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Re: Quest for Mud (Special Edition)
« Reply #1420 on: July 05, 2019, 03:56:57 PM »
Today was a friggin' blast.
We established a 4th new route at Goat Rock.
We were a party of four.
Gavin and I both drilled 4 bolts apiece.
The climb is 140 feet long.
All on the Fourth of July!


I forgot about the 4 letter words uttered at various times during the day.
I had a four foot sling over my shoulder.
My giant fourhead was present.


 
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Re: Quest for Mud (Special Edition)
« Reply #1421 on: July 06, 2019, 03:35:59 PM »
Today I finally got back up to Voyeur Wall and got the FA on Rug Burn (5.11b **), the route to the left of Cutting The Rug. There is a lot of 5.11 climbing on that route, mostly in the 11a range, but the final wide stemming moves near the top are definitely harder and in the 11b range. I decided to add one more lead bolt (bringing the total to 10 lead bolts), so that it makes use of the anchor for Cutting The Rug rather than adding a new one.

It's a really nice climb with very good rock overall, and I have to recognize DES and Noal for the work they did on it, placing bolts in great locations for protecting a leader from falls. I definitely felt more comfortable committing to the hard sequences given the bolt placement.

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Re: Quest for Mud (Special Edition)
« Reply #1422 on: July 06, 2019, 08:21:09 PM »
Good job Noal keeping mr mud honest.
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Re: Quest for Mud (Special Edition)
« Reply #1423 on: July 07, 2019, 06:49:57 AM »
Today I finally got back up to Voyeur Wall and got the FA on Rug Burn (5.11b **)

Nicely done Gavin.
Sorry I missed it but I doubt I would have been much help  :frown2: :eeeek: :nonod: :arf:
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Re: Quest for Mud (Special Edition)
« Reply #1424 on: July 08, 2019, 09:44:30 AM »
Congrats!  Good to see that is done.
Here's to sweat in your eye

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Re: Quest for Mud (Special Edition)
« Reply #1425 on: July 09, 2019, 08:50:14 AM »
Great work, Gavin!

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Re: Quest for Mud (Special Edition)
« Reply #1426 on: July 10, 2019, 10:40:23 AM »
Dang, look at u guys, crudding straight thru the summer. Hope the mild weather holds up. Let's get 999 people on goat rock for the guidebook photo. Simul-TR? heheheh

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Re: Quest for Mud (Special Edition)
« Reply #1427 on: July 10, 2019, 11:09:41 AM »
All drinking goat's milk.
Causing trouble when not climbing.

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Re: Quest for Mud (Special Edition)
« Reply #1428 on: July 10, 2019, 12:47:48 PM »
Dang, look at u guys, crudding straight thru the summer. Hope the mild weather holds up. Let's get 999 people on goat rock for the guidebook photo. Simul-TR? heheheh

Yes, we are still climbing and the weather has been wonderful.

Kat and I just spent two days at Pinns - we spent time with the trails crew supervisor identifying needed climber access signage and some other potential work projects for PCAD.

We took time out from our busy schedule to climb 4 routes (1 new and 3 old) and rebolted an anchor.  :yesnod: :lol: :ihih:

Are you suggesting we employ a herd mentality for the guidebook photos?

TR you say? Nah...only leaders will be photographed simultaneously. Anything else would be baaaaaad form imo.

 
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Re: Quest for Mud (Special Edition)
« Reply #1429 on: July 10, 2019, 06:46:21 PM »
All drinking goat's milk.
  Now that scares me.

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Re: Quest for Mud (Special Edition)
« Reply #1430 on: July 10, 2019, 08:05:11 PM »
Here's a couple shots from yesterday at Popcorn Pinnacle.

The North Corner 5.8R - the nasty fall below the start (a reachy, bouldery crux) is not shown :frown2: :eeeek: :crazy: :yikes:





The replacement anchor on Popcorn.
Positioning bolts for anchors in an up/down configuration has become my preferred/favorite combo :thumbup: :biggrin:





My trusty partner  :yesnod: :thumbup: :biggrin: :ihih:

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Re: Quest for Mud (Special Edition)
« Reply #1431 on: July 11, 2019, 12:20:55 PM »
JC at the summit of Popcorn Pinnacle - taken by Brad the day I led the squeeze chimney route (3-18-19).
I already had the rope down to do a Pinnacles rappel - I did not replace the anchor that day.
Notice how the God Beams missed me?  :devildevil:
The 5.8R goes up a bit left of where the rope is dangling (starts off the far left end of the boulder). You still can't see the nasty drop off.  :eeeek:

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Re: Quest for Mud (Special Edition)
« Reply #1432 on: July 15, 2019, 02:17:58 PM »

The quest may or may not continue his week.
The low for the week looks like 86 on Friday.
Perfectly acceptable for an early morning quest - then again... the idea may already be 86'ed.
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Re: Quest for Mud (Special Edition)
« Reply #1433 on: July 15, 2019, 03:27:31 PM »
gangster hot out there.

sph!
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Re: Quest for Mud (Special Edition)
« Reply #1435 on: July 16, 2019, 05:10:41 PM »
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Re: Quest for Mud (Special Edition)
« Reply #1436 on: July 16, 2019, 06:18:51 PM »
Well the Mercury News is a far superior paper than the Santa Cruz Sentinal.

It might do you some good.

Clink could have a read while belaying you.
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Re: Quest for Mud (Special Edition)
« Reply #1437 on: July 17, 2019, 04:21:09 PM »


Clink could have a read while belaying you.

Nope - I think that's Clink's nap time.

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Re: Quest for Mud (Special Edition)
« Reply #1438 on: July 20, 2019, 08:00:49 PM »
True, Clink does need all the beauty sleep he can get and then some.
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Re: Quest for Mud (Special Edition)
« Reply #1439 on: September 20, 2019, 07:10:27 PM »

Time to revive the thread.
Now if I could just revive clink.

Kat and I spent a long day at Crowley Towers finishing the rebolting I started before the closures kicked in.
I started by leading the 5.9R on Point Five Pinnacle.
Anyone that gets on it will really appreciate the replacement bolt.
That climb is good enough for a star imo.
Kat enjoyed it too.

I tried to boulder out the 5.9 on Tower One but spent too much time hanging off the holds and ran out of juice.
I waited too late in the day and after I had done too much straining with bolt removal - need to return and hit that one fresh.
That thing is pretty stout for late in the day.

Anxious to get back out again  :yesnod: :thumbup: :biggrin: :arf:



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