Trip Report
Shenanigans: Moonlight Ascent of The Vampire

by Josh Higgins
Sunday September 12, 2010 1:30pm
Roberto and I had the brilliant idea to go climb The Vampire at night during the full moon. It's a 5.11a multipitch at Tahquitz. To make it even better, it was his onsight attempt of the route.

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Roberto and I, prepared to climb The Vampire!
Roberto and I, prepared to climb The Vampire!
Credit: Josh Higgins
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Here's a link to the TR/video: http://pullharder.org/2010/09/11/anything-but-ordinary-full-moon-ascent-of-the-vampire/

I hope you enjoy!

Josh



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Josh Higgins 		About the Author
Josh Higgins is a trad climber from San Diego.

Comments
Impaler

Social climber
San Francisco
  Sep 12, 2010 - 02:48pm PT
Good job, dudes!
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
  Sep 12, 2010 - 03:01pm PT
Awesome!!

Nice effort and way to keep it interesting!
kingpin

Trad climber
methdeathsto ca
  Sep 12, 2010 - 04:18pm PT
I don't get it.
Josh Higgins

Trad climber
San Diego
Author's Reply  Sep 12, 2010 - 04:49pm PT
Did you watch the video? I don't get how you can NOT "get it"...

Josh
Mark Hudon

Trad climber
On the road.
  Sep 12, 2010 - 05:11pm PT
You guys are fricken whacked! I want to go climbing with you guys!
2 l l

Sport climber
Rancho Verga, CA
  Sep 12, 2010 - 05:21pm PT
You guys dress up very often?
GDavis

Social climber
SOL CAL
  Sep 12, 2010 - 05:46pm PT
Haha that was fun to watch, thanks for sharing! I see you do not subscribe to the Mark Twight school of thought when it comes to attitude towards routes, I don't think he ever made mandatory stops at party city en route to climb. He probably wasn't having as much fun :)


Keep it up!
Josh Higgins

Trad climber
San Diego
Author's Reply  Sep 12, 2010 - 06:23pm PT
Mark, I'd climb with you any time... I'm sure Roberto would too. If you're ever in So Cal, send an e-mail.

We do costumes occasionally. I think we'll get more ridiculous as time goes by. J-Tree season is coming, so we'll have to find some ridiculous stuff to do there this year.

Mark Twight has a quote, "It doesn't have to be fun to be fun." I like to add to that, "But sometimes when it's fun, it's REALLY fun..."

Josh
hb81

climber
  Sep 12, 2010 - 06:25pm PT
"is it like touching the void?"

bahahahaha, nice vid guys! (as pretty much everything from the pullharder crew)
MisterE

Gym climber
Small Town with a Big Back Yard
  Sep 12, 2010 - 09:38pm PT
Great TR! Funniest since Micronut's Mullet Ascent of Royal Arches!
dogtown

Trad climber
Cheyenne, Wyoming and Marshall Islands atoll.
  Sep 12, 2010 - 08:29pm PT
One of my all time favorite routes in the world!!
Lots of laughter from you two, the mushrooms must have been as of high quality just like the climb. Ehh?



Nice work!

Dog.
Nate Ricklin

climber
San Diego
  Sep 12, 2010 - 08:44pm PT
"You guys dress up very often?"
murcy

Gym climber
sanfrancisco
  Sep 12, 2010 - 10:20pm PT
Nice on-sightless.
Zander

climber
  Sep 13, 2010 - 12:32am PT
Sweet!
Josh Higgins

Trad climber
San Diego
Author's Reply  Sep 13, 2010 - 07:24pm PT
Way to dig up some oldies but goodies Nate. I think we're doing costumes again this year.

On-sightless! LOL!

Do any of you ever climb in costume?

Josh
Frozenwaterfalls

Ice climber
California
  Sep 13, 2010 - 07:56pm PT
Great trip report :). A friend and I climbed Shagadelic in 1970s polyester 1970s duds. And we yelled "Yeah baby!" at every belay. But that is as close to climbing in costume as I have gotten so far.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
  Oct 1, 2010 - 10:43am PT
Humor Bump!!
I love the costume ascent jive.
But dude, Halloween is still in front of us.
We'll be expecting something even scarier coming right up.
Better start planning!!

One comment. It seems like a small thing because a click to the link is so freekin' easy. But I would still suggest moving some pictures directly into the TR.

Thanks again guys!
Josh Higgins

Trad climber
San Diego
Author's Reply  Oct 1, 2010 - 11:31am PT
Thanks for the humor bump! There will be some fun out in J-Tree for sure this fall, but I'm not sure it'll end up as a trip report. As far as putting pictures in the trip report here, is there a way to crosslink instead of uploading each one? I used to be able to do that using something like but that doesn't seem to work anymore.

Josh
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
  Oct 1, 2010 - 11:52am PT
Josh,
I still like to use photobucket for pics because I can do a copy and paste type function on the image code and have larger images too.

The ST function is handy but they come out smaller.

I still have to do it one at a time, but once I have PB open, it's faster than the 4-5 little steps from the ST function. Maybe it's just me.....

Did you check out the photo size on the Rambles and Mules TR?
Elcapinyoazz

Social climber
Joshua Tree
  Oct 1, 2010 - 11:56am PT
Roberto was onsighting too right? I thought that mantle-ish sequence into the 1st belay was tricky enough to figure out in daylight. Nice jorb.
pc

climber
  Oct 1, 2010 - 12:03pm PT
Batty. Very nice!
The Alpine

climber
The Sea
  Oct 16, 2010 - 10:08am PT
Awesome. What are the Halloween plans!?
mooser

Trad climber
seattle
  Oct 16, 2010 - 10:42am PT
Loved it, Josh! Thanks for the TR!
Josh Higgins

Trad climber
San Diego
Author's Reply  Oct 19, 2010 - 01:41am PT
Ah... the Halloween plans... They're slowly formulating. I have one last grueling week left of work and school and then I'm FREE! Then it's time to start making more ridiculous plans and having fun. I'm so burned out. I should be working on a presentation on prions right now and I can't seem to give a damn...

We have some non-halloween costume related plans, but not everything should be broadcast on the internet before it happens. We'll hopefully have some more good trip reports of various kinds up in the next month or so, and that might be one of them. We also just had the first annual PH marathon which was a huge success, and I'm working on a TR from last summer that I haven't gotten around to writing yet.

Josh
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