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Location: CO : Crested Butte : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Oct 9, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: Is that from the backside (lake is on the other side)? Almost looks like the Anthracite range.
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Location: CO : Gunnison : Hartman Rocks : Little Finger aka Penis Roc... : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Sep 11, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: Just made this my desktop, cuz I miss Gunny sometimes.
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : Gore Mountain Range : East Partner Peak (aka Peak... : Partner Peaks Traverse (3rd) : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Aug 14, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: For some reason, that formation behind it kind of looks like the Wind Tower from Eldo...kind of.
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Location: CO : Gunnison : Hartman Rocks : Bouldering Areas : Kill Hill Bouldering Area : ... : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Aug 6, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: I'd rather land on the pads than those guys:-)
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Location: CO : 10 Mile Canyon : Mount Royal (near Frisco) : Royal Flush (5.9) : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Aug 6, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: Now THAT is cool and makes me feel like a slug at the same time!
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Location: CO : Telluride/Norwood area : Ophir : Ophir Wall : Main Wall : Y-Crack (5.10d)
By: YDPL8S When: Aug 1, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: ^^^^^^^
So, did ya "bring a photographer"? More pics would be good.
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : RMNP - Rock : Long's Peak : The Diamond : ... : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Jul 17, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: Zoomed in that's a nice picture of the Dagger.
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Location: CO : South Platte : Turkey Rocks : Turkey Perch : Moderate 2 (5.8) : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Jul 7, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: Says picture by Norm H., is that Norman Harthill? If it is, tell him Scott Mossman says Hi!
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Location: CO : Boulder : Eldorado Canyon SP : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Jul 7, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: Say it isn't so? Post climb Dr. Pepper and Payday are fond memories of youth. Sometimes, there were so many climbers in there that the place used to smell like "scuffed" lichen. What's going there?
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Location: CO : Boulder : Eldorado Canyon SP : Redgarden Wall : Redgarden - Roof Routes : ... : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Jul 5, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: Look at the way the pro is hanging and the Bastille is leaning, that spot is way steeper than the pic at first looks.
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Location: CO : Gunnison : Taylor Canyon : Rosy Lane : Line on the Mirror (5.10) : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Jun 14, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: Nice line!
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Location: CO : Gunnison : Western State Campus : Chipeta Corner (V2)
By: YDPL8S When: Jun 9, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: I was shown this problem in the spring of '72 by Chuck Tolton and Gunnison legend Charlie Pitts. We spent a whole evening buildering Chipeta, Taylor Hall, the OLD library, and the then "new" library.
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : Indian Peaks : Mt. Bancroft : East Ridge Direct (5.5 M2-3 Steep Snow R) : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Jun 4, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: Wow! That rock has been down in Pluto's workshop.
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Location: CO : Durango : Lemon Reservoir : East Side : Holy Grail (5.11d) : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Jun 4, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: Now that's a nice ledge!
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Location: CO : Boulder : Eldorado Canyon SP : Redgarden Wall : Redgarden - Lumpe to the to... : ... : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: May 7, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: Kind of a cool picture of the Wind Tower.
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Location: CO : Colorado Springs : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Apr 21, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: Cool pic, Allen, one can see all sorts of images in the ash plume.
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : Little Bear Peak : Northwest Face (Easy 5th Mod. Snow) : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Apr 18, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: Boy, there's an understatement, stacked dinner plates.
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Location: CO : Estes Park Valley : Lumpy Ridge : The Book : The Pages Wall Area : Osiris (5.7)
By: YDPL8S When: Apr 2, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: It takes awhile to get used to flaring cracks. If all you're used to are Yosemite and Indian Creek splitters, these are an acquired taste. Climb a few more, like George's Tree, and you'll get the hang of it. Then when you've really got your act in gear, try Crack of Fear on the Twin Owls (I backed off in fear and lack of energy after the 1st 50 ft, and I was following!).
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Location: CO : Boulder : Eldorado Canyon SP : The Wind Tower : Wind Tower - SW Face : Calypso Direct Start (5.8+ PG13)
By: YDPL8S When: Mar 29, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: ^^^^^^^^
Ditto.
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Location: CO : Estes Park Valley : Lumpy Ridge : The Book : J-Crack Slab Area : Femp (5.9)
By: YDPL8S When: Mar 29, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: Spent a weekend doing Femp, Pear Buttress, and J-Crack. That was a full, fun crack time, Lumpy style!
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : San Juans : The Grenadiers : Vestal Peak : Wham Ridge (5.4 R)
By: YDPL8S When: Feb 22, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: Maybe because it's so easy and fun, and steepens so gradually, that complacency lulls you into not placing protection until you get to your belay. I know that happened to me.
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Location: CO : CO Ice & Mixed : Ouray (Ice/Mixed) : Camp Bird Road : Senator Gulch (WI3-4)
By: YDPL8S When: Feb 13, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: My first ice climb ever (winter of 79/80), with crazyman Bob Dickerson. I had a Hummingbird in one hand, Chouinard ice hammer in the other and Chouinard rigid crampons (black anodized) w/neoprene straps. Bob cruised it and didn't put in any pro until the belay (he was regularly free-soloing Bridalveil in those days). The ice was so thin that I could see water flowing on the frontpoints through the ice. I sold my ice equipment about a month later.
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : Capitol Peak : Northwest Buttress (5.9)
By: YDPL8S When: Jan 25, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: Yeah, I agree with the above ^^^^^+++
I'm also thinking that the approach could be epic, that's a pretty long ways in. I'm imagining breaking trail, whether on skis, shoes or postholing could be an arduous task, and then the real fun begins! (guess I'm just an old wimp)
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Location: CO : Boulder : Boulder Canyon : Happy Hour Crag : Dementia (5.10a) : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Jan 20, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: He's trying to get on the cover of Men's Health magazine? Those shorts have gotta go!
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Location: CO : Gunnison : Black Canyon of the Gunniso... : North Chasm View Wall : The Hallucinogen Wall (5.10 A3+ R) : Photo
By: YDPL8S When: Jan 11, 2012 | view comment >> |
Comments: I'm thinking sodium plagioclase feldspar more than quartz and the pinker ones are potasium orthoclase feldspar...i.e. "pegmatite". There probably is quartz in there, but I'm thinking it's not the majority component...could be wrong as I've certainly never been on that pitch, but I've looked at it from afar many times.
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