado Canyon SP : The Bastille : The Bastille - N Face : ... : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Jul 19, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: My eyes, my eyes, those pants! I think I'm having a flashback!
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Location: CO : Gunnison : Taylor Canyon : First Buttress : The Big Roof : ... : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Jul 19, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: Hi Back Jean!, living in Santa Monica with a bum shoulder. I go one-arm bouldering at Joshua Tree and Malibu Creek occasionally. Mostly play in the surf 4 blks from my apt., only a Gunny person gets my moniker :-)
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Location: CO : Gunnison : Taylor Canyon : First Buttress : The Big Roof : ... : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Jul 14, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: Hi Jean, I knew which you were talking about. If Doug tries real hard and thinks back through the '70s haze, he'll remember me, Scott Mossman, hope he's doing well.
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : The Crestones : Ellingwood Ledges (5.7)
By: YDPL8S When: Jul 12, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: Well, there you go, I was just starting to feel good about myself. If you're talking about the right-facing dihedral furthest to the left, I guess now the only way I can justify that it felt like 5.9 is the big boots we were wearing :-)
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Location: CO : Gunnison : Taylor Canyon : First Buttress : The Big Roof : ... : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Jul 12, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: Ahhhh! The green belt is there. That makes more sense, always thought it looked too "wiry" for Rosholt.
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Location: NH : *NH Ice and Alpine Climbing : Cathedral Ledge Ice Climbs : North End Pillars (WI3-4) : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Jul 9, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: That is the exact hammer and pick I used when I first went ice climbing......I know, kind of sad that that's what I noticed.
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Location: CO : Gunnison : Hartman Rocks : Groove Rock aka Leap of Fai... : Dancin' Fool (5.9+)
By: YDPL8S When: Jul 8, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: I noticed that Will gave it 5.7 rating. I have no idea where the bolts are now, but from John's photo, the area he is denoting as Dancin' Fool had at least 3 different toprope routes that we played around on. They probably ranged from 5.7 to 5.9, some on crystal strings and some on lichen filled smear cups.
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Location: CO : Lyons : St. Vrain Canyons : South Fork of St. Vrain Can... : December Wall : Winter Dreams / Gene and Ge... (5.10c)
By: YDPL8S When: Jul 8, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: Thanks Slim, yeah he was always one of those quiet guys that didn't talk about it, but just did everything he did better than anybody else.
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Location: CO : Lyons : St. Vrain Canyons : South Fork of St. Vrain Can... : December Wall : Winter Dreams / Gene and Ge... (5.10c)
By: YDPL8S When: Jul 8, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: Slim, Craig Lightburn! there's a name from the past. He and I went to Golden High School together. I knew he was a climber but he was already pushing the hard stuff when I was leading 5.7s in the early to mid '70s. Do you have any idea of where he is nowadays?
Yeah George, it's quite possible they didn't make their FA known. I knew lots of guys from that time that put up FAs in the Platte and Clear Creek that climbed FAs for the thrill of the unknown and the challenge of route finding on an... more >>
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Location: CO : Telluride/Norwood area : Ophir : Ophir Wall : Main Wall : Y-Crack (5.10d)
By: YDPL8S When: Jul 2, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: I was with the late Scotty Gilbert (of Gunnison fame) and "Madman" Geoff Conley (of Red Rocks fame) when they did an ascent of this in 1976 or '77. I was supposed to join them on the climb but it was out of my league at the time (I don't think I really ever was in that league), and so I let them have at it :-), they were both very strong climbers. I remember Conley using tape on his hands, that was the first time I had ever seen that done, and of course it was all hexes and stoppers, I'm prett... more >>
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Location: Joe Ballent : Flaming Gorge Deep Water So... : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Jul 1, 2010 | view comment >> |
Comments: Holy sh*&!!!!
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