WEEKEND UPDATE

[looks easy from here]

No. It was under his butt all the way to where we dropped them off.

[NOAL]

You should have locked him in the car and made him eat it.

[Brad Young]

A whole crew of climbers went with me to Kasperak's Ridge and The Hanging Valley for guidebook checking and photos. We climbed a fair amount, some of it on pretty obscure stuff. There was more laughter than commonly; I think because of some of the absurdity of what we were doing (Marco already posted the shot of me trying to throw the rope over Wart - no-one wanted to solo it but we wanted to try the moves, which turned out to still be 5.8 - slightly overhanging and almost 5.9, but still the original 1962 rating).

Mikayla led Wizards Wall with Helena belaying:

[Brad Young]

Several of us toproped Sorcerer of Slab which is still definitely 5.9. Glad I led it once and wouldn't lead it again.

Then to The Hanging Valley. Marco and Mikayla did Teeter Tower - Short while Shane and Helena did (believe it or not!!) Hidden Pinnacle. Hidden involves a tree climb (one of the sources of the day's laughs - totally absurd):

[Brad Young]

After doing some of the short stuff in The Hanging Valley proper and doing a complex helmet recovery (not my helmet, but J.C. - we needed you!!), we all summited The Overlook (class four and, near the end, some brush, but such a view!!):

[Brad Young]

No. It was under his butt all the way to where we dropped them off.

Alright, one of you two needs to cough up an explanation.

[JC w KC redux]

Looks like you guys had fun and got some excellent photos.
I like that reaching around photo of Mikayla leading and the one with summiteers on Teeter and Hidden is great.
I wanted to climb some more of those routes but never got the chance. Someone promised me a day out there but then shit happened.
It looks like Hidden Pinnacle may fade into obscurity when that tree goes (it doesn't look good in the photo). They seemed to have gotten up it in short order. Last time I was out there was May of 2018 when we did The Overlook and Chamber of Secrets.

[JC w KC redux]

Noal - you look like Dorf in that lineup!  (sorry man - couldn't resist) 

[Brad Young]

Oh, and the route Cracklin' Rosie? It lived up to its name.

But at Pinnacles getting to the summit is everything 

[NOAL]

Alright, one of you two needs to cough up an explanation. 

Some climbers missed the last shuttle.  I gave one a ride in the van and Shane let the other two ride with him.  One dude sat on his sandwich.  Shane's helmet fell in a chasm, we trashed his new chalkbag, and a guy sat on his sandwich.

There are a lot of Dorf pinnacles around there.

[JC w KC redux]

Shane's helmet fell in a chasm, we trashed his new chalkbag, and a guy sat on his sandwich.

Proof that bad things come in threes.

There are a lot of Dorf pinnacles around there.

Amen!

[looks easy from here]

Postmortem on the Chalk Colander is there's actually only one hole that blows all the way through the inner liner, so it lives on, and with an excellent story in its history!

[burnsbabe]

That stem off the other side of the gully-thing on Wizards Wall looks super fun. Reminds me of the back and forth on the thing we were working on the other day, Brad.

[Brad Young]

That stem off the other side of the gully-thing on Wizards Wall looks super fun. Reminds me of the back and forth on the thing we were working on the other day, Brad.

Well, yes. Except that I am a doddering old geezer who wears true shorts (dinosaurs call them short shorts). And Mikayla isn't   

Looking forward to finishing what we "were working on" two weeks from now. Fingers crossed for acceptable weather.

[NOAL]

Saturday I have to say this was one of the funest climbing days I have had in awhile. Visiting Hanging Vallley was an awesome reflection on the history of Pinnacles climbing.  I had the foresight to bring a copy of the Roper guide so we could compare info from then to the 2007 book. 

Kasperak's is the earliest ascent in the area (1946)  The other routes (what we climbed) were done by a group of 5 climbers on two dates in 1961.  This is probably the first time since then that a group of the same size returned and did a "re-enactment" of that day in 1961.

 In the Roper guide it mentions the group all climbing the 4th class route on The Wad by different paths which is essentially what we did after climbing the other routes.

Not until I reached home  had I realized the similarities between Saturday and that day in 1961.

Also, Helena being from the Czech Republic informed us that Kasparek in Czech means Jester!

[mynameismud]

cool

[Czech it out]

Also, Helena being from the Czech Republic informed us that Kasparek in Czech means Jester!

According to MountainProject, "The name of this area, and the pinnacle within it, is undoubtedly a tribute to Fritz Kasparek an Austrian mountaineer who was part of the four-man team which made the first ascent of the Eiger Nordwand in Switzerland in July 1938." https://www.mountainproject.com/area/120120673/kaspareks-ridge

So the guy was Austrian but being neighboring countries, last names obviously permeate both ways. A little bit more on him can be found on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Kasparek

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 I joined a group of groupies enroute to the Rolling Stones.



 

 Looking up to the High Peaks there is a window through a pinnacle that I hadn't seen before. Mud's Lair?

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