G-spotter Posted June 4, 2003 Author Share Posted June 4, 2003 How dare they ban Big Wall Rocky? He is an experienced climber who only ever posted good informations to this sight!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGowans Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 G-spotter said: Hello Friends! Â Summer is now coming to here! Â When should we have our portaledge Love Parade on the Toothie? I dont think too many new bolted anchors will be required. Mr Gowans may invite all the women he knows and Fence Spitter too. Between the two of them, that might be one girl! Mr Gowans would never dare introduce the cadre of fine Euro fillies he has at his disposal to such an uncouth bunch of slobbering, slothful, slimey, saps. I think I shall organize a rival portaledge party on the little rock adjacent to the Tooth. It shall be a full British monarchy endorsed expedition with much fanfare in the local tabloids and a long line of under employed Americans carrying our picnic hampers up to Pineapple Pass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fence_Sitter Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 North_by_Northwest said: It's good to see a little comedy, creativity and opinion go into a TR instead of the same deadpan climbing stuff. I actually read all of yours. It would have been a little better if you'd have made it a full-on Eiger Sanction parody though. Â "There is room for half a dozen climbers up here, perhaps one day we should have a party, with portaledges and DJ music." Â I hear they do that on this face in Arizona every year. We need a similar but alpine style party. Maybe a Boston Basin kegger or a Stuart summit bivy rave. Â bringing that up to the top! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scot'teryx Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 I'M GOING TO SEND YOU ALL SOME HATE MAIL AFTER I GO UP MT SI IN MY PLASTICS SO I CAN KICK SOME COUGARS ASS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micajones Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 Rad! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill_Simpkins Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 Took a friend up Der Toof last Sunday. Scrambled up the steep gully directly to Pinnaple pass because it looked funner. Got snide remarks from a group of mountainiers, like: "That guys a fool for climbing all the way to the tree in one pitch" "He shouldn't be running it out like that" "they should have 2 ropes" -But the runouts wern't bad and you don't need two ropes. I saw 7 people with shorts over polypro. It was the usual Tooth drama. Watching their war machine maching their way up those two pitches was very entertaining. We placed one #3 Friend, and stoppers 7,9,10,11,12. Had some fun glissades. Car to car, 5 hours. Â We saw a bit of litter on the route , mostly granola bar wrappers and juice containers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvs Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 Not really related, but not worth a whole new topic - I met two guys spending Saturday night on Saber Ledge. They had jumars, bivy sacks, even coffee for the morning. That was pretty cool... Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pencil_Pusher Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 Was up there Sunday, saw some dude FLYING with nothing more than a water bottle and rock shoes and a helluva lot of speed to go up the Tooth. I wouldn't be surprised if he went roundtrip from the TH in an hour or hour and a half. There's a booty cam up near the summit, along that little ridge after the catwalk and before you top out. A .75 Camalot, I think. Fully retracted and in apparently good condition. Also, there is a rap anchor midway down the dirty/wet gully at the base of the climb thereby avoiding the Pineapple Pass traverse... with a single rope. The summit was great (shorts and tshirts all day), 45 minutes of kicking back in the warm sun, no wind, and a Miller High Life between us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman_Clyde Posted June 17, 2003 Share Posted June 17, 2003 PP, glad to hear of you taking some time away from studying to climb! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aint_this_great Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 Word to the wise, brought to you by the not-so-wise. There's a cute little blue sign by Alpental that says "this gate may be locked without notice; do not park beyond this point" or some such. Heed it! Myself and Mystic Nacho didn't see the sign and found ourselves locked in upon return. Thanks go out to the nice lady who knew the combination to the lock and happened to still be out there. Ice axes were helpful on the approach and glissade, though the rock itself is completely bare. Wednesday day with predicted bad weather, it was socked in but no rain, and we didn't see a soul on the climb, just one group on the snow and another on the trail. Awesome day out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 Since the newbie chicas have been agitating to lay siege to the Tooth, I thought I'd bring this one back to the top for their amusement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pope Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 Not really related, but not worth a whole new topic - I met two guys spending Saturday night on Saber Ledge. They had jumars, bivy sacks, even coffee for the morning. That was pretty cool... Â Boy, that would be a difficult spot for a bivy. I'd be wide awake thinking about how I was just one rope length and a short drive away from opening a tab at the beer garden. Music, drinking, laughter, women.....ah shit, mountain climbing is definitely over rated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 Der Toothel ist gefallen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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