Jungle Beat -> name?

Post by **kato** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 9:37 am

I thought I once saw a little blurb from Larry on why Jungle Beat is named that. Maybe in the old guide book? Anyone know? Larry?

Awesome route, BTW.

Post by **ynot** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 5:27 pm

We did here a story about a nooner in the leaves under Jungle Beat.

Post by **L K Day** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:10 am

It's a jazz reference, and also to the jungle like quality of the gorge. Imagine a time when there were no trails leading to the crags. Most ascents started out with bushwacks, often of epic proportions.

As for the nooner, I hope we started a tradition. Anybody else been there?

Post by **kato** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:16 am

OK, I thought I had heard it was a Vietnam reference that had to do with the heat/humidity.

I was doing some camping out there within a few years of the time you were putting these up, so I remember hiking deep into places with no trails. I also remember each year, those faint traces turning into paths and then into well established trails and then they were no longer remote. We sat on the ridge above Pinch-'em-tight and looked at that big formation with cliffs all around it and said if we could climb it, there would be no other campers there.