TGR's Summer Climbing Thread

[juicy]

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Did that climb a couple weeks ago. I was going to eventually post the pics, but looks like you beat me to it. I think I have almost the exact same pic of my second pulling the crux.

yep......right at the crux. pretty nice granite on those upper pitches.

[TeleAl]

mmmm limestone - me love limestone

We got some 2 miles wide of it going some 500 feet up in my town.
Come on over. Cell Block A awaits you.

25 minutes to the rock from my door, 10 minutes to get back.

BTW, nice pics from your TR!!!

[Xover]

25 minutes to the rock from my door, 10 minutes to get back.

now that sounds like a steep ass trail

[Trackhead]

We all have our nemesis. This is mine.

Only got one lap on it today. Rained out again. Need to come back and work on it this fall, after building some power for the beast.

Route follows arch to the right.

[Camilo]

Your climbs are weak! Here's some quality PDX climbing. Can't be led except by free solo (no gear, no bolt ethic at this crag). Free solo wasn't an option because the landlord (girlfriend's dad) would probably shoot me. He climbed it too though.
First one is FTRA (First top rope ascent) of a 5.5 route by my girlfriend:

Me, same route, second ascent:
FTRA of 5.8 route by me, right before the crux:

[Trackhead]

Looks like you could put a #2 or #3 camalot in those brick horizontals.

[Camilo]

Tried a #2. Too shallow. Tricams might work, but I only have pink and red. Plus those bricks are about 70 years old. A lead fall on one would crack it in half. We had to belay from the top because we couldn't build a solid TR anchor on the bricks. Fun 2 hours when I couldn't get out to climb real rock though. I'll take the camera next time I'm climbing so I can contribute some real climbing shots.

[Trackhead]

How about a little BigBro? Not that it matters.

[Camilo]

Maybe. I don't have any BigBros to test it with. I've never even seen Big Bros placed horizontally like that. I think a tricam would be best. Not that it matters

[TeleAl]

now that sounds like a steep ass trail

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Tour d'Ai. Leysin, Suisse. Altitude = just above tree line.
250+ routes.
4 pitches high.
All protected and ready to climb.

The part in the middle, creating the shadow is called the Sphinx.
It's famous in these parts.

The wall in the background, above Nadia's head is more of the same.
It's call the Diamond, on the Tour de Mayen.

25 minutes up = with lift, bike hanging on hook, then hiking over.
10 minutes down = on bike, following farmers' road.

All limestone.

[Xover]

so Trackhead, when do you want to go ^ for some Euro, pocket love??

that place looks seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeick!!

[TeleAl]

More Limestone! Location = Col du Pillon/Glacier 3000. Altitude = 1896m.
After staring at this wall for years, I finally got there today.
Did not climb, it started to rain.
But, what a space!
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[DJMingus]

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Tour d'Ai. Leysin, Suisse. Altitude = just above tree line.
250+ routes.
4 pitches high.
All protected and ready to climb.

The part in the middle, creating the shadow is called the Sphinx.
It's famous in these parts.

The wall in the background, above Nadia's head is more of the same.
It's call the Diamond, on the Tour de Mayen.

25 minutes up = with lift, bike hanging on hook, then hiking over.
10 minutes down = on bike, following farmers' road.

All limestone.

<3 limestone... finally going to get out on some granite sport this weekend after many weeks of minimal climbing. &*%$ing heat!

[Trackhead]

My brother is now getting his oldest child out on the plastic. She'll be climbing 13a by the time she's 10.

[vanilla gorilla]

the full trip report

stayed at a resort this weekend that had a zip line and a climbing wall. zip line was on a 75 foot tower and up on top of a 100 foot bluff overlooking pelican lake. the zip line ran from the tower down to the public beach. 6 year old emily was pretty enthusiastic and went down it without any hesitation.

then emily hit the climbing wall. she had never climbed anything more than a tree. she slapped on the helmet and harness and nervously said "on belay". then she cruised up the wall with style and grace. she made all of the adult first timers look like idiots. she hit a few tough spots but did some problem solving and continued the ascent. there were some spots i thought she would fall off. but she made some pretty cool moves and picked good lines. she never let go of the wall until she hit the top. it is amazing how much natural ability/instinct she has for it. she really did look graceful and skilled going up the wall. the workers on belay thought she had to have been on a wall before.

she went up a few times then wanted to hit the wall with a little overhang. she did well on that until the gaps between holds got too big for her little body. making it about half way up.

then 4 year old eli gave it a shot. he did pretty well until he got to about 8 feet up the wall. he got down and looked up the wall. he asked "did i almost make it to the top dad?". his voice sounded as if he really believed he made it that high. had to tell him "you sure did buddy".

fun stuff after one of the most stressful weeks of my life.

thanks for posting that TH. i am too computer stupid to get pics to work. those pics were too cute not to share. kids make you proud too. she is looking forward to trip to moab. she is ready to school you

[Red Baron]

LCC climbers, check out this note that just came through on a canyoneering forum, scary stuff...

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I had to chime in here with another rock fall story from climbing
recently.

I was climbing Satans corner a couple of weeks ago up LCC. A party on
a variation of Beckys Wall (right around the corner from our route)
kept pulling down small rocks. Well, then we heard a very stressed
ROCK! From the top of Satans I witnessed 2 rocks about the size of
footballs bounce off the cliff and narrowly miss Penny's head by 6-12
inches. She was not climbing that day, but was hanging out at the
belay in an area we thought would be out of rockfall danger while Jim
and I climbed Satans.

The belayer of the other group had apparently been hit in the shin by
the granite boulder on the way down, then it had broken into 2 larger
pieces and a smaller piece and continued down the cliff. We rapped off
after my second got to the top of the first pitch to see if we could
help.

The belayer had 2 wounds probably to the bone, lot's of blood, and
what might possibly have been a broken leg. He and his partner
self-evacuated. Neither had

been wearing helmets.

Scary stuff, and a sobering reminder of rockfall danger. Be careful.
Wear your helmet.

[hucksquaw]

climbing in Switzerland:

summit of the Dom:


me on summit of Dom, took the picture of myself because camera was freezing up so i only had a couple quick seconds to shoot whatever i could:


me on way down from Dufourspitze(in background):


Monte Rosa hut with Lyskamm in background:


taking a quick break near 4000m on Dufourspitze:

[hucksquaw]

more from Switzerland....

tracks towards Dufourspitze summit:


view down Gornergletscher from Monte Rosa hut:


resupply chopper at Monte Rosa hut:


Weisshorn, which was actually supposed to be our second target after Dufourspitze but when we were there the route became way too dangerous because of the 3-5 feet of snow they got in just a couple days, so we headed to the Dom instead:


Dom on left (with cloud coming off summit) and Taschorn on right:

[Trackhead]

Great pics^^^^^!!!

[Mountain Freak]

This is just ugly

Nice shots, absolutely beautiful area.

[ak_powder_monkey]

more from Switzerland....

tracks towards Dufourspitze summit:

hold on thats the summer! FKNA where are the skis?

[greg]

skiing on slightly and freshly covered glaciers - not so cool, akpm.

awesome pictures hucksquaw and beautiful hike.. when was that?

[hucksquaw]

when was that?

just a couple weeks ago.

[hucksquaw]

hold on thats the summer! FKNA where are the skis?

ya its summer, we got 3 ft when we were there which made climbing postholing hell and which made avy dangers fairly high, but skiing that was out of the question anyway (even if you did want to carry all the extra weight). that pic is of a very mellow section of the climb where we took a break, the rest of the climb is considerably steeper and more technical, not to mention the HEAVILY crevassed area that we had to navigate not long before i took that pic, with snow bridges that were sketchy as fuck, to say the least, because of the new snow.

[powstash]

yo, this is supposed to be the SUMMER climbing thread.

- nice pics! -