New and Experienced Climbers Over 50 #11

Bob Gaines wrote:

Name the formation. 

I like this game....  Name this formation.

here's a hint looking back the other way...
Remember what grades we climb at....

Nick Goldsmith wrote:

Cathedral Spires, don't recognize the route. 

Name this area.....

Bigger view from the backside....

Dallas R wrote: I like this game....  Name this formation.

here's a hint looking back the other way...

Remember what grades we climb at....

From the view back at the Needle's Eye tunnel and the hints, I'd guess the Hitching Post.

Dallas R wrote:

Cathedral Spires, don't recognize the route. 

The Picket Fence and trail to it is in the background so it is near the Spire 1 end of the Cathedral Spires.  Looks like maybe Station 13 below left.  Could it be Spire 1?

How about this (just here end of last summer)

Nice shot rgold! Is that the Picket Fence in the background, seen from the Cathedral Spires? Just a guess, since I've only climbed there once, but it's truly a magical place.

Got my slide scanner working overtime.

Here's another one from the Needles. Hint: 5.8, FA Royal Robbins

Well. Went outdoors bouldering today establishing new boulders with a group of young people. I was more than 25 years older than the oldest young person there.
Didn't do much.
Feeling that I'm pretty much too old for bouldering outdoors unless it's stuff I've done before and is easy.
Might just concentrate on being an indoor boulderer (when I can again) and a top rope tough guy and easy tradder...

Dallas R wrote: Climbing wise, JT is challenging.  If I where totally rich I would fund Rgold a week in JT with Bob, and then Bob a week with rgold in the gunks.  And then all the regulars on this thread to participate.  That would be spectacular.

Super idea! How much do you think it would cost, actually?

Rgold

You probably know this climb. I took a leader fall on my first attempt a long time ago.

John

I really like the looks of the spot that Dallas posted. If nobody guesses it please tell us where it is!

dragons wrote: Super idea! How much do you think it would cost, actually?

Airline ticket around $600, place to stay $500, rental car $300,  food etc.  $500.  Around $2000 as a wag. 

Dallas R wrote:

Airline ticket around $600, place to stay $500, rental car $300,  food etc.  $500.  Around $2000 as a wag. 

Hey, I'd be in to help! I assume it would be times two, for the second part? Apparently, the feds decided that, as the 2919 tax return was our last joint return, my husband also gets that "stimulus", lol! Stimulate all ya want, don't think he'll be spending it...

And, I am planning on keeping the paid reservations at City for this fall. If it doesn't happen, for whatever reasons, well, City will very likely be hurting for money with a bad season, eh? I don't mind keeping my special locale going....even if I can't visit.

That's one of the big things I really miss right now, the trips that may not happen. City, is easy....but I will respect that the camping is closed to discourage visits from out of towners. When will it open? When might it close again? No telling. Climbers are my people now, not connecting is just torture. I was supposed to be climbing at Smith, and learning to kayak, about now with Dallas and Barb. Others, were to have come through town. An out of town best friend has a mandatory furlough in a couple weeks....him, I'll "quarantine" with me, and carefully keep him all to myself if he crosses our closed Idaho border, lol!

Best to all of you in these strange times, eh? Helen

P.S. Hey, Malcolm Daly is in a Boise hospital, recovering (well, apparently) from a stroke. If you like, "sign" a card on MP for him?

https://www.mountainproject.com/forum/topic/118783600/malcolm-dalysign-a-card-for-him#ForumMessage-118783877

Thanks!

name this area.

djkyote wrote:

Trcone nail

Bingo. The route is Cerberus (5.8) on the Tricouni Nail, or, as the autocorrect on my phone says "Tricky I nail."

The belay anchor at the top is a sling around a bomber horn, then you have to do a classic Needles "simul rappel" with each rappeller going off opposite sides of the spire, with the rope seated in a notch at the top.
Some trivia: https://www.outdoorgearcoach.co.uk/tricouni-nails/

Cosmiccragsman AKA Dwain wrote: name this area.

Ok. Beautiful Climbing Area That I Want To Go To.  I just named it.    

Carl Schneider wrote: Well. Went outdoors bouldering today establishing new boulders with a group of young people. I was more than 25 years older than the oldest young person there.
Didn't do much.
Feeling that I'm pretty much too old for bouldering outdoors unless it's stuff I've done before and is easy.
Might just concentrate on being an indoor boulderer (when I can again) and a top rope tough guy and easy tradder...

Carl, every time you say you are feeling old and ready to quit something, I now know you are ready to get after it even more.  So, you might as well report in after you go outside and do some bouldering.  You haven't said much about your drink lately... and that worries me.  

Oldtradguy wrote: Rgold

You probably know this climb. I took a leader fall on my first attempt a long time ago.

John

Supercrack (12+)!

I had the pleasure of climbing at Skytop before it was closed to the public. What a classic crag! Did Open Cockpit, and Foops, among others.I worked there with a SEAL Team 6 group. On one of our days off I toproped Open Cockpit (11+) with Dan Osman. A couple days later we were back there, this time with the SEALs. At a lunch break we had all congregated  at the base of Open Cockpit. I watched Dan as he put on his shoes and grabbed his chalk bag, then walked over to the base of Open Cockpit. I thought to myself; "Oh no, he's not going to...." as he started climbing, sans rope.

It was a hot, humid day, and the climb was in the sun. When he got to the crux, about 30 feet up, he paused where a thin crack peters out and you have to commit to 11+ face moves. He chalked up, over and over again.I looked down at the base, littered with jagged talus boulders, then my knees began to shake a little from adrenaline and I had to sit down. When Dan committed to the crux, his body trembled horribly, and I had to look away.But he pulled it off, barely, and cruised to the top.

The SEALs were silent for a long time, then one of them turned to me and said "That was NOT COOL." After Dan topped out, he didn't come down for a long time, just stayed up there at the top of the cliff, talking to God.

Bob Gaines wrote: Nice shot rgold! Is that the Picket Fence in the background, seen from the Cathedral Spires? Just a guess, since I've only climbed there once, but it's truly a magical place.

Got my slide scanner working overtime.

Here's another one from the Needles. Hint: 5.8, FA Royal Robbins

Picket Fence in the background.  Shot last summer from East Gruesome, Bayonet (FA Bob Kamps) in the middle foreground.  Rappeller in picture here is rapping from Cerberus, perhaps the most-climbed route in the range.  The Conns named it Tricouni Nail, but Robbins invoked "first-ascender privilege" and renamed it.