Tooth Count

[MervGriffin]

Yes Merv, sounds like he was as traumatized as you!

 

No. I didn't get that impression at all.

 

By the way, have you thought of my offer for filming rights? You went strangely and unusually silent...

 

No, I haven't thought much of your "offer", because I dismissed it as one of the lamest things I've ever read on this web-site.

 

Oh, and how's City Park going? You've been spotted aiding your way up the thing again....

 

Is that so? Haven't been on it this year....wasn't on it last year....or was it the year before? I don't really remember, but I do love that route so maybe I'll blast up there later this Fall. Maybe you can watch and learn? I'll teach you how to avoid or skip bolts. Or are you one of these people who saw an apparition of me up there soloing everytime you walked under the wall during the early '90's?

 

[AlpineK]

I know the truth is embarassing Don.

 

Speaking of which I hear one of the two things you climb now-a-days is der Toof. How many times have you climbed it.

[Lambone]

Kurt, you get my vote for being the biggest macho-egotistical gorrilla brained fat ass hasbeen wanna-be climber asshole on this web site. Congratulations.

[chucK]

How many times have you climbed it.

 

Hear hear!!! This thread is about how many times you've climbed the Tooth this year, and associated stories. Let's keep this discussion on track.

[Lambone]

once two years ago

 

took a friend from Chicago up it as his first multi pitch and first "Alpine" climb. I had alot of fun on the climb, not hard obviously, but enjoyable.

[AlpineK]

If you're interested in what I've been doing recently Lambone look at the BC section.

 

I haven't climbed der toof since '81 if memory serves me right.

[Alpinfox]

Lambone, you have been a real jackass lately. Why don't you go climb something and post a TR and quit spewing shit all over this website.

 

Sorry you have to put up with this trash in yer nice little toof thread Chuck.

 

I've climbed duh toof 5 times ( once in winter via NE face <-click ) and got shut down on it once (S face in winter).

 

I like Da Toof.

[ScottP]

This year none.

Total is 10. Six with partners and 4 solo.

It is a nice, quick fix and a good workout.

I don't quite get the "choss" designation though.

[chucK]

Time for a Tooth Count of a different sort...

 

I went up there the other day and spied no less than SIX (yes six) fixed cams. Plus one fixed tri-cam and one fixed nut.

 

Unprecedented I say!

 

Man are they jammed in there too.

[Mos_Chillin]

Time for a Tooth Count of a different sort...

 

[still_climbin]

When I was there in June I saw three fixed cams within a few inches of each other in the same crack. It was on a mid-face direct line on the last pitch.

[Alpinfox]

 

four and a half plus one solo?

 

I've got him beat.

[plexus]

Please somebody explain to me how somebody gets a cam stuck on the Tooth?! Why does one even need cams on the Tooth?! I must admit though I did loose a curved nut on that climb, have no idea how it didn't come out. My partner tried it and couldn't get it out and I tried to free it for 15 minutes when we were downclimbing/rappelling. It was like the rock somehow shrunk after it was placed. To this day, that is the only piece of gear I ever got "fixed".

[ScottP]

About 20 years ago I climbed Princely Ambitions using a rack of nuts and hexes. The flake section (below where the big block was) on the first pitch was in the sun when I placed the hexes. After I finished the pitch, the flake was in shade. My partner couldn't get the gear out. Being a beginner, I figured he just didn't know how. On rappel, I sweated and cursed, but the hexes wouldn't budge. It took a trip to the truck to get a hammer and a relead of the pitch to finally get my gear out of the flake. There was definately some change in crack dimension during my lead that day.