Cranky German

Tag: rock climbing

  • Camp 4 Nocturne

    As the polyglottal cacophony settles and lights dim, the creatures of the forest start plotting their nightly plundering of anything edible that hasn’t been battened down.

  • $100 Lesson of the Day

    Anticipate the rotational force created by a pendulum fall. Don’t insert your Omega Link Cam far enough into a crack so the back lobes are close to engaging. Your Omega Link Cam becomes one with the rock when it is shifted by force and the bigger lobes are also touching the rock. Your Omega Link…

  • Life at Camp 4

    Staying at the National Historical Site Camp 4 is on a first come, first serve basis. At the crack of dawn a line forms in front of the booth with upstanding citizens waiting to get a shared campsite. Other climbers just drag in their crashpads after dark and sleep behind your bearbox. Rangers have devised…

  • In Search of Pool Time

    After getting pumped up by Ron Kauk’s personal presentation of his climbing and deep thought nature philosophy film we decided to set off on our first Yosemite multipitch trad climbing adventure. The book mentioned Yosemite Falls pools which we were looking forward to on this hot day. Our approach via the Sunny Side Bench route…

  • Ron Kauk Getting Beta On Climbing ‘Just Do It’

  • The Nose

    Katja on our first pitch of the Nose on El Capitan. We were so awed we decided to forgo the last 30 pitches.

  • Saxon Sandbag* in the Owens River Gorge

    Turns out the Saxon rope guns** we found at the Mexican restaurant in Bishop consistently aimed too high. Who wants to struggle up five pitches of 5.11b or haul themselves up a 5.12d face climb on their vacation? To no suprise these fine people have named their firstborn after Juri Gagarin, the first human in…

  • Cranky Hears the “Call Of The Canyon”

    (c) Photo: Katja

  • Red Rocks in March