I'll tell ya.. I normally despise dogs running around at the crag, but Harrison is definitely the exception, I'll go cragging with him any time. Plus he carries gear!

Kevin, you are so not expedition photographer!

B

This unemployed bum will be there around 8:00. No later than 8:15.

I was thinking "Nicks" myself, I have to find out if the wings are always that size!

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Redeemed due to lack of lycra.

Aww.. come on, look at this fine example of JR clawing his way up an extreme 5.4++ I took on Saturday.

[image]http://www.netspy.net/climbing/2007/head-slabs/oct.13.07/fx/P1110327SM.jpg[/image]

*note:
please ignore the angle of the tree's, highway, river, etc. this is an optical illusion due to the angle of the sun, It really was that steep.. right JR?

EXTREME 5.4 CLIMBERS TRIP REPORT:

Super Secret New Slab... Oct 13, 2007

Rope Guns: Brenden, Kevin, Kyle, and Dave
Rope Sherpa: Harrison


6 new routes, 2 second accents ranging from 5.4 to 5.8 w/ a 5.9/10a direct finish.

Dirty? Yes
Chossy? Hellz no! This stuff is S O L I D!

Add another two lines on sunday. jumpingrock ridge 5.fun and Lust in a Black Cape 5.6; Fun stuff :-)

EXTREME 5.4 CLIMBERS TRIP REPORT:

Cowbell Crag - Sunday October 15, 2007.

Memebers - Grant, Cathy, JP.

Time arrived - 1:00PM
Time finished - 6:00PM
Number of routes done - 2: a 5.6 & a 5.7
Ropegun - Grant

A successful outing, JP and Cathy's first time climbing in 2 months. Rock was dirty as hell (as usual) and made the normal grunting and groaning sounds that the loose choss of cowbell makes when you pull on it. Hazards included packrat shit all over the rock and prickle bushes around key foot and hand holds. Highlight of the day was Grant demonstrating that anchoring off of twigs is safe, provided you use and adiquate amount of twigs.

Also saw the fastest roped-solo climber in the world climbing next too us on a rather sketchy looking anchor.

Until next time:

-JP

PS

I will see ya'll at Nicks on Wednesday for some enormous fucking wings.

Anyone on here long enough has heard reference to the East Coast 5.7 Mafia...

Well, we're kinda like them.... only we actually climb... sometimes.... all grades are WAY old school, carrying pins is normal, New Routing seems to be the dominant mandate to our climbing, beer and whiskey are our water, our golden piton award is given to the best mis-adventure/epic, and our Mascot is a 130 pount bullmastiff puppy named Harrison who carries our ropes..... Oh, and Grant is our token Brit.

That looks like Conglom. Is the super secret slab in the Highwood Pass area? It sure looks like it is :).

Technically there is no rock type called "Conglom". Further, by capitalizing the first letter you are indicating that this is a Formation(Fm) name. And I can say with certainty that there is no "Conglom Fm." within our area. Also the Highwood Pass is a mere 2sq.km (give or take) and is surrounded almost entirely by limestone with periodic shale bands, mostly of Devonian age if I remember correctly; a time in which very little sandstone or other clastic sedimentary rocks were deposited in what is now Southern Alberta. Both North and South of the pass there are outcrops of Cretaceous clasitic sedimentary rocks ranging from sandstone to conglomerate to a pseudo-quartzite.

Clear as Mud?


Thought so.

Wow! Let that geek flag fly.

5.6 and 5.7? aren't those grades a little .... extreme? How about some more 5.4 routes, for the rest of us?

B

My apologies for JP's misreading of the guidebook. In keeping with my rule of 5's I also kept within 5.4 for the trip. I base this on taking twice as long to climb these routes as the stuff I was doing in Nevada last week. Therefore by taking twice the time, the grades should be reduced by an equal ratio. The corrected grades thereby being a 5.3 and a 5.3+ (that could also be considered as a 5.4- but I don't brag like that).
I hope that makes matters as clear as cONGLOM mUd.

That concludes my extreme amount of post whoreing for this week. See ya'll at .... Nicks????