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Suggested Page Improvements to Albuquerque Area
OK!!! PROBLEM SOLVED!!!
I had mistaken the SANDIA Page and the ALBUQUERQUE AREA Pages as the same page :op
MY MISTAKE!!! Although, I still wonder why when I pressed "Post Comment", my post/message and everything went bonkers and turned double images superimposed over each other. That's what caused my confusion as regards which page I had been on.
Sorry if I caused any problems for anyone. I'll leave my "Suggest Changes" here below in case it helps clarify any confusion.
Dear Friends,,, About 7 am this morning I was trying to post a reply to an old friend of ours,,, Clark Grey,,, about chimneys in the Sandia Mtns,,,, and at first I got a message on my screen "oops,,, there seems to be a problem with our servers". I then tried to go back to the previous page but ultimately had to go into my history and click the page for MP Albuquerque Area and do an e-mail and log in on a small screen like the one I'm writing this on.
I had copied my message (as a matter of habit) and repost the message only to see a "double image" of everything on my screen. All of the messages were still there that were there before my post, but superimposed on top of each other. I then repeated clicking off the page and coming back to the same page only to find all but two of everyone's posts gone!!! Even the one I'd just post was only showing a fraction of what I wrote as it would not scroll to the bottom of my message.
In going back to that page and looking at the messages, I now see all of my message is there,,, that is, the second time I made the attempt, is there,,, the original...??? I'm not worried about my post, but it's a tragic loss (to me) that everybody else's posts seem to be lost. I hope someone can find a way to repost all the ones that are no longer there. Backed up somehow by MP???
The most recent post before mine was from WILL BINETTE, from Albuquerque,,, mid December 2018, asking about climbing in the Sandias January 2019.
I hope somehow someone can save those posts. If not,,, Thanks for trying!!!
Gary Hicks Cosmic_Fire_7@Yahoo.com
My original post read:
Hey Clark,,, I was just checking out some recent posts here yesterday and noticed yours. I grabbed my old Chouinard catalog (purchased at Neptune Mountaineering in Boulder, November 24th, 1973) which contains some information of some of my early climbs in the Sandias,,, one of which mentions a CHIMNEY climb on the little cliff by the 2nd tower of the tram. It reads:
May 5th, '74 Steve Jones and i camped near the 2nd tower of the Tramway after a full-moon hike. A windy night and following day. However = we were able to do a 1st ascent on the 'South Buttress'. "Super Squeeze" I, 5.6 or 5.7.
A chimney problem (5.6) with a 5.7 face climb start.
It's a long hike to get to this little cliff, but as I recall the rock is pretty good and there are a number of cracks, some which I came back and climbed,,, probably in the 5.7/5.8 range.
Another entry in the catalog reads:
May 11th, 74 Jim Fuge & i did 2 first ascents on 'South Buttress'... "Gully of the Bulge" I,5.5 & "Second Choice" I,5.6 ,,, windy day.
In 1973 I had moved to Boulder to find people to climb with and moved back to Albuquerque in early 1974 with a new appreciation for the Sandia Mountains. The 1st entry in my Chouinard catalog ($1),,, on page 2,,, reads:
Wensday/March 13th, 1974
Went to White Rock, New Mexico today with Clark Grey & Mike Roybal and Mike's woman, Virginia. Mike was burning up the rocks, Clark was all burnt out from instructing yesterday. Virginia was pushing harder than me = but climbing just as high before peeling off. It was only her third time out!!!
There's a lot of other interesting entries in this catalog, including the one of the 1st ascent of Gemstone on June 8th 74 where it states I started up the 1st pitch of Gemstone at 6:45 pm and we finished the climb at 11:oo pm. That is probably when we reached the end of pitch FOUR,,, as the last two pitches were done in the dark and we climbed to the ridge above Gemstone and hiked down the ridge to the parking lot. =^..^=
I had mistaken the SANDIA Page and the ALBUQUERQUE AREA Pages as the same page :op
MY MISTAKE!!! Although, I still wonder why when I pressed "Post Comment", my post/message and everything went bonkers and turned double images superimposed over each other. That's what caused my confusion as regards which page I had been on.
Sorry if I caused any problems for anyone. I'll leave my "Suggest Changes" here below in case it helps clarify any confusion.
Dear Friends,,, About 7 am this morning I was trying to post a reply to an old friend of ours,,, Clark Grey,,, about chimneys in the Sandia Mtns,,,, and at first I got a message on my screen "oops,,, there seems to be a problem with our servers". I then tried to go back to the previous page but ultimately had to go into my history and click the page for MP Albuquerque Area and do an e-mail and log in on a small screen like the one I'm writing this on.
I had copied my message (as a matter of habit) and repost the message only to see a "double image" of everything on my screen. All of the messages were still there that were there before my post, but superimposed on top of each other. I then repeated clicking off the page and coming back to the same page only to find all but two of everyone's posts gone!!! Even the one I'd just post was only showing a fraction of what I wrote as it would not scroll to the bottom of my message.
In going back to that page and looking at the messages, I now see all of my message is there,,, that is, the second time I made the attempt, is there,,, the original...??? I'm not worried about my post, but it's a tragic loss (to me) that everybody else's posts seem to be lost. I hope someone can find a way to repost all the ones that are no longer there. Backed up somehow by MP???
The most recent post before mine was from WILL BINETTE, from Albuquerque,,, mid December 2018, asking about climbing in the Sandias January 2019.
I hope somehow someone can save those posts. If not,,, Thanks for trying!!!
Gary Hicks Cosmic_Fire_7@Yahoo.com
My original post read:
Hey Clark,,, I was just checking out some recent posts here yesterday and noticed yours. I grabbed my old Chouinard catalog (purchased at Neptune Mountaineering in Boulder, November 24th, 1973) which contains some information of some of my early climbs in the Sandias,,, one of which mentions a CHIMNEY climb on the little cliff by the 2nd tower of the tram. It reads:
May 5th, '74 Steve Jones and i camped near the 2nd tower of the Tramway after a full-moon hike. A windy night and following day. However = we were able to do a 1st ascent on the 'South Buttress'. "Super Squeeze" I, 5.6 or 5.7.
A chimney problem (5.6) with a 5.7 face climb start.
It's a long hike to get to this little cliff, but as I recall the rock is pretty good and there are a number of cracks, some which I came back and climbed,,, probably in the 5.7/5.8 range.
Another entry in the catalog reads:
May 11th, 74 Jim Fuge & i did 2 first ascents on 'South Buttress'... "Gully of the Bulge" I,5.5 & "Second Choice" I,5.6 ,,, windy day.
In 1973 I had moved to Boulder to find people to climb with and moved back to Albuquerque in early 1974 with a new appreciation for the Sandia Mountains. The 1st entry in my Chouinard catalog ($1),,, on page 2,,, reads:
Wensday/March 13th, 1974
Went to White Rock, New Mexico today with Clark Grey & Mike Roybal and Mike's woman, Virginia. Mike was burning up the rocks, Clark was all burnt out from instructing yesterday. Virginia was pushing harder than me = but climbing just as high before peeling off. It was only her third time out!!!
There's a lot of other interesting entries in this catalog, including the one of the 1st ascent of Gemstone on June 8th 74 where it states I started up the 1st pitch of Gemstone at 6:45 pm and we finished the climb at 11:oo pm. That is probably when we reached the end of pitch FOUR,,, as the last two pitches were done in the dark and we climbed to the ridge above Gemstone and hiked down the ridge to the parking lot. =^..^=
Suggest removing "Climbing" from the basic area name. Otherwise, the word "Climbing" appears twice given how MP automatically inserts "Climbing" after the basic area name.
