tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14228271786910777862024-03-05T13:34:07.358-08:00Awful-WidthsA random blog about wideness and other stuff in climbingPatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400577403687884710noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422827178691077786.post-77202360932325183972013-03-26T17:38:00.001-07:002013-03-26T17:54:56.169-07:00The worlds "first" 5.13 offwidthI'm coming up on a month off from work in a few days and I am <strong>psyched</strong> to go back to the Utah desert. I have a couple projects both old and new to attend to that should prove to be difficult, and an old nemisis, <em>The Bellyful of Bad Berries</em>. The <em>Bellyful of Bad Berries </em>is the worlds first (5.13) offwidth established and still holds it own today . I have tried this Brad Jackson masterpiece a few times spread out over the last five or so years, and have yet to hold onto it until the end. Its an amazing route, both technical and brutal and is considered the benchmark for entering (5.13) in the world of offwidth. There is another offwidth located in Veduawoo that was once called (5.13) and established years prior, but it's not near as difficult as suggested, and the proper credit should be given where it is deserved. Hats off to Brad on this major accomplishment and a timeless route that will be sought after for decades to come. <br />
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I headed to the desert and beat my partner (pamela), there by a week, so i decided to check out the phantom sprint solo. I aided on a clove hitch and a single alpine aider plus a double length, and then mini traxioned the pitches as i cleaned. While the route is a relativley popular aid line, it still hasnt been repeated free since Stevie Haston (a hero of mine) first freed it almost 15 years ago. I spread out the climbing over three days, fixing lots of ropes and doing lots of mini traxioning and dialing in the route. Everything was going pretty well for freeing until the crux pitch where i figured i needed more work. After that, i ditched trying the last two pitches on the mini and went for the top. Its an amazing route, and one that I want to invest more time in as a free project, as its pretty clean for the fishers and the climbing is pretty awesome. Hats off to Stevie for that one and his many more!<br />
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The Sprint takes the left skyline system. You can see my haulbag a few pitches up...</div>
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After the Sprint I had a few days and hiked about and scoped other mud routes and then went to Onion Creek to check out another Stevie free route. I forgot my climbing shoes in the jeep, but had fun aiding the thing and imagining the free climbing sequence. What a cool little tower.<br />
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That evening I met up with Pamela in Moab and we were on a mission to climb some offwidths!</div>
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We headed to the creek and started out with some obscure classics established by the cobbler himself. We got on David, Big Red and a few others for a few days, checked out a few potential offwidth roofs and picked out a blue collar project or two each.</div>
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Little Pam and "Big Red"</div>
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We went back to a shared project of ours, where Pam had freed her pitch a few years ago now, yet I still flop around on the tips first pitch. I think we put in three mornings on this trip. I got close, but still no cigar. Grateful for a patient and dedicated belayer as this thing is kinda frustrating...</div>
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Durring the trip I also got to establish a cool little .12a on the Cliffs of Insanity with Trevor and made an onsight of Sacred Space, an adventure of an offwidth.</div>
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Trevor also put a nice offwidth on the far left of the COI, and dubbed it "Insane in the Membrain"<br />
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Pamela and I worked a beautiful two pitch line, consisting of tight hands to fists on the first pitch and then squeeze and offwidth and even an inversion high on the second pitch. A great line indeed!<br />
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Pamela projecting on our two pitch route "Artemis"<br />
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On my last morning there, I established a mini tower with the help of Trevor, who was camping with us and he then freed it momenets later.</div>
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After a week or two back at work, i got a few extra days off for thanksgiving and headed back to the creek.</div>
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Pam and I headed straight up to an old abandoned Alf project that he had come in from above on almost five years back, tr'd and cleaned. We were able to put it up ground up, onsight and were psyched! 3 pitches of offwidth and squeeze and perhaps one of the finer offwidths either of us have ever climbed. A good FFA on thanksgiving day; thankful we were!</div>
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One more of the crux pitch.</div>
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We then celebrated Thanksgiving at the brewery, took a rest day and then headed to a sick project of Pamela's. I didn't get any pics, but it is a big, bad offwidth, and the meat of it is up on the third pitch (again!)</div>
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I went back to work for a month, did christmas with the folks in Arizona, and then went back to Moab with Trevor for almost a week of climbing and exploring. Amazing that <strong>no one</strong> climbs there in the winter.</div>
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The first few days were a bit cold, but still plenty nice in the sun and we checked out a ton of less than popular zones, including the north wash a few hours to the west.</div>
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Trevor and I both got to establish a 5.12 in the creek, put up a cool easy 11 offwidth and cleaned up another line just right of the OW.<br />
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Trevors thin rig... (black aliens!)</div>
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Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400577403687884710noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422827178691077786.post-71195874424421687082012-07-15T16:18:00.002-07:002012-07-15T16:25:09.690-07:00Wideness in the Voo<div style="text-align: center;">
I am back at work, cranking out 70 hour weeks, and did a shift from 6 pm to 6 am last night with the wolf pack. Lazy day today.</div>
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Anyways, a few weeks back I did a cool trip to Vedauwoo and got to climb some cool routes and climb with some cool people. The people I got to see and climb with included Pamela Pack, Zach and Racheal the local guidebook authors, Matt and Molly the OWers and Nathan and Jim photo/ film guys and climbers.</div>
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All in all it was a great trip and alot of cool stuff happened. Pamela established one of the sickest offwidths I have ever seen. Matt got the ultimate sandbag tour, and I got to try a few old routes and a few new ones.</div>
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One project is an amazing offwidth roof at a terrible angle that I found last season hidden deep in the woods and brought Pamela to on Saturday. The pysche was high and she managed to TR it cleanly on her second go, crazy! I couldn't touch this thing last season on mini trax, but made much better progress this round with good beta and encouragement from below, though still have quite a ways to go. Its a crazy hard inversion and shuffle at a 60 degree angle and should be the hardest wide thing in the voo. The lead will be quite sketchy though, as the angle will almost certainly secure a head banger if you blow the crux. Head bangin' heavy metal!!!!!</div>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Anyways after 4 days over a few years, 30 + attempts and lots of flopping around like a fish, I finally got up it. The main concern was that the crux was super low and above uneven ground. After the first piece there isnt much to work with until after the crux and decking wasn't really in the cards for me. I could place a bolt or a pin i suppose, but didn't have either with, and there was the <strong>RARE</strong> chance that it had been done before so I didn't want to dumb it down for a second ascent. I DID however fix a nut with a sling hitched to it from the key lock crack above and hung a combo draw from it prior the lead. I know, I know, chicken sh!t, bull sh!t, but better than decking on my one day off from work. I left the nut and sling hanging and if you are so inclined you can skip it, booty it, or try it like i did. What ever you want. All other gear was placed on lead.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Thanks to Tom for going out there over and over with me even though we barely bouldered, Trevor for holding the rope on the send and following it CLEAN and Ty, Hutch and everyone else who helped keep the pysche up!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">A find of Trevors and obvious from the parking lot/ road.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Baggy Sixes through a small roof, to a difficult size similar to the "Dunn-Luebben" and then run-out squeeze and body size chimney to the top. 30 odd meters.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">No shots of the other two projects, as they are<strong> TOP SECRET!!!!</strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Cheers, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Patrick</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div>Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400577403687884710noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422827178691077786.post-28543417591511143672012-01-14T19:12:00.000-08:002012-01-15T07:43:09.365-08:00New Year, New Blog<div style="text-align: center;">Not sure why I started this, but we will see how it goes.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I went to the creek over the holidays after visiting my folks for christmas, golfing and horse race action...(broke even!)</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">I flew back after a great week with the folks and drove over to meet Trevor and Josh who had been in moab for a week already and Ty coming down a few days later.</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The Creek was totally empty for the most part, minus new years weekend. But we had our cliff of choice empty nearly everyday that we went up. Cat Wall, Scarface, Donnelly and The Battle. Cold nights, but perfect temps during the day.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We we did some milage (3-4 pitches a day! ha!!), looked for new routes, tried some projects and drank a fair amount of 3.2 beer... go figure. We did 2 new routes, got the first pitch established on what will prove to be a difficult offwidth roof above, and Trevor worked an amazing finger crack project that we couldn't believe hadn't been done before, so good.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Josh after free handing the "tower of death"!!!!!!!!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We did a couple days in Donnelly Canyon as I picked a cool/ wierd project (half shark, half alligator man) and we repeated Trevors "Twitterpatted" and <strong>way</strong> too many laps on Binous.....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and a link to a vid of the whip (ill figure that step out next...)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=2704484044807">http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=2704484044807</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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