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#503228 - 10/01/05 11:58 PM
[TR] Castle Peak- FA: Sod-On-Me III 5.10+ A2 M4 9/29/2005
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sprayer
Registered: 11/27/00
Posts: 6582
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Climb: Castle Peak-FA: Sod-On-Me III 5.10+ A2 M4 Date of Climb: 9/29/2005 Trip Report: Well Darin was supposed to write the TR, but i guess he is too busy with the homelife. I'll just add my photos and let him tell the tale. The larches are turning and it was just gorgeous outside just before the storm. Darin is cool, it was very cold, we missed the storm by a hair, and it was the worst route i've ever done up top, one of the best down low. Quote of the trip from Darin, "Oh God what have I done!" after a particularly serious and irreversible moss mantle to a wet blank steep slab runout into drippy moss mushroom land. Very funny in a not so funny kinda way. Do tell the tale of stormin' the castle oh Darin, won't you!?!?       Gear Notes: rack up to 3" ice tool for moss mushroom manteling Approach Notes: prettiest damn trail in the world
Edited by michael_layton (10/02/05 12:10 AM)
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#503229 - 10/02/05 12:24 AM
Re: [TR] Castle Peak- FA: Sod-On-Me III 5.10+ A2 M4 9/29/2005
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old hand
Registered: 03/16/02
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Cool, a blank wet slab... how fun...
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#503230 - 10/02/05 09:22 PM
Re: [TR] Castle Peak- FA: Sod-On-Me III 5.10+ A2 M4 9/29/2005
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addicted to cc.com
Registered: 05/20/01
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"m" stands for moss in the cascades.
referring to the topo in the gallery, what's with the buttress between the cod and beckey routes?
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#503231 - 10/02/05 10:29 PM
Re: [TR] Castle Peak- FA: Sod-On-Me III 5.10+ A2 M4 9/29/2005
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spray'prentice
Registered: 02/13/02
Posts: 2722
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sod on is certainly confusing and I've spent some time now trying to decipher it. "Sod" as abbreviation of "sodomoize" carries with it the operative case which negates the need for the preposition on, unless it was others who were comitting the act on top of you, which might be construed by some as even more disturbing  but I think the real suggestion here is one of coprophilia, of that Hitler-esque fondness for the wet and brown slowly spreading down all over you like chocolate ice cream all over your head on a hot day in Brooklyn. Oh, so sticky! But the daring, illicit connotation suggested by "sod" invokes far more violence and unwilling participation than "Shit-on-Me" ever could  Well done, I think you should get in touch with the OED folks and get credit for a new definition 
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#503233 - 10/02/05 11:51 PM
Re: [TR] Castle Peak- FA: Sod-On-Me III 5.10+ A2 M4 9/29/2005
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sprayer
Registered: 11/27/00
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darin put these in the gallery sodonme-nw butt  me on 1st pitch ****5.10+ super sweet but hard!  Me on sod pitch two M4. note the climbing in full belay jacket and sod-cicles. don't stand on the mosshrooms too long, and bring yer tool. there is one possible way to advoid this, but it looked scary hard so i pussed out this way...and we got punished for it. other way looked like steep aid seam land, or offwidth overhang land. whatever, it's all climbing brah!  darin's nice topo 
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#503234 - 10/03/05 07:56 AM
Re: [TR] Castle Peak- FA: Sod-On-Me III 5.10+ A2 M
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Registered: 10/02/02
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#503235 - 10/03/05 10:08 AM
Re: [TR] Castle Peak- FA: Sod-On-Me III 5.10+ A2 M
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Sick Spray Bird
Registered: 02/08/01
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Man, Beckey told me there were 6 routes on this face... I bet it was a scam cause he wanted to go to the Bugs. Oh well, see what the new guidebook says I guess.
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#503237 - 10/05/05 06:34 PM
Re: [TR] Castle Peak- FA: Sod-On-Me III 5.10+ A2 M4 9/29/2005
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spray'prentice
Registered: 02/13/02
Posts: 2722
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#503238 - 10/05/05 07:34 PM
Re: [TR] Castle Peak- FA: Sod-On-Me III 5.10+ A2 M4 9/29/2005
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sprayer
Registered: 11/27/00
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#503239 - 10/07/05 01:32 PM
Re: [TR] Castle Peak- FA: Sod-On-Me III 5.10+ A2 M4 9/29/2005
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 07/01/04
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And then you wake up the next morning...well, that`s another story.
Ah yes thats coyote arm, I've caught that a couple of times 
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#503240 - 10/07/05 05:19 PM
Re: [TR] Castle Peak- FA: Sod-On-Me III 5.10+ A2 M4 9/29/2005
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Spray Master
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#503241 - 10/07/05 07:40 PM
Re: [TR] Castle Peak- FA: Sod-On-Me III 5.10+ A2 M4 9/29/2005
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enthusiast
Registered: 07/15/04
Posts: 239
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Loc: Toronto, Ontario
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Could you say, then, that you Sod-On Eyesed? 
  I think you`re onto something. Maybe a new route name?
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#503242 - 10/07/05 08:39 PM
Re: [TR] Castle Peak- FA: Sod-On-Me III 5.10+ A2 M4 9/29/2005
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Spray Master
Registered: 02/26/01
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It`s funny how when looking up on a route from below it looks great because you have the "sod goggles" on and can`t see all the yucky vegetation. It`s not until you look down on the route that you realize it`s not so hot.
I've observed the opposite phenomenon on lower elevation routes.
When you look up at a rock route in western Washington, you often see all the bushes that grow underneath every overhang and the rock looks like pure black death. Get up a pitch or two and look down, and it often looks like clean rock.
In Darrington, we call this the "Darrington effect." Every tiny ripple in the rock has lichen and filth on the downhill side, but not on the top surface where it gets straffed by avalanches during the winter. Fortunately for the climber, we tend to grab and stand on the uphill surfaces.
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And then you wake up the next morning...well, that`s another story. 
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