stillcrankin

This, too, is only on a boulder....

Mr Mo Sir, You are truely a man of the world.

60' long, 4" wide at bottom, overhanging, spanky.......

Dick, can that really be you out there in cyber land?? Glad to see the old dog has a little bite left.

High volume output. Lasts longer. Be proud.

Depends on where you're going.

MisterMo Sir, That looks very much like Al Givler's backside, hammer and all. I was just looking for my picture of Timson in very much the same position with very much the same gear in, probably, very much the same year...

Title pretty much says it all. Email me and identify... dwh_96161@yahoo.com

Do I owe you money? Did I get your sister pregnant? Where's Index? If the answer to the above questions is no or don't know, email me at dwh_96161@yahoo.com

Don Heller took his crampons off at the top of Asgard Pass after his and Cal Folsom's ascent of something on Dragontail. He must not have realized how icy it was. He slipped and fell a thousand feet or so down the pass, going over hummocks and small cliffs in the process, until he finally stopped. He then stood up, stuck his ice axe in the snow, and ran another thousand or so feet down the pass before he sat down and died. A tragic end to a good friend and longtime climbing partner. I still miss him and think of him often.

Lee Vining canyon yesterday, Feb 26th (see attachment). Temps in shade-mid 20's. Temps in sun-sweating. Typical California...

Went up on COD quite some time ago. Mid 70's actually. Made it to a tree/bush on the first pitch. When I herfed on a branch, ants started to pour down my arm. Thousands. I was in a fairly precarious position and it took me a minute or so to pull up enough rope to rap down. By the time I started down I was covered head to foot. Kind of freaky. They were pouring down the rope after me. Had something similar happen to me on the left side of the Slack. Maybe it was just offwitdths. Maybe the ants were trying to tell me I was in the wrong place.

Carolyn, Have you ever read the six words at the bottom of your posts?

Jacks Canyon is a very cool place-fun climbing. The canyon itself used to be an Indian migration route and if you hike up or down the canyon, a few miles beyond the climbing, you can find pictoglyphs and petroglyphs that are very well hidden. A friend found a quartz (chert) arrowhead near one of the climbs. The camping is good when there aren't a bunch of people around. I've been there when it was empty and when there were at least 30 cars. We had our sun-shower freeze solid one spring during a snowstorm while camped there. Don't break down near the prison...

Try this site for the video... OUCH! http://www.ebaumsworld.com/emovies.shtml

Tioga opened on Friday the 14th. I was up there on Sunday and it looked like they could have opened it a month earlier. There's very little snow but there were backcountry skiers lining the road- inside and outside the park entrance. There were tons of tracks above Ellery. I saw cars parked at the Westcrack parking lot. Bouldering at the lake was dry and GOOD. Great time to be up there except that a storm seems to be heading in right now.

Nice video!! There are some cool videos at the Petzl website, also.

Just got back to where I live (Tahoe) a few hours ago, from Bishop, where I spent the last week. I'm looking out my window at the lake and am seeing whitecaps. It snowed from just North of Bishop all the way up 395 to Walker. Even with the weather funky in Bishop we were able to clip bolts in "The Gorge" and boulder just about anywhere we wanted every day. We had to stick to the sunny spots when the wind was up but were still able to climb in tanktops and shorts. Got to try out my new Franklin Mondo pad. Sucker is 6" thick and BIG. It can do anything this time of year. Typically around here (Tahoe) in May, it's beautiful. There will still be snow at Donner Summit but it's been a low snow Spring so things should be dry. Sugarloaf is several thousand feet lower then Tahoe and is typically warm even when it's cold at the lake. May in Bishop can sometimes be way too hot. Pick up the Gorge guide which mentions several campgrounds. Plan on good weather and having fun...

That plaque was installed on a ledge near the top of the second pitch of the Becky route by myself and several friends in 1971. The plaque was a memorial to our friend, Marc Emerson, who died trying to free the "Northwinds" route on Castle rock in 1970. Instead of tying in directly to his harness (1" webbing wrapped several times around his waist) he had clipped a biner to his harness and clipped into that with a figure 8 knot which came unclipped after he had fallen and was being lowered past an overhang. He fell 120' to the ground. He was (we were) 16 years old at the time. Of all of us that later became dirtbag derelict climbers of the 70's venturing around the world persuing our climbing needs, Marc was by far the most normal with the brightest future ahead of him. Let this be a lesson about knot safety and rope management. Although I came extremely close many times in the next 30 years of climbing, to dying an ignominious death in the mountains, I never forgot the lesson about tying in directly to my harness.