WEEKEND UPDATE

[Brad Young]

And by full moon (double meaning there?).

[mungeclimber]

where are these amazing looking lines!  Someones should work on a guidebook to the Pinnacles!

[Brad Young]

And so the mystery began (seen from the uphill side of the pinnacle):




Closer up (that doesn't look like a piece of nature):

[NOAL]

It's a rock with a hole in it.  There are a lot of rocks with holes in them around there.

[Brad Young]

It's a rock with a hole in it.  There are a lot of rocks with holes in them around there.

Yes. Obviously. Aluminum was certainly once a rock. Or part of one.

[burnsbabe]

Definitely a rock. Extremely rock-like.

[NOAL]

That's a very nice hanger.  Somebody put some work into that.  Probably only got used once.   Good thing cause aluminum is very soft.

[NOAL]

Checked out some boulders in a streambed by Crowley Towers.  I was like who would even go down here?! Then went back up some brushy stuff and led this 5.6 chute thing that was pretty good. 

We saw a bunch of hikers.  I yelled at them but they did not yell back.lame-o's.  Later when we were hiking out some of the lazy ones were sitting on the trail.  I let them know that the balcony bumps were primo napping territory and to keep it down.

Saw the bird guy climbing.  We yelled at him but he was too far away to hear.  Also saw these other guys climbing some really chossy looking stuff.  We didn't yell at them.  Thought it might spook em.  Funny thing is when we hiking out we could not find them. 

This weekend making korean tacos in the parking lot post climbing.  Might be some Miller lites too. 

Merry X-Mas.

[Brad Young]

Here's my update: yesterday while cleaning out my office some, I found a "lost" box of 2007 Pinnacles guidebooks. It's not full, but there are about 15 of them that I did not know existed.

I'm thinking of selling at least some of them. Perhaps for more than the original asking price of $35.00. Would $50.00 be outrageous? The point would and will be to start paying off ahead of time the tens of thousands of dollars I'll be spending soon (18 months or two years?) to print the new, upcoming book.

[clink]

 Get the authors to sign them and sell them for $500 apiece. You keep $100, doubling your $50.

[Jim]

eBay.  Cash out and retire.

[burnsbabe]

Here's my update: yesterday while cleaning out my office some, I found a "lost" box of 2007 Pinnacles guidebooks. It's not full, but there are about 15 of them that I did not know existed.

I'm thinking of selling at least some of them. Perhaps for more than the original asking price of $35.00. Would $50.00 be outrageous? The point would and will be to start paying off ahead of time the tens of thousands of dollars I'll be spending soon (18 months or two years?) to print the new, upcoming book.

I'd be happy to ask about having these at Touchstone, if that was of interest to you. I don't think $50 is outrageous at all.

[Brad Young]

I'd be happy to ask about having these at Touchstone, if that was of interest to you. I don't think $50 is outrageous at all.

Still thinking of what to do. I won't do Ebay, but I'm talking to a friend who might do it for me? I'll feel bad if I sell them through one gym and don't have any to supply others.

[JC w KC redux]

Make a backyard bonfire and pretend it never happened.

Start it with a copy of Fahrenheit 451.

[NOAL]

Let the visitor center at Pinns sell them at normal price.  I remember when the Good the Great and the Awesome was between editions.  It was on Amazon and Ebay for crazy prices. Went in the shop at Whitney Portal and there was a big stack.  I was really happy.

If someone was on a trip visiting Pinns and forgot their book (or got lost using Mt. Project )they would probably be pretty stoked to get a copy.