Trip report and photos here: http://rockclimbingisawesome.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-essay-moby-grape-and-whitney.html

I highly recommend both of these routes.

At any rate, I admire any attempt at pushing oneself. That is the only way to learn your limitations and gives you a direct line on pushing them higher. Well done!!!

Back in the Proverbial "Day," the local hardmen used to have a name for climbing one major route on Cannon, Cathedral, and Whitehorse within 24 hours. Perhaps I spent too much time in alternative activities, but my (variety of reasons) addled mind cannot recall the name we gave such a feat. Olderic, comprendez-vous?

Anyway the best I ever got was W-G, Repentance, and Sliding Board, although I believe I did hear of a Direct Direct, Prow, and Last Unicorn link up which certainly impressed me. I would have been more impressed if the perpetrator paid for my dinner at Elvio's, but I digress...

At any rate, I admire any attempt at pushing oneself. That is the only way to learn your limitations and gives you a direct line on pushing them higher. Well done!!!

Back in those days my buddy and I did almost the same thing, we climbed W-G, then the Ist pitch crack variation start to Sam's, then Lakeview and finally drove over to Whitehorse and ran up the Standard route in the fading light. 17 pitches, great day!

Can't remember the name for Edge's triathlon - I do remember conjecture about it. My best day (32 years ago now that I think about it) was similar but maybe not as impressive as eastvillages because it was all on Cannon. Up Whitney-G in an hour and 10, up Sam's in 2 hours and 30 - up Lakeview - with some harder scarier finish on the old Man to the right of the Au Cheval (which was completely bogged down with gumbies) in an hour and 15. The descents took about as long. Whole day was fairly casual - 9 hours or so - probably 20 pitches. I remember Bouchard recounting some training day involving 5 routes.

Miuch more recently I have done Whitney-G then the Saigons/Camber in
the same day - is that worth anything?

My holy grail has always been the Grape, Across the Universe, Robinson Crusoe, Recompense and Sliding Board - linked by bicycle. Not going to happen in this life time/ Unless I can get my son to gun for me - hmmmm.

What he said. And the TR is a highly refreshing antidote to the melodrama-drenched breathless reporting of the antics of a particular Gumburnsy on the same routes.

We had no problems, but a couple of weeks later I came back with a friend and watched as a leader whipped, messed up his ankles pretty badly, and had to bail.

The Bicycle Route
“The climb has one of the most colorful histories of any rout in the area. To ensure the facts are recorded with some degree of accuracy, the story will be told in full. While cleaning the rout on rappel in 1976, Ed Webster placed a bolt on the final slab, then was unable to even climb up to it. Everyone got a chuckle out of this, but the best was yet to come. Several years later, just for fun, Alain Comeau and several conspirators “barrowed” Webster’s ten speed bicycle, rappelling down, and hung it off the offensive bolt, no doubt as a warning against any future ethical slippages! Paul Ross even went so far as to sneak Webster’s camera along to photograph the event for posterity. But - as fate would have it - John Bragg & Jay Wilson were climbing INTIMIDATION later that same day. One can only imagine their incredulity upon noticing a ten speed bicycle suspended out in the middle of a blank wall, and the subsequent argument over who saw it first! The bicycle was speedily rescued, albeit on top-rope. When the conspirators discovered the premature rescue of the bicycle, it was seized from Bragg and Wilson, and returned to its ignominious perch for the second time in the same day! There it remained for about two weeks until Webster finally rescued it - and alas, the poor bicycle was never quite the same again. On September 23, 1980, Ed Webster & Susan Patenaude made the routes first ascent, but found an easier way around the famous bicycle bolt - which was finally incorporated into the next variation. Training Wheels I, 5.11b R…“
(p.181-182 Rock climbs in the White Mountains of New Hampshire 3rd ed / By Ed Webster)

The Bicycle Route
“The climb has one of the most colorful histories of any rout in the area. To ensure the facts are recorded with some degree of accuracy, the story will be told in full. While cleaning the rout on rappel in 1976, Ed Webster placed a bolt on the final slab, then was unable to even climb up to it. Everyone got a chuckle out of this, but the best was yet to come. Several years later, just for fun, Alain Comeau and several conspirators “barrowed” Webster’s ten speed bicycle, rappelling down, and hung it off the offensive bolt, no doubt as a warning against any future ethical slippages! Paul Ross even went so far as to sneak Webster’s camera along to photograph the event for posterity. But - as fate would have it - John Bragg & Jay Wilson were climbing INTIMIDATION later that same day. One can only imagine their incredulity upon noticing a ten speed bicycle suspended out in the middle of a blank wall, and the subsequent argument over who saw it first! The bicycle was speedily rescued, albeit on top-rope. When the conspirators discovered the premature rescue of the bicycle, it was seized from Bragg and Wilson, and returned to its ignominious perch for the second time in the same day! There it remained for about two weeks until Webster finally rescued it - and alas, the poor bicycle was never quite the same again. On September 23, 1980, Ed Webster & Susan Patenaude made the routes first ascent, but found an easier way around the famous bicycle bolt - which was finally incorporated into the next variation. Training Wheels I, 5.11b R…“
(p.181-182 Rock climbs in the White Mountains of New Hampshire 3rd ed / By Ed Webster)

What he said. And the TR is a highly refreshing antidote to the melodrama-drenched breathless reporting of the antics of a particular Gumburnsy on the same routes.

Fie on you Marc! Greg can't help the his Scottish genes. The drama, burning emotion and need to express himself poetically burn in his blood must be let out! Greg write on, I will read on! --- A Greg Fan!

PS - Stop dinging up you ankle or you are going to run out of material. See you at the Gunks soon!