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Mon 30th Apr 2012 - Red Rock | ||||||
Pine Creek Canyon Mescalito Mescalito, South Face | ||||||
5.6 | ★★★ Cat in the Hat | 210m | ★★★ Classic | |||
Great climb. Despite the hot weather, we found shade at most of the belays. Jim did an excellent job leading two of the best pitches, pitch 1 and 4. I lead pitch 2 and 3, and my brother lead pitch 5.
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Sun 22nd Apr 2012 - Red Rock | ||||||
Juniper Canyon Rose Tower | ||||||
5.7 5.7 PG | ★★★ Olive Oil | 300m | ★★ Very Good | |||
Excellent climb.
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Wed 11th Apr 2012 - Diablo Canyon | ||||||
Styx Area | ||||||
5.7 | ★ Minion | 27m | ★★ Very Good | |||
Excelent
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Tue 10th Apr 2012 - Diablo Canyon | ||||||
Styx Area | ||||||
5.8 | ★★ Cold Day in Hell | 27m | ★★ Very Good | |||
Run up harder line on top rope. It was great fun.
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Mon 28th Nov 2011 - Tres Piedras | ||||||
Mosaic Rock | ||||||
5.7 | ★ Dirty Diagnonal | 34m | ★ Good | |||
This is always a good warm up lead for me after no climbing for a while. A little cool at the start; but it warmed up nicely.
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Sun 23rd Oct 2011 - Tres Piedras | ||||||
Sundeck Wall | ||||||
5.8 | ★★ Serendipity | 20m | ★★ Very Good | |||
This wasn't my first lead up this route but it was clean.
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Sun 5th Nov 2006 - Sandia Mountain | ||||||
Techweeny Buttress | ||||||
5.8 | ★★ Crackula | 50m | ★★ Very Good | |||
Great climb. I set the first peice and backed down, My buddy Jim, set the next peice and another peice real close and backed down. I finished leading the climb. The guide book says two pitchs but I made it in one with a short 50m rope (part of it was cut off) and with my buddy Jim simil-climbing to the first piece (10-15 ft up).
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Wed 4th Oct 2006 - El Rito | ||||||
El Rito Trad | ||||||
5.6 | ★ Refritos | 80m | ★★ Very Good | |||
I felt really good this time, a much better lead climb. And my placements were bomber. I also finished of the 2nd pitch. Both pitches were excelent.
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Tue 29th Aug 2006 - Sandia Mountain | ||||||
Tombstone | ||||||
5.5 | ★★ West Face Traverse | 91m | ★★★ Classic | |||
This rock has some great moderate face moves (a test for my limits), I would say classic despite the route described below.
We set out to climb West Face Direct, but when I got to the cliff face about 15ft to the left and below the starting bolts of West Face Direct, I decided to try going straight up on some face and crack moves. I made it approximately 2/3rds the way up the face and crack when I was stopped by difficult move to get up to some knobs above me. I lowered and traversed over to the West Face Direct crack, traversed farther left, and set a belay on the West Face Travers ledge between West Face Direct and the West Face Traverse 1st pitch. We finished the climb on the 5.5 face of the West Face Traverse second pitch.
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Wed 2nd Aug 2006 - Sandia Mountain | ||||||
Estrellita | ||||||
5.8 | ★★★ Estrellita | 30m | ★★★ Classic | |||
For one pitch this climb was great. The most fun I've had in a long time. Jim lowered me back down to top roped it a second time.
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5.7 | ★ Beat Around the Bush | 30m | ★★ Very Good | |||
After seconding Estrellita we lowered down and top roped this climb from the same belay point. This climb 5.7 was not much easier than Estrellita 5.8. I enjoyed this climb a lot also. I top roped it twice. From the belay point to the bottom, including the climber tie in, used up just over half of a 60m rope.
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Tue 18th Jul 2006 - Sandia Mountain | ||||||
Hole in the Wall | ||||||
5.8 | Kermit the Frog | 73m | Average | |||
It's mean and green but with a little taming it could be a good climb. I led half of the second pitch starting from the small pinon above the Seamingly Obvious 5.8 layback move. I climb up the open book crack, over some bushes, and then left over the Arête (which separates “Kermit the Frog” from the bolted face route “Another Pair of Shoes” (this is as far as I got), follow a small open book up and right back across the arête, continue a pair of cracks, finish by crossing back left over the arête, and climbing easier rock to the top.
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Wed 24th May 2006 - Las Conchas | ||||||
Cattle Call Wall | ||||||
5.8 | ★ Unkown (next to Ow Now) | 11m | ★★ Very Good | |||
At the far left of the wall are some anchors at the top of the rock above a series of left sloping cracks. I led up the cracks moving up an left with the last one or two moves up the face to the anchors. I think the lead is 5.7. We then top roped a more direct route up the bottom crack to the anchors which was a little harder, 5.8. I think the anchor also serve Ow Now, on the far left.
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Wed 17th May 2006 - San Juan Basin Volcanic Necks | ||||||
Cabezon Peak | ||||||
5.5 | FA ★ Mad Hatter's Tea Party | 140m | Average | |||
Jim did the first and third pitches. I did most of the route finding, and I intentially picked one of the easiest routes for my first trip to the mountain. This route was fairly straight forward.
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Wed 10th May 2006 - Sandia Mountain | ||||||
Hole in the Wall | ||||||
5.7 | Redeemer (5.7 variation) | 91m | ||||
Around the corner from where the top map shows Redeemer is a large dihedral (or gully). At the top of the gully we moved right onto the ridge and up to the top of the gully for the 1st belay (I noticed holds and a two bolt anchor if we would have moved left onto the left face of the gully). The first pitch had good rock. On the second pitch I followed good and bad rock up and left into a small chimney and belayed Jim from a chock stone in the chimney. Jim stepped right across the chock stone to the face and followed easy (5.5) but exposed ramps to the top. The climb was ok but kind of junky with mixed rock and some scrambling, the bottom and top 3rd was more consistent and better rock
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Wed 3rd May 2006 - El Rito | ||||||
El Rito Trad | ||||||
5.8 | Shoes for Industry | 30m | ★ Good | |||
Fun little roof.
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5.3 | ★★ Cave Woman | 26m | ★★★ Classic | |||
Lst week I 2nd Jim's lead. This week I led and stayed on the harder cracks and faces. We toped out at a small pinical. I like this climb because you can really play with the route.
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Wed 26th Apr 2006 - El Rito | ||||||
El Rito Trad | ||||||
5.4 | Commie Pinkos | 49m | ★★ Very Good | |||
This was my second time on this climb, first time was in 2004. This time I stayed on route, brave the exposure. I had to set a belay at, what I call, the 60m tree.
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Sun 29th Jan 2006 - Enchanted Rock | ||||||
Orange Peel Area | ||||||
5.5 | ★ Jack Knife | 20m | ★ Good | |||
Not Bad. Used as approch to Cave Crack (also see North America/United States/Southwest/Texas/Enchanted Rocks State Natural Area/Throne Rock)
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Sat 28th Jan 2006 - Enchanted Rock | ||||||
Orange Peel Area | ||||||
5.6 | ★★ Cave Crack | 30m | ★★★ Classic | |||
really cool climb
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5.5 | ★ Jack Knife | 20m | ★ Good | |||
Fri 27th Jan 2006 - Enchanted Rock | ||||||
Devil's Slide | ||||||
5.7 | ★★ Easier than it Looks | 40m | ★ Good | |||
Easy Slab, but we shuttled 6 people up 2 pitches and a little more. I went up in the middle or the group to handle the hanging belay station where we had people on the 2nd pitch while I belayed others up the 1st. Our 60m ropes was a little short to run two people up (one in the middle and one at the end) so the last 15ft or so we had two people simultaneous climbing on one rope. We reached the top of Enchanted Rock at sunset. It was fun and beautiful, the perfect end to a day or climbing..
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Fri 27th Jan 2006 - Enchanted Rock | ||||||
Back Wall | ||||||
5.7 | ★★ Sweat | 18m | ★★ Very Good | |||
Wed 28th Sep 2005 - Sandia Mountain | ||||||
Sentinel | ||||||
5.7 | ★ Almost Overlooked | 55m | ★ Good | |||
Jim led the 1st pitch and I led the 2nd (a 5.7 undercling). There were some good spots but not as consistand in grade as Lost Ledges
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Wed 21st Sep 2005 - Sandia Mountain | ||||||
East Sentinal | ||||||
5.7 | FA ★★★ Osa | 35m | ★★★ Classic | |||
Excelent, as I was loward down the face I though no way. Ist time started at the bottem of an alcove 30ft up from the saddle above the Sentinal, climbed up and left under an overhang then left onto the face and a flake to the top. 2nd time (Sep 28) I led from the bottom but didn't finish due to rain. Great rock and possiblities for good small to medium pro. Oct 05 Redpoint accent
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Wed 21st Sep 2005 - Sandia Mountain | ||||||
Sentinel | ||||||
5.6 | ★★ Lost Ledge | 52m | ★★ Very Good | |||
This was harder than I thought for a 5.6. An interesting climb and very good rock.
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Sun 4th Sep 2005 - Los Alamos | ||||||
White Rock Gallows Edge Gallows Edge | ||||||
5.5 | ★★ Butler Route | 12m | ★★★ Classic | |||
The top headwall seemed harder than it's 5.5 rating
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Tue 30th Aug 2005 - El Rito | ||||||
El Rito Trad | ||||||
5.6 | ★ Refritos | 80m | ★★ Very Good | |||
Thin but fun
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Wed 6th Jul 2005 - El Rito | ||||||
El Rito Trad | ||||||
5.5 | FA ★★ Papas Fritas | 56m | ★ Good | |||
probably done before but not named
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5.6 | ★ Guillotine | 90m | ★★ Very Good | |||
good second pitch to Papas Fritas
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Tue 28th Jun 2005 - Sandia Mountain | ||||||
The Thumb | ||||||
5.5 | ★★ Northwest Ridge | 490m | ★★ Very Good | |||
I enjoyed this easy climb w/ spectatular views and some exposure
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Wed 11th May 2005 - Los Alamos | ||||||
White Rock Potrillo Cliffs | ||||||
5.7 | ★ Cindy's Chimney | 15m | ★ Good | |||
good warm up
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Tue 26th Oct 2004 - El Rito | ||||||
El Rito Trad | ||||||
5.6 | ★★ Packrat Dihedral | 79m | ★★ Very Good | |||
1st pitch 5.4 1st half and 4th class 2nd half, 2nd picth 5.6 var was excellent.. The 2nd pitch makes up for the 4th class section on the 1st pitch.
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Mon 18th Oct 2004 - El Rito | ||||||
El Rito Trad | ||||||
5.8 | ★★ Techo al Derecho | 24m | ★★★ Classic | |||
Did 8(c) var from top on top rope (5.6 - 5.7+), lots of choice easy to hard
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Tue 28th Sep 2004 - El Rito | ||||||
El Rito Trad | ||||||
5.7 | ★★ The Big "E" | 80m | ★★★ Classic | |||
My 4th lead in 2004, both pitchs. It was great
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Tue 24th Aug 2004 - Sandia Mountain | ||||||
Sentinel | ||||||
5.6 | Unknown on South Face | 70m | Average | |||
Attempting Lost Ledges; however, we were on the wrong side of wall, the desctiption didn't exactly match up. The 1st pitch was crap, but the 2md was excellent.
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Tue 17th Aug 2004 - El Rito | ||||||
El Rito Trad | ||||||
5.6 | ★ Perdernal Cracks | 30m | ★★ Very Good | |||
My 3rd lead in 2004. Good climb but I rushed it some.
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Tue 10th Aug 2004 - El Rito | ||||||
El Rito Trad | ||||||
5.3 | ★★ Cave Woman | 26m | ★★★ Classic | |||
My 2nd lead in 2004. Very good begining lead climb
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Tue 13th Jul 2004 - El Rito | ||||||
El Rito Trad | ||||||
5.4 | Commie Pinkos | 49m | ★ Good | |||
My 1st lead in 2004 since 1998, led 1st pitch off route, cleaned 2nd pitch
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5.6 | ★ Chili Verde | 85m | ★★ Very Good | |||
top roped 1st pitch 3 times
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Tue 6th Jul 2004 - El Rito | ||||||
El Rito Trad | ||||||
5.4 | El Faralito | 85m | Don't Bother | |||
brushy, may have been off route
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Tue 29th Jun 2004 - El Rito | ||||||
El Rito Trad | ||||||
5.5 | ★ Gnarly | 79m | ★ Good | |||
2nd both pitchs ended off route on 2nd pitch
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1998 - McDowell Mountains | ||||||
Gardener's Wall | ||||||
5.5 | ★★★ Hanging Gardens | 79m |
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