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Sicky Gnar Gnar: March 2012
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Now you know, and knowing is half the battle. Friday, March 30, 2012. Anatomy Of A Landing. Over the course of almost 4 hours Katie and I were able to turn an unclimbable, spike filled landing:. Into something that was surprisingly flat and kind of perfect:. I've never had a landing switch personalities so quickly, going from completely stubborn and terrible to moving almost at will in a matter of minutes. It was also my birthday this past tuesday. Katie got me a naked lady mug:. And a box o files:.
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Sicky Gnar Gnar: January 2012
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Now you know, and knowing is half the battle. Monday, January 30, 2012. Nic came down for the weekend to hang out and compete at Quick on the Draw. I met him up at DL to go look around and search for some new boulders. While I was waiting I went to the zoo to kill time. The hiking was actually substantially easier than we thought it'd be but it was still rough. Talus is bad enough. Snow covered talus is simply frightening. I made Nic go first so it was safer for me! This short jaunt gave us a very brief ...
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Sicky Gnar Gnar: Weasel/Raccoon
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Now you know, and knowing is half the battle. Thursday, October 11, 2012. Katie and I spent a couple days this weekend and again last night up by Smooth Operator trying a couple of the nice new problems left from this spring. Katie set her sights on Fat Raccoon and I set mine on What Up Weasel. Fittingly enough we saw a very fat Raccoon on our way out of the park. I also think I figured out an easier topout than what others have used. Did you guys really match on the slopers and go out right? So much eas...
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Minnesotan Skin: February 2009
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009. Between Frost and Melt Water. On a beautiful saturday @ 36 some degrees, Chris(Hirsch), Eric, Neil, Trinh and I went, um, sightseeing I guess. We had aspirations to climb on some rock that is only workable when the St. Croix river is frozen. We started in Franconia, just down stream from Taylors Falls. Damn I want to buy that Scandinavian Chalete! Josh Helke is supposedly the first ascender of the problem that works from the back of the cave straight out the edge of the roof.
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Minnesotan Skin: January 2008
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008. Belated Pictures from Bishop. We've been back a few weeks now, but I've just finished touching up all my pictures.here's a few to reminisce. Do you see Crazy? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Belated Pictures from Bishop. Climber, ranter, dog lover. View my complete profile.
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Minnesotan Skin: October 2008
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Friday, October 17, 2008. Governor Dodge State Park.a long, long time ago. Once, a long, long time ago.last Labor Day weekend.in a state park.in Wisconsin.named after a Governor.whos name was Dodge.and there was sandstone.Yes, there was sandstone. We started out on the B2 bluff, through an occupied and unfriendly campsite, (I recommend estabishing a path NOT through the campsite, possibly left of the outhouse.). This is Sandstone Violence that can be seen with less sun/shade contrast on Neil's blog.
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Minnesotan Skin: August 2008
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Thursday, August 7, 2008. Kris and Pi had been throwing the idea around about adding a cave to one side of the wall.Kris put it together in under a week, with less than 24 hours of time spent on it. And yet it's still over built and painfully fun! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Climber, ranter, dog lover. View my complete profile.
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Minnesotan Skin: March 2008
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008. Death to Minnesota Winters! Every one here knows how this snow is getting pretty damn tiresome! The yard is just over 1/2 melted and tomorrow we get MORE SNOW? Well, to take everyone's mind off of it I'm posting an about interesting similarity I've noticed between my husband Kris and a particular muppet.take a look for yourself! Then Sam the Eagle. Kris isn't so patriotic though. Thursday, March 6, 2008. Real Boulders, Fer Realz! Build calluses, don't sand them off on plastic!
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Minnesotan Skin: May 2008
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Thursday, May 22, 2008. I got to ride in Nic's new Yaris, much to the chagrin of Pi, who road in Chris Hirsch's Escort. You can fit 2 pads in a Yaris with the back seat up, and 4-5 with the back seats down. And we got 35 mpg going 75 the whole way. On a four hour drive in tandem, things can get silly. Fruit bombing one another's cars entertained us for the last two hours of the drive and had our faces aching from laughter. Here's my second video I've made today with iMovie.sweet. But I still, like always...
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Minnesotan Skin: Back in Bishop Again
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Monday, December 22, 2008. Back in Bishop Again. We started out on the Ironman, to try to start building skin and wake up the muscles. After we decided it was just too hot sitting under that highly reflective oblong rock slice, we walked down to the Tut boulder. Not sure of the separation of holds between Funky Tut and King Tut, we did some fun combination of both. I fell at the same spot again and again, just like last year. However, some new beta from Nic the next day made me get super optimistic!
