Woodson Highballs!!!!!!!!11111111

I love the pics, but I really have no idea what you're rambling about.

Maybe stop channeling your inner teenage girl and regroup your thoughts? Still don't know what you're looking for, but I'm going to defeat the hell out of ISIS.

Adam Burch wrote:Still don't know what you're looking for, but I'm going to defeat the hell out of ISIS.

Yes yes, the "yeeHawd" conducted in order to expand the "cowliphate", perpetrated by "yallQuada" and "theDirtBagTaliban", in an attempt to "gentrify" the wilderness. We all know about that.This is not the place for your political tripe.

It is somewhere to post any cool pictures of Mt. Woodson or the surrounding area. Also, any pictures of this short, TR/highball kind of crack climbing from anywhere. It would be cool to know the different spots that have the same character :)

Sweet looking arete and thanks for posting that, Adam.

For anyone who feels compelled, it would be cool to post some kind of general directions for any stuff which is on public property, even if it's just the name of the broad area. The idea is to get a bunch of photos of this kind of stuff to serve as a resource both for people who live in certain areas and for the few rare folks like myself who like to hit these kinds of areas up when we are traveling about. I find this type of climbing has a fairly low overall appeal for climbers, so info. on it is typically not in demand enough to put into print.

JNE, why haven't you posted any photos?

I know this isn't Elena, but you sound very similar.

FrankPS wrote:JNE, why haven't you posted any photos?

I have not had a phone for years. I have a few photos on this site for stuff around my local area from years ago though :)

I also have contributed a bunch of cool routes and problems of this style around my old local area, Vedauwoo. Everything from v0 to v11 or so, including an area I named in honor of one of my favorite destinations, Md. Woodson.

I have put the vast majority of the problems I have opened on this site for everyone to go enjoy, free from any BAWSENESS. I am proud to say it is one of the best collections of short cracks to go hunt power on in the U.S., considering anyone here is into that kind of thing.

JNE wrote:I am curious if anyone around Mt. Woodson has taken to highball bouldering out any of the cracks on a regular basis? From the little I know about the place, it seems as if there is a solid tradition of TRing things, then going ropeless on them after dialing them. However, it seems to me that many of these little gems would make for absolutely classic experiences as highball boulders.

Your trainwreck was derailed from the start by your own erroneous misconceptions. Just because someone rehearsed a highball on toprope prior to bouldering it doesn't disqualify the later ropeless send from being highball. An extra tall problem bouldered, with or without previous roped or unroped attempts, is a highball. Onsighting isn't that relevant in bouldering. Even if you insist that it is, you're still free to onsight highballs that others didn't onsight. Plus, any climbing route could be a highball as well, single-pitch or multi-pitch, for someone to boulder it without a rope. There are plenty of highballs around. Your kind of "highballs" are perceived as rare by you only because of your own screwed up misconceptions.

It'll probably break your heart to find out that not all the "highballs" that you've heard of were done onsight, that some of them actually did involve attempts or rehearsals of one form or another beforehand. But that's another trainwreck for another time.

iker acton wrote: Your trainwreck was derailed from the start by your own erroneous misconceptions. Just because someone rehearsed a highball on toprope prior to bouldering it doesn't disqualify the later ropeless send from being highball. An extra tall problem bouldered, with or without previous roped or unroped attempts, is a highball. Onsighting isn't that relevant in bouldering. Even if you insist that it is, you're still free to onsight highballs that others didn't onsight. Plus, any climbing route could be a highball as well, single-pitch or multi-pitch, for someone to boulder it without a rope. There are plenty of highballs around. Your kind of "highballs" are perceived as rare by you only because of your own screwed up misconceptions. It'll probably break your heart to find out that not all the "highballs" that you've heard of were done onsight, that some of them actually did involve attempts or rehearsals of one form or another beforehand. But that's another trainwreck for another time.

^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^^

BTW, highball bouldering developed out of places with lots of climbing challenges the height of Mt. Woodson's. Bishop would be another of these places. For innane reasons, highball bouldering took off around places like Bishop while it more or less stagnated around places like Mt. Woodson, where the highballs maintained being referred to as "routes", and bouldering them was referred to as "soloing the 'route'".

If you are too daft to figure out that there are other areas like Mt. Woodson laying around, areas that 20-30 years ago would have been referred to as "bouldering areas" which now are "hardman route areas" (lol), then I can't help you.

This is good. **cough** Keep it going.

EDITED: ... To express sarcasm

Lou Cerutti wrote:This is good. Keep it going.

Lol. Nice contributions from some people at least. Many of the linked threads have lots of good pictures. Plenty of time for anyone who feels compelled to post up some pictures in the intended theme of the thread. I would love to see some pictures of Enchanted Rock if anyone has any they want to share, for example.

Still trying to figure out what you're looking for, that isn't already available to anyone with a 3rd grader's google search ability?

JNE is trolling all of us. This shit is making me cringe.

JNE.... go to the TACO... BVB has tons of Woodson stuff and others too....

Look up a poster named FRIEND....

Also have you ever been to HORSE FLATS??? Tons of bouldering

Lord knows I love using ultra-annoying regional stoke slang ad nauseam to mock as many people at once that I can - just can't get behind this bawesesnes thing or whatever. Perhaps it's a hit in other circles?

I give it a 2.4 max.

Idea for your next thread - "Yosemite Cracks! Anyone have any pictuars?!?"

Guy Keesee wrote:JNE.... go to the TACO...

But then I would have to deal with people who need therapy for all the mean things people like me write about them, such as my lovely meme above, or that Hillary is a DINO and the GOP total BAWESES. Not worth it. BVB and Friend seem like cool folks, and both of them have shared a ton of awesome climbing psyche there and elsewhere, but that place is still not worth it as the admins, apparently, are BAWESES.

Guy Keesee wrote:Also have you ever been to HORSE FLATS??? Tons of bouldering

Sounds like a cool place. Thanks for posting that up. That southern sierra granite makes for some lovely climbing. Any cool hard crack challenges there?

JNE wrote: That southern sierra granite makes for some lovely climbing. Any cool hard crack challenges there?

nope none

JNE.... Horse Flats is up the Angeles Forrest Hwy.... from La Canada.

A camp ground is attached by the same name.

" Perhaps I don't understand the difference between highball bouldering it and going ropeless?"

Adam is funny, but I don't know the difference ether. bouldering is going ropeless. IMHO

and the TACO... what you afraid of someone yelling at you??? That place reminds me of back home in C4

JNE wrote: That southern sierra granite makes for some lovely climbing. Any cool hard crack challenges there?

idk
you could like.. go there yourself and find out.. considering you're into that kind of thing