Climbing Stoke

**Boissal** · 11-16-2018, 11:36 AM

Damn, Tahoe choss looking as good as ever!
The anticrack is quite the feature. Very unique climbing, you're confined to a 2" wide strip, the face around it glass.

**DolphinSki** · 11-29-2018, 11:25 AM

The sandstone and basalt down here has been a big shift from the gneiss and limestone of Montana but so far I'm enjoying it. A couple pics from weekend trips down to Sedona.

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**LeoK** · 11-30-2018, 02:03 AM

Amazing! Are alle routes bolted there? What is the character of the area (grade, bolting, people...). I would love to learn more.

**yeahman** · 11-30-2018, 10:34 AM

Been some great pics posted in here lately. Awesome stuff.

**subtle plague** · 12-01-2018, 11:21 AM

Last bouldering in the MurgTal before we get some snow in the northern alps next week.?
Schwingerclub. 7c/+
V9/10

The name is fairly obvious when you do the big lunge for the jug.

A funky toe hook/jam gets you to the slopey crimp and then it's just full on berserk mode.

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**DolphinSki** · 12-01-2018, 02:04 PM

Originally Posted by LeoK

Amazing! Are alle routes bolted there? What is the character of the area (grade, bolting, people...). I would love to learn more.

If you're asking about Sedona, almost no routes are bolted there. Because of the nature there are often bolted slab pitches linking crack systems or getting through the ever-present limestone bands. Overall, Sedona is soft rock, old school-graded, sandstone crack climbing. Plenty of other options for climbing in the area though.

**ASmileyFace** · 12-02-2018, 04:51 PM

So many dope pics in here right now. Great stuff everyone!

**ex-powderbroker** · 01-06-2019, 12:17 PM

made this little tribute of the man for an obit of sorts

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**ex-powderbroker** · 01-07-2019, 02:36 PM

nasty

**bjorn240** · 01-24-2019, 10:05 AM

Summited Mt. Washington on the 12th in a group of three. Fairly high winds, about 50 mph, with gusts into the 70s, but clear skies and 100-mile visibility. Temperature was about -21 Fahrenheit at the summit, with a windchill around -60. Pinkham Notch to the summit and back in just over 8 hours. Only 8 groups on the mountain per the log and our observations which was surprising given the good conditions. Loads of fun.

Also, apparently because I am a FNG, I can’t add pics. Bummer.

**Self Jupiter** · 01-24-2019, 10:15 AM

Nice. Curious what route you took?

**bjorn240** · 01-24-2019, 11:54 AM

We took the Tuckerman Ravine Trail to the bottom of the Lion Head winter Route, then up Lion Head across the Alpine Garden and back onto Tuckerman Ravine trail up to split rock and up the south side of the summit cone.

Up took 5 hours, down took three. Crampons and axes from the base of the Lion Head to the summit and back.

It was -21 with 50-70mph winds at the summit (so -60ish windchill) but visibility was 100+ miles.

Gorgeous day for it; could not have had better conditions.

**bjorn240** · 01-24-2019, 11:58 AM

**Self Jupiter** · 01-24-2019, 12:21 PM

thanks for the stoke, that’s a great pic.

**counterfeitfake** · 01-26-2019, 11:40 AM

That is hardcore.

**Supermoon** · 01-26-2019, 11:49 AM

Wow. Nice work

**JoeyFish** · 01-28-2019, 12:27 PM

Badass!!!

**ex-powderbroker** · 02-10-2019, 06:52 PM

ice on the slopes, ice on the rocks.

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**yeahman** · 02-10-2019, 09:09 PM

^^Wow. Where is that?

**ex-powderbroker** · 02-11-2019, 07:56 AM

thats the waterfall section at poke-o-moonshine. i hoped to shoot some other lines too but they’ll have to wait. there’s a ton of interesting ice on this mountain:

https://www.mountainproject.com/rout...8606/dark-lord

**yeahman** · 02-20-2019, 11:04 AM

For anybody who hasn't seen this video yet, Alex Honnold breaks down classic Hollywood movie climbing scenes. I work with a guy who was the stand-in for Captain Kirk in Star Trek V and handled all the climbing scenes in that movie (including doing the free solo on Freerider that Honnold mentions), and was also Stallone's climbing instructor for Cliffhanger. He thought this was pretty entertaining. Honnold seems like a funny guy... a little goofy but in a good way.

**zartagen** · 02-20-2019, 11:27 AM

x2 on the Honnold video. I thoroughly enjoyed his commentary.

**DolphinSki** · 02-20-2019, 03:22 PM

Snuck away from family activities for a day while on vacation last week to get a few laps in on Unnamed Wall. Here is my buddy putting up the left side of The Fat One which is surprisingly steep in some places this year.