Childhood Dream-Bagging ?

[Chip]

There are lots of things on my list now or that I've done that I was not aware of as a child.

As a yute, my parents took us up the Cog and I saw some hikers on the way up and at the summit. So I got it in my mind that hiking all the way up Mt Washington would be a cool thing to do. Unfortunately someone on the Cog mentioned they thought all those rock piles were where hikers had died . So I had to revise my plan: To hike Mt Washington without dying. Done.

In the summer of 1973 my family took a big trip out west and visited, among most of the other parks, the Tetons. I remember wondering if they could be climbed, they looked so isolated and impenetrable. Two years ago I summited Disappointment Peak, just below Grand.

Growing up we spent a lot of time boating and camping on Lake George, NY. Anyone who has been on the northern end of the lake has seen Rogers Rock rise 700 feet right out of the lake. It was an obvious and nagging temptation to one day climb that. After posting a message here last year stating "Need a lead on Rogers Rock", J.Dub and his climbing partner Paul have agreed to lead/drag my sorry butt up that slab this coming weekend. (wish us luck).

Got any childhood dream-bagging stories ?

 

[leaf]

yeah, if this rain stops and i can climb the damn eaglet. i know, weird. but i was in NH on a family vacation (grew up in NY) and saw the rock spire formation from profile lake. much more exciting than staring at old man of the mountain. i found out a few weeks ago from summitpost that it's the only free standing spire on the east coast. someone pointed out to me that people climb it. i was 12 years old.. never even hiked up a hill, nevermind climbed. and i was like, "wow! amazing! how do they do that?!" it blew me away. haha. i thought how cool it would be to climb it. never thought i'd move to new hampshire 10 years after that.

wasn't until nif mentioned it a few weeks ago that it jogged back up in my memory. anyway, it's like two or three pitches of 5.6/5.7 terrain. easy climbing, but nice and exposed.

small dream and totally achievable. that's how i like 'em.

i got alot of big dreams, like winning mookie's affection, but thought this small one would be more interesting to share.

 

[mookie]

small dream and totally achievable. that's how i like 'em.

i got alot of big dreams, like winning mookie's affection, but thought this small one would be more interesting to share.

one time i had a dream about leaf

 

[jfb]

Good luck on Rogers' Rock!

I remember doing Little Finger about 25 yrs. ago and it was lots of fun. The crack is aptly named - just big enough to squeeze fingertips in and face climbing with the feet. The highlight of the climb was leaving the crack and moving right over a bulge on friction.

Your post also reminder me that 35 yrs ago today I was hiking up to the Middle Teton glacier for an ascent of the Upper Exum Ridge. Time sure flies.

 

[Ridgewalker]

Chip, I still want to be one of those hikers you see out from the Cog rail car. I'll wave at the tourists, but maybe not moon them. That sticks out in my childhood, sans mooning