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Text Message Trip Report of Art Baker Memorial (Serious Responses Only Please)

by this just in
Tuesday April 19, 2016 9:48am
My brother sent me this today after climbing Art Baker Memorial at Tollhouse yesterday.

Climbed art Baker w Jolley yesterday...hey dude does that look like a rattlesnake above me in that crack??? Oh yes it was lol. F*#king crimping cracks cause I was gripped to jam lol. F*#k that thing but I was not backing off lol

Are you serious? It was in the p2 part?

P1. Lol right in the route just hoping it doesn't fall on me cause it was trying to get away higher and it looked dicey. It slipped then decided f*#k it I'm making a stand, turned around ready to fight but I put out the good vibes. Mainly...if you bite me it'll hurt me but you will definitely die little friend. Seemed to work lol

As if that pitch wasn't shitty enough, lol. You're so read braj!

I was like locals only motherf*#ker

Trad, not read. Autocorrect is a sport climber.

Damn pretty trad. Still need to sh#t in my shirt to get the triple crown but I have used a #11 nut for a spoon


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FRUMY

Trad climber
Bishop,CA
  Apr 19, 2016 - 10:17am PT
Nice, too funny
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
  Apr 19, 2016 - 10:35am PT
wait, ? what?
" with Jolley"? Which one - Al ? if so....
hey. I know that guy !
overwatch

climber
Arizona
  Apr 19, 2016 - 10:33am PT
traaaahhhhdddd, mmmyaahhnn, rattlesnakes are sport climbers
Vitaliy M.

Mountain climber
San Francisco
  Apr 19, 2016 - 10:53am PT
He didn't have a selfie stick? WTF braj?! Every person out there have one, people want photos of the snake! Snake is 9 inches or longer FYI.
phylp

Trad climber
Upland, CA
  Apr 19, 2016 - 11:03am PT
Good Lord!
micronut

Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
  Apr 19, 2016 - 11:44am PT
Sick story Brosef. Art Baker himself would be proud you kept yer act together and dealt with that little buzzworm in style.


Baker is best known for his work on a television series he created, titled You Asked For It (for which he became affectionately dubbed, the "genie with the light, white hair") between December 1950 and January 1958. It was originally named The Art Baker Show, but the title was changed in April, 1951.

ABM Rocks! If it weren't for the crappy rock, the death flake on P2 and all the rattlesnakes.

#tollhouseclassic
#antivenom
#that'swhyIclimbwithapistolattollhouse
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
  Apr 19, 2016 - 12:01pm PT
And people wonder why we Central Californians show such sang froid!

I vaguely remember an episode of "You Asked For It" about climbing, showing the climbing of an overhang with aid slings in the California style. I would love to see that episode again now, to see if my almost sixty-year-old memory has any validity.

John
jstan

climber
  Apr 19, 2016 - 12:16pm PT
Back when I lived down south one of our people brushed a five foot long diamond back off a ledge while leading. I never heard what he said to warn the second.

Get Rgold to tell his snake story.
micronut

Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
  Apr 19, 2016 - 12:34pm PT
#woot!
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
  Apr 19, 2016 - 12:38pm PT
I first climbed at Tollhouse in February of 1970, and I have yet to see a snake there. In 1968, however, we went to Pine Ridge to climb on the cliff there. As we were rappelling down a chimney, we found ourselves heading into a whole nest of them at the bottom, so we hightailed it out.

I found out later that those snakes were perhaps the least of our worries. In those days, and maybe still, the Pine Ridge cliff was very close to a plantation of "a coveted California cash crop" (to use the words of an early Tollhouse guidebook).

John
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Justin Ross from North Fork
Author's Reply  Apr 19, 2016 - 06:39pm PT
Hahaha, good comments for sure.

Figured some could relate to snakes en route.

Different Jolley Gnome.
Radish

Trad climber
SeKi, California
  Apr 21, 2016 - 10:59am PT
This story needs a snake pic from the area. Them buggers are out now for sure and most who see em usually add a few inches to their story for effect. But, seeing any snake on a climb is everyone's biggest fear! Cool texting!
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climber
Justin Ross from North Fork
Author's Reply  Apr 21, 2016 - 11:33am PT
Nice radish. Here's one from Black Mountain right across the way from Tollhouse.
I was standing on that little rock in front of it for around thirty seconds before I even noticed it.
Was a beautiful animal. I guess the very next week the property owner saw it in the same spot and killed it. Some people just hate them.

I have seen snakes in cracks before, but never a rattler. Also have heard the horror stories of pulling onto a Ledge and being face to face with one.

John's rap story above is good.
Clint Cummins

Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
  Apr 21, 2016 - 01:54pm PT
Don't laugh too hard about rattlesnakes on climbs --
you can lose a finger due to swelling, and/or pay huge hospital
bills for the antivenom if you don't have health insurance.
See this 2008 thread:
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/580849/Sean-Jones-Needs-a-Doctor-Expert-in-Rattlesnake-Bites
micronut

Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
  Oct 10, 2016 - 02:37pm PT
Still need to sh#t in my shirt to get the triple crown but I have used a #11 nut for a spoon


Pure Supertopo gold.....
Mungeclimber

Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
  Oct 10, 2016 - 04:23pm PT
Autocorrect is a sport climber.


I'm kind of partial to this one. lol
zBrown

Ice climber
  Oct 10, 2016 - 05:40pm PT
Put his up here somewhere before.

Here it is again

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i-b-goB

Big Wall climber
Nutty
  Oct 10, 2016 - 05:43pm PT
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