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Title: Top 3 Climbs at Pinnacles
Post by: mungeclimber on April 03, 2006, 06:25:43 PM

To while away the wet weather...



Name your top 3 climbs at Pinnacles...



Mine, not in any particular order- mostly because they were the very first few climbs I did at Pinns



Rat Race

Portent

The Wet Kiss

Title: Top 3 Climbs at Pinnacles
Post by: The Big on April 03, 2006, 08:58:09 PM

DIE

Top 3 ya gotta be kidding

Title: Top 3 Climbs at Pinnacles
Post by: mungeclimber on April 03, 2006, 10:11:25 PM

Top 3 as in 'impossible to decide'



or these 3 do not qualify for the 'top'



???

Title: Top 3 Climbs at Pinnacles
Post by: The Big on April 04, 2006, 07:38:35 AM

Both.  

Rat Race is good but not that good.



How about

Gutter

Nexus

Feeding Frenzy

Title: Top 3 Climbs at Pinnacles
Post by: mungeclimber on April 04, 2006, 10:22:39 AM

Gutter is tripe.



Nexus is superb, but still has a lot of moss because no one does it.



Feeding Frenzy?  really?



oh, and rat is excellent- roof crack that looks totally grim, but turns out to be easy!  come on!

Title: Top 3 Climbs at Pinnacles
Post by: The Big on April 04, 2006, 11:10:51 AM

Rat is 25 feet of slab followed by a casual roof.  I give the roof credit since it has some loose holds.  If slab was vert it wold be the best route there.  Ordeal is better since it has two cruxes.

Title: Top 3 Climbs at Pinnacles
Post by: Brad Young on April 04, 2006, 12:16:55 PM

Mr Mud you're nuts. I personally watched you remove your body's weight worth of rocks from the second pitch of Feeding Frenzy when you led it. Then I removed just as much rock when I led it while you belayed. When we had both led it there seemed to be just as much loose rock as beforehand. My favorite 3 at Pinns: 1. the one I'm on or about to do; 2. the one Mr Mud is leading: dead serious- never gonna give up- breathing like a locomotive-goddamitt I'm not gonna fall style; 3. the one I just found with Uber, munge or Mr Mud - one that exists but isn't known -just like an FA, without most of the labor

Title: Top 3 Climbs at Pinnacles
Post by: Jody Langford on April 04, 2006, 01:04:56 PM

Nipple Jam

First Sister(Right)

Flip-a-coin Chimney

Title: Top 3 Climbs at Pinnacles
Post by: Ubergoober on April 04, 2006, 01:45:48 PM

Don't know if I'm qualified to answer this question, since I never get a chance to lead anything GOOD at the Pinns. I seem to always be following people to the most remote, piles o'choss and helping them put in bolts.



However, Babies on the Ceiling is definitely a 4 star classic.

Title: Top 3 Climbs at Pinnacles
Post by: salad on April 04, 2006, 05:03:50 PM

not the three best, but three that stand out to me:



portent -          first  climb ever.  second degree toe burns.  august.



stupendous man -  did all the easy classics on my first day climbing.. portent, swallows, the runout 6 on monolith, the sporty 8 on mono, wet kiss, etc.  finished the day with stup.  had no falls or hangs all day.  climbed with blisters on my toes.  i think throwing that heel hook and mantling is what made me a climber.  i was stoked to pull that move.  but i pumped out on the thin 5.9 and hung.  pussy.



costanoan -    first lead ever, rapping power tools that day was first rap  

ever.  ropes got stuck. bill in  a cast with a broken wrist and leading back up to get the ropes, i couldnt take slack.  scared.

Title: Top 3 Climbs at Pinnacles
Post by: F4? on April 05, 2006, 09:05:18 PM

Trauma: come on the name says it all. Without the owls.

Fourplay: can you de-pump before the true crux?

Saint Valintines Day Massacare: For the view.