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The Epic Thread

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Will Cohen · · Denver, Co · Joined Dec 2012 · Points: 80

I'm hungry for adventure and antsy for the next trad season to start.

So in the spirit of trad climbing, tell me about your most recent/ most memorable epic.

I'll be posting mine shortly (I'm in middle of my rest between sets).

Let's get the ball rolling!

Ryan Williams · · London (sort of) · Joined May 2009 · Points: 1,245

Today my store sold $25,000 worth of ski apparel and hardware. I drank 7 cups of coffee.

After work I rode 9 miles home in the rain. It was 40. I almost got hit by a car.

When I got home I poured a glass of wine and I crushed the wine glass in my hand and cut myself (too much coffee). Then I burnt my other hand in the oven.

EPIC.

Evan Belknap · · Placitas, NM · Joined Mar 2008 · Points: 65

Freak storm three pitches up on the sheepshead. Lightning so close I could taste it. The wall turned into a waterfall as we bailed. Like a raging river. Awesome.

jmeizis · · Colorado Springs, CO · Joined Jul 2008 · Points: 230

I post holed in snow up to my shoulders in Vail yesterday to climb one pitch of ice which wasn't even that good. Then today I trudged around on skis for 4 hours before deciding everything steep enough to ski would be steep enough to slide and ended up just skiing the road back to the car. EPICALLY BORING!

Woodchuck ATC · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Nov 2007 · Points: 3,280
jmeizis wrote:I post holed in snow up to my shoulders in Vail yesterday to climb one pitch of ice which wasn't even that good. Then today I trudged around on skis for 4 hours before deciding everything steep enough to ski would be steep enough to slide and ended up just skiing the road back to the car. EPICALLY BORING!
Ditto. you relived my day from back in April '85, solo beneath old school 'Rigid Designator and Fang, then a ski back to Vail Village in a thunderstorm.
Eliot Augusto · · Lafayette, CO · Joined Dec 2013 · Points: 60

I went to get some climbing in during the winter. We hiked up the side of a canyon to this dihedral formation tucked away in a corner, getting all the sunshine.

There was snow, everywhere! I tried to dry my shoes off when I was holding on to the wall with chalk. Then about 5ft from clipping into the one and only bolt on the wall that was about 20ft up, I slipped on my still wet shoes.

I remember feeling my foot slide out from under me and then looking up to see darkness close around me as the snow bank I landed in swallowed me.

I then rage climbed it again, and it was easily the best climbing I've done.

Russ Keane · · Salt Lake · Joined Feb 2013 · Points: 392

hahahhaah great post Ryan Williams!!!!

Johnny Y · · California · Joined Nov 2012 · Points: 1,383

If you choose to climb a route with that word in it - epicnephrine, be prepared to epic, especially on the way down, cuz that's what happened to us

William Sonoma · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Dec 2012 · Points: 3,550

Jake Jones said: Had lightning hit the tree at the Traffic Jam rap at Seneca while I was leaning against it in a downpour rigging a rap. My turds glowed for a week. That's about as epic as I ever care to get. I pay a hell of a lot more attention to forecasts now.

What?! I know that tree well and have leaned against it many a times. I cant believe that happened! Fucking rad dude that you were right there. Exciting man!

FrankPS · · Atascadero, CA · Joined Nov 2009 · Points: 276
WillamR wrote: I'll be posting mine shortly (I'm in middle of my rest between sets).
So where is this promised post?
Will Cohen · · Denver, Co · Joined Dec 2012 · Points: 80

Nothing terribly exciting...

Either A) gumbying the shit out of my first Adirondack trip

B) Trying to climb out of a ravine that my group rapelled into for work.
Option 1) climb out
option 2) 4 hour hike out which would put us in the dark and 3 hours after quitting time.

The route was filled with loose rock, and there was a microwave sized block I had to trundle about 12 feet up. There was a right facing flake system that led to a left facing flake system capped by a 3 foot roof. I traversed left and weighted the good jug above the roof, tested it, and committed to it, but a block a bit bigger than a nalgene came down and fractured my foot which led to a fun hike out...

AKA paying my dues for being a dumbass.

Russ Keane · · Salt Lake · Joined Feb 2013 · Points: 392

I went off-route on the Thin Air face and ended up doing a traverse that's not even listed as a climb in any guidebook. This was due to major wet seepage on the final pitch (it was late autumn). Had to get some help up the top of Standard Route from a team of climbers who could tell we were n00bs and thankfully they stuck around to pull us up. Dude's name was "Vincent Dude". For all I know he posts here. Love that guy!!!

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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