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Sitting and Day Dreaming => Mud Puddle => Topic started by: F4? on November 08, 2013, 12:40:30 PM
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The forum sure is quiet.
Mungie?
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didn't realize I was responsible for your entertainment.
Here's the story: the weather is great in the Sierra, no bugs, no rain, crisp temps. It will rain soon enough. At that point, it will be mud season.
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And you will CRUSH at FB and Shuteye this weekend. CRUSH
Also, F4's baby bird wing is still broken so the chirp chirp is fitting
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Sorry but unless you can fund my retirement and supply a pard - or fund KC's retirement too - I/we can't climb during the week. Those that are truly smitten with the moss and choss and prefer an hour twenty to 4 or 5 hours on the road have been on the mud for months. From page 4 of the History section:"it is just most Pinnacles climbers have bigger dreams of other places"...well then...I guess I'm not most Pinnacles climbers...
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Yup Mungie you are my entertainment...or you at least have something to say.
I still have another month before I go back to the DR to get cleared for climbing. Might have to be a few more months.
I'm not going to rush it.
:"it is just most Pinnacles climbers have bigger dreams of other places"
Then there's Mr. Mud, he never left the Monument.
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Sorry but unless you can fund my retirement and supply a pard - or fund KC's retirement too - I/we can't climb during the week. Those that are truly smitten with the moss and choss and prefer an hour twenty to 4 or 5 hours on the road have been on the mud for months. From page 4 of the History section:"it is just most Pinnacles climbers have bigger dreams of other places"...well then...I guess I'm not most Pinnacles climbers...
Of course then there are those of us who can climb there on some weekdays, who can rustle up partners, and who can do the drive - but who are running out of routes to do that they haven't already done (at least routes they can do that they haven't already done).
I've got six routes under 5.10 to do at Pinns and of those, four scare the sh#t out of me and are fairly involved undertakings (Icarus is a good example - tried it clean, only to prove that it wasn't gonna happen that way, then rebolted it to avoid a 40 year old bolt failing and a resultant death, now we've got to find the time to actually climb it; like I said, "involved").
Yeah, I guess I'm not most Pinnacles climbers either. AND I DEMAND sympathy for my plight!!
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Do you mean seven routes...I know one or two you haven't done.
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Do you mean seven routes...I know one or two you haven't done.
It's actually five routes plus whatever Rob and Josh have established on that short crag somewhere near the reservoir (which I thought included one complete route and two projects??).
I'm counting all the routes I've ever heard of at Pinns.
If you know of others, I'm all ears. If you think you know of others and won't share the information, then they don't exist.
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Western front. Rob named it, I lead it and Mr Mud tried to solo it.
Then there's carpet cleaner?
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Western front. Rob named it, I lead it and Mr Mud tried to solo it.
Then there's carpet cleaner?
Nothing on the WF with Rob's or your name but a couple right after it on Resurrection - Desecration Palpitation perhaps?
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yes
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Nothing on the WF with Rob's or your name but a couple right after it on Resurrection - Desecration Palpitation perhaps?
I did Carpet Cleaner years ago while I was working on the book. I soloed Desecration Palpation at about the same time (but I soloed it on purpose - unlike you as I recall the story of the first ascent!).
Unless you're talking about an as yet unreported route out there?
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How's this for record keeping. From my climbing journal:
1. January 21, 2005, I soloed Carpet Cleaner. Then I led Stone Crazy and David Harden and Ryan Whitted followed. Then we tried and failed on Armed With Madness (still haven't gotten back on that).
2. December 29, 2006 I soloed Desecration Palpation (the day after Ryan and I did Bill's Bad Bolts and the day before Jennifer Wang and I did Twinkle Toes Continuation).
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My god!
You repeated that route.
Yes that was my 1st time doing a new route. Mungie gave me everything to carry, except a bolt kit...
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You know, it would be perfectly ethical for you to go out there with a bolt kit and put some protection on the route. As it is, it's kind of a waste of rock; no-one is going to climb that thing (that is no-one out of the dozen people that might go out that way per year to start with).
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and for the grade kinda a cool adventure climb. I suppose I agree with Brad on this one.
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Been meaning to and shall this season.
Squiddo bought a drill and hangers. Perfect time for him to learn.
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Nice, that's a worthy project.
I hope you're using stainless steel...
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Retro? Does no one have my email? I can't keep up with all the posts. Bunch of savages in this town.
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Retro? Does no one have my email?
Squiddo added the bolts last weekend. Good man.
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Squiddo added the bolts last weekend. Good man.
Did he really add the bolts or are you just baiting Munge?
I've been meaning to head back up that way to do Casper and Numbskull - would be cool to get on this one too - although I could have climbed it singing all my X's live in Resurrexes...:)
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Did he really add the bolts or are you just baiting Munge?
I've been meaning to head back up that way to do Casper and Numbskull - would be cool to get on this one too - although I could have climbed it singing all my X's live in Resurrexes...:)
About 75% of F4's posts are baiting/bs. This too is no exeption.
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About 75% of F4's posts are baiting/bs. This too is no exeption.
That's what I figured but with Brad's post I had to ask - AND the fact that Munge will NEVER come to Pinnacles as long as there is access to the granite :(
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Sadly I share munge's view. Love the Pinns and is a magical place. I'd trade the best Pinns rock for the worst granite......
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Sadly I share munge's view. Love the Pinns and is a magical place. I'd trade the best Pinns rock for the worst granite......
That's why they make vanilla and chocolate :)
Fingers crossed for Brad and Kevin on Icarus today - nail it!
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Yes, the bolts were added sometime back......
Maybe true, maybe not. ;D ;D
Thanks for making my morning.
Back to work.
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Love pinns, but enamored with granite this season.
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Love pinns, but enamored with granite this season.
Me always
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Love pinns, but enamored with granite this season.
I'd rather fight than switch! (people that don't know cigarette ads won't get it)
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When have I ever lied??
I'm hurt.
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nice
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Granite gangs are rampant this year. Fight the good fight.