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by Tricouni
Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:38 pm
Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
Topic: Yosemite Pinnacle - Left Side
Replies: 19
Views: 9117

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).
by Tricouni
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

BK wrote:A wild guess would be 1976. Was that you we saw stuck in the chimney?
Not me. (But my son had to bivouac high in the gully in the mid-1980s.}

Sorry for the thread drift, Anders....
by Tricouni
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...
by Tricouni
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 ...
by Tricouni
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...
by Tricouni
Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:21 pm
Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
Topic: Best offwidths?
Replies: 14
Views: 9446

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.
by Tricouni
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...
by Tricouni
Sun Nov 14, 2010 11:09 pm
Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
Topic: West side of squam river
Replies: 22
Views: 17650

I think Frank Baumann tried to get the town to build a footbridge across the river (in the spot the old suspension bridge was), but he didn't get too far.

Too bad.
by Tricouni
Sun Nov 14, 2010 6:20 pm
Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
Topic: West side of squam river
Replies: 22
Views: 17650

And there are the Touch-and-Go Towers for true choss-aholics
by Tricouni
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...
by Tricouni
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...
by Tricouni
Tue Aug 10, 2010 3:57 pm
Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
Topic: Not Cool - Huge boulder dislodged by climbers on Opal Sunday
Replies: 27
Views: 21628

The warning signs were there for Meager: past history there is a pretty good predictor of future history. If I were in charge of decision-making for Forestry, I'd probably just seal off the bridge across the Lillooet (if it's still in) and declare Meager Creek off-limits.
by Tricouni
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...
by Tricouni
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...
by Tricouni
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

One forum to which I contibute has a very nice feature. When you are logged in and click on some thread that you are following, there is a "go to first unread post" button. This saves much time if you only check a busy discussion once in a while and you've forgetten where you were.

Glenn