"Because it's there."

Peregrinator · Jul 30, 2008

Climbing at Leavenworth today...with Atmas, my oldest and closest friend, one of the two guys I took climbing lessons with 13 years ago. There's something wonderful about climbing with an old and trusted partner...just a glance and you know that if you fall, he'll catch you with a tight belay. You check each other's knots without saying anything about it, because you both know it's not an ego thing. You each know the other's strengths and weaknesses. You know when to offer "beta," the suggestions and coaching that climbers yell to each other, and when to back off and let him flail.

And flail we did. Here are a few pics. The route is the obvious crack and is called "Gibson's Crack." I have no idea who Gibson is.

Atmas on rappel, on the way down:

And the short but annoying talus scramble to the road:

posterOfAgirl · Jul 30, 2008

awesome!!!
you guys are rad :heart:

glad you had fun

Peregrinator · Jul 30, 2008

posterOfAgirl said:
awesome!!!
you guys are rad
glad you had fun

Thanks. Even though we got swatted, it was great to feel like a climber again.

posterOfAgirl · Jul 30, 2008

Peregrinator said:
Thanks. Even though we got swatted, it was great to feel like a climber again.

your a real climber in my eyes
..whatever that's worth

Peregrinator · Jul 30, 2008

posterOfAgirl said:
your a real climber in my eyes
..whatever that's worth

Thanks. I'm rusty, but I still got it somewhere.

atmas · Jul 30, 2008

The gear:

How we carry it:

How its used (Perg climbing):

Anchoring at top:

posterOfAgirl · Jul 30, 2008

just a suggestion perg...climb with less clothes

Peregrinator · Jul 30, 2008

I ripped my shorts.

posterOfAgirl · Jul 30, 2008

Peregrinator said:
I ripped my shorts.

whew!
perg is a climber-budding stripper!

EvelynTreemont · Jul 30, 2008

It looks like you guys had a great time!

The pictures are awesome. You sure carry a ton of stuff....

Peregrinator · Jul 30, 2008

EvelynTreemont said:
It looks like you guys had a great time!

The pictures are awesome. You sure carry a ton of stuff....

This is true. We try to minimize it, but there are certain essentials and it does add up. Some climbers are insane about it. Much like the "fast and light" crowd in backpacking who cut their toothbrush handles off and such. In fact, a lot of the equipment used by those folks is sold under the name GoLite and was designed by Ray Jardine, a former high end climber.

littleninja · Jul 30, 2008

Looks like an awesome time.

Guest · Jul 30, 2008

Peregrinator said:
Climbing at Leavenworth today...with Atmas, my oldest and closest friend, one of the two guys I took climbing lessons with 13 years ago. There's something wonderful about climbing with an old and trusted partner...just a glance and you know that if you fall, he'll catch you with a tight belay. You check each other's knots without saying anything about it, because you both know it's not an ego thing. You each know the other's strengths and weaknesses. You know when to offer "beta," the suggestions and coaching that climbers yell to each other, and when to back off and let him flail.

And flail we did. Here are a few pics. The route is the obvious crack and is called "Gibson's Crack." I have no idea who Gibson is.

Atmas on rappel, on the way down:

And the short but annoying talus scramble to the road:

That looks like soo much fun.

Peregrinator · Jul 30, 2008

littleninja said:
Looks like an awesome time.

~babygrrl~ said:
That looks like soo much fun.

I t really is fun to go out cragging like that.

LN, I think you would love climbing, and probably be a natural.

BG...what's been happening with you? Give it up for good?

thør · Jul 30, 2008

Peregrinator said:
I t really is fun to go out cragging like that.

Great to see you got out!

Guest · Jul 30, 2008

Peregrinator said:
I t really is fun to go out cragging like that.

LN, I think you would love climbing, and probably be a natural.

BG...what's been happening with you? Give it up for good?

Unless you have some magical cure - at this point I'm looking at Dr. Frank's Joint Miracle Spray (also in beef flavor for Fido!) until I get hooked up with an ortho surgeon.

Then I will be back, even if I have to do it one armed.

Peregrinator · Jul 30, 2008

thør said:
Great to see you got out!

Me too. I needed to get back to my roots. Nothing like good clean granite.

~babygrrl~ said:
Unless you have some magical cure - at this point I'm looking at Dr. Frank's Joint Miracle Spray (also in beef flavor for Fido!) until I get hooked up with an ortho surgeon.

Then I will be back, even if I have to do it one armed.

Well, a blind guy summited Everest and a guy who's paralyzed from the waist down has climbed El Cap.

Peregrinator · Jul 31, 2008

A few more of the shots that Atmas took:

I love this one. As naked as I can be legally but wearing a helmet. And look at that roll of crap around my waist. I use to have abs.

Staring up. Already feeling shaky and weak.

Arranging an anchor at the top. Trying to find three points to connect to create an equalized system.

And tossing the rope so we could rappel and then climb again on toprope.

thør · Jul 31, 2008

Peregrinator said:
And look at that roll of crap around my waist. I use to have abs.

You'll be able to survive well on low rations for a couple days.

Peregrinator · Jul 31, 2008

thør said:
You'll be able to survive well on low rations for a couple days.

I have annual training coming up in a few days. I'm counting on three weeks of continuous combat loads and MREs to knock off a few pounds.

glo33 · Jul 31, 2008

awesome pictures.
it looks you two had fun.
i liked the pretty gear.

Peregrinator · Jul 31, 2008

glo33 said:
awesome pictures.
it looks you two had fun.
i liked the pretty gear.

It makes great jingly noises. In the pic that atmas posted entitled "how we carry it," you can see a piece of gear that looks sort of rectangular hanging near my right hip. That's called a "Hexcentric" and is hollow aluminum. They ding like cowbells when they hang on your rack.

atmas · Jul 31, 2008

Wow, those pictures were awesome. It was not difficult at all to take really cool pictures, even if the quality of the climbing we did was not us at our best.
The quality of the great time we had was, however, second to none.

Peregrinator · Jul 31, 2008

It's hard for non-climbers to appreciate what the climbing team means. That partnership is sacred and high and inviolable. You literally depend for your life on that person more or less constantly. At any time while one member is climbing, the other is holding the rope from a belay device, ready to stop a deadly fall in a split second. That sounds melodramatic, but it is literally factually true, and such a common situation in climbing that we beome decidedly casual about it and do things like drink, eat, smoke, and take pictures while literally protecting the other's life. Here are some shots of Atmas:

Peregrinator · Jul 31, 2008

atmas said:
Wow, those pictures were awesome. It was not difficult at all to take really cool pictures, even if the quality of the climbing we did was not us at our best.
The quality of the great time we had was, however, second to none.

That's because it was you and me climbing together, my friend.

"Because it's there."

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