FFA - Peckerhead Direct at Columbus wall

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FFA - Peckerhead Direct at Columbus wall

Postby bns » Mon Oct 06, 2008 5:14 pm

Yesterday the Peckerhead Direct project at Columbus went down. Super thin climbing for 2 bolts to link into Peckerhead. Great line for crimp fiends! Home of the one-finger tooth deadpoint. Do it!
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Re: FFA - Peckerhead Direct at Columbus wall

Postby seanT » Mon Oct 06, 2008 6:01 pm

Suhweeeeaatttttt!!!! That rig has been bolted and waiting to go for years now! Nice climbing Zig. I pretty much figured the one finger tooth deadpoint would be the beta. Let the sendfest begin!!!
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Re: FFA - Peckerhead Direct at Columbus wall

Postby bns » Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:26 pm

mid 12 for sure.
also the steep leaning arete beside Andisimo is amazing. That thing goes and it will be one of THE testpiece in the province. Really impressive line.
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Re: FFA - Peckerhead Direct at Columbus wall

Postby chameleon » Tue Oct 07, 2008 7:33 am

In other TESTPIECE news....
...just a day prior to Zig's realization of Peckerhead,
Sean Kelly was seen shaking his thang out the Keyhole during a blistering
half hour ascent of the Keyhole Wall.

Nice job Zig! And errrr Sean :)

The keyhole wall was pretty clean as were the odd sport route and the long 5.10s (DDD + Alpomayo), but man has that cliff become overgrown!! The cliff needs to be re-discovered and scrubbed. Maybe a weekend of camping, libations, scrubbing and climbing would be in order? Would it be too cold in November for this kind of shenanigans? Any interest?

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Re: FFA - Peckerhead Direct at Columbus wall

Postby peter » Tue Oct 07, 2008 6:12 pm

bns wrote:Yesterday the Peckerhead Direct project at Columbus went down. Super thin climbing for 2 bolts to link into Peckerhead. Great line for crimp fiends! Home of the one-finger tooth deadpoint. Do it!

I am pretty sure Thom and I climbed that route, wearing backpacks and in hiking boots, a few years back. Of course, there were no bolts on the route back then. And we had been drinking that morning. I am sure I have a picture somewhere. Good times. Sure do miss climbing.
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Quiglin said, "Embracing the ice and snow, head and eyebrows held high."
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Re: FFA - Peckerhead Direct at Columbus wall

Postby chameleon » Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:30 am

Oh yeah, I remember that ascent. I seem to remember that Thom named the route after you Peter! :lol:
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Re: FFA - Peckerhead Direct at Columbus wall

Postby peter » Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:48 am

chameleon wrote:Oh yeah, I remember that ascent. I seem to remember that Thom named the route after you Peter! :lol:

True. My friends do call me Direct.
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Re: FFA - Peckerhead Direct at Columbus wall

Postby Zamboni » Wed Oct 08, 2008 2:20 pm

I'd be down for some climbing in November. I should be back at it by then.
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