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ClimbingFool wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 2:53 pm
Legal considerations aside, what's the typical way to climb Lindsey on these unsupported link-ups. Dash the gash out and back, or do Lindsey on its own from the East?
If doing it supported you def do a through run from Blanca down the Gash to Lindsey and exit Huerfano.
Unsupported of course he's gotta get back to his car, so from a total time perspective it's prob a wash on going up and down the gash vs driving around to the main route. The trouble w the link of the gash is its 5.4 and the ridge in between is not very fast so its tough and tiring terrain. Opting for driving around and doing it separately might take a little longer, but it's an easier and prob less stressful route and he gets to sit for a while. It's a tough balance of efficiency vs taking care of the body, as the long traverses take a lot out of one.
LucasR wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 4:17 pm
He is - watching him on the ridge of Little Bear, he is truckin along. Fingers crossed.
Kind of surprised he declined the traverse. Is the weather holding up there?
Because it's faster to go around the long way?
Depends how fast you scramble and how comfortable one is on the traverse. Takes me 1.25-1.5h on the traverse, no way I can do that going around the long way.
I could be wrong and have no factual support for my belief - but something tells me he got permission to tag the summit of Lindsey and the price he had to pay included not talking about it.
"If you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, and you say to this mountain, 'move from here to there,' it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you." Matthew 17:21
Gene913 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 09, 2022 3:37 pm
I could be wrong and have no factual support for my belief - but something tells me he got permission to tag the summit of Lindsey and the price he had to pay included not talking about it.
Sure hope so, as it is all now on record anyway. And if not, it could certainly create a lot of problems for future climbers. It will be interesting to hear, regardless.
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Gene913 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 09, 2022 3:37 pm
I could be wrong and have no factual support for my belief - but something tells me he got permission to tag the summit of Lindsey and the price he had to pay included not talking about it.
Sure hope so, as it is all now on record anyway. And if not, it could certainly create a lot of problems for future climbers. It will be interesting to hear, regardless.
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tortilla wrote: ↑Sat Jul 09, 2022 6:02 pmThe man does not want an asterisk next to his name
^ This. You don't spend two years planning this and not have a bullet proof plan for legally reaching every summit.
"If you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, and you say to this mountain, 'move from here to there,' it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you." Matthew 17:21
With everything to this point, I still think he has a good shot at the record. I'm impressed by the diversion on Little Bear and how quickly he finished the Blancas. Apparently, he had two of the issues folks here were worried about covered. This man has done his homework and prep and is getting it done; hope the intangibles cooperate from here to finish.
tortilla wrote: ↑Sat Jul 09, 2022 6:02 pmThe man does not want an asterisk next to his name
^ This. You don't spend two years planning this and not have a bullet proof plan for legally reaching every summit.
Maybe. Although I spent several months planning and Decalibron got shut down a few weeks before I started.
If he got explicit permission, no harm no foul. If not, he prrrrobably would have been better off “going dark”. And just taking a video on the summit as evidence.
Who knows? Maybe a deal is about to be reached with the land owners to liberate them from liability concerns and reopen it to the public. Regardless, nice to see Dan’s on his way to being Dan “bet your ass no asterisk” Hobbs.
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