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Re: Desert Rats: Joshua Tree in the Winter With Bill
« Reply #40 on: March 10, 2017, 08:18:56 PM »

They drove into town to take showers after just two nights.  :P  :-[  :o



All I know is that Alex's would not flunk that part.  He could spend two weeks in the desert without a shower and then we'd have to force him to take a shower when it got so bad that we couldn't stand him any longer

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Re: Desert Rats: Joshua Tree in the Winter With Bill
« Reply #41 on: March 11, 2017, 12:34:42 PM »
Dark shadows was fun. Get the ropes wet?

Amazingly steep.
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Re: Desert Rats: Joshua Tree in the Winter With Bill
« Reply #42 on: March 11, 2017, 12:39:15 PM »

...get the ropes wet?


How would the ropes get wet? The start is on the creek, but it's a big, flat, dry boulder?

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Re: Desert Rats: Joshua Tree in the Winter With Bill
« Reply #43 on: March 13, 2017, 05:48:41 AM »
 Saturday, my daughter Laura and Mila did a day trip to JT for bouldering and a hike up Ryan's Mountain.
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Re: Desert Rats: Joshua Tree in the Winter With Bill
« Reply #44 on: March 13, 2017, 06:38:52 AM »

 Saturday, my daughter Laura and Mila did a day trip to JT for bouldering and a hike up Ryan's Mountain.


Ask her how high the cairn on top of Ryan has gotten (I think I recall it being about four feet high of stacked rocks).

And who is Mila?

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Re: Desert Rats: Joshua Tree in the Winter With Bill
« Reply #45 on: March 13, 2017, 07:14:33 AM »
How would the ropes get wet? The start is on the creek, but it's a big, flat, dry boulder?

I think he meant if you didn't finish and instead were to rap. Final pull is magic to keep all the rope bits dry. I was a magician ;/)
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Re: Desert Rats: Joshua Tree in the Winter With Bill
« Reply #46 on: March 13, 2017, 07:19:09 AM »

I think he meant if you didn't finish and instead were to rap. Final pull is magic to keep all the rope bits dry. I was a magician ;/)


I get it.

I can see you grinning too as you magically manage to keep the rope out of the creek (watch out for getting hit in the eye by the end of the rope though - ask Rob about our emergency room visit when his got hit).

It seems a shame though not to finish that one. Although pitches 1 - 4 are fantastic, pitches 5 - 9 stay very good, pitch 10 is fantastic, and the mini summit where the technical climbing ends is magical.


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Re: Desert Rats: Joshua Tree in the Winter With Bill
« Reply #47 on: March 13, 2017, 07:21:22 AM »
Interesting Brad- there in a few weeks perhaps check it out
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Re: Desert Rats: Joshua Tree in the Winter With Bill
« Reply #48 on: March 13, 2017, 10:31:03 AM »
Mila is my future sister-in-law . Laura is living at Dave and Mila's home while she is going to school.
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Re: Desert Rats: Joshua Tree in the Winter With Bill
« Reply #49 on: March 14, 2017, 08:00:07 AM »
At Pinnacles, Clink put up a new route and named it "Joaquin the Dog." The words don't have any real meaning, but they fit; they have a certain ring and they're funny together. It's a good name.

Red Rocks has its equivalent. Up on The Brownstone Wall, an hour and a half approach from the car. This multi-pitch route carries one of my favorite route names in Red Rocks:



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Re: Desert Rats: Joshua Tree in the Winter With Bill
« Reply #50 on: March 15, 2017, 10:57:44 AM »
Ah, yes Brad. Us mortals just did the 1st few pitches of Dark Shadows. Doing the entire route would be cool.

I think we had a dinner reservation at the house we were staying at....Squiddo know it.

I have not gotten up to the Brownstone wall, Squiddo has.

Cool to see you on those routes as they bring back great memories.
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Re: Desert Rats: Joshua Tree in the Winter With Bill
« Reply #51 on: March 15, 2017, 11:08:56 AM »
Ah, yes Brad. Us mortals just did the 1st few pitches of Dark Shadows. Doing the entire route would be cool.

I think we had a dinner reservation at the house we were staying at....Squiddo know it.

I have not gotten up to the Brownstone wall, Squiddo has.

Cool to see you on those routes as they bring back great memories.


Done a few on brownstone but not enough....
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Re: Desert Rats: Joshua Tree in the Winter With Bill
« Reply #52 on: January 19, 2018, 02:52:08 PM »
Well I'll be damned.

Usually I call Bill about our J Tree trip and all he says is "pick a date and I'll be there." Not this year.

Wow.

He's scrambling to figure out what to do. With work and with travel. His 30 year old daughter has been a nun in an Eastern Orthodox convent in Boston. She's very spiritual and so he wasn't so surprised when she became a nun six or eight years ago. But now it's "has been." She found the perfect man, dropped out and the wedding is on February 4th. Obviously she'd like him to be there.

Wow.

I told him he absolutely must go. But I have trouble seeing Bill getting on an airplane voluntarily. But he's got to.

I may not have a Joshua Tree partner....



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Re: Desert Rats: Joshua Tree in the Winter With Bill
« Reply #53 on: January 20, 2018, 12:25:19 PM »
yowza!

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Re: Desert Rats: Joshua Tree in the Winter With Bill
« Reply #54 on: January 20, 2018, 12:53:08 PM »
Congrats Jim!!!
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Re: Desert Rats: Joshua Tree in the Winter With Bill
« Reply #55 on: January 22, 2018, 06:55:51 PM »

Congrats Jim!!!


I had to quote you so that you can't retro-edit it (not that retro-editing is your style anyway).

I still can't believe you picked that name out of probably a thousand others that you could have chosen.  :out:

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Re: Desert Rats: Joshua Tree in the Winter With Bill
« Reply #56 on: January 23, 2018, 07:53:44 AM »
super powers
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Re: Desert Rats: Joshua Tree in the Winter With Bill
« Reply #57 on: January 25, 2018, 05:33:19 PM »
Well thank goodness. Bill is going to Boston. He's not happy about the flight, but he knows he's got to be there.

Luckily there's a certain Mudder who now lives on the east side of the Sierra....

So the trip is on. But damn, Dennis, I'm still blown away that you "knew" only an hour after we'd made arrangements!  >:D

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Re: Desert Rats: Joshua Tree in the Winter With Bill
« Reply #58 on: January 25, 2018, 07:50:49 PM »
 8)
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Re: Desert Rats: Joshua Tree in the Winter With Bill
« Reply #59 on: February 09, 2018, 08:31:44 PM »
Quote

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Joshua Tree has a unique version of the Yosemite Decimal system. In order of difficulty, the sequence of the grades is something like this:

5.10a, 5.10b, 5.9, 5.11a, 5.10c, 5.11b, 5.10d, 5.11c, 5.12a, 5.11d … Beyond that it’s even more screwed up, but all you need to know is that it’s gonna hurt.

I would like his commentary on the grades preceding 5.9  too.
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