Dru Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 what is the most tries you have ever made on some climb before you got it? i am nearing 80 on this stupid boulder problem i can huck the dyno but i can't keep my feet on and i swing out and lose the layback EVERY SINGLE TIME i need some distel power or something so i can see the beta of someone actually doing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWolfe Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Latest Rage: A dozen tries over 2 months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drederek Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Chin up old fella someone famous said if you can do it in the first hundred tries its not that good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted June 18, 2004 Author Share Posted June 18, 2004 well only 20 to go then... considering this is like the second move off the ground that should take a whole 10 minutes more + 30 minutes tips recovery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drederek Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Ok I'll admit it took me at least 20 tries to get "rainy day women" at exit 32. But I got "hang it out to dry" in less than 10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
layton Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 I've been into the Chehalis Range 6 times w/o climbing to the top of anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuMR Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 I've lost count of how many tries on fish...sheesh...i still haven't gotten the damn thing...i give up every year, for some reason try it in the fall, get close, but don't succeed, swear it off AGAIN, repeat ad nauseum... I know its only a stupid piece of rock, but that one particular line can FUCK OFF!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothrop Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Five abortive "attempts" to climb NF Chair this past winter. Never even left town. Partner couldn't get off work, freezing levels never dropped, had to work, etc. etc. etc. Why is my timing always so bad? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracked Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 If you don't leave town, it's not an attempt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
layton Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 you can't fail until you try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted June 18, 2004 Author Share Posted June 18, 2004 "do or not do there is no try" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothrop Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 If you don't leave town, it's not an attempt. Hence the "". Good luck in your attempt to not ski Mt. Baker this weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distel32 Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 what is the most tries you have ever made on some climb before you got it? i am nearing 80 on this stupid boulder problem i can huck the dyno but i can't keep my feet on and i swing out and lose the layback EVERY SINGLE TIME i need some distel power or something so i can see the beta of someone actually doing it. Dru what problem???? one of the ones we looked at?? I'll come up and try it I don't know about the most tries, I tried Doja probably around 50-60times before I got that, easy though because it is only 2 moves. High Plains Drifter took me like 6 days to do the last move. I flashed it through the first 5 moves, then fell off the last move for at least 50 tries. Such a great feeling when I finally did it.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted June 18, 2004 Author Share Posted June 18, 2004 you know where that sloping rail warm up is at the same boulders as goldfinger? its the layback problem that faces across to the rail next to the stupid dug-out sit start cave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracked Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 If you don't leave town, it's not an attempt. Hence the "". Good luck in your attempt to not ski Mt. Baker this weekend. You're just jealous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Szyjakowski Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 about a year, with five or six encounters. oh you meant rocks. the arete on the fridge took a bunch of years... guillotine; five tries, four times landing in the bush when the blind cam placement ripped out. Twelve years of stare'n at Thin Fingers. Blew the flash at the second bulge. too slippery last night and BP and I AO'd the face but no airtime in the crack. Don't forget your pink chalkbag next time...kevbone....hah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distel32 Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 you know where that sloping rail warm up is at the same boulders as goldfinger? its the layback problem that faces across to the rail next to the stupid dug-out sit start cave. yup, you mean this one......? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted June 18, 2004 Author Share Posted June 18, 2004 yes hmmm left hand huh? i have been chucking the right hand up. guess i will have to try switching hands! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distel32 Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 you get a pretty big barn door going left hand, but you can do it. Have you done that highball rail traverse yet!? such a classic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted June 18, 2004 Author Share Posted June 18, 2004 i don't like the rail as much as the version that goes straight up to where the rail bends up i got to my left foot on the rail and going for the rock over but my pad looked pretty dinky down below and i chickened out. with another pad or two and a spotter it should be ok...hint hint shouldnt you be in squamish right now?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken4ord Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 I am good for about 3-4 tries, then I say fuck and move on to something else. I have never been into projecting any thing. I find it sort of like banging your head against the wall and occasionally getting something out of it, but most of the time just frustration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distel32 Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 I'm leaving at 1pm. 2 pads are better. After the rockover you are done though. Meeting Luke and Mike at kacodemon. hahahaha, I'm going to be attempting to TR their climbs, I'm psyched. Really nice of them to invite me out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted June 18, 2004 Author Share Posted June 18, 2004 crazy luke zimmermann? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distel32 Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 yup, Tyler's roomie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted June 18, 2004 Author Share Posted June 18, 2004 i bouted him at a game of climber trivia in smith once by lying about which route "the frizmo" is on. i claimed it was on toxic but it's really on bongo fury. sucka! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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