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Jan 8, 2024 One has to wonder a couple of things:  What egregious action fired up some policy wonk to kick this phase off?What happens when the first death occurs due to a bad bolt no… View Message

Jul 6, 2021 If you're willing to walk, or if your field work takes you into the Santa Teresa's,, I'd imagine you could fine bouldering to your hearts content.  Check out the Kerry Bac… View Message

Jul 25, 2017 Zing...well done View Message

Jun 6, 2017 You should let Stone Age know about this.Also, I heard about a theft in the N Univ/Washington/ISchool? area sometime in the not too distant past.  If I find info, I'll sen… View Message

Feb 2, 2017 I've walked around those at one time in the past. Been decades now but my memory says rather soft... FWIW: I never went back and I've driven that many times and climbed a l… View Message

Jul 12, 2016 Whelp, Bob Murray has lived here for over 30 years now, so yeah, you could say there's been some development. Long before that many others have been bouldering the foothills g… View Message

May 23, 2016 Bump for a really well done book. If you boulder in the southwest, you really want this guide. Good luck climbing these areas out. View Message

May 23, 2016 Arggh Matey... View Message

Mar 7, 2016 LMAO.... I thought it was just lack of sleep.... This was awesome fun. All the Granitica's have been this way but this was something special. Guess you have to hump the di… View Message

Feb 26, 2016 I think Steve G. initally was looking at the 15/16 so the early word was that. But like the rat said, 5th and 6th for sure! Hey, if anyone has any pics of the climbing on… View Message

Feb 26, 2016 Thanks for mentioning Crusher's show. Spaced that out. 2:1, can't be beat. Steve wrote the book: Desert Towers Book I'm hoping he'll have copies at his presentation. View Message

Feb 25, 2016 March 5th and 6th at the Museum of Northern Arizona Once in a lifetime chance to hear from folks who know the place unlike anyone else. You'll hear from climbers you may ha… View Message

Feb 16, 2016 Damn! Thanks Jeff View Message

Dec 13, 2015 Possibly now snowed in? View Message

Dec 1, 2015 Damn, this is almost as good as the AZ bolt wars.... You can pick out the clubbies vs. the dirtbags just by the responses.But seriously, 12 "club members" on a tower... No… View Message

Dec 1, 2015 Ok you dirtbags, it's time to pony up for one of the quiet giants of the genre. Ignoring all his early work with Yvon and developing stoppers, nuts,etc... let's instead conc… View Message

Dec 1, 2015 Hey Lee, drop by the Albuquerky gym, Stone Age and look for the old farts. Well, compared to your generation, we're the young whelps :-) Or PM me, hard to find spare time the… View Message

Dec 1, 2015 Lee, You can try using some html to get spaces (use the percent sign then 20 and new lines are left arrow br right arrow. If that makes any sense. Good stories. I was… View Message

Nov 25, 2015 From Steve Grossman's posting on Super Topo: The Templed Horizon The North American Climbing History Archives (NACHA)and the Museum of Northern Arizona are pleased to ann… View Message

Nov 25, 2015 Cool, thanks Flex. I'm waiting to hear from Andrew and Zach also. Hoping from everyone we can pull some things together. FYI, I recently discovered the FA of Hayden was Ch… View Message

Nov 25, 2015 Hey Mike: Steve Grossman's next historical expose of AZ climbing is for technical routes in the Grand Canyon, next March 5 & 6, 2015 at the Museum of N. Az. The Templed… View Message

Nov 23, 2015 Any of you lads who have done Pegasus on Hayden and have any images? We're looking for some. Anyone with other climbing shots in the ditch, I'm sure Steve would be happy to… View Message

Nov 19, 2015 I almost got in the car and drove out there! But I knew you would just sandbag me :-) View Message

Nov 5, 2015 Looking like possibly a winter fest. An east side fest, almost worth firing up for... but that shady campground is quite cold this time of year, or can be... View Message

Nov 5, 2015 You sir, old friend and such, are a sandbagger. It's the sandbag of the elite climber. Weekend warriors just have to adapt to the area and how things are rated and understand… View Message

Oct 28, 2015 Third classing Sugarloaf seems relatively safe by many accounts. But rapping a 5 mil, bought in a bike shop? Sounds a bit out there... View Message

Oct 28, 2015 It's a well known fact that the FA always fights higher gravity than subsequent ascents. View Message

Aug 25, 2015 Great stuff, thanks for sharing (and to KK to for getting it going by posting your email to him.) Nice watercolors... Lucky to have those. View Message

Aug 25, 2015 Great stories Lee, thanks for sharing. Quite a bit of NM history there. And if the LA Club was on a hard new route, I cannot imagine they would not have had Dr. George Bell… View Message

Aug 25, 2015 One thing is certain, Gary is not new to climbing. View Message

Aug 18, 2015 Ahh... Az humor View Message

Aug 18, 2015 Sound like my gold threaded, platinum biner draws that I left out there. View Message

Jul 8, 2015 Well, this is about as sad as it gets... I went to Ken's new site to honor Steve and found this: "Kenneth Johnson, creator and manager of the Steven Wallace Johnson Center fo… View Message

Jul 8, 2015 Bwaaaa ha ha ha nice troll View Message

Jun 16, 2015 Coming right up... Actually, we knew nothing about the route (couldn't find your book.) So I'll leave it for others to discover the same joy. So which of those two is cons… View Message

Jun 13, 2015 ha ha ha ha Climbing in the ditch is not for everyone. It's typically much more about the journey than the pitches (Flex nailed it) There are a handful of excellent rock rou… View Message