hey pete! Resident geologist checking in (new my degree would come in handy apart from my job haha). The reason for the Scittly features on the top vs in the crack is because the cracks are younger! Water slowly make its way into the rock which freezes, melts and re-freezes which over time cracks the rock (a process called frost wedging). So the crack is younger and therfore less weathered than the exposed surfaces. :D
Yeah having that encouragement is a big deal, it's a mental thing. You see the same across a lot of different sports that traditionally you'd be lead to believe are solo. Sports are never really a solo thing. Same with parkour, skateboarding, BMX, mountain biking... Lots of examples. The temptation to push your boundaries exponentially increases when you're working with friends (or evidently loved ones). There's a great tempering effect too, because your awareness of safety is no longer judged from a single perspective. See the Storror lads for a great example of this.
@@samshorto5433 Not really much hunting out there (because it's so burned up) just good opportunity for target shooting. Regardless managed hunting often is very good for wildlife, especially in areas without enough natural predators. Also good for local economies and provides some very healthy meat for families.
@@rushthezeppelin And why do those areas not have natural predators? That's right, because we hunted them to extinction. The argument of 'we need to kill more animals because we've already killed too many animals and so now different ones need killing' is a really poor one. What you've provided is an argument for the reintroduction of predators that humans have killed off.
@@samshorto5433 I never argued that we didn't. Regardless because of that we do need to play part at keeping prey animals in check to keep their populations healthy until we can properly reintroduce those predator species which I'm certainly in favor of doing within reason. This also does provide economic benefit to said areas.
Incredible! Bummed you guys couldn’t get out to Purity Ring with the raptor closures but so sweet seeing Whiskey Rocks highlighted like this. So many good crack boulders in the Platte!
Yeh, would have been nice to see that one. Another trip 😀 I'd defintely make some more trips back to the South Platte, so much to do out there. There was a 13c over that way called Skinny Love which also looked nice
@@WideBoyz We have some hard OWs and Slab climbs that still need FAs close to the river by whiskey! And some roof cracks! Plus the legendary Bottom Feeder, an anticipated 13+ OW there are pics of on MP (and I’m sure Tyler has pics)
@@TMWanish are you by chance talking about the roof crack problem near Little Wigwam Dome on the West side of the creek? Been eyeing that thing but I'm still a noob at roof OW so need to work my way up to that. As far as I can tell it's never seen a send, at least there's no evidence of it.
Also Pete bummed I missed y'all being out here. Would have loved to get a chance to learn from the wide master in person. Tyler is actually a friend of a friend of mine (although I haven't talked to that friend in a few years).
@@rushthezeppelin Nah, the mythical bottom feeder is deep in lost creek wilderness - I've been told though some new beta has been found that will probably make it go closer to 12+. I asked around about the Little Wigwam Dome Roof Crack and there's fear that it may seam out up high but nobody seems to know if there's been an ascent - aid or free
I've been climbing for a few weeks and just finished my first crack climb in the gym thanks to your awesome tutorials. This crack is local to me, and definitely is going to be the new end goal for me
That is brilliant to hear 😀 good luck with it. Hanging by your feet is easier than it looks as well, you just need strong core muscles and good stacking technique to succeed 💪
We recently got Wide Boyz crack volumes at our gym (Austria) it was surprisingly hard to even lift myself from the ground 😅 Psyched for more though! Love your videos Pete especially those outdoors like troll wall that was so awesome!
Ah brilliant, cool you managed to try them volumes, there are some good technique videos on our channel if you need any jamming tips. Glad you like the outdoor videos, more of those to come very soon from our recent States trip 🤙
I've never heard of it being Kitty Littery here! I grew up climbing in Southern California and we always just called it "Chossy"! Solid sends, and my lord Mari is well on her way to being one of (if not THE) strongest crack climbers to ever walk this planet! Keep it up!
I've heard both kitty litter and choss used to describe it in Texas and Colorado. Kitty litter is more accurate used as a subset of choss to describe the stuff that litterally just comes off in handfulls of little pebbles that very much resemble what you put in your cats litter box.
Dangit your in the Splatte? Are y'all still out here? Bourbon Legend is freaking awesome. And yes there is a popular area to shoot near there. Very likely though it's semi-auto gunfire not fully auto. Those things are exceedingly hard to aquire legally in the states and very expensive.
This is quality of Colorado?! 🤣🤣🤣. What a statement. Btw. Tried your volumes first time at a gym in Brno Hangar ( Adam Ondra's playground) the other day and I loved them! And one more thing. I did my first crag outside yesterday. Very easy crag at my home town but it made my day! 🎉🥳😇
Are they the black and white wooden ones there? Glad you got too try them, hopefully we can get some of our new Fibreglass models with Soft Grip Pro over there soon enough They have a new inner which is even nicer to climb on 💪
@@WideBoyz Yup. The ones you rent out. They were very good but since Hangar is overcrowded at all times, the insides were very slippery from peoples hand grease 🤣. Awesome, looking forward to them :). Cheers.
@@jjns3991624 Having climbed Europe's chossiest wall and enjoy places like Craig Doris in North Wales, I'd safely say we like choss 🙂 we're up for seeking it out
@@WideBoyz Yeah, my issue isn’t your relationship with choss it’s the fact that you would go to one boulder in a pretty big state with tons of rock in all forms and different qualities and say, “…this is the quality of Colorado” while you breaking apart choss in your hands.It would be like me going over to the UK and finding some dog shit on the side of the road and saying, “yup this pretty much sums UK climbing”.
Stoked to see you all in my neck of the woods. When you come back for Purity Ring, you’ll have to try Bishop Crack, Mississippi Half Step, Uptown Toodeloo, and Wunsch’s Dihedral. Maybe a sneaky jaunt up the Sphinx Crack?
Come climb devil's lake in Wisconsin. lots of cracks and you can ask around the quartzite we have is tough climbing. It's slick and sharp. And presents some unique challenges. And honestly I have never seen a known climber do anything here. Not climb not recording a video. But yet they say we have the best climbs in the mid west.
Wooo, that burn-over is depressing. I've spent some time in the South Platte & Turkey Rocks, and they all look post-nuclear these days after a decade of terrible wildfires. South Platte domes do resemble Vedauwoo's pre-Cambrian ('Sherman') granite, tho many cracks are a bit less flaring and there are better horizontal edges here and there. At Vedauwoo we call the skrittly stuff 'popcorn rock'. The selective erosion described by TheMattwasherein1992 below is also how you get those round 'Wily E. Coyote' boulders perched in unlikely places: any sharp corner has maximum surface area to volume, so it absorbs more water, which freezes and fractures off the rock. So if you begin with a cube, you end up with a sphere.🙂
Pete and Mari, such an honor to have you out here crushing in CO - here's hoping next time you're sending, you get to feel a little more comfortable and get a little more quiet. As a native Coloradan, I have to say I'm almost jealous how unused to the sounds of gunfire you both are. I hope you enjoyed the climbing enough that the gun culture can't keep you away!!! We're not all gun nuts out here, promise!
“I feel like we are going to get shot.” That sure sounds like climbing in the south platte! There is a long history of that in the area, especially on bucksnort slab and sphynx rock. If anybody needs a good read check out the comments sections under those areas on mountain project.
Hell there's even a route called Turkey Shoot named such because a landowner thought they were tresspassing mid route on the FA and purposefully sent a round into the rock very close to them as a warning. I think the person in question later got a stern talking to from the Sherriff? I don't remember but the story is in the comments of that route on MP.
When are you guys gonna come down to the Southeast of the US? Tennessee has some of the best single-pitch cracks in the US, with a different type of sandstone that's much tougher than the desert sandstone you see in the West. Don't let the Rockies get all the love!
🧗♂️💪🥇🧗♀️💪🏅🎇 21 gun salute to you both, great video showing everything from hand and feet placement to the fight a less meaty handed person has to get that salute. Hope your having a good few days out in the (unheard of) Easter sunshine
LOL. I felt the same way at first. Yes the Platte is nothing but kitty litter! Ignore the the 30O' domes everywhere with perfect rock and zero crowds. The Gunfire comments crack me up though.
Love the gunfire in the background. "Welcome to America!!!" I live in Colorado and have had people shoot at the rock I was climbing (they were far away, didn't see us.). No IQ test required to buy a gun.
I live in Denver! So cool to see something climbed by y'all so close to me!! The way you described the gun fire sounds like a semi-automatic. Automatic in the sense the gun's hammer sets itself and a round is chambered (think of the thumb action on a revolver not being needed.) Semi in the sense that one trigger pull is one round discharged. Fully automatic have rounds being fired continuously when the trigger is engaged. Lot of target shooting in that area. You should check out a range sometime! Cheers mate!
