Dru Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 so I invited the infamous Luke Distelhorst aka Distel32 to come up to my local bouldering area and climb this thing I had cleaned but knew the sit start was way out of my league - the YELLOW CAVE i left work early and met Luke in Chilliwack. then we went out to the lake. on the way out many unclimbed and developed boulder fields were pointed out to the young'un who had only been in this part of Canada once before at 6AM passing thru with Polish Bob we got to the lake and hiked in to the yellow cave. the moss was wet and the boulders slippery but only a couple of pitfalls were made. climbed fat man's balls as a warm up and distel inadvertently made the finishing tips jam into a huge jug by breaking off one side of the crack cleaning and climbing. distel made quick work of the yellow cave lip traverse and the standing start to the straight-up but was beaten by the lack of footholds on the sit-start... outstanding project! i fell off the lip traverse when my heel hook made my leg cramp up and a bug flew in my ear next time i will drink more water and less coffee before bouldering. i am so dehydrated right now and this beer isnt helping when i saw i wasnt gonna get the lip today (distel named it SUPPLY AND DEMAND) i decided to scrub this other problem up a steep slab and managed to climb it in a slightly dirty state after taking a couple of lobbers into this odd pit my mat barely fit into on the way back we stopped at another area near hunter creek and made a quick sightseeing tour so distel could drool over this 5 star v10 corner thing i'm certain about 25 pictures are gonna be posted to this thread but not by me cause i only took 3 and only 1 was any good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWolfe Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 Great TR, Dru! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 Can't wait to see 20 bazillion pics of the fat man's balls and stuff! Sounds like you guys could have easily made a new movie called BC Hardcore Chronic Pebble Pumping Senders! Congrats to Distel32 on sending the YELLOW CAVE. Bham is representing! Come down the Seattle, and it is beers all around. Sweet TR, keep em coming! Seriously, this this the new Hueco? Come on dru, no secrets on this board! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelawgoddess Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 climbing ... mmm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distel32 Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 Dru's slab FA: stand start yellow cave FA: Thanks again Dru! Next week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenderfour Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 That was some cool shit. Good job Distel & Dru. I really like the pic of the four finger hang. Nice. If I'm ever in Bumfukt Canada, I'll watch someone else climb it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashw_justin Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 Let's see em again! Dru's slab FA: stand start yellow cave FA: Thanks again Dru! Next week I can't wait to try out some of dem boulder probs so Distel can me. We gotta start out on some V1 or something so I can at least actually send one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted April 29, 2004 Author Share Posted April 29, 2004 I have my own image on 0friction.com now... I am so nuskool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 those look suspiciously like jean shorts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
specialed Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 Damn those pictures look eerily familiar. Hmmm... Oh yeah, they look like every bouldering picure I've ever seen. What a strange coincidence! Furthermore, I was rather dismayed that not one of the boulder "send-meisters" was sporting the new Eldo Rifle Hoody. Its great for hanging out by your new proj, and even comes equipt with a super secret stash pocket. But how you going to send if your loached out of your gourd?!! Who knows... these crazy kids today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 What is with the insidious face on the Yellow Cave ? The Face of the Yellow Cave!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted April 29, 2004 Author Share Posted April 29, 2004 those look suspiciously like jean shorts cutoff MEC skaha pants. dude i have lots of jorts...im wearing jorts right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted April 29, 2004 Author Share Posted April 29, 2004 What is with the insidious face on the Yellow Cave ? dude's mad distel is giving him a boot to the head Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 Considering the presence of the face on the face, a more compelling name than the Yellow Cave could be invented. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracked Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 I can barely see a face. It needs to be 'enhanced' and 'visually comfortized'. Then it'll be as cool as 'dreamtime'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distel32 Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 no name until it gets sent from the sit and first ascentionist gets to name it.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stemalot Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 (edited) Nice tr, cool photos! how hard is that problem? doesn't look too bad? Edited April 29, 2004 by Stemalot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glacier Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 V3 - the '5.9+' of the bouldering world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distel32 Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 The lip traverse is probably v2/3, somewhere in there. high start to the cave is probably 4ish. One move to the crimp rail, campus match, then campus to the lip. Then 2-3 moves to mantle which includes the hardest moves of the traverse. probably v4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lummox Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 The lip traverse is probably v2/3, somewhere in there. high start to the cave is probably 4ish. One move to the crimp rail, campus match, then campus to the lip. Then 2-3 moves to mantle which includes the hardest moves of the traverse. probably v4. prolly v2+ with that beta. thanks a lot for spoiling any onsight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted April 29, 2004 Author Share Posted April 29, 2004 in the car on the way back DISTEL: "Someone registered The_Nodder as a user name at boldering.com" DRU: "... I was thinking of registering The_nodder as an 8a.nu user with scorecard actually " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracked Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 What's next? Will Dru spend next winter in Bishop? Will the Quarks be found up for sale? Will he start wearing Prana and chalkbagging ice climbers?? OMG! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted April 29, 2004 Author Share Posted April 29, 2004 dude i have been wearing prana since it came out and i went to bishop before distel even started climbing you just are not part of their target market i guess - no gorts in the catalog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracked Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 you just are not part of their target market i guess - no gorts in the catalog You're just jealous of the royalties I'll get from selling them my design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 how much did ripley's believe it or not give you for those things? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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