Climbing Stoke

[MakersTeleMark]

Reminded me of the Gunks but with lots of trees.

[romeo tango]

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sorry for the late notice ....
let's climb/camp (dirty fucking) Frenchman Coulee
this weekend.

i rope solo Rabbit Hole,
5.0 boy scout routes NW side of Feathers
red truck thing
i wont be hard to miss

stop and ask for change

bring some beer too
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[romeo tango]

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apparently i have been underestimating the risks associated with walking through the campground

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[ex-powderbroker]

i was at a pretty established crag today. my buddy who can really smell an FA says something about taking a walk and grabs his rope, anchor kit, micro trax and brushes. he comes back a while later to ask for a belay, he’d spent some time in the woods cleaning up a line. the line isn’t long but it was real - overhanging and fist to baggy fists. very cool. i really need to up my crack game at some point. i suggested Endorance for a name because of the length and this damn ewok forest we shwacked through, but i don’t think that will stick.

[criscam]

youngest getting his (Carol's) crack on at the city last wknd.

[romeo tango]

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Moon and Moffatt reflecting on the birth of british sport climbing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeqI9axxrco


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[MakersTeleMark]

One of the best decisions of my life was saving for a set of hex's, a rope, runners that I hand tied from reading books, nuts and running away on weekends with my best friend's dad and hanging out almost permanently at the gunks and cutting my chops and getting a free ride with the ramons playing from his dad's car, and an ice cream afterwards. I came home with knowledge, fitness, and a balanced perspective of what a good life could be. I was 9. And it never stopped. I led my first climb that year, a descent route, and that set the bar for the biggest smile I've ever had going forward. I don't think I got some ridgid friend and did the horizontal gunks tie off till I was 13. By then, I was confident whipping off of gunks 5.9.

[tellybele]

Gotta love how climbing sets you up for coo shit later in life! Moon's Agincourt is always a good story.

[romeo tango]

5.13 in EBs
impresses me more than
5.15 in Miuras

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[tellybele]

Tried a 13 when I got comfy on 12s, not even close and they were of similar styles....jailhouse/rifle style. WTF is even a 15? I hear ya on EBs. Got some given to me when I started and thought they were ok until I got Firés. Gave the EBs to a buddy who tried wearing them casually...what a kook!

[hutash]

My first climbing shoes were PA's before EB's were around. The step up to EB's was life changing. Sticky rubber is several notches above that.

[Angle Parking]

youngest getting his (Carol's) crack on at the city last wknd.

Well done dad (and kiddo).

[romeo tango]

defying gravity
Minnihaha
Spokane
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[yeahman]

Crazy rockslide off Hallett Peak in RMNP yesterday. Probably affect a lot of the bouldering in Chaos Canyon but who knows.

https://www.tetongravity.com/story/n...wovJQ7ZYejQmvc