Oldest kid just home from college where they ran the climbing wall… so we re-rigged for a family climbing night in our living room…
Attachment 459095
Attachment 459092
Attachment 459093
Attachment 459094
Printable View
Oldest kid just home from college where they ran the climbing wall… so we re-rigged for a family climbing night in our living room…
Attachment 459095
Attachment 459092
Attachment 459093
Attachment 459094
Sweet! Nothing like a little buildering.
I actually took the worst groundfall of my climbing career buildering. Happened at 2 a.m. in downtown Missoula...nuff said. [emoji1]
Sent from my SM-A536V using Tapatalk
Now you need some gym holds on the overhanging ceiling....
Funny how common that is.....;)Quote:
Originally Posted by yeahman
Was that the corner behind the old top hat?Quote:
Originally Posted by yeahman
No, it was the front of what used to be Connie's. There was a wall of protruding rocks. Climbed the rocks to the roof but slipped when I grabbed the metal flashing. Fell and splatted on the sidewalk. Big crowd of closing-time revelers were hanging around so I had to act like it was no big deal. Rode my bike home and passed out. Woke up a few hours later with a throbbing wrist and went to the St. Pat's ER. Turned out my wrist was broken.Quote:
Originally Posted by tellybele
Sent from my SM-A536V using Tapatalk
.
Connie's ....
haven't heard that place mentioned
in decades
.
Late '80s were the Golden Years in Missoula. And when sport climbing caught on we were the first crew with a Bosch to be bolting up all the prime lines.Quote:
Originally Posted by romeo tango
Supercrack is a perfect hand jam for me. So fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by andy m
You must have pretty big hands -- I have large hands, and I had to do cupped hand jams most of the way, and I had to torque my jams some of the time, especially when placing pro. My tape didn't go high enough on one wrist, and I have a scar on that wrist from torquing the wrist against the edge of the crack. Afterwards, I led Incredible Hand Crack (a perfect hand jam for me), and it felt like 5.8 in comparison to Luxury Liner.
Yeah so incredible hand crack, I can get all 4 fingers and half my palm in, but none of my thumb, so it’s like weird off fingers for me. I think the flair through the horizontal section was actually the easiest, cuz I could actually almost get my thumb in there. Or at least once it was a little flared I felt better.Quote:
Originally Posted by andy m
all hell is about to break loose with blackflies so i got a last day in to get spanked on this and send something clean i’d been looking to for awhile.
Attachment 459495
Attachment 459496
Attachment 459497
perfect temps, birdsong, and a breeze. so good.
.Quote:
Originally Posted by ex-powderbroker
nice run out
.
it’s easy until those bolts on the slab and then wildly insecure. i’ve done it clean in the past but you add a few degrees under the sun and it feels impossible, fell like five times
out of tolerance, 11a, mont rigaud.
Attachment 460805
basically the moves after clipping the last bolt are quite insecure and somewhat intimidating. you have to move off the arete to some garbage crimps on poor feet, and anyway, i was not feeling it so i pulled the rope to set up a tr.
on top, that would have meant jumping to this detached pillar and it was very loose up there and definitely sketchy in shoes forget sandals.
so i said fuck it, i can try one more, and if i can’t do it i’ll stick clip my way up or something. i’d never even put a real try together and just grabbed the draw. but on this attempt, i just convinced myself that it was all there, and if i moved quick it would not be a problem, and there i was at the top.
not my hardest send or anything but a cherry on top of a great day with good company.
We spent a week in foppiano. Fun area. Beautiful place to stay for free.
Toilets in the boulder!
Nice gneiss. And cool problems.
I loved the compression fridge for V7/8
The dyno was super fun but easy. V1? V2?Attachment 460832Attachment 460833Attachment 460834Attachment 460835Attachment 460836
that’s a weird place for a toilet!
It's not boulder people oriented. It's a local picnic area basically.Quote:
Originally Posted by ex-powderbroker
Annual spring trip to the city w a few fams….
Attachment 460911
Attachment 460912
Attachment 460913
Attachment 460914
Attachment 460915
Sent from my iPhone using TGR Forums
LOVE the city stoke. fuck dude. I'm so jealous.
Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk
Did you get to Theater of Shadows?Quote:
Originally Posted by criscam
did not. between trying to get 7 kids and 9 adults on the rock and the possibility of pm storms it wasn't in the cards.Quote:
Originally Posted by zion zig zag
Enjoying the pics of the big slabbage at the City.
Spent a ton of time there for about a five year stretch in the 90's.
Access was always a little hit or miss.
Blazin hot in high summer too. FKNA, many siestas in a sweltering shady spot.
I got about halfway up an 11c once to retrieve a favored piece, but it was a whipper waiting to happen and I was petrified for the last move.
Always loved camping down by the Sisters zone, away from traffic.
Don't have any pics but great day at Rumney rocking out on 5.7-5.9 in Northwest territories and buffalo pit. The slabby/crack goodness on this guy is just a fucking joy:
https://www.mountainproject.com/rout...nesome-buffalo
You can just dial in how hard you want it to be by which part of the slab/which hands you use.
didn’t get out this weekend, i am jealous
Have you been to Merriam Woods? It sounds like the new place to clip bolts somewhat more removed from the crowds than at Rumney.
One of these days I have to do a NH trip