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Re: First All Female FA at Pinns
« Reply #20 on: November 15, 2015, 12:38:43 PM »
Alacia and Crux too. That photo of Alacia drilling her first bolt is going in any second edition guidebook for sure. And Crux is the only one of you four who shed blood for the route!


I  also shed some blood yesterday - just a little on my left knee.

Will have to go back out with them so they can lead the route.

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Re: First All Female FA at Pinns
« Reply #21 on: November 15, 2015, 01:12:06 PM »
Way to go everyone! Also I love that picture of Kat and Tricia :)

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Re: First All Female FA at Pinns
« Reply #22 on: November 15, 2015, 05:18:52 PM »
And Crux is the only one of you four who shed blood for the route!

And smart enough to wield a brush rather than a hammer.   ;)

Very appropriate for a Young to be on this list of ladies.  Nice job Tricia!

So sorry to have missed the finishing touches yesterday.  Great pics-

Looking forward to getting back out there soon to lead the entirety of that bad boy...er...bad girl...um...Tuff Chix!!

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Re: First All Female FA at Pinns
« Reply #23 on: November 16, 2015, 08:41:49 AM »
Awesome! Lovin' the double victory fist shot.

Coincidentally just the other day I noticed that formation in a pic in the guide and was wondering if any routes had been done on it. Now I have my answer.  8)

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Re: First All Female FA at Pinns
« Reply #24 on: November 16, 2015, 01:03:45 PM »
Awesome! Lovin' the double victory fist shot.
Coincidentally just the other day I noticed that formation in a pic in the guide and was wondering if any routes had been done on it. Now I have my answer.  8)

I'm guessing you were looking at the pic on page 150.
Between the existing routes, the finished new routes and the in-process routes, we should have quite a selection in this area as the "season" progresses.
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Re: First All Female FA at Pinns
« Reply #25 on: November 16, 2015, 01:22:38 PM »
I'm guessing you were looking at the pic on page 150.
Between the existing routes, the finished new routes and the in-process routes, we should have quite a selection in this area as the "season" progresses.

Yep. It looks pretty cool on Google Maps, too.

Based off these pics and your teaser I'm even more interested. Might have to cruise out that way with the little guy later this week and do some snooping.  ;D

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Re: First All Female FA at Pinns
« Reply #26 on: November 16, 2015, 01:23:10 PM »

Very appropriate for a Young to be on this list of ladies.  Nice job Tricia!


Especially cool that it's the young Young. (Sorry, just had to throw that in.)

And one more note about what J.C. said. There are not only new routes that are worth doing in that area; thanks mostly (or even exclusively) to he and Nelkins, all or almost all of the old/existing routes in that area have been re-bolted too (making them much more reasonable prospects).

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Re: First All Female FA at Pinns
« Reply #27 on: November 16, 2015, 02:46:12 PM »
Yes, it is a beautiful area. Not too much of a hike, but enough to be on your own. 
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Re: First All Female FA at Pinns
« Reply #28 on: November 17, 2015, 12:45:35 PM »
I added a few more pics to the first part of the thread :)
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Re: First All Female FA at Pinns
« Reply #29 on: November 17, 2015, 06:47:56 PM »
I added a few more pics to the first part of the thread :)

I finally figured out that clicking will bring me straight to the bottom of the page and now I have to scroll to the top anyways? Yer killin' me!

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Re: First All Female FA at Pinns
« Reply #30 on: December 21, 2015, 09:20:47 PM »
Here you can see the formation Tuff Chix and the other new routes.  Notice the streaks in the shadows.  Tuff Chix is the shadowed streak on the left.

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Re: First All Female FA at Pinns
« Reply #31 on: December 22, 2015, 09:47:33 AM »
Here you can see the formation Tuff Chix and the other new routes.  Notice the streaks in the shadows.  Tuff Chix is the shadowed streak on the left.


Thanks for the pic Mud - that has some nice shadows and light.
Just for some clarification - the main formation was named Byzantium a few years ago - by Uncle Stinky.
He put a route on the far right end (Perne in a Gyre) and the backside on the left (No Country for Old Men).
Noal and I named the wall Tuff Chix is on Deep Groove Wall (Noal's brainchild).
I can also see The Knee, Nit-Wit Knob and the soon to be finished route on Dunce Cap :)
This is going to be quite the destination once all the routes are finished :)
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Re: First All Female FA at Pinns
« Reply #32 on: December 22, 2015, 11:21:00 AM »
Deep Groove Wall sounds good.  ;)

I also see Frog, Hand, Thumb, Snail, and that want to be formation below the Frog.   :)
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Re: First All Female FA at Pinns
« Reply #33 on: January 04, 2016, 02:54:08 PM »
I have not been on this forum much or read this post carefully.  Nice to see some climbs being put up there, will make the hike in much more worthwhile.  Looked at Deep Groove Wall years ago when we put up No country for Old men.  Then again a couple of years back when I put up Perne in a Gyre on a rope solo, climbing and camping by myself.  For some reason putting in those bolts messed up my wrists for almost a year, makes me afraid to bolt again. Only climbed once at Pinns last year.  Looked at those routes but they sure looked dirty then.  Thanks for everyone cleaning  and bolting them!   In fact I free soloed up and down Tuff Chix, to about where the fourth bolt is, and  part of No room for Squares checking out the different routes.  Which way did you hike in, I have dropped in from just past the Anvil and have hike up and cut over from lake and creek.  Not sure which is best.  Cheers   

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Re: First All Female FA at Pinns
« Reply #34 on: January 04, 2016, 04:41:25 PM »
I have not been on this forum much or read this post carefully.  Which way did you hike in.  

Hey Uncle Stinky - better late than never :)
The routes have turned out really nice so far and we are still working on a few more out there.
We approach either by going up the drainage past the Watchmen - then past Maniacs and the Knee or by going out toward Knuckle Ridge past the Hand cutoff and cutting right up the ridge across from Chimney Sweep and up around the back. The latter way seems a little longer but is enjoyable. I still haven't climbed No Country but have done Perne.
The route we just finished on Dunce Cap is really nice too (Class Clown).
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