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- Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:38 pm
- Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
- Topic: Yosemite Pinnacle - Left Side
- Replies: 19
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Re: Yosemite Pinnacle - Left Side
Like Anders, I'd probably prefer it if the climb had been left in its original state (but by all means fix the belays, raps). I'd also favour leaving the North North Arete as-is (but if someone wants to scrub the North North Gully, by all means be my guest).
- Thu Apr 07, 2011 8:36 am
- Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
- Topic: Yosemite Pinnacle - Left Side
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9117
Re: Yosemite Pinnacle - Left Side
Not me. (But my son had to bivouac high in the gully in the mid-1980s.}BK wrote:A wild guess would be 1976. Was that you we saw stuck in the chimney?
Sorry for the thread drift, Anders....
- Wed Apr 06, 2011 10:08 pm
- Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
- Topic: Yosemite Pinnacle - Left Side
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9117
Re: Yosemite Pinnacle - Left Side
Touch and go as in ... you touch, it goes? Yup. A Culbert name, I believe. Yum. North gully! my first squamish climb with my dad and brothers, with construction hardhats and dads old viking hawser laid rope from the war. Bush, dirt, chockstones, gravel and terrodacyls. I wish i had pictures of that...
- Wed Apr 06, 2011 7:24 pm
- Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
- Topic: Yosemite Pinnacle - Left Side
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9117
Re: Yosemite Pinnacle - Left Side
BK: I just can't help myself.... what exactly constitutes an "adventure climb"? If it involves, bush, dirt and choss then its adventure days are over. North Gully is an adventure climb (ok, a stiff hike). Lots of dirt, scree, loose rock, and it's never the same two times in a row. Good stuff! More ...
- Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:22 pm
- Forum: New Routes / Cleaning / Trail Updates
- Topic: Spring Cleaning
- Replies: 63
- Views: 38872
Re: Spring Cleaning
What browser and version are you using IE7? Firefox? Please speak up if anybody else is noticing a big slow down. I'll look into this. As for the pictures of Yosemite Pinnacle Left Side -- I'd like to see some. Can you post them here? The site is nice and responsive for me. Windows 7, Firefox 3.6.1...
- Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:21 pm
- Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
- Topic: Best offwidths?
- Replies: 14
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Yosemite Pinnacle left side
Go for the squeeze chimney on Yosemite Pinnacle Left side. First led (and entirely free) by Hamish Mutch in 1965 with old-style gear. I graded it as 5.8 at the time we did it, so I suppose it would be solid 5.10 now.
Check it out.
Check it out.
- Mon Nov 15, 2010 11:18 pm
- Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
- Topic: West side of squam river
- Replies: 22
- Views: 17650
My understanding of the issues are that it is a significant span for a small foot bridge, ie, you would need towers on each end to get it high enough to protect it from the debris filled flood waters we get here a few times a year. This means $$$$. The old suspension foot-bridge did have high tower...
- Sun Nov 14, 2010 11:09 pm
- Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
- Topic: West side of squam river
- Replies: 22
- Views: 17650
- Sun Nov 14, 2010 6:20 pm
- Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
- Topic: West side of squam river
- Replies: 22
- Views: 17650
- Sun Sep 05, 2010 8:57 pm
- Forum: New Routes / Cleaning / Trail Updates
- Topic: Slab Alley Restoration Project
- Replies: 85
- Views: 80444
I'd say the route doesn't need any more bolts. In my opinion, the hardest stuff is on the bottom pitches, and they are well protected. the hard moves on the third pitch are super-well protected (3 bolts, as on the original), and one can always pull up on the bolts. The new bolt on the "elephant step...
- Sun Sep 05, 2010 12:43 pm
- Forum: New Routes / Cleaning / Trail Updates
- Topic: Slab Alley Restoration Project
- Replies: 85
- Views: 80444
I did this route with Anders a couple of weeks ago. Aside from the impression that the rock has become steeper since I first did the route 48 years ago, I think Anders has done a great job. For those just starting to do multi-pitch routes, this is a great start. IMO, It's even ok for beginners (with...
- Tue Aug 10, 2010 3:57 pm
- Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
- Topic: Not Cool - Huge boulder dislodged by climbers on Opal Sunday
- Replies: 27
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- Sun Jul 25, 2010 6:07 pm
- Forum: New Routes / Cleaning / Trail Updates
- Topic: Milk Road controversy poll
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3955
In a way, this is like the current debate about the Long Census. You've got 34/0 votes. But it's not a random sample of all climbers, or all Squamish climbers, or all active Squamish Climbers, or even all active Squamish climbers who post on this board. It's a statistically biased population. either...
- Tue May 18, 2010 11:14 am
- Forum: New Routes / Cleaning / Trail Updates
- Topic: Slab Alley Restoration Project
- Replies: 85
- Views: 80444
In other words, today we committed the sin of placing four bolts on a pitch that in the 1960s seems to have been done without any of them, may have been done in hush puppies, and which Jim Baldwin described as "easy". The Hush-Puppies climb definitely happened. I was sharing a house with a couple o...
- Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:45 am
- Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
- Topic: Community Forum changes - What would you like to see?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 58413