Climbers?

[davidji]

Do you climb rock?

Do you ride to Yosemite? To climb?

I really want to ride there, but the bike doesn't seem like the ideal way to carry the gear, unless soloing is in the plans...

[zefflyn]

I have it on good authority that Climber is a climber.

[VTRweasel]

Do you already climb?

If not do some indoor stuff before Yosemite.

[tzrider]

Do you climb rock?

Do you ride to Yosemite? To climb?

I really want to ride there, but the bike doesn't seem like the ideal way to carry the gear, unless soloing is in the plans...

I have ridden to climbing spots, both with gear and without. I used to boulder 2 or 3 times a week up at Castle Rock and found that my brakes didn't work so well afterward! :laughing

[davidji]

Do you already climb?

If not do some indoor stuff before Yosemite.

If someone wants to prepare to climb in the valley by climbing indoors they best be getting on the gym cracks. But so few beginning climbers do.

[tzrider]

If someone wants to prepare to climb in the valley by climbing indoors they best be getting on the gym cracks. But so few beginning climbers do.

And it's hard to find *anything* in the gym that'll get you ready for glacial polished slabs with 50 foot runouts...

[VTRweasel]

And it's hard to find *anything* in the gym that'll get you ready for glacial polished slabs with 50 foot runouts...

No, but it teaches you technique and how you use your basic gear. It's also great exercise.

I haven't climbed anything over a 5.0 at Yosemite.

[davidji]

No, but it teaches you technique and how you use your basic gear. It's also great exercise.

No gym-hating from me. They're fun, good exercise, and earlier in the year when I was injured it was about all I could do:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afm7osJS1o4

As far people not learning to crack-climb in the gym, it isn't the gyms fault--well it is mine, since they have no cracks--but most gyms oriented to climbers (instead of just kid's parties) have cracks, and many of their customers avoid them.

[DataAngel]

Concord eh? I used to go there but now im at BIW. Anyone else go there? Im there on Friday late afternoons like clockwork if anyone wants to link up for some leading or some hard bouldering.

I haven't ridden my bike to the rock yet, dont think I want too, would rather climb hard and relax driving safely than challenge my pumped forearms on a ride home with a shattered mind.

[donnamatrix]

I'd be down for a PG night! I can probably fit all my gear into my backpack :)

[DataAngel]

PG night?

[Butch]

I have ridden to climbing spots, both with gear and without. I used to boulder 2 or 3 times a week up at Castle Rock and found that my brakes didn't work so well afterward! :laughing

that is funny. even the rear brake?

I haven't been to planet granite in ages. It's pretty big fun...

I've used the guides from yosemite mountaineering school for Snake Dike and Cathedral Peak.

They are awesome.

[DataAngel]

My best friend and I had planned a trip to do Snake Dike but that fell through, now he hasnt climbed in almost 2 years. Guess I am glad I didnt go drop cash on cams etc.

How was Snake Dike on trad as a 5.4?

[Butch]

Snake Dike is spectacular and a piece of cake. Free solo man!
Is that the rating? 5.4?

My best friend and I had planned a trip to do Snake Dike but that fell through, now he hasnt climbed in almost 2 years. Guess I am glad I didnt go drop cash on cams etc.

How was Snake Dike on trad as a 5.4?

[donnamatrix]

PG night?

Planet Granite, indoor climbing gym. I have a membership there :)

[tzrider]

My best friend and I had planned a trip to do Snake Dike but that fell through, now he hasnt climbed in almost 2 years. Guess I am glad I didnt go drop cash on cams etc.

How was Snake Dike on trad as a 5.4?

It's great. You wouldn't need many cams, as there aren't many places to use them. There are a few placements on the first pitch and again after the dike runs out, but you could protect with nuts.

The dike itself is protected with bolts, but there aren't many. The 4th or 5th pitch has about a 100' runout; Butch said "free solo" and that pitch practically is. The exposure is pretty wild, but the actual climbing is straightforward.

[Butch]

I hired YSM for Cathedral peak. Tom Carter, private awesome guide, form 7 am to 7 pm, $200. Bargain. I don't remember what Bill Russel cost to guide three of us up Snake Dike.
thes guys have all the shit and they won't let you get hurt. That would piss them off.

[dwarf]

One time I did touchstone

[DataAngel]

Yeah I figured, you should go to BIW! ;-}

yeah its a 5.4 rating