Comments on: May I Buy You A Compass?

By: Narc

Narc — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:35:41 +0000

I TOLD Mrs. Narc that I NEEDED that Iphone before we got to Yosemite but would she listen?? No. Were any actually available for purchase in the greater San Francisco area at the timw? Well…no.

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:12:55 +0000

Looks like you can put your I-Phone to use next time you are in the woods.

Someone made an I phone friendly interface that could help in these situations.

http://www.mountainproject.com/v/mountain_project_news/new_mp_on_your_iphone/106221598

By: Narc

Narc — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:23:51 +0000

@craig – let’s hope not

@ kate – it really was a beautiful hike. however, like I discussed with craig last night, when your end goal is to climb, endlessly hiking can be frustrating no matter how beautiful.

@sock hands – you are awesome and insane at the same time…on the way down I did actually see some decent boulders along the river

@kush – The 45 minutes part comes from where the Topo says you are supposed to cut up and right on a slope after 45 minutes of walking. We obviously never found this and somehow ended up veering left for an extra 2 hours. Not very smart. I will be sure to check out your trip report!

By: Kush

Kush — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:16:17 +0000

sorry that you couldn’t make it to Cathedral. Supertopo calls the approach 1.5 hrs long, dunno where you saw 45 mins? We did this a few weeks ago and it was solid 90 mins. to the base of the climb. I have a writeup at http://tantrikclimber.blogspot.com

By: sock hands

sock hands — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:13:20 +0000

WAIT A MINUTE! how can you be sure that mr. narc wasn’t being rad and just convincing you fools to go out and search for ill new boulders? i mean, shit: if i went all the way to the valley JUST TO ROPE CLIMB, i’d lose it! who goes to the valley just to rope up? NO ONE SANE! have you even seen dosage five? i think he was just executing the oldest trick in the book: tell traddies that you’ll go trad climbing, but get “lost” on the way to the route, and instead run around checking out siKK boulders… even if you have to do so w/ out a pad and while carrying a rope, this is so totally worth it in the end.

i know i know you all went bouldering… there’s photos, etc… whatever… REACH FOR A PEACH THUNDARBIRD, BITCHES!

hey last thing: when in twolomaeee meadows, did you hear blissful ron kauk new age hippy music in the air? d3!!!! owns!!!!!

By: sock hands

sock hands — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:06:43 +0000

wow i didn’t even read this one before i posted about ice cream on the last one…. it’s a panacea and allowed me to keep living after making mrs. hands go on a scree-filled 12 mile alpine trek in NZ with one 12 oz water bottle and sandals! [that was just before i became a rock climber and i knew little about long stints in the outdoors since all my childhood wanderings were within 2 miles of a cabin or civilization and never above treeline]… for the record, though, ice cream is not a good bargaining chip when you make mrs. narc go on a 3 day trek that is expected to be warm and dry and ends up w/ freezing rain the entire time and you neglected to bring any cooking gear and planned on eating pb and j sandwiches and cookies for the entire three day period.

i tried that tactic out as well. epic fail. perhaps i shall blog about it someday. effin bloggers.

By: steve schultz

steve schultz — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:28:23 +0000

great story. too bad you couldn’t do cathedral though. it’s pretty fun. That made me smile though….so, thanks.

By: Kate C

Kate C — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:09:03 +0000

Oh, great post! I just laughed so hard I spit coffee on my laptop! You do have to watch out for those talus-slab-o-deaths. Things are friggin’ scary. I love the captions on the pictures too!

Too bad about the lack of climbing. But, and I hope this is true, wandering lost around a wilderness with a big trad pack on is great training for future alpine pursuits.

And, it’s better to be lost on the way up than the way down.

By: craig b

craig b — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:07:01 +0000

Sounds like marital bliss. A few more trips and Mrs. Narc will want to settle down and have three or four kids.