Hens Nest

Post by **elcapitan1974** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 4:16 am

ynot wrote:I went there once with a couple people. On the way out one of our party stops in the middle of the river in front of a boulder and then fell in to it and cut a gash in his forehead. You get dizzy if you look down at the rushing river too much. It's a wonder we didn't all drown with trad racks on our backs. I lost a nice Gerber leatherman that day. I wonder if someone found it under that 8 next to Sultans. I've had 3 since then and they all been junk compared to that one. Anyway, Sultans of Stem was a fine line.

Ancient poopie on the shoe, left a mad mojo on your party! Vegilanties a!

Post by **B.J.** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 5:01 am

ynot wrote:I lost a nice Gerber leatherman that day. I wonder if someone found it under that 8 next to Sultans.

Oh way to go. Now you've ruined it for climbers 500 years from now. They'll be trekking out to Hen's Nest only to see their favorite climbs closed because someone found a "Leather Man" or some shit.

Post by KD » Sun Jan 04, 2009 3:45 pm

B.J. wrote:
ynot wrote:I lost a nice Gerber leatherman that day. I wonder if someone found it under that 8 next to Sultans.
Oh way to go. Now you've ruined it for climbers 500 years from now. They'll be trekking out to Hen's Nest only to see their favorite climbs closed because someone found a "Leather Man" or some shit.

yep - fucked it up for everybody. Now the future coalition will have to have a novemberfest to raise thousands to keep these closures from happening - no telling how much will be needed.

Post by **Myke Dronez** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 2:45 am

As OW mentioned in the crag comments- these climbs do stay dry with the exception of days when the condensation rears its ugly head. Today was one of those days, as even the steep sport was dripping at sore heel. So yeah it sucks, but its not seep, its a dew point issue. Just find something easy and climb it in its soaked state with water dripping from your elbows.

Post by **elcapitan1974** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 1:42 pm

Myke Dronez wrote:As OW mentioned in the crag comments- these climbs do stay dry with the exception of days when the condensation rears its ugly head. Today was one of those days, as even the steep sport was dripping at sore heel. So yeah it sucks, but its not seep, its a dew point issue. Just find something easy and climb it in its soaked state with water dripping from your elbows.

I figured it was just humidity. The place was awsome thought. We got on Astro Flex put the elbo drip shut me down, then got on Lunitic which look dry but was super wet inside the crack. The only thing that was remotely climbable was a splitter not in the book. About 10 feet right of Gold Digger is this slightly overhung, left leaning,splitter hand crack that goes maybe 40- 50 foot. You get to a ledge and travers left over to the ledge that I think is the end of the first pitch of GD. This hand crack was bomber hands. Anyone know of it?

Post by **elcapitan1974** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 4:05 pm

I may have corrected myself. The John Bronaugh guide says this crack is the 5.8 variation start. I figured it was 7/8 ish. Fun short hand crack. OW, the condensation was very bad, your right! Hope to go back on a colder, dryer day. The hike in was brutal, the inflatable raft will come in handy next time!

Post by **TradWanker** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:10 pm

There is no such thing as a "temporary" closure. Once the few fuckwits (researchers) who suck on tax dollars decide that the many who supply those dollars should be excluded from using our Federal Lands, it is forever. By the way, one of those afore mentioned fuckwits told me the closures are to prevent further compaction. He must have been absent from geology class the day they studied rocks. Rock doesn't compact a whole lot by standing on it to belay.