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08-02-2020, 09:41 AM #801
Got out and climbed the diamond on Long's Peak 3 weeks ago. First time up the casual route and, despite the massive traffic jam (on a Tuesday), it was one of my favorite climbs of all time. We soloed up the north chimney to broadway and then enjoyed every move all the way up the casual route. The lead group was riding the struggle bus, flailing on every pitch, so we were waiting 30 minutes at every belay. Ended up being a dark to dark 17 hour day.
Photos (sorry about the tiny, low res photos, blame the tapatalk app): sunrise at chasm view, alpenglow from chasm lake, soloing 5.4, 5.7 traverse pitch, looking down our 4th pitch (5.8 dihedral)
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08-02-2020, 11:13 AM #802
fkna stunning!
j'ai des grands instants de lucididididididididi
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08-02-2020, 03:57 PM #803
Awesome!!
It sucks to suck.
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08-03-2020, 05:15 PM #804
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08-03-2020, 06:10 PM #805
Very nice, that looks thin.
Great pics, always wanted to do the Casual Route but never got around to it. Read today that some guy died up there (yesterday?), slipped and fell off Broadway while third classing to the base of the route. Damn. It's that unroped shit that will get you. Approaches and descents. Anyway, nice work, congrats.
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08-08-2020, 08:34 AM #806
Climbing Stoke
i took a shot of this group heading to the top of the l’aiguillé yesterday. i had met them an hour before, a very good climber was taking up his two baby climber friends for the sunset. the route they chose is a wide chimney (that looks incredibly committing to me at 5.2) to this 5.5ish slab that takes a .75 over the course of thirty or so feet. Last time i went up there i was puckered but they topped out with a 12 pack of brews just before sunset with plans just to enjoy the air for a few hours. Watching their high fives at the top was one of the raddest things i’ve seen in awhile.
ah damn. didn’t realize i was around the corner of the FFA of zébrée. 4th ascent, among the hardest trad lines in the east (world?). this girl is so tough:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDnBg4mj...=1si83qzt5kbifj'ai des grands instants de lucididididididididi
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08-15-2020, 06:38 PM #807
MIL gets on a rope for the first time at 72 in shawinigan
climbed Michael Ward (5.8 in val david) yesterday. it was named after the hillary team doctor who made the first ascent while working in montreal. did not find any of his old pitons rumored to be en route but the view from the top is probably almost as good as the early 60’s:
what will tomorrow bring?j'ai des grands instants de lucididididididididi
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08-22-2020, 06:55 PM #808
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08-24-2020, 11:24 AM #809pura vida
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08-28-2020, 11:55 AM #810
We took a break from surfing and cruised some mellow perfect sandstone here in Ireland. And I made some FAs (probably not because the guide is 7 years old).
1 traverses the sloper lip. SD from good ledge. Then to the lip and left. 6A+/B ish.
2. Straight from crimps via good crack. into the lip traverse. Adds another 6A single move. 6B+?
And 3 is kinda hard. Traverse below lip on small slopey crimps. Without juggy crack from 2. Same start as 2. Probably 7Aish. Couldn't do it. Tomorrow.
Pics.
Wife in a 5 arete.
Me in the 6A wall.
FA (??) shield.
It's a war of the mind and we're armed to the teeth.
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09-07-2020, 05:58 PM #811
The Le Conte boulder, also known as the House Keeping boulder, is in Yosemite Valley, California. For more than a decade, I'd been trying to figure out the proudest, tallest line on the block, with no luck.
One day, I was playing with my sister Jenny's kids, Cyrus and Dahlia, in the forest amongst the rocks. They were acting all whacky, wild and uninhibited, jumping and bouncing around from rock to rock and scampering up trees. I had been trying this sick line on the boulder but never figured out the crux move in all the years before. Somehow the kids, 'anything is possible' energy drifted into me. I stood before the starting bucket giggling. I was loose and moved my body in a different way than ever before. To my amazement, I stuck the crux with my nine-year-old nephew and my 7-year-old niece spotting me. I jumped down, careful not to squish them and finally believed I would send this lifetime project within my next few efforts.
King Air is one of the most obvious boulder problems around. For years I tried the problem alone, somehow keeping it completely secret. My bro, Ivo Ninov and I worked on it together. We kept our efforts stealth by washing off the chalk with water before leaving for the night. For years, I doubt anyone else ever seriously looked at the bold line as it was too high and there wasn't any chalk to lead them. Ivos enthusiasm literally lifted me higher and higher. On every serious attempt he spotted me, making sure that at least I wouldn't split my melon.
This is the proudest highball boulder problem I know of in the Valley. The business scales over 30 feet to the final bucket. Its on the verge of being a free solo. When I fell my feet traveled 20 feet before impacting the pads. I was lucky not to shatter bones. My quads were very sore and I limped around for the next few days. King Air is the most beautiful boulder problem Ive ever done. You would be hard pressed to find any line, more aesthetic.
~Dean Potter
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09-14-2020, 02:43 PM #812
First chimney for the little man...
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09-14-2020, 03:24 PM #813
Sick! I still haven't gotten Sam out climbing, besides scrambling anyway. It doesn't help that he never shows interest and poo-poos the idea whenever I bring it up.
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09-14-2020, 03:31 PM #814
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09-15-2020, 11:17 PM #815
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09-17-2020, 09:17 AM #816
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09-17-2020, 05:32 PM #817
^^That's a cool pic. Where is it?
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09-18-2020, 01:42 PM #818
the whole area is like banff without the people:
https://www.mountainproject.com/area...iviere-malbaiej'ai des grands instants de lucididididididididi
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09-18-2020, 02:46 PM #819
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09-18-2020, 05:39 PM #820
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09-19-2020, 01:38 PM #821
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09-21-2020, 10:31 AM #822
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09-21-2020, 12:00 PM #823Registered User
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Climbing Stoke
You guys are amazing. You have posted such great pictures.
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09-27-2020, 02:11 AM #824Registered User
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Summer in the alps
was not here on the board all summer but was climbing a lot. So here some stoke from the alpine season: easy classics across the dolomites and some climbing in Switzerland.
Grilfriend and I in front of Tre Cime (climbed Cima Grande with a friend the next day)
Cadini Group (short climb before the thunderstorm)
same climb.
Sass da Stria South Arête
Torri di Sella
"Daumenkante" in the Sassolungo Group. Guided a Group from the alpine club. Very nice and very exposed climbing.
Torri di Sella once more.
Furkapass
Furkapass - Gross Bielenhorn, Arête.
View of the 4000m-peaks of Valais from Wiwanni-Hut
Furkapass
Bietschhorn seen from Wiwannihorn
sorry for the bulk of pictures...Last edited by LeoK; 09-27-2020 at 02:14 AM. Reason: more info
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09-27-2020, 07:41 PM #825Registered User
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