Re: High Sierra: Range of Light or Choss Pile Deluxe?
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:44 pmDaria doens't like guys that complain about long approaches.
Chief and Daria do not approve.
Chief and Daria do not approve.
dude-
learn to swim
SummitPost.org
Climbing, hiking, mountaineering forum
https://www.summitpost.org/phpBB3/
High Sierra: Range of Light or Choss Pile Deluxe?
https://www.summitpost.org/phpBB3/high-sierra-range-of-light-or-choss-pile-deluxe-t57957.html
Page 1 of 3
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:44 pmRe: High Sierra: Range of Light or Choss Pile Deluxe?
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:55 pmRe: High Sierra: Range of Light or Choss Pile Deluxe?
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:39 pmthey're terrible! stay away! tell all your friends!
Re: High Sierra: Range of Light or Choss Pile Deluxe?
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:16 pmSteve1215 wrote:kevin trieu wrote:Daria doens't like guys that complain about long approaches.
Chief and Daria do not approve.
correction: pretty soon daria won't have anything to complain about...
--
elaborate.
Re: High Sierra: Range of Light or Choss Pile Deluxe?
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 12:19 amIt is a complete choss pile and so dangerous.
DANGER......STAY AWAY. ESPECIALLY THE EASTSIDE!!!!
DANGER......STAY AWAY. ESPECIALLY THE EASTSIDE!!!!
Re: High Sierra: Range of Light or Choss Pile Deluxe?
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 6:49 amThose sections near Bridgeport, Bishop, and Lone Pine are especially bad chosspiles. 
They make an approach to the Wind River Range and Pickets Range look like a walk in the park.
Don't even get me started on the notoriously bad Sierra weather that thwarts the best of the PNW mountaineers.
Even just the extremely dangerous and unpredictable avalanche conditions would make Utahns and Coloradans run back to their mommies.
Plus, I think you can smell LA from the summit of Mt Whitney.
In fact, I think the only thing that the range has going for it is the short and easy drive from the Bay Area in winter. Just a hop, skip, and a jump over Tahoe or Bakersfield.
STAY AWAY! NO! RUN AWAY!
They make an approach to the Wind River Range and Pickets Range look like a walk in the park.
Don't even get me started on the notoriously bad Sierra weather that thwarts the best of the PNW mountaineers.
Even just the extremely dangerous and unpredictable avalanche conditions would make Utahns and Coloradans run back to their mommies.
Plus, I think you can smell LA from the summit of Mt Whitney.
In fact, I think the only thing that the range has going for it is the short and easy drive from the Bay Area in winter. Just a hop, skip, and a jump over Tahoe or Bakersfield.
STAY AWAY! NO! RUN AWAY!
Re: High Sierra: Range of Light or Choss Pile Deluxe?
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 2:03 amThe Sierra is death on a stick, enter at your own risk. Loose rocks abound, just waiting to kill. The bears have lost all fear of humans. Even lions lurk in the evening, just waiting for an easy meal. The mosquitoes carry viruses, and crazy people wait at trailheads, they wait for you to go in so they can vandalize your brand new Subaru. Somewhere in the Sierra, not sure where, there's a Bermuda Triangle where people who enter disappear forever. Like I said, it's death on a stick.
Re: High Sierra: Range of Light or Choss Pile Deluxe?
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 2:45 amSteve1215 wrote:
I'm well-acquainted with the Eastside. I have no fear of the technical routes. Getting killed up there would be a glorious death!
However, getting a blood blister while slogging thru all that kitty-litter scree is a constant concern.
-
The gym, I hear, has gloriously short approaches.
Re: High Sierra: Range of Light or Choss Pile Deluxe?
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 10:53 pmActual live snapshot of Bishop Webcam:
Yup, no climbing here!
Yup, no climbing here!
Re: High Sierra: Range of Light or Choss Pile Deluxe?
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 12:32 amOh come on ascending a scree slide is great, it works your quads twice as fast
Re: High Sierra: Range of Light or Choss Pile Deluxe?
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:52 amSteve1215 wrote:==
gem of the High Sierra...
Kevin Brown on Keeler Needle, Crimson Wall...VI, 5.12 A3
--
You done it Steve????
BTW, it has been down graded to a Grade IV.
Re: High Sierra: Range of Light or Choss Pile Deluxe?
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 2:42 amSteve1215 wrote:-
Is this question even open to debate? I need more info before I form an opinion.
Many of the High Sierra approaches are just too damned long and time-consuming. Pain in the ass!
I wish I could hire coolies or use slaves to pull me in some sort of a rickshaw or sled, right up to the base of the climbing routes.
-
--
“Real” climbers, they so frequently seem to miss the point. Why not just take a helicopter to the top?Re: High Sierra: Range of Light or Choss Pile Deluxe?
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 2:48 amgoldenhopper wrote: “Real” climbers, they so frequently seem to miss the point. Why not just take a helicopter to the top?
Re: High Sierra: Range of Light or Choss Pile Deluxe?
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 3:42 amBlue pill.
Re: High Sierra: Range of Light or Choss Pile Deluxe?
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:31 pmOh great, someone moved this stupid thread from the general board to california, but it should have went to Drivel. 