By Healyje
Feb 5, 2013
| That's sort of like saying one fifty year old single malt scotch is better than another. | 
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By camhead
From The Old Northwest
Feb 5, 2013
| that's like saying coke is better than pepsi. |
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By camhead
From The Old Northwest
Feb 5, 2013
| Healyje wrote: That's sort of like saying one fifty year old single malt scotch is better than another.
hehe, obviously we have different opinions on these crags. |
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By Zigler
Feb 5, 2013
| Gunks is a good place to learn trad but its no multipitch. Eldo will make u understand why... |
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By Bryan G
From Yosemite
Feb 5, 2013
| Multipitch doesn't matter, nor the quality of the rock. The better crag is obviously the one with the most sandbagged grades, and I think we all know which one that is... |
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By rgold
From Poughkeepsie, NY
Feb 5, 2013
| I've climbed quite a bit in both places. They're both great in their own ways. |
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By S Denny
From Carbondale, CO
Feb 5, 2013
| camhead wrote: hehe, obviously we have different opinions on these crags.
hah! |
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By TWK
Feb 5, 2013
| I learned how to lead in the Gunks, and I've never climbed in Eldo.
Clearly, Eldo sucks. |
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By lucander
From Stone Ridge, NY
Feb 5, 2013
| Eldo = Naked Edge
Gunks = Naked people climbing Shockey's Ceiling |
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By Zigler
Feb 5, 2013
| lucander wrote: Eldo = Naked Edge Gunks = Naked people climbing Shockey's Ceiling
Hahaha! Gunks is a bunch of horizontal cracks, only 2 climbable months a year. Eldo...where do I start???? Divinity? |
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By JCM
From Golden, CO
Feb 5, 2013
| rgold wrote: I've climbed quite a bit in both places. They're both mediocre in their own ways.
There, I fixed it for you. |
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By Zigler
Feb 6, 2013
| John u never climbed in Gunks... |
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By Elliott Crooks
Feb 6, 2013
| Climbed a lot both places as a week-end hacker. Gunks has more route finding challenges, & is probably the best area in the country for really fun easy & moderate routes. On the other hand, Eldo is way better for multi-pitch/exposure: Yellow Spur blows High Exposure out of the water for air under your feet (and I love both routes). Great rock quality both places-and I say this having climbed a lot of rock in the Cascades. |
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By Stich
From Colorado Springs, Colorado
Feb 6, 2013
| Iv'e climbed a ton in Eldo and visited the Gunks once and almost prefer the Gunks now. They could clean up some of that peeling paint lichen, though. A few wire brushes would do it. Chop chop.
Yellow Spur is definitely more impressive than High E. |
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By Jake Jones
From The Eastern Flatlands
Feb 6, 2013
| John Marsella wrote: Hi Ellanor! I thought that was you! Of course I haven't climbed in the Gunks.
Neither has she/it. This is a sad attempt to get one of her bullshit threads started. |
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By Dave Cummings
From Grand Junction, CO
Feb 6, 2013
| Eldo is better but that isn't fair either. The Gunks is one of the coolest areas to climb in in the country, when the weather is good, and if anyone gets the chance to check it out do it. Eldo is not really a comparable area. The Gunks are 1-2 pitch routes and Eldo has 1-7 pitch routes. In the Gunks you can climb overhanging 5.6 and is crazy fun and in Eldo you can get some of the biggest exposure anywhere like on the Naked Edge. Both areas are awesome. That being said Eldo is one of the best areas anywhere any everyone should check it out, hard to compare it to anywhere really. |
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By Ben Brotelho
From Albany, NY
Feb 6, 2013
| Everyone should go to Eldo then, and leave the Gunks alone! |
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By wankel7
From Dallas TexASS
Feb 6, 2013
| At least it isn't 20 bucks a day per person to climb at Eldo! |
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By Zigler
Feb 6, 2013
| Jake Jones wrote: Neither has she/it. This is a sad attempt to get one of her bullshit threads started.
Hell yea I did!! Ask me a question..
John tell it to the judge! And who is Ellenor? |
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By Zigler
Feb 6, 2013
| Ok something,no guide book can tell u ....the campground only had a sauna but no shower a dude was found jumped climber but not climbing at that time, intentional fall. |
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By Sir Wanksalot
From County Jail
Feb 6, 2013
| Zigler wrote: Ok something,no guide book can tell u ....the campground only had a sauna but no shower a dude was found jumped climber but not climbing at that time, intentional fall.
Please say it ain't so... I thought they figured a way to perma block you, but I can tell by the quoted dribble your back.
You suck. Eldo sucks. Gunks suck. Boulder sucks.
Honestly, maybe I haven't in eldo enough, or maybe I'm a total chicken, but I don't think it's all that great. Is it the scary gear that makes it great? The scary rock? Or is it the fact that it's in boulder county? IDK and IDK shit about the gunks except New Paltz is AWESOME! And the North East in general is a nice place with good people.
I enjoy the granite of LCC and the High Sierra to eldo any time. |
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By Tony B
From Around Boulder, CO
Feb 6, 2013
| camhead wrote: that's like saying coke is better than pepsi.
2 rights don't make a wrong...
But 2 Elanor's don't make a right. I'll take care of it. |
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By Wyatt Payne
From Littleton CO
Feb 6, 2013
| Couple issues to add/aggravate the situation:
Short climbs
Cracks don't go the right way
Bitch Please! No Contest, who doesn't find short routes with horizontal cracks to be far superior to any alternatives out there? |
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