A New Challenge for North Carolina!
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So my partner Nathan Hitchcock and I decided to try linking a few of the popular moderates in Linville Gorge. We started yesterday morning and climbed Jim Dandy, North Ridge, The Mummy, The Daddy and The Prow in 8h 55m 2s. We're calling this marathon The Linville Classic. This was our first run at it and I had to onsight The Mummy and The Prow, so there is lots of room for improvement. Let's see what you can do! |
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Right on for having an eye for freshness. I also appreciate that you're trying to motivate others. What else can YOU do? What's next? |
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Thats a neat idea and great work though half of the routes i wouldn't consider moderate. |
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Jon Kulikowski wrote:We started yesterday morning and climbed Jim Dandy, North Ridge, The Mummy, The Daddy and The Prow in 8h 55m 2s.Damn, must have been a long day. That's not an easy hike in between those areas... |
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todd w wrote: Damn, must have been a long day. That's not an easy hike in between those areas...To be honest, I thought I was going to puke twice. |
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Hey how was the weather? I was thinking about going to NC this weekend. Not sure if I wanted to climb at Table Rock or Looking Glass. Does anyone have any thoughts on whether the Nose would be warm enough on saturday? |
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if the temperature around noone is 40 and up you'll be toasty warm on the nose...it does stay in the shade until about late morning |
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Now your talking. I am always trying to link as many as possible. Get a little reminder of long alpine routes here in NC! |
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The linville link up has been around quiet awhile, generally something like 20ish miles of hiking and around 30 pitches of climbing involved. Nothing new just usually more moderate routes |
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Awesome, love the motivation. In the northeast we have a number of awesome girdle traverses of all the larger cliffs, up to 22 pitches of downclimbing, ledge walking, and rapelling. |
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So, my partner and I revisited The Classic yesterday and clocked a time of 5:33:01. It can definitely be beaten and I would love to see some other teams cut time off of this! |
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Why dont you shoot for the already established and much better known Linville Link Up instead? Seems like more of a challenge and climbs more challenging routes than what you're doing already...definitely more of a challenge than linking a bunch of 5.boyscout routes. |
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I looked for info on that, couldn't find it. I guess I'll have to stay in the Weblos for a bit longer. |
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You should try the Linville Crusher (some call this the linkup I believe) next; a route at Shortoff, The Amphitheater, Table Rock, Hawksbill, and Sitting Bear. |
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Missing one formation jonathan. The true linkup includes sitting bear, hawksbill, table rock, nc wall, ampitheater, and shortoff. Some folks have done the prow (technically on the NC wall) in lieu of other routes given falcon closures and such. A great adventure for sure! The crux is the hike to shortoff from the ampitheater! |
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