Quest for Mud (Special Edition)

[JC w KC redux]

Well the place will never be the same without a white Trooper parked there.

U there tomorrow?

Agreed.

Nope. We tend to avoid weekends.
Forecast is 96 for tomorrow, 93 for Monday - then supposedly cooling down into the 80's for a few days.
Tuesday or Wednesday might be a possibility.
Got a bike rack set up now - so we could think about going east side too.

[JC w KC redux]

The view this past Thursday (around 7:30 am).

[mungeclimber]

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There's a Pinns Climbing Community FB page too but I don't recognize any of the member names (weird).

That's a little rude to say you don't recognize me and the other knuckleheads on mudcrud FB.

[Brad Young]

This climb was a HUGE coup for me.

Excellent, excellent that you finally got that one done. I know it was bugging you for years. Congrats.

And the whole wall now rebolted too? Maybe Pinnacles season continues after all?

[clink]

Maybe Pinnacles season continues after all?

 Some like it hot

[Tuff Chik]

That's a little rude to say you don't recognize me and the other knuckleheads on mudcrud FB.

There's another FB Page for Pinns called Pinnacles National Park Climbing Community.  I just looked over the member names and I know about 5 of them.

[JC w KC redux]

That's a little rude to say you don't recognize me and the other knuckleheads on mudcrud FB.

I forgot about the mudcrud Pinnacles page - so there are actually 3 FB Pinnacles pages.
The Pinnacles Climbing Community page is probably one you haven't seen.
Bruce, Belizzi, Thornburg and Dan Gearhart (really nice volunteer you might not know - doesn't climb) are on there.
You can't see who the members are without joining so I did (reluctantly). I have yet to post on there.

Maybe we should start another FB page and just use it to gossip about the mud n crudders that aren't on FB 

[Brad Young]

Maybe we should start another FB page and just use it to gossip about the mud n crudders that aren't on FB 

ESAD, commie clone Facebook user.

[JC w KC redux]

Excellent, excellent that you finally got that one done. I know it was bugging you for years. Congrats.

ESAD, commie clone Facebook user.

Wow. Two accolades in one day from the GM. Hope my head doesn't swell too big for my helmet 

I still think we need a dangling carrot icon/emoji (clink needs a dangling tomato) - besides F4 and I like carrots!

[NOAL]

Maybe we should start another FB page and just use it to gossip about the mud n crudders that aren't on FB  

We won't know nor care. 

[JC w KC redux]

Maybe we should start another FB page and just use it to gossip about the mud n crudders that aren't on FB 

We won't know nor care.

That hurts dude...

I was at least hoping for a DIE.

[JC w KC redux]

I forgot to mention that I ate chicken the night before climbing Flimsy Flume.

I told Kat maybe I should have had bear or lion - anything but chicken...

[mungeclimber]

There's another FB Page for Pinns called Pinnacles National Park Climbing Community.  I just looked over the member names and I know about 5 of them.

I just invited a bunch of folks to join the mud crud FB group.

There can be only ONE!

Invite your friends.

[NOAL]

The view this past Thursday (around 7:30 am).
 

Car campers.  They should put up some tent cabins there.  No revenue to be made from picnicking.

[JC w KC redux]

Car campers.  They should put up some tent cabins there.  No revenue to be made from picnicking.

The girl was making breakfast in the parking lot in the back of their van and the guy was still in the tent (sleeping presumably).
We let her know that they were citation bait and that we had seen a ranger the previous day (the day I led Flimsy Flume).
They cleared the site rapidly and gratefully.

They should restore 10 or so tent/walk-in sites on the west side (where it used to be).

[F4?]

There you go sgsin JC being the party pooper. They needed to get a citation...that’s how they learn.

Flip side....shit, no one is checking there at night so you can camp there overnight?!,,,

[JC w KC redux]

There you go sgsin JC being the party pooper. They needed to get a citation...that’s how they learn.

Flip side....shit, no one is checking there at night so you can camp there overnight?!,,,

It was early - they would have had hours to vacate before any possibility of a bust.

Sadly the ranger we saw Wednesday was the only NPS presence we have seen on the west side in eight visits.

[F4?]

Anarchy!!!

[JC w KC redux]

We quested a bit yesterday.
I have looked at this climb more times than I can count (every time we hike up Juniper Canyon).
Most times I have looked, we were either focused on getting somewhere else or the rains had it wet or some other multitude of not quite right conditions prevailed.
With the sun angle lately, I knew it would be in shade early and well into the morning.

Fun/challenging stemming and nice rock (in the streak) - except for some looseness in the short section below/right of the bulge where you are temporarily forced out of the streak. Borderline star worthy imo.

Here's a few shots. Deb took some short video clips - one of which caught my whoop past the exit moves.


JC leads Operation Pinnacles Freedom (vicinity of bolt 4). Classic butt shot since Deb was acting as Kat's ground anchor.
 




Deb getting past bolt 1





Money shot of Kat (best of the bunch imo - thanks Deb).

[Brad Young]

Last time I was up there I could see rotten slings on the top anchor (we did that route before we'd started leaving chains). Any chance you had something quality to leave instead? Can I replace any chains you left, if you did?