Highlining Pinnacles National Park
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Spaghetti Western Pinnacles National Park, CA
Went out to the Pinnacles yesterday to help my brother rig this highline. He walked it no problem. Surfed till he whipped, leash caught his nards on the fall. Fucking hilarious. Afterwards we set up a little rope swing off of it and did some climbing. An awesome day!!! |
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Choss line. |
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simplyput wrote:Choss line.Yep. Edit: It was "fucking hilarious" that your brother fell on his nuts? Sounds very, uh, funny. |
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I was hiking through yesterday and stopped for a minute to watch your first send with my mom and brother. My mom was stoked to watch you guys, keep it up! |
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simplyput wrote:Choss line.One anchor was a giant pine, about 3 feet in diameter and the other anchor was 4 half inch bolts in very solid rock. I would say it's about as bombproof as you can get. |
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FrankPS wrote: It was "fucking hilarious" that your brother fell on his nuts? Sounds very, uh, funny.You would've needed to be there I guess. |
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Looks like Hummingbird Spire in in the background? |
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That's what I was thinking Clint, nice eye! |
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Clint Cummins wrote:Looks like Hummingbird Spire in in the background? Back in the 50s/60s the equivalent was tyroleans. One was done from the Monolith to the rim, and another between the North and South Yaks.That is the Hummingbird Spire! The line is between Big Bad West and the tree at the Split Boulders. We've scoped out the line from the rim to the Monolith and I was considering the Yaks as well. It's the first of many!!! On another note, I met and partied with your son Skyler on Dinner Ledge last weekend. It was an awesome time! |
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Does anyone know if there have been other highlines out at the Pinnacles? |
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Max McKee wrote:Does anyone know if there have been other highlines out at the Pinnacles?Hey Max. I met and talked at length with your brother Simon on Saturday August 13th. I opened up a discussion on the Pinnacles climbing forum Mud n Crud (mudncrud.com). It would be great if you guys could join and get in on the discussion. There have been a couple of good comments so far. Here is a direct link to the thread. mudncrud.com/forums/index.p…;topicseen#msg35789 JC |
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Hey JC, I just went onto mudncrud and tried to answer a few questions and explain some things. I believe simon he has registered and will be on there soon |
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Hi guys, |
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No new anchors have been drilled that i know of. Lately, we have been searching for locations where natural anchors can be used. |
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s.price wrote:Spaghetti Western? Do you actually name your highlines? Curious as I know nothing about this.Yeah. It's one of the things highlining borrowed from climbing. First person to cleanly send the line usually gets naming rights. We also say "send" even though we traverse more than ascend... |