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New and Experienced Climbers over 50 #43
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One of my favorite things to do when I am bouldering is placing big cams. Really big cams ;) I haven't had a chance to place my nine inch cam for a while (and the six inch below it). New route at 9,600 feet elevation, two miles from Sonora Pass itself.    |
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Best day this summer so far, low dew point ( for the East) and temps in the 70’s. Did my best low point link to the top so far on the remote boulder project. It bodes well for actually good conditions this fall, but like I always say I am an optimist! |
Ward Smith wrote: Congratulations, sounds hard. Getting yourself set up for another Arizona trip in the fall? |
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Happy birthday Todd. two more years of being a youngster... |
Nick Goldsmith wrote: Thanks Nick! I'm enjoying the fight to stay fit and healthy! |
Brad Young wrote: Yes, definitely. I think this one is personally V8, but WAY harder if you are tall. My friend Steve at 6’1” who climbs around the same grade, can’t come close to doing the hardest move. High tight feet with a bicycle type clamp. Helps that I have short legs. Both of us are going back to Arizona in November. |
Nick Goldsmith wrote: Gave me an idea for a boulder name: TAPITA: Taking A Piss Into The Abyss Edit for Ward: Small coincidence: next week I'll be on Kauai for a week and planning some north shore bouldering! EDIT FOR MR ALAN RUBIN!!! I forgot about that! That's another duh (BY being the other). I'm glad my mistake brought you outta MP retirement 🤣 |
Todd Berlier wrote: Waimea has a route TABDITO: Take A Big Dump In The Ocean. Not my FA name, and yes I do think that it is stupid. |
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Waimea is the name of one of the multiple crags at Rumney in New Hampshire, so named because of it's 'breaking wave' appearance ( and home to many of the classic hard climbs of the area), so a bit far from Kauai!!!! |
Alan Rubin wrote: Yay! You are back! |
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Yes. I seem to have regained access as mysteriously as I lost it a couple of months ago. Definitely nothing I did consciously at either 'end'. Well just have to see how long it lasts!!! It's been fun lurking!!!! |
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Yay, boulderers! Yay Allan!! Not yay! It's a fucking 102 here today.... And.  This thing is so sad. It doesn't look quite as dramatic....because it is miles farther away. I think the huge, broad, light stripe might have been the fireline meant to stop it. So much for that. June sucked for myself and my climbing partner. July....well. Have a trip booked ages ago to Almo (COR) in September. Sure hope that goes well. In the meantime? I'm in kinda terrible shape, for not being in terrible shape. So. Gotta....keep trying. Start over. And over. And over. Just ate the tomato harvest. And, this is quite nice, I've got little snakes (might be just one, moving around) zinging around the yard. Always nice to see them! I take that as doing the yard right! They are far too warmed up to get any pictures. Actually, all I'm seeing are rapidly disappearing half snake back sides, most of the time. My main goals ard very small. Just keep trying to fo a bit here, or a bit there. And hope I can get my body back to not shorting me on sleep. That will make everything else way easier, for sure! Hey, where's Carl?? Is it full winter doldrums time, there? Fuck everything poem time? Helen |
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Welcome back, Alan!! I hope your air stays relatively clear with those fires, Helen. We've been very lucky here in the Sierra so far this year. |
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So nice you are back Alan!! I am somewhat of a lurker too and try to only join in when I feel I have something to contribute. |
Brad Young wrote: Thanks! It's been going north, the whole time, and can't even smell it. When we really got smoke settled in here, was back when the northern CA fires were going! Oh! I forgot to mention this! This weekend is the annual "summer camp for billionaires", up in Sun Valley. Private get together for uber rich moguls (and their families), capped at 100. Make deals, no press, all closed doors. Lots of private jets, lol! Supposedly, the guest list was leaked to Vanity Fair. I don't give a shit, so I have not hunted that up, but Lori, this is probably some of the ones you've expressed admiration for. We also have a cycling race here that's a kinda big deal. The Twilight Criterium. Amateurs racing during the day (age class clear down to little kids) then the 40mph pros tearing around downtown. Too hot for me this year, but that is terrific to watch! Helen |
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Crit's are pretty bad assed. Lots of wrecks. used to shoot that stuff BINTD.. |
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Woke up here yesterday morning  |
Todd Berlier wrote: What did I say?  |
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There is something about climbing over the ocean that just feels rad.. Hugi rock hopping  we paddled out across Lac Willoughby today  The route was Eye of Hor 5.10 mixed 330ft this feature is at the start of the climb.  This is a climb that I led The FA ground up . Mostly bolted but some gear on P1 and the last 60ft of P2 is all gear. Isa led P1 and I kept thinking whomever bolted this thing ran it out a bit. Great climb but a bit of spice. I led P2 and had the same thoughts though I already have added two bolts to this pitch since the first few times we climbed it and we think it needs two more ;) Isa topping out P2  on the way down we stopped and climbed the 3rd pitch of Extra Treat which is a 3 pitch 5.10 sport climb that we put up about 5 years ago.. This is a super tricky spot for me that I remember i had an exact sequence for my feet figured out that made it pretty easy but last year and this year I have really struggled on it. Kicked my butt today  Th paddle home..  |
 Oh gosh, please pray for me. We went for a hike to a local peak, Sunset Peak, which we haven't been to since the Bridge Fire. The hike is an 8 Mile Rt up a wide fire road, until the very end. At the last 15 minutes as we were pushing thru a veritable forest of these beautiful flowering shrubs, when it suddenly dawned on me that it could be POODLE DOG BUSH. So we stopped and turned around but it had already brushed on our arms and legs and probably faces. Internet hiking groups looked at after the fact confirm that it is rampant in our local mountains since the fires. We may be in the emergency clinic in the AM getting an Rx for prednisone... |
