J.C. and Counting Up to Triple Digits

[F4?]

Mr Mud needs to get back on the program we had designed to put him back in the lead as the most routes.

He'd need to climb 3days a week down there and do at least 3-4 new routes each day for just 52 weeks. That would give him 450-500 routes...+ or -.

Then he mentioned this thing called work. Sheesh.

[mynameismud]

I need to close out the 10's and do a couple of 12's.  That is my new goal, to see how many new 10's I can do each year.

[CruxLuv]

Consoled myself with #200 5.6X

Congrats man! 

[mynameismud]

yes, congrats

[JC w KC redux]

Congrats man! 

yes, congrats

Hey thanks

Here's a couple shots from the X games. It says there's no protection, but with a little creative thinking I had things rigged to keep from going "all the way". Then the trick was not to exit stage right...or exit at all for that matter...

Why it's X





Cool view of Little Sister from the summit





From the summit I could also look past 4th Sis N Rib to the Flatiron - what KC and I affectionately refer to as "the scene of the crime"- where it all began

[JC w KC redux]

Busted over 200 yesterday with two onsight first ascents. 

[clink]

JC crunched off two footholds in a row and had me thinking he was going to bust his asp on snake charmer, but he sent it like a pro not a gumby.
No Darwin awards, just fun. Except that Brad has staged a brutal, yet to be placed, stem placed water-chute bolt.A chute is a vertical or inclined plane, channel, or passage through which objects are moved by means of gravity. Resist the gravity.
Kathy tried a harder bouldering start to snake eyes, many times, How did she finally go, right or left?
Rachel, my daughter, established a new high point for her outdoor climbing.
Tricia is the real deal, a pro.
Gavin sauntered by for a moment.

Things I learned;
When in doubt, shove a cam in it.
Everyone wants some traffic cone.
My 14 year old is bonding with a cool group of people in a way I did not expect.
Yesterday was the best of days.

[JC w KC redux]

Yesterday was the best of days.

Agreed.
Can't wait to get back out there and start work on Forked Stick - although we may decide on a name with a little more bite!

[clink]

Climb it with  one of two lawyers I can think of and call it Forked Tongue Poison.

[JC w KC redux]

Climb it with  one of two lawyers I can think of and call it Forked Tongue Poison.

Mmmmm...Tonto not like name...maybe ask Tarzan or Frankenstein make better name...

[clink]

Well, you asked for more bite.

[JC w KC redux]

Mmmmm...Tonto not like name...maybe ask Tarzan or Frankenstein make better name...

Old SNL skit - very funny.

[JC w KC redux]

Well, you asked for more bite.

Deadly Venom, Black Mamba, The Fang if the other lines are hard.
I think Brad's should be Pit Viper since you go up into and then climb out of a pit.
That one is definitely going to have some bite!

[Brad Young]

While we are counting:

I think I'll finish this season with a Pinnacles route count of 875 to 880. Of course that is only redpoint or better (not J.C.'s standard of onsight).

I'm down to three routes at Pinns that I haven't done that are easier than 5.10. That number is likely to go up before it goes back down though (since two of the three are on Goat Rock, which is closed, and the third is a route that scares the crap out of me).

[Brad Young]

Busted over 200 yesterday with two onsight first ascents. 

But what's the total count? It seems like not including The Inn Crowd (for example) in your counts is silly.

202 onsights and?

[JC w KC redux]

But what's the total count? It seems like not including The Inn Crowd (for example) in your counts is silly.

202 onsights and?

Still +4  and not likely to change.

[Brad Young]

Still +4  and not likely to change.

So the count is 206 routes done in good style (redpoint or better)?

And I guarantee that the "+4" number will change. Don't forget that now-closed area I told you about for next season. There will be at least three FAs there that will be long enough and/or hard enough that they aren't likely to be bolted in one push (or even in two pushes).

[mynameismud]

what s the route that scares the crap out of you?

[JC w KC redux]

So the count is 206 routes done in good style (redpoint or better)?

Correct.

[Brad Young]

what s the route that scares the crap out of you?

Leading The Embarrassment of Riches.

As recently as one year ago I had six "sub-5.10" routes to do that scared the crap out of me. Embarrassment is the last one I still have to do. (The ones I've already done were Flake Don't Break - done with Gavin, Icarus and Pigeon Crack, both done with Cobbledick, and Arch - Up the Center and Flies on a Pile, both done with J.C.)