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16-Apr-2010 6:25:41 PM
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Super Crack Indian Creek?
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16-Apr-2010 6:43:13 PM
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warmish (part of the same geological feature but not indian creek) but no prize.
Its a summit not much bigger than what can be seen in the photo.
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16-Apr-2010 7:02:11 PM
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one of the fisher towers?
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16-Apr-2010 7:11:52 PM
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Its a tower but not one of the fisher ones. Featured in one of those old books on "50 classic climbs of nth america" (or a similar title)....now thats a really big hint.
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16-Apr-2010 7:15:35 PM
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Castleton tower? x
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16-Apr-2010 7:24:23 PM
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Now that is super warm - we did castleton the day before this pic but this area is still a bit of a drive from castleton.
I'll see if anyone gets closer but if not i may give it to you....
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16-Apr-2010 8:02:07 PM
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sorry only realised the "50 classic climbs" was a red herring as it didnt appear in THAt book but another similar one
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16-Apr-2010 9:56:51 PM
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Given the route may be seen as obscure I can't really see any point in stringing this out any longer.
It is the summit of the Moses tower in Canyonlands and we did the stellar route Primrose Dihedrals to get there. One of the most memorable climbs ive ever done and after looking at the photo I can't believe we carried mustard to garnish our lunch to the summit.
I'll never forget when 20m up a 50m clean crack pitch seeing these strange parallel grooves running all the way down the crack I was jamming in - I called to shelton only to be met with "yeh if you fall the cams never bite they just drag down the crack till they pop - its worse if its just rained"....(BTW it had just rained)
Second thing I'll never forget is that the final 5.11d offwidth pitch was meant to be bolted...but all apart from the first one just off the belay had fallen out....and belatedly coming to the realization as to why why shelton was so keen to lead the first pitch....
its all yours sara
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16-Apr-2010 11:18:23 PM
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Argh. I cheated though - I was bored and just googled that book and picked the closest one to the Fisher tower that Wendy said - looks a nice area. I also don't yet know how to shrink pics to post them on here So I will give it to Wendy if that's ok with everyone. x
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17-Apr-2010 12:02:14 AM
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On 16/04/2010 stugang wrote:
>All I could find was this - not really a climbing photo more a summit photo
>(thats a hint). It could be in the too obscure category but the area is
>pretty obvious and the climb we just did is a well known classic of the
>area.
Classic pic too. Love it.
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17-Apr-2010 4:10:50 PM
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Is that a massive squeze bottle of mustard that you dragged up there for lunch?
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17-Apr-2010 6:11:21 PM
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Yes - I take lunch very seriously
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17-Apr-2010 9:30:06 PM
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I dont have a pic
- couldnt find one on the web. Whats the route John Muir is sculling a beer while soloing? - there is a poster of it in Natimuk pub. I know itll be an easy 1 for you guys but i was just interested in the photo. Can someone post the photo if they have a copy?
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17-Apr-2010 9:55:17 PM
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It's actually Vermin Sherman hanging off a bolt on Lord Of The Rings.
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17-Apr-2010 10:08:15 PM
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This one?
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17-Apr-2010 11:45:26 PM
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Classic
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18-Apr-2010 6:20:44 AM
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On 17/04/2010 ajfclark wrote:
>This one?
Total classic.
I'd never noticed before how high his pants are and how bulky. There's a harness on under there.
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18-Apr-2010 8:23:18 AM
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I was just guessing too, based on Cate's stories of desert climbing in 2008.
But here we are, something else that Kieran will probably know straight away ...
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18-Apr-2010 12:35:17 PM
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On 18/04/2010 evanbb wrote:
>On 17/04/2010 ajfclark wrote:
>>This one?
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>Total classic.
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>I'd never noticed before how high his pants are and how bulky. There's
>a harness on under there.
Really!!?? I wouldn't have guessed Verm was hanging directly from one of the rings, but thought he was actually was sculling a Coopers in thongs soloing a grade 31...
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18-Apr-2010 12:51:07 PM
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On 18/04/2010 dalai wrote:
>Really!!?? I wouldn't have guessed Verm was hanging directly from one
>of the rings, but thought he was actually was sculling a Coopers in thongs
>soloing a grade 31...
Oh, tra la la. It's pretty obviously a fake, but I'd never bothered looking at it properly to figure out how they did it. Really only seen it the once in the Nati pub.
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