Trip Report
Four Short Tahoe Bouldering Movies
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Thursday July 20, 2006 2:01am
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These four shorts explore Tahoe's classic problems and the lengths some people go to get to them. This footage was shot during the research of Tahoe Bouldering guide. That fall got a big dumping of snow and skiers were get deep powder on Halloween. The bad news is that many of the access road were snowed in. The good news is that many of the access road were snowed in (it made for some great boulder-pad car tows and Subi Rally Car driving). The films were made by Eric Volz and edited by Katharine Miller. Thank you Metolius for the the pads!
Lover's Leap
Brian Cork climbs a bunch of classics in the Lover's Leap campground then gets eaten by the 5.12 offwidth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSwdfW9CJmI
Echo View
Mark Nicholas works on one of the bazillion hard projects he has sent in the Tahoe area. Eric Volz then climbs some of the classics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpy9r4FL4zE
Donner Summit and Bliss
A tour of some of the best Highball classics at bliss. Then a few donner classics with cool stormy clouds and evening light. We wanted to get to the saddle boulders that day, but high snow blocked us. At least we got some good Subi rally car footage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqSMdaZqauc
Chris McNamara
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About the Author
Climbing Magazine once computed that three percent of Chris McNamara’s life on earth has been spent on the face of El Capitan—an accomplishment that has left friends and family pondering Chris’ sanity. He’s climbed El Capitan over 70 times and holds nine big wall speed climbing records. In 1998 Chris did the first Girdle Traverse of El Capitan, an epic 75-pitch route that begs the question, “Why?”
Outside Magazine has called Chris one of “the world’s finest aid climbers.” He’s the winner of the 1999 Bates Award from the American Alpine Club and founder of the American Safe Climbing Association, a nonprofit group that has replaced over 5000 dangerous anchor bolts. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley and serves on the board of the ASCA, and Rowell Legacy Committee. He has a rarely updated adventure journal, maintains BASEjumpingmovies.com, and also runs a Lake Tahoe home rental business. |
Comments
KP Ariza
climber
SCC
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Jul 20, 2006 - 02:06am PT
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Cool shot Chris, don't know if I'd call that a "boulder problem" though, 5.10 free solo more like, eh?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Jul 20, 2006 - 02:31am PT
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compression issues won't play the first 3 even after the update to allow or mpeg4
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Jul 20, 2006 - 10:54am PT
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Great stuff! The Donner movie won't load, even though the rest will. Anyone else having this problem? I miss Donner something fierce! By the way...if you want to see a HILARIOUS movie filmed at Donner, intended to be a serious movie about climbing and teen angst, catch "Take It to the Limit." A must-see flick that will make you think twice about climbing in bare hands again, or without a snakebite kit!
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Jul 20, 2006 - 11:12pm PT
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OK, I waited long enough and got the fourth one. Toooooo fun. Some of my favorite problems on the film. Missing Donner even more. Thanks!
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426
climber
☬
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Jul 20, 2006 - 11:23pm PT
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Nice. Those are some good frame grabs on this site (stills) for the pics of bliss (I assume). Usually they turn out a little funky...
I like the Echo View clip a lot...nice hard pulls...who "hasn't been there" with Mr. Nicholas?
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Brock
Trad climber
RENO, NV
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Jul 21, 2006 - 09:42pm PT
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Was up at the snowshed wall on Tuesday 7/18 and there was some big camera boom/rig atop of the Aerial arete/ Corrugation Corner area. Anybody know what they were filming???
Ran into a couple good ole climbers I had not seen in over a decade up there...Good ole...YSD (D Griffith).
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jul 21, 2006 - 10:44pm PT
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cool stuff!! Nice probs! The first three videos loaded and played immediately, the 4th took about 1 minute to load (cable modem, OSx.4.7)
I think I've done that OW problem @ the leap right in that main boulder spot?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Jul 22, 2006 - 12:59am PT
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so can everyone else see em, all?
I'll reinstall QT if so.
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Mill Valley, Ca
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Jul 22, 2006 - 02:56am PT
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Try encoding the videos as .mov files using Sorenson 3.
Much more compatible than H264 or MPEG-4, which require QuickTime 7,
as well as a processor fast enough to decode these types (my 400 Mhz Pismo chokes).
MPEG-1 is the most compatible format of all, but results in files twice as big.
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Mill Valley, Ca
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Jul 22, 2006 - 04:29pm PT
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Update:
Tested on Mom's Toshiba laptop after a fresh install of QuickTime 7.1 for Windows...
(uncheck the spam invitations and leave the e-mail field blank––it still works)
The first 3 played instantly, but the 4th wouldn't play until all 23 MB was downloaded.
This took 2 or 3 minutes on a 1.2 M/bit DSL connection. It looks to me that the 4th
vid was knott set to Progressive Download, which allows the vid to start playing
almost immediately while the rest of it finishes downloading.
Chris, You might want to have that one re-encoded so it will be the same as the others.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Jul 22, 2006 - 06:15pm PT
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Back in the 80s, not that I climbed there a lot, but that OW was well known to be 12+ OW. True FA info was unknown.
You (read in my dreams) can almost layback part of thing. Way powerful.
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smith curry
climber
nashville,TN
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Mar 31, 2007 - 11:53am PT
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I just want to remind everyone that Eric Volz is still in serious jeopardy, and needs your help. Friendsofericvolz.com and this short movie on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YChhOHrFA4 tell the story.
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IV
climber
tahoe
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That offwith is a real shoulder masher, at least until you get out of it and layback the top. The jams through the crux could accurately be described as "interesting"
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
C:porn
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Man...that brings back some fantastic memories...like when I FA'd the first nail-up of Kindergarden Crack. I wish that would've been on film.
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Bruce Morris
Trad climber
Soulsbyville, California
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Adobe Flash Player 9 seems to work just fine for me. What's the problem?
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Lisssa
Social climber
San Diego, CA
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Aug 21, 2009 - 12:16pm PT
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Love that shot--narly over the highway! Cool videos too (had no problem viewing with flash.
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Hotel Lake Tahoe Manager
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Jingy
climber
Random Nobody
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Sep 29, 2009 - 03:26pm PT
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Great post!!!
Love the vids!
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Roxy
Trad climber
CA Central Coast
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sweet videos, dying to get up that way
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