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Title: Pinnacles in the New Year (TR)
Post by: mungeclimber on January 05, 2015, 12:01:19 PM: An early start to drive to So Cal without the morning commute in the Bay Area got me out over 152 and onto I-5 fairly quickly. When the rolling hills West of I-5 light up after a winter rain, it really can be quite nice. So started my post xmas week. It wasn't long before I had one final day before having to go back to work on Monday.

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My appreciation for light has increased since getting a newer camera.

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But there is much to learn... however, snow in So Cal is something to be cherished despite the lack of image composition...

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Made it. Hung out. Ate...a lot. Helped with family computers, pulled out memories from boxes in the garage. Toy trucks, old comics and the like. Read my camera owners manual and learned how to turn off the flash while in AF mode. Victory is mine! Read other stuff...

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Left So Cal late in the evening, and about 1am hit Paso Robles. I sacked out there. The next morning finished the last of the drive to Pinnacles to meet up with Magnum PO, JC, Nelkins, and the frequent flyer miles Waldo!

First things first, we got the final redpoint done on a new line. It was a blast to climb thru on this, soon to be 3.5 star classic.

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After that, we weren't sure about rating and supplemental bolt placements. So we had some of the guys take some trips up the route.

Magnum PO working with the morning cold..

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Nelkins cruising the route like a Pinnacles veteran...

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But rightly 'eye opening' with a tested technique...

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Waldo gets warmed up while we have the sunlight. Waldo "cleans" some dirt and small pebbles off the Self-Selecting Substrate Where the Sun Shines before stance bolting on the next project.

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JC gets the benefit of the last light of the morning in his eyes.

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Friends high on Costanoan are making a day of a classic moderate up in Citadel Canyon.

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Then before you know it, 3 bolts go in by hand on stance over where the sun isn't shining. Magnum does one. Then Waldo another. JC a third. As the wall steepens you see Nelkins finding the luscious stance on the steep section for the fourth bolt. A Pinnacles classic in the making. Magnum PO scopes the possibilities off right, and JC mills about smartly.

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Soon enough it's JC's turn again (more specifically because I'm soft and light duty because of the holidays vacationing). He pulls a brilliant move up onto a decent cobble and gets in the fifth bolt. Comfortable enough to speculate about the moves above.

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Magnum is back at it. This shot reminds me of Valley old skool pics for some reason.

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The ring of hammers is like a sing song bird trying to find the rest of his comrade birds. Perhaps shouting out a warning that nefarious animals are nearby.

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Winding out the day, temps drop, colors pop and a smile grows.

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Cheers,
Mungie
Title: Re: Pinnacles in the New Year (TR)
Post by: squiddo on January 05, 2015, 12:21:12 PM: Nice read and pictures. Looks like a great day and a fine adventure
Title: Re: Pinnacles in the New Year (TR)
Post by: mungeclimber on January 05, 2015, 12:25:39 PM: Quote from: squiddo on January 05, 2015, 12:21:12 PM
Nice read and pictures. Looks like a great day and a fine adventure

Truly.
Title: Re: Pinnacles in the New Year (TR)
Post by: JC w KC redux on January 05, 2015, 01:11:48 PM: Thanks for putting those together Rob. Anxious to get back out there and push higher :)
Title: Re: Pinnacles in the New Year (TR)
Post by: mynameismud on January 05, 2015, 01:41:03 PM: Some of those pics came out real nice. If you do not mind me asking what camera are you using?
Title: Re: Pinnacles in the New Year (TR)
Post by: Uncle Stinky on January 05, 2015, 04:02:11 PM: Thanks
Title: Re: Pinnacles in the New Year (TR)
Post by: mungeclimber on January 05, 2015, 04:11:29 PM: Quote from: mynameismud on January 05, 2015, 01:41:03 PM
Some of those pics came out real nice. If you do not mind me asking what camera are you using?

Sent PM. Nikon DSLR.
Title: Re: Pinnacles in the New Year (TR)
Post by: mungeclimber on January 05, 2015, 04:12:06 PM: Quote from: Uncle Stinky on January 05, 2015, 04:02:11 PM
Thanks

any time. You coming down next weekend Jeffe?
Title: Re: Pinnacles in the New Year (TR)
Post by: waldo on January 05, 2015, 04:12:44 PM: Munge, you searched out the evening colors at just the right time! Great work! I had to stop and look several times on the walk out.
Title: Re: Pinnacles in the New Year (TR)
Post by: mungeclimber on January 05, 2015, 04:31:18 PM: Quote from: waldo on January 05, 2015, 04:12:44 PM
Munge, you searched out the evening colors at just the right time! Great work! I had to stop and look several times on the walk out.

thx, yeah that evening Machete Ridge gold can be great!

It makes me want a trail from the Flumes all the way back to the picnic area up high on the hill so I can see it on the way out.

Maybe Gavin knows of a bio-trail extension possibility here?
Title: Re: Pinnacles in the New Year (TR)
Post by: mungeclimber on January 05, 2015, 04:36:16 PM: Evening walk out

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Touch of saturation.
Title: Re: Pinnacles in the New Year (TR)
Post by: waldo on January 05, 2015, 05:09:03 PM: It makes me want a trail from the Flumes all the way back to the picnic area up high on the hill so I can see it on the way out.

There is a way.
Title: Re: Pinnacles in the New Year (TR)
Post by: mungeclimber on January 05, 2015, 05:24:00 PM: You don't say?

I'm in for a tour.
Title: Re: Pinnacles in the New Year (TR)
Post by: Brad Young on January 05, 2015, 08:11:24 PM: Nice shots. You're putting that big lens to good work.
Title: Re: Pinnacles in the New Year (TR)
Post by: NOAL on January 05, 2015, 08:36:17 PM: Cool photos munge. Thanks for the TR. I like the one of the three men in the tub. Also like the names Where the Sun Shines/Don't Shine. Looking forward to more fun days like Sun.
Title: Re: Pinnacles in the New Year (TR)
Post by: clink on January 05, 2015, 08:43:06 PM: Great pics Munge! Again, nice job finding those lines.

See you guys Saturday.
Title: Re: Pinnacles in the New Year (TR)
Post by: mungeclimber on January 05, 2015, 09:33:14 PM: thx guys. I'm not looking forward to managing my images, but I like the direction a nice lens provides.
Title: Re: Pinnacles in the New Year (TR)
Post by: F4? on January 05, 2015, 10:18:50 PM: Magnum PO???
Title: Re: Pinnacles in the New Year (TR)
Post by: mungeclimber on January 05, 2015, 10:35:25 PM: Ask Cook. :)
Title: Re: Pinnacles in the New Year (TR)
Post by: mungeclimber on January 05, 2015, 11:19:30 PM: (https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7468/16024749590_61152bf4fc_c.jpg)
Title: Re: Pinnacles in the New Year (TR)
Post by: clink on January 06, 2015, 06:20:08 AM: Quote
Magnum PO???

JC has AOPOD, Acute Overobsesive Poison Oak Dysfunction.

In between Snake Charmer and Pain In the Asp is a PO bush that I repeatedly kept getting in. I was completely focused on the new climbs and not on the PO. Finally on the rapel, a strong gust of wind caught the rope and it landed smack in the middle of the PO.

So I was dubbed Magnum Po or Magnum for short. People with excessively large foreheads shouldn't throw out these kind of nicknames.

It's not like I was frolicking naked through the poison oak.

Recently JC said "you read my mind", I replied "I like short stories".

So all is fair.
Title: Re: Pinnacles in the New Year (TR)
Post by: mynameismud on January 06, 2015, 09:43:53 AM: Quote from: mungeclimber on January 05, 2015, 11:19:30 PM
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Nice!
Title: Re: Pinnacles in the New Year (TR)
Post by: mungeclimber on January 06, 2015, 10:10:57 AM: In that shot I would have liked the focus to be on the rock around Magnum, AND also his expression.