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backwards in heel hooks

Do you guys have the facebook experience where, after big elections, you end up unfriending or hiding all these people you didn’t know you couldn’t tolerate? Just us? Fine. Unfriended.
All this election bruhaha reminded us that we were suppose to be updating regularly, and that we had something to tell you. Well, actually Tommy has [...]

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A message, from Tommy Blackwell about Thumbdance, which we remember Ames doing like three years ago and nothing else….

Folks, this classic route was established in 1988 by John Sanders……on lead.
In the mid-90’s it was known as the “Gus Fruh, Must do”.
In 1996, it lost a large amount of rock from the top. The bottom remained [...]

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The bolt is back in the roof of Lonesome Dove/Diving for Rocks (see our title pic)
The boys who bolt (Tommy, Luke and Evan) went out with drill and glue and got that sucker in good, so everyone can go hang on it and bolt-to-bolt their first 5.12. Reputation, saved.
Thanks guys!
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That one scary clip in the middle of the Lonesome Dove extension of Diving for Rocks came off while someone named Overweight Climber was hang dogging on it, although he said that he just clipped it and it broke immediately. No one is freaking out, like, at all, thanks to the expert parenting strategies of [...]

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A couple of times in the last couple of years, sport anchors have been stolen off of popular climbs on the g’belt, so says Tommy Blackwell. And he would know, he bought them with our CTM dues and put them up there at our request.
Thumbdance and Die Easy (on Gus Fruh and Siesmic, respectively) have [...]

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We have been quite lax in posting updates on the Reimers North Shore (formerly “Pogue Hollow”) climbing access bruhaha. Starting now, we’re getting on it.
The North Shore, just to get everyone up to speed, is this North-facing riverbank area just a couple miles down the Ped toward the Trav from Hand Beyond. To get there [...]

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Bikers

Senator Blackwell (click the pic for high-res dignity) would like us all to note that the mountain bikers will be having an event at Reimers on April 12-13. They anticipate hundreds of peddling participants.
So why not take that Saturday to help stack rocks up near the far left side of Sisemic Wall?

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