Brad's Tour of Mud (TR)

[Atomizer]

A little slow to catch this but - Just in case anyone else is feeling inspired...

I almost hate to point this out but...

Crowley Towers are still off limits (condors). I just looked at Gavin's most recent postings.

From Gavin's update on the last page of the closures thread;

Note that I did open up access to areas near Crowley Towers, including all Balconies routes and all Stronghold routes. Just please refrain from hiking or climbing right at Crowley Towers.

And on the main listing;

Balconies / Crowley
Sensitive: All routes on Crowley Towers, upper tier routes on Stronghold from Barbarians At The Gate to Arch Nemesis
Okay: All other routes on Balconies, Stronghold routes including Hidden Treasure and all lower tier routes

That's an obvious mistake on his part. He just forgot to update it later in the summer.

[NOAL]

In the first week of September Gavin posted that the baby condor had not left the nest yet and they would need to keep the area closed for the next couple of months.  I wonder if it left the nest.  Must be a Gen Z condor that's gonna live at home until its 20 something. Maybe Gavin will let us know.

[Gavin]

An update - the condor young in the Crowley Towers area successfully fledged so I just opened that area up again. All climbs at Stronghold and Crowley Towers are now open for use again.

[NOAL]

So there's three new condors out there now?  Cool!

[Brad Young]

Well that was an interesting series of posts and events!

Very pleasing to see the condor success. Nice to see the area open again too.

[Atomizer]

Maybe Eric scared it out of the nest, a forced fledging.

[JC w KC redux]

I still remember the day we saw Adam goofing with a stuffed condor on top of Machete as we informed some climbers on Shake and Bake that they were out of bounds.

Perfectly happy to be wrong and apologies to all concerned including Gavin for not checking with him first before hollering "Citizen's Arrest! Citizen's Arrest!" like Gomer.

Sha-zam!

And for anyone wondering where this all originated
http://www.mudncrud.com/forums/index.php?topic=1769.msg21005#msg21005

[NOAL]

  Maybe Eric scared it out of the nest, a forced fledging

Knowing these juvenile condors nowadays it saw Eric walk by and said to itself "  That's a nice bright green backpack that guy has.  I think I will follow him and when he takes it off I will destroy it!"

[looks easy from here]

Eric is the only route setter at The Edge who is into real climbing (aka Pinnacles style) and can pull off some wicked stuff.
He's got an infectious personality that gets you psyched and enough loose screws to make it on this medium.
He crushed it today yet is absolutely crushed. I think he carried a tall boy Modelo for the endding

I might have to train for the next year so I can do a sub-four hour run on this. Would that be possible?

I was at PE this morning and looked at the "Meet Your Setters" board to put a face to a name and saw it was the guy who consistently sets the hardest routes. I love that he's keeping ego massaging grade inflation at bay there. Checks out for someone who's into Tour of Mud type fun.