Tuenight! Supremacy Crack @ Eldo!!

hello Colorado. the weather is changing. Or at least the sun is partially coming out, and the fog lifted a bit. I can see the Box from my house, and it has a chance to be dry, so I'm taking a raincoat and hiking up to see if we can get some climbing in before it rains. Best of luck to the rest of you. PS.. I'll take my phone and should have service. Feel free to call. (409) 351-2081

-josh

Susie bailed due to rain possibility, so I will wait and hike in with after work crew. Who's still going? Meet at 5 or 5:30?

I'm aiming for 5, Lyn. So are Jim, Jay, and others(?). EDIT: WiledHorse, Legs, Lee, Adam, Garret?

Sounds like Tony will bat cleanup at 5:30.

Hope Jim knows where the box is...or that the book is easy to follow! Or we can wait for the aging climber.

I may be tied up at work for a few more hours. Not looking promising.

I will be at NCAR unless it's pouring.

I'm gonna bail, don't want to wager a longish drive with today's weather.

hope you guys get a few laps in, i'm house hunting but am in for next tuesday if people are interested

Just do this for two more weeks and I can join in the festivities...

An awesome Tuesday Night! The TNO crew maintained its perfect record of not getting rained out! Sporadic drops kept us alert, but the weather and good times held. Considering the sky and the hike, turnout was excellent. An abridged Boulder Crew was joined by Vegans John and Brett.

Stone Love offers an exquisite passage of unique, airy moves. Josh floated pretty. Hand Crack is a 5" wide sandwich of grovel and trickery. Between belay duty and climbing, I didn't get any pics. Others took a few, I know...

BTW, per the guidebook, 40 minutes to approach?? Put on your track shoes! And carry a dry shirt to change into...

PS: Adam! See you next week. And you week after, Phil.

Sorry I missed another chance to thrutch among good company. Glad the weather held for you guys!

Sorry to flake out and miss another one. My Tuesdays have had a lot of last minute changes lately.

I'm amazed you got to climb. The weather in Boulder yesterday evening looked horrendous. I hope everyone was able to find the crag without too much difficulty.

hats off to Rich and some of his co-conspirators in any respect; it's a bummer to miss a good awful-width climbing night; but it was worth it to hear them on the hill.

I think everyone found it.
Seems likely as not that this one will be repeated. Not enough ropes and racks showed up... some people never did the OW, some never did Stone Love, though a majority of people who did either liked them.
Some people who didn't get to do one or the other commented about coming back to get them...
Anyway, Stone Love is a great route, and Handcrack is an "everyman's 9+ OW" meaning, you can probably do it if you try hard enough, but you will break a sweat.
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers (10d, mixed) provided some additiona diverson on the backside, a few feet away from 'Handcrack.' So really there are several things to do back there. The Finger Flatiron is at most 5 min away as well, and you pass the Red Devil on the way up and down, perhaps 10 min away at a slow pace.

Buff Johnson wrote:hats off to Rich and some of his co-conspirators in any respect; it's a bummer to miss a good awful-width climbing night; but it was worth it to hear them on the hill.

This probably warrants explanation. Here's where "Buff" and I (and 26 others) were Monday night and well into Tuesday:

krdo.com/Global/story.asp?S…

Rich Farnham wrote: This probably warrants explanation. Here's where "Buff" and I (and 26 others) were Monday night and well into Tuesday: krdo.com/Global/story.asp?S…

Was that on the Needle to Peak traverse?

1. Gentlemen, thanks for your service!

2. From the story: "search and rescue members from across southern Colorado located the injured hiker..." What, the southern bench is kinda light and they needed to import a couple Front Range all-stars?

YDPL8S wrote:Was that on the Needle to Peak traverse?

This is going to seem stupid, but I don't feel comfortable commenting on it. The way any public safety response is run, any information about it should come through the appropriate channels. That means that a Public Information Officer (PIO) is designated by the Incident Commander (IC). In this case the IC was the Custer County Sheriff's Office and Custer County Search and Rescue, so it wouldn't be appropriate for me to decide what information to discuss publicly.

Shawn Mitchell wrote:What, the southern bench is kinda light and they needed to import a couple Front Range all-stars?

Speaking generically, a rescue in technical terrain a long way from the trailhead takes a lot of people. The teams around the state and region send people to help when one of them gets a mission of this size. I'm not sure why the article specified "southern Colorado" as the source of these teams--possibly a mistake.

Rich,
Thanks for the mature response.
It's refeshing to see professionalism here.

just got the pic off a friends phone. Its an offwidth roof crack I found on the corner of Walnut and 11th downtown Boulder. Butterfly hand stack lets you cut feet and hang. pretty rad

Joshua Merriam wrote:just got the pic off a friends phone. Its an offwidth roof crack I found on the corner of Walnut and 11th downtown Boulder. Butterfly hand stack lets you cut feet and hang. pretty rad

Joshua that's a great pic -- nice hang -- missed you guys this week -- will try to make it out next week.

Rocco got a little banged up Tuesday morning -- but is healing nicely -- please send your love and healing thoughts via the UNIVERSE.