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Newport Harbor Pizza Paddle - July 2015 |First Church of The Masochist
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WTC Year In Review. Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Newport Harbor Pizza Paddle - July 2015. July 21st, 2015. The after work pizza paddle fell on a Tuesday night this month. This time we had 9 people on one inflatable tandem kayak, one hard sided tandem, three single kayaks, and two inflatable SUPs. Getting the boats loaded up. Getting set up on the beach. Gracia and Jesse in the first loaner boat. The group past the first bridge. Turning the corner into the main channel. Sun going down in the main channel.
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Crawling Around Chiricahua Crystal Cave In Arizona |First Church of The Masochist
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WTC Year In Review. Friday, December 27, 2013. Crawling Around Chiricahua Crystal Cave In Arizona. December 27th, 2013. Arizona / New Mexico Border. Matthew Hengst, Jeff Atijera, Jen Blackie. The previous day had been a mad dash flying back from Sacramento where I'd spent Christmas with my parents only to stay in Orange County just long enough to throw all my climbing gear into the jeep and take off east with Jeff and Jen reaching Tucson late that night. The first sign you're near the cave is a friendly ...
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4th Annual Memorial Day Massacre: Courtright In A Kilt Edition |First Church of The Masochist
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WTC Year In Review. Tuesday, May 28, 2013. 4th Annual Memorial Day Massacre: Courtright In A Kilt Edition. May 24th and 27th, 2013. Courtright Reservoir , Sierra Nevada. Matthew Hengst, Jen Blackie. Following the aftermath of that little jaunt I rebranded it the Memorial Day Massacre and started making plans for the following year. With snow coming down on top of us later we bailed out and settled for a dayhike of Olancha. The Third Annual Masochistic Fun Fest we stuck further south. This time bad we...
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A Snowy Visit to Leviathan Cave in the Worthington Mountains |First Church of The Masochist
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WTC Year In Review. Sunday, December 15, 2013. A Snowy Visit to Leviathan Cave in the Worthington Mountains. December 14th, 2013. Matthew Hengst, Jack Kieffer, Rod Kieffer, Ron Campbell, Kristen Lindbergh. While I spend a good portion of my time running up and down peaks I have a fascination with caves and mines that I don't get to exercise very often. So when I happened across this trip report. As of 2015 this is now a part of the newly created Basin and Range National Monument. We'd been able to see a ...
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Twin Peaks & Virginia Peak via Green Creek |First Church of The Masochist
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WTC Year In Review. Sunday, June 21, 2015. Twin Peaks and Virginia Peak via Green Creek. June 19th to 21st, 2015. Twin and Virginia are two peaks accessible from the eastern side of the Sierra near Bridgeport. The planned outing to Tehepite and Spanish two weeks before had been canceled (again) due to weather and I was itching to get back up to altitude. The good news is after that things moved fairly quickly. The bad was we were so far behind this was going to be a late night no matter what. Oh,...We en...
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Mammoth Area Hot Springs - Crab Cooker (Is Too Damn Hot), Benton Hot Springs |First Church of The Masochist
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WTC Year In Review. Sunday, April 19, 2015. Mammoth Area Hot Springs - Crab Cooker (Is Too Damn Hot), Benton Hot Springs. April 12th, 2015. This was a quick stop at the tail end of a weekend spent climbing DPS peaks Dubois. We'd really been looking forward to a hot soak after a long chilly weekend. The idea of a hot soak was appealing enough we went out the long way to visit the mammoth area hot springs near the 395. View from the parking area. There was no way we were going to be able to get in. The...
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First Church of The Masochist: Advanced Mountaineering Program
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WTC Year In Review. AMP is a 36 hour instructional rock climbing and mountaineering technique course sponsored by the Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club. It is taught by AMGA SPI certified instructors Dan Richter and Pat McKusky along with an ever growing roster of trained volunteers. The course consists of four classes and is taught twice a year in Spring and Fall. The second class is held in Chatsworth at Stoney Point. Finally class 4 is two days out at Indian Cove in Joshua Tree National Park. You...
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2015 Memorial Day Massacre: Kibbie Ridge Granite Waterslide Edition |First Church of The Masochist
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WTC Year In Review. Thursday, May 21, 2015. 2015 Memorial Day Massacre: Kibbie Ridge Granite Waterslide Edition. Memorial Day has become a tradition for me ever since a trip gone slightly wrong back in 2010. It's a long weekend which happens at an annoying time of year where you can get into the Sierra but there's a good chance you'll face weather and less than ideal conditions. A brief summary of the Massacres so far. Spectacular weather, lots of peaks, lots of miles. And a kilt! Which brings us to 2015...
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Early Season Windswept Domelands Trek |First Church of The Masochist
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WTC Year In Review. Monday, April 6, 2015. Early Season Windswept Domelands Trek. April 4th and 5th, 2015. We have a grand plan in the works for this years Memorial Day Massacre. And so that calls for some warm-up trips. We originally eyed doing a trek through Golden Trout heading up the Kern river covering the area between Junction Meadow and Hockett but we couldn't make the mileage work for the three days we had available. And it was cold! We pulled into Fish Creek Campground and found we had it to our...
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