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Looks like a narrow little route to a small summit area.

I keep getting these Camelback knockoffs that goo up inside the hose, clog, don't suck water, or leak all over your back. Screw it, I'd rather just use my trusty old 60's Boy Scout 2 qt. metal canteen anyway. Nothing beats metallic taste to your water.

'bomber sage bushes' ,,,, yeah. I love that one. Sounds like a death anchor to me!!

Camelbak already offeres a Tritan bottle that is BPA free and Nalgene has dropped their Lexan line and going to Tritan also.
That said, I probably won't be getting rid of my lexan bottles for some time and of course replacing them with Tritan later.

Super good, 1rst pitch has the Sketchiest bolt ladder I've ever been on. This photo was shot this last October.

Naw, see all that rope on the ground to the left? It's lassoed around a bunch of bomber sage bushes.

Never heard of it...sorry. Always shopped at the Boulder Mountaineer for anything I needed.

I saw those stories too, but think that the older they are, the more chance that all the badass chemicals have leached out and been consumed by me already., so, being still alive I'm gonna take a chance again on my bottle. I probably only use it for like 20 liters of water in a season anyway. Since I tend to skip watering up, I think the rehydration will outweigh the nastys from the plastic.

Well I laugh in jest at this counting as 'climbing' again. But it's an effort in the right direction. First real test to come in a couple weeks.

I bet he's sittin right on the bolt anchor atop the route,,, or maybe a tiny little double 00 RP in a crack?

Good to see you climbing again!
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That looks sweet! What's the name of the route? And did he leave behind any cams too?

Gotta give props to Henry Barber and the boys in New England here...Uncommon Ground!!

Hey! What's he tied in to???

Looks like this pic is from last fall maybe? I still haven't done the pulpit...maybe this weekend. :)

Thanks Klimbien. The 6th pitch we're thinking is probably going to be 12+ free. We put in four bolts through the hard section because of the lack of good rock and gear placements so it should be easy to work that pitch or just aid through it.

nice route...Love to see more stuff going up in the Park. Do you wanna throw out a guestimation on the rating of that tough aid pitch (6th)? nice pics

I've had aliens for years, first just the green and yellow and now I've added the blue and black. I've also doubled up my small cams by adding Metolius TCU's. I've fallen on my green and yellow before, the yellow taking a 12' one or so. I trust these units because they're "battle tested," and I probably wounldn't trust the newer cams mostly due to the size. I'm willing to fall, but once they were 1-2' below my feet I'd be looking to back them up.

I trust the strength of the Metolius, but I find that they walk much more than the Alien's do. So while I trust that they'll hold a fall, I'm also more worried that they'll change their orientation as I climb above them. A friend of mine decked when a blue Metolius pulled, but I this was due more to placement and operator errot than cam failure.

JR
that sounds fun, more fun than my factory job, again, happy climbing

No, is that in Arkansas? I've been to HCR a lot and Sam's a half dozen times.