Chessman 

i feel so left out.

You know, those pieces Kasparov was pretty good at moving around.

Or around there somewhere anyway.

o.O

Jimbo is only poking fun at some guys who seem to be isolating themselves in a canyon up north near the town of Pine. He tried to pawn this area off on some other folks the other knight but they felt that they were being rooked. He tried to tell them they could be king and queen of the castle but they were not buying his game. They said they wouldn't believe what Jim said if he was the bishop. Any way you should check it out mate there are lots of good moves to be made at the Super Mega Secret Show And Tell Only Area!

You'll never feel rooked at the Super Mega Secret area. We always have a royal good time here.

Lol

haha

I got forked once.

Erica B. redpointed Helium (5.12) at the Chessman today!! Another 12 for the tribe.

This area sounds like one I know from Squeezing the Lemmon?

Hehe If Eric M's post from 5 months ago doesn't spell it out enough, I don't know what would.

I kinda liked EFR's hiding-in-plain-sight approach better though.

Hmm...if some simple deduction and typing in the query "chessman" here at MP reveals the super uber secret area, it's not so super uber secret, now is it? Why this silliness anyway?

Jimbo is poking fun at the boys in Isolation Canyon.

Thanks! Just out of curiosity, why is the Chessman area not here on MP?

haha I know where this place is. Definitely wanna go back...so when is the secret going to be let out?

The secrete will be revealed as soon as the Isolation Canyon lads do a topo and tell people where that area is.
Or when Rhicard publishes the new Lemmon Guide book, which ever comes first.

Well...at least it's not too hard to figure out where Isolation Canyon is... Someone just needs to do some reconn, I suppose... www.toddshikingguide.com/Hikes/Arizona/Tonto/Tonto13.htm

I heard a rumor that there are some sweet topo's being made for Iso. (not by toofast) :)

Almost all newer routes have been posted here in the chessman area. Maybe some will be saved for the newer edition to "Squeezing The Lemmon?

Chessapeak wall climbs right to left. FA'S ANDY TRETIAKOFF, CHARLIE KING, EFR.

PHALANX 5.12- (BGC) (EFR,JST,EMK,'05) 40FT FINGER CRACK A SHORT DISTANCE SOUTH OF CHESSAPEAK WALL.

TWO FOR ONE 5.8- (BGC) (AT, CK '05)

SYSTEM 3 CRACK 5.6 (GC) (AT, CK '05)

HIP CHECKER 5.8- SAME START AS SYSTEM 3, BUT TRAVERSE LEFT ON FIRST LEDGE AT 1ST BOLT. (BGC) (AT, CK '05)

BOSCH SURVIVAL KIT 5.10- (BC) (AT, CK '05)

RACK ENHANCEMENT 5.9- (BGC) (AT, EFR '05)

CHARLIES CHECKERS 5.8+ (BGC) (AT, CK '05)

ASPEN GOLD 5.8+ (BC) (AT, CK '05)

TEN STAR WHINERS 5.10- (BGC) (AT, CK '05)

FINAL DECISION 5.9+ (BC) (AT, CK '05)

Not sure where Nathan got his information but I just talked to the folks at the Catalina Ranger District (Mt. Lemmon) and the FOREST IS NOT, I REPEAT NOT CLOSED. There are fire restrictions.

The comment was originally posted under Isolation Canyon (150 miles north of here). I'm no sure why it is showing up here.

Hey I recently climbed a route on the queen formation perhaps??? It was located next to two routes that share a start. The climb was long and broken up half way by a ledge with a single perma-draw. It continued up a groove/shallow dihedral and pulled a bulge right before the anchors. Anybody know what route this is?

Is it up there on the wall next to the thin seems with the orange rock? You know the one that starts above the ledge with the bushes? You know the one with the carabiners and quick links at the anchors. A little more info would help. Except for the chain draw you just described half a dozen routes there. You might start by looking at the overhead in SQ II on page 44 so you know if you were on the Queen or not.

Is it left or right of the two routes that start the same? Is it to the right of the trail that leads up to the wall? But thinking about the Queen, I think there are 4 of 5 routes that have the same start. The only one I can remember having a chain draw is on the far right just before the big alcove gully. This climb starts on Handmaiden 5.10 (has a belay bolt with a small plate that has 101 ft. stamped on it) then works right. There is a hard move over a roof. Seem to remember a chain draw being on that one as it was hard to clip just the bolt. Can't remember the name off hand but do recall that it was 11+ or so. If Jimbo doesn't chime in with a name I will look it up when I get to my office.

The 11- just left of Flogging the Bishop/Heelium??? (ie far left end of the Bishop). Don't believe those two share a start but it could certainly look that way at first glance.

Can't remember whether it had a chain draw for cleaning or not, but since it leans left the whole way, would make sense if it did.

Not shown on my topo so don't know what it's called.

Cornickopia has a chain draw half way down in order to make cleaning easier.