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![[Climbing the classic 'Groove Tube' in Thailand]](GrooveTube-Thailand.jpg)
Groove Tube, Fire Wall (6a)
Tonsai/Railay, Thailand
Adventurer, climber, astro-type: 'non-standard issue'. When not immersed
with the MASCS instrument sequencing on the
MESSENGER spacecraft, one can generally find him out and about, climbing
something or seeking other adventures. Always, though, in search of that
ever-elusive Ark, and dodging his dreaded nemesis, the Weather God...
Favorite Climbs to date (no particular order) :
- Magical Chrome-Plated Semi-Automatic Enema Syring (5.7) - Lumpy Ridge, CO
- Rama II (5.9) - The Narrows, MD
- Rendezvous With Rama (5.8) - The Narrows, MD
- Groove Tube (5.9+) - Fire Wall, Tonsai, Krabi Prov, Thailand
- Captain Hook (5.10a/b) - Melting Wall, Tonsai, Krabi Prov, Thailand
- Wind Ridge (5.6/5.7+) - Eldorado Canyon, CO
- Direct East Face (5.6R) - First Flatiron, Boulder, CO
- Diedre (5.7/5.8) - Squamish, BC
- Little Finger (5.5) - Adirondacks, NY
- Gelsa (5.4) - Gunks, NY
- The Great Arch (5.5) - Stone Mountain, NC
- Bastille Crack (5.7/5.8) - Eldorado Canyon, CO (pitch 3)
- North Face Center (5.7) - Boulder Canyon, CO
- Gunsight To South Peak Direct (5.4) - Seneca Rocks, WV
- Pollux (5.10a) - Seneca Rocks, WV
- Conns East Direct (5.8) - Seneca Rocks, WV
- A Long Walk For Man, A Short Climb For Mankind (5.4) - Gunks, NY
- Disneyland (5.6-) - Gunks, NY
- Arrow (5.8) - Gunks, NY
- Limelight (5.7) - Gunks, NY
- Yum Yum Yab Yum (5.3 or 5.4+, depending; *shrug*) - Gunks, NY
- Empress/Greensleeves (5.5X/5.6) - Adirondacks, NY
- Faint's Roof (5.10a) - Annapolis Rocks, MD
- Black Crack (5.9) - Annapolis Rocks, MD
- Breakaway Right (5.9+/5.10-) - Rocks State Park, MD
- Bloodguard (5.9+) - Sugarloaf Mtn, MD
- Force Ten (5.10b) - White Rocks, MD
- Lakeview (5.5 (5.7/5.8 sandbag) ) - Canon Mtn, NH
- Right V Crack (5.10a) - Joshua Tree, CA
- Tyrannosaurus Rex (5.9) - Joshua Tree, CA
- Hands Off (5.8) - Joshua Tree, CA
- Great Beginnings (5.9 var) - Great Falls, VA
- Backscratch (5.10) - Great Falls, VA
- Edward's Crack/Jacquot's Face (5.6/5.7) - Vedauwoo, WY
- TAD (5.7) - Devil's Tower, WY
- Phlegmish Dance (5.8) - Squamish, BC
- Quarryman (5.8) - Squamish, BC
Other things - hobbies, projects, fun things, etc:
The Adventure Library:
And if you don't know what a given climbing term means...hey! an online climbing dictionary!
For grins and giggles, and other fun stuff, some People,
Places, and Things around the Web...
![[photo of Indy atop Mt Ypsilon]](ypsilon.gif)
Summit of Mt Ypsilon
Mt Ypsilon (13,514'), Rocky Mtn Nat'l Park, Colorado
Copyright © 1994 M Kochte, Baltimore, Md. All rights reserved (naturally)
This document may be freely distributed via computer/other electronic
network/media, or printed out of aforementioned media, for personal use
only. Any other use, commercial or otherwise, without askin' me first, well,
would be considered rude and result in acts unmentionable at this time.
Mark 'Indy' Kochte (climb_md@yahoo.com)
Payload Specialist
The Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory
MESSENGER Mission
11100 Johns Hopkins Road
MS 13N382
Laurel, Maryland, 20723
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