How About ‘dat Disco Diva?

February 25, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized 

Back in September, when I was starting to sketch out the rough plan of what I’d do after leaving DC, I knew I’d want to head on down to Bishop to live here and climb for a couple months.  I think the original plan was to settle down here for 2-3 months and get whatever climbing I could get done before I headed out to San Francisco.

Now I’ve been here about a month. And I know there’s no way I’m going to stay here 2-3 months. I’m having such a great time here, I’m thinking I very well may be here for the entire year.   Ill probably travel around during the summer when it gets wayyy too hot here, but yeah, I can see myself staying here for a good while.

I also blogged a preliminary tick-list of problems I’d liked to get done while I’m here.  You can see the tick list here.

And how are things going, you ask?  Better than I’d ever expected.  Today I headed out to the Happys and found this group of climbers working on Disco Diva.  I warmed up on several different problems before flexing my fingers for the big send.  There were two other guys giving it real serious attempts.  One of them was getting very, very close.  And I was still fumbling around on my first few tries - on the start, trying to figure out a good way to link up everything to the crux without blowing too much energy.

Then it just all clicked on the next try and I ended up sending it in a rather easy fashion.

So here’s the ticklist as it is right now.

I shouldn’t be content to sit back and settle for just those.  I’ve been shown, and discovered quite a few more amazing looking lines that need to be done.  So here are the additions:

Comments

6 Responses to “How About ‘dat Disco Diva?”

  1. hui on February 25th, 2008 10:36 pm

    um.. about those names.. how did u came up with those names?? or there’s a name for each problems next to them? O_o

  2. tim on February 26th, 2008 12:09 am

    they’re given names by people over time, usually by the person who climbed it first. then they are published in guide books, etc…

    http://wolverinepublishing.com/bishop_bouldering.html

  3. Sonny on February 26th, 2008 12:15 am

    If you were to discover a new route, a new boulder…what would you name it?

  4. tim on February 26th, 2008 3:43 pm

    if i were to establish a new route, then i’d certainly have the right to name it, but i can’t say what i’d call it. the name would depend on the context of the problem, the experience while establishing it, and whatever…

  5. Climbing Narcissist on February 28th, 2008 8:47 pm

    Hey Tim, could you send me an email at this address? I have a question about using a couple of the pictures of me that you took.

    Thanks
    Brian

  6. Disco is so 2006 : blackcore on June 5th, 2008 6:13 pm

    [...] about as far up as I got that day.  I couldn’t get past that little crimpy pull.  I finally sent this problem in February. [...]

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