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Climbing and ... Climbing => Masters of Mud -- Pinnacles => Topic started by: clink on May 18, 2014, 01:34:45 PM
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My favorite climbs were Portent, Entrance, Sound Chaser, Trauma, Dragonfly Dome, Shake and Bake, Tilting Terrace/Adam's Apple, and Smiling Simeon.
I say were because I haven't done some of these in 20 years and have done some routes that are new or new to me that I like as well. Also I have changed as a climber. All of these I repeated. Some many times. They were favorites from the get go. The "best climb" or " worst climb" might be a whole different thing.
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My favorite climbs were Portent, Entrance, Sound Chaser, Trauma, Dragonfly Dome, Shake and Bake, Tilting Terrace/Adam's Apple, and Smiling Simeon.
I say were because I haven't done some of these in 20 years and have done some routes that are new or new to me that I like as well. Also I have changed as a climber. All of these I repeated. Some many times. They were favorites from the get go. The "best climb" or " worst climb" might be a whole different thing.
These are all on my list. I'd add South Finger and Baile de las Aguilas, though I haven't walked out to visit this last one in quite some time!
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I haven't done either of those Waldo.
I was remembering a trip to the east side when Geoff and I started talking about the burritos from that store in Pacines. We stopped on the way back to grab the burritos and fill the tank on his Dodge truck. Our focus was so into those burritos that we drove off with the nozzle still in the truck, spinning the pump to the opposite direction. That got our attention in a hurry. Fortunately it was repairable. Young, bold and a little distracted.
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Need to add the Salathe on The Hand to the list.
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Foreplay. Best route at Pinnacles. I think it's only 10d. You hear me Brad?
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...You hear me Brad?
Yeah, I think I can sort of hear you. But not very well.
The fuzziness must be coming from your total lack of credibility which (obviously) is a direct result of your never having checked out The Lost World and the many climbs there that you'd love.
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Yeah, I think I can sort of hear you. But not very well.
The fuzziness must be coming from your total lack of credibility which (obviously) is a direct result of your never having checked out The Lost World and the many climbs there that you'd love.
I'll check it out soon, once I get this forearm tingling figured out. Also, I need to shorten the inseam on my shorts. What is the length on Yours? I need make sure mine are at least a couple inches shorter.
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make sure mine are at least a couple inches shorter.
yikes
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Without thinking about it a lot so I am doing this off the top of my head real quick.
Broken Arrow
Shaft
Cataract Corner
Cantaloupe Death
Lava Falls
Time Stands Still
Cleft
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Atom, if you go any shorter than Brad's you'll be in a thong.
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I can't go too short or I wont be able to hide my last name.
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Let it be.
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...and that is the long and the short of it.
also described as "a brief summing up"
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I'll check it out soon, once I get this forearm tingling figured out.
Damn, I forgot about your arm/elbow thing.
...I need make sure mine are at least a couple inches shorter.
Not possible.
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...and that is the long and the short of it.
also described as "a brief summing up"
we need a new sticky to archive clink's posts - Pinns Puns :)
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South Finger just did this a couple of days ago, cool summit, high winds, manky bolts, runout prefect Pinnacles climb.
Burgundy Dome short but so fun for its grade and length.
Salathe on The Hand
Walk the plank on Chalkstone Dome easy but fun.
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Stiletto she's so bad but so good.
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Birdbrain Pinnacle
Manatee
Little Scrapper
Owlsley Oops
DIE
all instant classics ;)
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Hawaiian Noises
Ranger Bolts
Feed the Beast
The Price (of Pussy)
Broken Arrow
Loveline
Feather Canyon
Old Original
Electric Blue
Lava Falls
(in no particular order and ill refrain from putting my routes on the list...)
edit: already put Foreplay on the list earlier
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Well, I have certainly missed some must do routes. Gonna need a rope gun for a few. My usual pick of slightly insane partners will work for the rest.
Where the hell is F4? I want to ask him and others(Atom) if he would be in on a "despicable" topic or "slaughterhouse" topic where it isn't kept clean, not saying it has to be dirty. Where feelings and character might get fed into the chipper and turned into compost. To be put to good use later. Let the fur fly, be offensive without letting on that you admire who you are trashing. Where what you say will be used against you(ok we already do some of that). No quarter. No appendages barred. Unconventional. Enter at your own risk and don't let the toxic waste facility door smack your sorry ass on the way out. With only momentary lapses into edification and respectability. Pretty please?
Or just say nothing and I will get the message that I and only I tend to enjoy being so reprehensible?
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we can create a forum for trash talking...
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Please do! I promise no real blood. Sticks and stones may.... then I can truly describe modern climbing and such. Might even get Geoff to lay out some of his Long Beach idiocy
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Here are the "last five, scarier-than-shit, sub-5.10" routes that, as of one year ago I had not yet done. I have done all five now. All five were pretty much as scary as I'd anticipated, but they're now done. Once they're done, they're a lot less scary. And so, looking back in time now, all five are really, really great routes, I recommend each one very highly:
- Flake Don't Break;
- Pigeon Crack;
- Arch - Up the Center;
- Flies on a Pile (definitely the least scary of these five);
- The Embarrassment of Riches.
These are among the five scariest routes I've done (lots of other scaries too, but these are recent). Well worth it and favorites looking back in time ;D ;D
Edit: Damn if I didn't fool myself. It must have been five left at the start of this season, 'cause Icarus needs to be on that list too. Icarus is a great route to have in my rear view mirror!
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Whoa, hard to pick a short list of favorites... But here are some that come to mind, in no particular order:
Cosmos
Verdict
Between A Rock And A Hard Place
Heat Seeking Moisture Missile
Cataract Corner
Ranger Bolts
Feed The Beast
Foreplay
Coyote Ugly
Little Javelina
Cuidado
Lava Falls
Conduit To The Cosmos
Electric Blue
The Powers That Be
Nexus (first pitch)
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All time favorites...yah I have a few:
Los Banditos
Buffalo Soldier
Lava Falls
Heretic
POD
Foreplay
Resurrection Wall
Shake n Bake
Trauma
Plague
memory is getting foggy, need beer.
Trash talk'n....MMMMM Yahha
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memory is getting foggy, need beer.
Trash talk'n....MMMMM Yahha
Mr. Natural.
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Forgot to add heavens gate...pinnacles classic!
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Bad Astroman, oh I know it doesn't exist. It would have to be multi-pitch, stellar, and go free and include choss. I may have seen it in a heat induced delusion followed by a cold beer at the parking lot, except I haven't been climbing but once with JC, probably this sinus headache medicine is affecting my dreams.
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Hmm, I'm sure there is a line in the Monument worthy of that name.
I'd say a pitch of loose kiddy litter to a bolt ladder to a water shoot.
I'm game.
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portent
Ordeal
Pistol Whipped
Stupendous Man
Destiny
Twinkle Toes
Premeditated
Old Original
Burgundy
Hamsternomics
Redline
Dropzone
Lava Falls
First Sister
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You forgot Icarus Brad!
It's mostly aid for me
Los Banditos
Premeditated
Icarus
Wet Kiss
Lava Falls
Mustache (only the first 40')
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+1 more for Heaven's Gate.
After a sip or 2 of some Zin a few more come to mind.....
Piglet Pinnacle
St. Val Massacre
Condor Condiment
Bird Shit Canyon
Carpet Cleaner
South Yak, the 10a in case I have my N or S mixed-up
Big Pucker
Rock and a Hard Place
Aren't Redline and Drop zone the same???
And Clink, I have the chute picked out in my head.....!!