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Title: Bushwhacking while leading
Post by: waldo on September 06, 2019, 08:11:17 AM: I was out with old friend and former student Denise Magner yesterday. We used Alias as an approach to Red Line and had a good outing in the shade. That first pitch of Alias presented a problem, however. You'll recall the two bolts protecting the overhang, the bolt at the end of the grassy ledge and the first traverse bolt about twenty feet after that. When I reached that traverse bolt I found that the oak tree blocked all progress. Bushwhacking through it would have been unpleasant for the oak and likely impossible for me. I went straight up instead on good rock at about 5.5. All was well, but it's quite a run to the belay. Do you think it would be okay to put a bolt in on that section, ten or twelve feet above the traverse bolt? This little variation would be a good thirty feet to the right of the next bolt on Alias.
Title: Re: Bushwhacking while leading
Post by: F4? on September 06, 2019, 10:07:28 AM: Sounds like a good idea.
Title: Re: Bushwhacking while leading
Post by: clink on September 06, 2019, 04:47:19 PM: Hammer or saw. I say hammer.
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Post by: mynameismud on September 06, 2019, 04:53:12 PM: yep
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Post by: F4? on September 06, 2019, 04:58:43 PM: Plus redline could use a few bolts. Paint pink.
Title: Re: Bushwhacking while leading
Post by: waldo on September 06, 2019, 07:41:51 PM: Quote from: clink on September 06, 2019, 04:47:19 PM
Hammer or saw. I say hammer.
Clink, remind me to tell you a story about Dave Gregory next time we share a campfire.
Title: Re: Bushwhacking while leading
Post by: mungeclimber on September 07, 2019, 06:12:27 AM: I’d want to look at it before weighing in.

I’m having a hard time picturing where you would get into a tree, unless I did it wrong?
Title: Re: Bushwhacking while leading
Post by: F4? on September 07, 2019, 07:17:52 AM: An expedition might be in order.
Title: Re: Bushwhacking while leading
Post by: waldo on September 07, 2019, 07:50:28 AM: Quote from: mungeclimber on September 07, 2019, 06:12:27 AM
I’d want to look at it before weighing in.

I’m having a hard time picturing where you would get into a tree, unless I did it wrong?

Munge, I'm talking about #795, the first pitch of the old Richards route. We used it to get up to your route. The youthful tree growing at the base of the cliff in 1972 is now an impenetrable patriarch.
Title: Re: Bushwhacking while leading
Post by: Brad Young on September 07, 2019, 07:58:15 AM: Quote from: waldo on September 07, 2019, 07:50:28 AM

...is now an impenetrable patriarch.

Now there's a route name ;D
Title: Re: Bushwhacking while leading
Post by: F4? on September 07, 2019, 09:01:58 AM: Squirrels with a chain saw?
Title: Re: Bushwhacking while leading
Post by: clink on September 07, 2019, 09:23:53 AM: Better than Straight Old Man
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Post by: JC w KC redux on September 08, 2019, 01:34:37 PM: Still shakin' boss...
Title: Re: Bushwhacking while leading
Post by: waldo on September 08, 2019, 05:56:26 PM: Quote from: JC w KC redux on September 08, 2019, 01:34:37 PM
Still shakin' boss...

What we have here is failure to communicate.
Title: Re: Bushwhacking while leading
Post by: JC w KC redux on September 09, 2019, 08:35:30 AM: Quote from: waldo on September 08, 2019, 05:56:26 PM
What we have here is failure to communicate.

Sounds like you need to talk to Dave for some bushwhackin' advice. Of course he could also be completely Ignored - as I imagine he has been for years. :yesnod: :prrr: :out:
Title: Re: Bushwhacking while leading
Post by: mynameismud on September 09, 2019, 09:55:54 AM: yep
Title: Re: Bushwhacking while leading
Post by: F4? on September 09, 2019, 05:50:34 PM: We need more drama.

This is way too tame.