Climbing Stoke

[brice618]

where is bear creek?

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Be...92f09f11?hl=en

http://www.mountainproject.com/v/bear-creek-spire/105806064

[zion zig zag]

It's been a long time from climbing for me. This is from my last major route, a run up Crestone Needle with a couple of guys who'd never done a technical 14'er. Miss it.

Here's my postcard photo of bear creek. Certainly one of the best pieces of granite man can find.



Summit is tiny and beautifully exposed. Gives you that first buzz feeling of air under your ass, first beer / cigarette.

That first pic is everything I love about climbing. Long, exposed, alpine moderates.
Bear Creek looks a lot like Wind Rivers granite.

[brice618]

That first pic is everything I love about climbing. Long, exposed, alpine moderates.
Bear Creek looks a lot like Wind Rivers granite.

Amen to that. I'd climb 5.6 all day long. I'd say it is a lot like the Wind River. I haven't done much there beside get eaten by mosquitos though.

Favorite granite:

Organ Mountains - New Mexico
Cochise Stronghold - AZ
Eastern Sierras - CA
Quartz Mountain - OK (That's right, Oklahoma. Seriously some of the best, and scariest rock you'll ever climb).
South Platte - CO

Just about covers all of it I guess short of Squamish, but it was really slimy when I went there.

[Slow 'n Steady]

^^^man there is a ton more amazing granite out there. Glad you did not mention my favorite spots in WA, ID, CA, BC...they're already crowded enough!

On another note, I'm generally opposed to new sub-forums here and am happy with the current climbing stoke. But since Dunfee seems intent on finding a subject he can create a sub-forum around, here are my thoughts:

1) other climbing forums out there right now do kinda suck. I used to hang out at cc.com and ST, but stopped when they both took nosedives, maybe around 2007ish? I think I've decided I generally don't like climbers who don't ski. I would hate for a climbing-centric component of this forum to start sucking as well.

2) a "climbing" sub forum here maybe should be more geared to technical mountain travel (for lack of a better term)? That could include cragging, alpine climbing, ski-mo, etc. I can't see how it would possibly work being lumped in with camping/hiking/backpacking? Those categories maybe look similar to nonclimbers? I do all of those things, but they don't fit together in my mind any more than skiing and camping, or biking and hiking. Just doesn't make sense to me.

[powdork]

If you are going to do a climbing sub forum don't combine it with hiking/camping/backpacking.

agreed. it would be better suited paired with mountain biking since that is another summer past time for gravity junkies. the mountain biking forum seems to do okay on its own though and i bet climbing would too.
one of the big problems (imo) with supertopo is that they won't segregate their forums so it's like if all we had was skiing/snowboarding and all the polyass was right there in it.

back to the stoke. coming back from kirkwood i never noticed this rock until i started climbing. after i started i noticed it every time high up on the west flank of waterhouse peak
view from the hike in (yesterday). i set up an anchor and planned on soloing it but wasn't happy with a single prusik for protection.


went back today with hutchski and here she is

[philth]

Nylon or dyneema?

Hahaa exactly. The tech weenie gear queers on climbing forums make this place look normal. You will get 100 pages of debate on a 2 bolt anchor setup.

[ex-powderbroker]

I look at the gs on MP and it's like people think their broken cams should cost more because of sentimental value. I don't know what it is, I love climbing, climbing photos, and books on climbing.... But climbers on the internet are just the worse.

Maybe this place could succeed in keeping it fun because the arguing and dick waving is pretty unbearable elsewhere (and worse than skiing).

[adrenalated]

I haven't climbed in awhile, but I'd like a climbing forum. Kinda ambivalent on combining it with hiking/backpacking - not sure if there's traffic for separate ones, but the sports have little in common much of the time.

Summits and hook up just need to be axed, nobody ever uses them anymore.

[lynchdogger]

I think a climbing forum would be perfect . . . It will be the only forum free of Rawg aka mr brownstone because that stupid jackass is too ADD to climb ... thank goodness. Bring it on. I'll show up.
Great pics all.

[ex-powderbroker]

Summits and Hookups are pretty useless, agreed.

Here's a bit of stoke to go with my complaining, a 700 foot slab by a lake in the Adirondacks:



on top of another two-pitcher in the ADK:



Spring in the Gunks:



Hoping to add some fall color soon too.

[Boissal]

+1 on a choss-centric forum, I for one would happily share some stoke on here instead of the proj. I appreciate the database section of that site but would love to see the forums go away. The average user has the sensitivity of an overweight teenage girl forced to go to the pool and opinions strong enough to put bolts in. The moderation has been getting heavier this last year and some mods are extremely trigger happy about following "guideline #1"...

A few oldies, I hope we don't plan on discriminating against bouldering/sport/ice?

[NoPostholio]

While up on Hood a couple weeks ago, I was thinking about a few trip reports in the past with people skiing up to illumination rock and climbing what is essentially a semi solid pile of scree and dirt -


I never had a problem with the runout 5.12 on trad gear in the gunks, but I wouldn't climb Illum rock with a gun to my head. This is good trip report from such a mission.

http://mountainlessons.com/rock-climbing/climbing-illumination-rock

[Boissal]

A few more for the sake of spraying....

[powdork]

^sweet pics

[hutash]

Plus we can have a forum where Benny can't quote a NYT article, Hugh can't google a place to brag about how much he doesn't know about it and Spook can't bitch about why the women are being repressed. They can't bitch if they don't understand the game.

Do you seriously think that would stop them?