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jakedatc
Mar 13, 2006, 2:24 AM
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Nice jer.. hope paul is doing ok. good thing you didnt hit up rumney with us.. it was fairly shitty.
fri. Parking lot.. waterfall. meadows.. waterfall. ;sigh: Vadar.. 12's dry.. yoda.. waterfall. Obi. pretty damn wet but i gave it a go anyway cuz i wasnt going to walk up there and not at least try. only holds dry were the start holds. flakes were wet.. the good hold past the lip.. was dripping and maybe a thin layer of ice. Tried the move twice and bailed.. lowering off ring bolts.. not adviced but works ok for short distances haha
sat: parking lot dry.. but crowded and flanked by probable ice falls. Meadows. crowded but do-able. right after i got off the first lead.. ROOOOCCK/IIIIICEEEEE and BOOM biggest ice fall ive ever seen. Half of whatever is near the red sea pedestrian routes cut loose. a bit later either more of that or similar cut loose with similar results. luckily people were smart and were staying away from those. so we did rose garden, reposession, Obi won (dry this time), and finished on Frosted flakes at upper vadar. Steve was almost chased down the trail by the ice next to upper vadar cutting completely loose and luckily stopping. A few bowling balls kept rolling but stopped before reaching him.
Sunday. BRRRRRRR ugh this isnt going to be fun.. no sun.. no warmth. warmed my hands on rests i'd usually chalk(or probly not for this route) during False Modesty. wanted to show steve stuff on parking lot so we did Easily amused and were going to do Rise and shine but it started raining as kate cleaned the anchors. oh well. fitting end for a pretty rough weekend up north.
pics to come if there is anything decent. i havent looked yet
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cracklover
Mar 13, 2006, 5:50 AM
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Rob: Yeah, the top of Layback was run out enough to be PG or R, definitely. The rest of it - you could sew up all you want. Nice photo of you on OC.
Jer - dunno how I missed you - I was at MR from 10:15 to 1, and then from 5:30 to 10. I brought your biner. Sigh... Oh, and yeah, Ladder Line is kind of short on holds, especially at the beginning. Just tell yourself it's a steep slab. I'm pretty psyched I got it, actually. Last summer Julia and I tried the start, and neither of us could get far off the ground. She did a little better than I did, but hey, if I had her Ukrainian strength... :roll:
Core - that ain't right - hoarding all the hardcore hot climber chicks! Sweet pic of Jen on Shockley's!
Here's one of me from the weekend - on Outside Corner:
http://www.rockclimbing.com/...p.cgi?Detailed=70595
(presumably the photo will show up once it's approved).
GO
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robbovius
Mar 13, 2006, 1:11 PM
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Cory, sweet photography.
Jen, this picture of you is awesome! I'm jealous of you gunks fun, but only a little ;-)
This definitely deserves to make the FP of rockclimbing.com! Cory, pls submit it to the site so we can vote it up!
Gabe, I have some other pics of you on Ladder Line, I'll post them up on imageshack tonight and link them, so you can download.
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flexdex
Mar 13, 2006, 1:58 PM
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Rob those VW Ze Auto commercials make me cringe at the sound of his voice. Like nails on a chalk board.
Great time in Maine this weekend even though I did not climb. Frisbee golf match play tourney and I walked away as the FROZEN CUP champ.
MR this week... probably Tues and Thurs
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jakedatc
Mar 13, 2006, 2:16 PM
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Nice cory.. Good job jen!!
No lines on The Fly friday... wasnt too terribly wet but the friction was aweful
finally got around to a picture of the landing to show why it's bolted
http://img.photobucket.com/...umney/3_11_06002.jpg
steve should have his pics up later so i'll link them here
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core
Mar 13, 2006, 3:09 PM
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I'm glad that people got out and enjoyed the weather this weekend; it looks like QQ was a good time as well. (now that I can actually make out the subject matter of Rob's photo's) :)
Rob, I'll try to get a pic submitted to the site shortly. Thanks again!
Jake it sounds like you should have gone gunkin' instead! hehe
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core
Mar 13, 2006, 3:35 PM
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In reply to: Cory and Alex didn’t have such luck, finding Calisthenics to be worth all of it’s no stars. Jen
hehe... Calisthenic was a dirty, wandering, runout POS. :) The only thing I didn't-not-like (hehe) were the opening moves: jump to a bucket over a roof (8 ft up or so), campus the first couple of moves then pull the roof. (That was fun!)
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jakedatc
Mar 13, 2006, 4:56 PM
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I probably would have gone to the gunks but i had no one to do that with. Kate isnt a fan of the gunks and Steve hasnt been outside on routes more than a few times and the gunks would have been a major shock to him
but. next time folks are heading to the gunks keep me in mind ;)
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jumaringjeff
Mar 13, 2006, 6:17 PM
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Hey everyone, thanks for sharing all of your climbing exploits. I was busy all weekend but I hope to get out soon.
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choueiri
Mar 13, 2006, 7:41 PM
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In reply to: Rob those VW Ze Auto commercials make me cringe at the sound of his voice. Like nails on a chalk board. Great time in Maine this weekend even though I did not climb. Frisbee golf match play tourney and I walked away as the FROZEN CUP champ. MR this week... probably Tues and Thurs
Hey Dan, I love those VW commercials. Well, I will be going to Metrorock on Wednesday if you or anyone else would be in need of a friendly belay. I havent gone climbing in weeks, so we shall see...
Tony
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robbovius
Mar 14, 2006, 2:26 PM
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oh my GOD the response is aggravatingly slow today.
Another couple pics from QQ sunday, leading Outside Corner.
check out the sillhouette of my orange tricam inthe fist crack. it was bomber. ;-)
http://img146.imageshack.us/...1289/p21100367kd.jpg
Sidepulling the arette to the last ledge before the hand crack. Right above my left hand is whaqt looks like a pounded-over hanger bolted to the face.
http://img204.imageshack.us/...3117/p21100410xr.jpg
hey, has anyone here climbed OC staying strictly to the arette?
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dovaka
Mar 14, 2006, 9:32 PM
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hello again
Ive been gone for awhile and haven't really even been on the board in quite some time but I'm back and just took the gear out of storage last week so i want to make sure that i get to use it this year
p.s. robovious is see your still as active as ever i remember when i first met you when you had just started at college rock seems like you've come along way
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core
Mar 14, 2006, 9:47 PM
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I submitted the low res version, and it's been approved (click pic):
http://www.rockclimbing.com/...p.cgi?Detailed=70608
When I get some time, maybe next week, I'll try to scan it again with greater resolution.
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jakedatc
Mar 15, 2006, 5:25 AM
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for everyone who doesnt care.. LW thursday.. 44 and sunny i shall be there
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flexdex
Mar 15, 2006, 12:12 PM
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I will be at Metro tonight. Tony if you want to climb some easy stuff or just want a belay on harder routes come see me. My finger is still a bit weak and stiff.
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robbovius
Mar 15, 2006, 12:53 PM
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Cory, kewl! I voted it up!
C'mon Massholes, let's get that pic on the FP!!! vote it up! yay Core, yay Jen!
Dovaka, yup I remember, & thanks. yeah, I'm pretty much a rock ho, for realz. ;-)
Here's a pic of you that day at College, 3-29-03
http://www.spockgoesmental.com/...ry_crk_CR%20copy.jpg
TD's belaying...anybody heard from him, or Foo, lately?
Jake, sorry dude, I gotta work.
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choueiri
Mar 15, 2006, 1:15 PM
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In reply to: I will be at Metro tonight. Tony if you want to climb some easy stuff or just want a belay on harder routes come see me. My finger is still a bit weak and stiff.
I will be at Metro tonight as well. In fact, I am pretty injured myself, had a snowboarding accident that messed up my shoulder and wrist, so we shall see how that impacts my climbing. I just wish Metrorock was outdoors, maybe by means of some special roof that opens. HA!
Tony
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bboysmeth
Mar 15, 2006, 2:37 PM
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has anyone been up to rumney lately? If it hasnt rained for the past couple of days i would imagine theres some dry rock up theres.
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jakedatc
Mar 15, 2006, 3:18 PM
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BB i was up last weekend and it all depends on when it rains and what you're looking to get on. friday everything was soaked. Saturday the slabs at the meadows and parking lot were dry.. vadar was dry. sunday some more of the steeper meadows stuff was drying out, upper vadar was mostly dry cept the 10d and 11.
If you ask more specifics i could give you my best guess as to it's dryness.
haha dovaka. go back a few pages and you'll see me wondering what happend to some people.. welcome back
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edge
Mar 15, 2006, 3:33 PM
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We got at least an inch of snow here in NH this morning.
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dovaka
Mar 15, 2006, 6:59 PM
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yep thats me allright good times haha
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robbovius
Mar 15, 2006, 7:36 PM
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Y'know folks, I'm a fool. I'm a fool because I don't get my sorry butt outta my chair here at my desk at work and make the 15 minute trip to the "Gunks Senior Discount Satellite Area" every day that it's not raining or below freezing. So today I sucked it up and made the trip, and was rewarded by it, in both terms of climbing, and adventure.
Believe it or not, even though I've been climbing there regularly for a almost 3 years, there are areas I haven't yet put a hand or foot on, and I'm still surprised when I find an area of the crag that offers something completely different than the main area I usually go to. Today I spent on the south end crag, working slab problems.
Becasue I'm trying to take it easy on my painful left forearm, I thought I'd work slabby footwork problems on an outcrop at the south end. It's about 15 feet high, 30-35 feet long, and offers a enough variety of slab angles, crystals, small cracks, and other features to make an interesting and even stenuous, footwork-intensive session.
While I was there, I worked a half dozen or so different traverse lines, high, low, angling, zig zag, in my hikers, which made me really concentrate on my foot placements, and use of leg muscles/core to stick the feet when they seemed tenuous. Worked up a sweat, even in the chilly 40 degree breeze, good times!
I then hiked over to the southern end of main outcrop and did an adventure traverse on some faces I've never got on before, before heading back to the desk with a smile on my face.
Yay climbing!
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Mar 15, 2006, 8:05 PM
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I'm a fool too then, because I work 15 minutes from the Quarries and I should be there every night after work either bouldering or trying to hook a belay.
That's it. my story doesn't have a second half like yours
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robbovius
Mar 15, 2006, 8:28 PM
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In reply to: I'm a fool too then, because I work 15 minutes from the Quarries and I should be there every night after work either bouldering or trying to hook a belay. That's it. my story doesn't have a second half like yours
Do it, Chad, do it! Even if you only do a short drive-by for 20-30 minutes, you'll be happy you got out on the rock, for real.
I mean, I was spending all this time whining about how I wasn't climbing, and there's the rock right over there...
DO it dude! ;-)
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