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Little J-Berg! Thanks to @John_Roper, @rat, and @lunger for getting me to peruse some images and revive this thread!

paging @dberdinka....

Also, I want the record to show that somehow when I was trying to edit the tags I accidentally rated this thread one star and I can't change it to 5! So, sorry @rat and @lunger if I'm ruining your Zagat FA rating.

And so it shall be in the Griffith house! Thanks for that bit of history @John_Roper, always fun to hear new details for the familiar vistas in our backyard.

https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/community/puyallup-herald/ph-news/article311802624.html

Hey! Life long Bellinghamster here who is in love with the Sisters Range. We went out to do the Green Creek Circ recently and heard some guides talking about Howard Tower. Well, we found Eifel Tower, but we have no idea where to find this Howard Tower, or what it looks like. We'd love to explore and climb more of what the Sisters has to offer us.

Noticed this at our meet up parking lot; Broughtons Bluff—

"The climbing is moderate, but generally solid and fun, with adequate protection." "We opted for the safer option" Nice job, BUT WHO ARE YOU GUYS and what did you do with Eric and Rolf???

This approach is an appetizer of nettles and other thorny shrubbery types that thoroughly enjoy tickling your ankles with utter abandon. The 5.4 on the super gorge classic corner is a splendid main course in prime conditions currently. Though we wondered if frozen moss would allow for less rope drag when pulling to rap? How old is the pin by the tree?

It's now over 20 years later; and I still don't regret the purchase of the Kelty Cloud (or my Hilleberg tent) and it's as durable as it was on day one though a bit dirtier. Sometimes good gear is good gear.

More meat left on that bone.

Hey did you end up finding anyone for this attempt? Short notice, but we just got shut down by the aftermath of the storm last week, and I'm chomping to find another opportunity to make it up there this season. Happy to discuss in more detail.

John, Yep, I saw that photo when looking for lines other than the first ascent. If the summit register is to be believed, the Plumb Line Buttress is probably the, in my flea-bitten opinion, less aesthetic buttress starting from the right edge of the leftmost snow patch. We initially had our sights on the thinner rib west of our central buttress but there appeared to be a section of rot where it first gets steep and another below the top so we opted for the safer option. It's anyone's guess where Roger Jung went but I wouldn't be surprised if he climbed roughly the same line as us. I would call ours a "possible" rather than "probable" first ascent. To add to Eric's list of stats: We took about 6 hours on the route but that's 'cause one of us is "old and in the way".

John Porter has a nice sunlit shot of the whole north face here.

HAHAHAHA, how true. I already want to go check it out. Thanks for the post!

Sent you a DM - I’m always looking for partners as well.

Access to MRNP just got worse. (For Pierce County residents.) https://mynorthwest.com/chokepoints/sr-410-white-river-bridge/4121822

There was a guide a few decades ago that was planning to open this traverse up as a guided outing. It didn’t happen however. I just came across this bit: https://www.kcaw.org/2017/11/17/sitka-hikers-wrap-epic-six-year-baranof-island-trek/

A moment ago I was searching here for anyone possibly climbing with POTS. I have 4 kids now; the 2 oldest most likely have POTS; one of our 4 year old twins survived two open heart surgeries in her first two years of life; both at UCSF Benioff—the best pediatric cardio-thoracic surgeon Dr Reddy is down there. But back to POTS; found something somewhere else so, I figured I’d drop it here: https://blog.weighmyrack.com/how-to-climb-with-pots/ Anyone here have kids with POTS that go out in the woods hiking or climbing?

Thanks for the clarification, John @John_Roper -- I've seen it variously referred to with the -burg, the -berg, the full name with either an e or a u, and sometimes the hyphenate J-. Presumably the playful J-berg is truncated to make clear it's a smaller version of the real deal, and refers to a mountain and not a city? Anyway, now we know, J-berg! Fixed it in the title, etc.

I have been gone from the area for over 20 years now. But I never thought that this would happen in my lifetime. Rather melancholy about that now.

That really puts it in perspective. Nicely done gents.

As if you stepped out of a time machine into the hallroom of the Darrington hardmen of yore.

We tried it today, it could use a good scrubbing