K.C. and J.C. Doing FAs On - Wait - GRANITE

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So there you go - the fascinating and totally arbitrary way that routes are named.

People too, especially children of hippies and celebrities.

I've been informed that The Empire has fallen into enemy hands so I made a few edits to the photo captions.

Damn invaders ruin everything.

[Brad Young]

So there you go - the fascinating and totally arbitrary way that routes are named.

I've been around a lot of FAs in my years of climbing. And I've been around some good route names too.

In all that though, one of my favorites (a new route at Pinns from less than two years ago) is Joaquin the Dog. It's a name that makes me smile every time.

[JC w KC redux]

I've been around a lot of FAs in my years of climbing. And I've been around some good route names too.

In all that though, one of my favorites (a new route at Pinns from less than two years ago) is Joaquin the Dog. It's a name that makes me smile every time.

It is good. Too bad the FAist advises that Joaquin away from this one is the smart thing to do

[JC w KC redux]

Here's a few pics from Day 2

T moves up to bolt 3 on Psychopomp Slab – Steve and Alex are at the base – Laura is with me and Crista at the belay





T works toward the last bolt and blue alien above





My two favorite kids – T raps as Alex climbs

[Brad Young]

They were at it again; Chipmunk Flat for three days (I joined them today, but no FAs).

Here's John on "Bolts Before Beer"(one guess which Bud Lite Lime infested, now-local SPH climber put this one up):




Kathy led several routes this weekend. And John got a clean toprope of the hardest route he's ever done, "Love is Love," 5.10c (thin, thin edging and smearing):




Meanwhile, I'm starting to think about Pinns. In six weeks 

[Brad Young]

Success today for Tricia and me:




And to prove that the photo above wasn't staged:




It was windy:




Tricia took this photo of me and the dogs from north of us looking south. The number of peaks that are visible is just fantastic:




Visible in this photo are three different "layers" of peaks.

Starting in the far back are, from left to right, Mount Ritter (sharply triangular), Banner Peak, Mount Lyell (it's glacier - visible in front of the summit - is obvious), Mount McClure, Mount Ansel Adams. I've summitted the first three of these. They are west of Mammoth and must be 60 miles from Leavitt Peak.

Closer is the ridge with Tower Peak (huge from this close). On that same ridge, going rightward, are Craig and Snow Peaks (Snow is also "volcano shaped"). I've summitted all of these three.

Then, although it's hard to discern a separate ridge, Forsythe and Keyes Peaks are closer than Tower and the others (Forsythe is seemingly right in front of my face; it has jagged ridges). I haven't done either of these peaks (I may go in solo for three or four days  to do these to in mid October).

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Fun trip report. We were both laughing hard at the pic of T in the wind and thought it was very cool that you included our register entry - thanks! Was the plastic orange thingy still at the summit? We needed you with us to point all that stuff out - I told Kat you would know it all 

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Tiburcio’s meets SPH?





JC leading Season’s End 5.7R*





KC gets some Extra Miles

[mynameismud]

pic of KC came out nice. 

[JC w KC redux]

pic of KC came out nice. 

Agreed. Definitely my fave of the weekend - I cropped and auto contrasted it.

[Tuff Chik]

pic of KC came out nice. 

Thanks dude!  It was a fun route to follow.

[mungeclimber]

Woot!

[Brad Young]

That really is a great photo.

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Lot's to lichen.

[Brad Young]

Holy crap, what a day yesterday. Perfect, sunny but cool conditions.

Among other fun, we finished a new route at The Missing Man Formation (named in honor of our friend Luc Gruenther): Never Forget 5.9 *** and so, so fun (we're still debating whether it's very sustained 5.9, or 5.10a; it needs more opinions). A bunch of us contributed to finishing the new route, including (yes, on granite) K.C. and J.C.

And J.C. was absolutely on fire - he did two of the best, most sustained leads I've ever seen him do (including the fourth lead of Never Forget itself).

I'll post some photos when I get a chance.

Heading to Burst Rock today.

[mynameismud]

5.9

I decided to give up on Granite.

[Brad Young]

[Brad Young]

5.9

I decided to give up on Granite.

Won't happen.

BTW, people who tried one of your and my routes on Curbar Edge were cursing you today (I told them the runout at the top was your idea - although according to the guidebook, I did the first lead of it).

  

[Brad Young]

John and Kathy did a short crack as an FA today (at Curbar Edge). Then Tricia led it as her first gear lead (5.4):






In a world-altering event though, John hasn't been able to come up with a name for the route yet. What gives? Is he losing it?

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In a world-altering event though, John hasn't been able to come up with a name for the route yet. What gives? Is he losing it?

Orange With Envy.