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Hey everyone, been into mountaineering for a bit over a year and a half now since moving to WA from the East Coast. Climbed Rainer, St. Helens, done wilderness first aid / basic avy training / in-depth crevasse training. Looking for someone (or a group) to start doing some other alpine objectives with throughout the region! Would love to get all the WA volcanoes in this summer. Based in Seattle, work as an engineer, 31 y.o.

Looking at climbing the W Face of CBR next weekend. After this latest storm cycle I'm wondering if anyone familiar can comment on the approach and how wet the corner pitch etc might be? Thanks!

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Hey everyone. My name is Noah and I am 19. I am based in Bellingham WA, and have recently gotten into mountaineering and climbing. I have spent this year lead climbing, but would love to start doing alpine more seriously. I have some of the skills to start doing so, but lack the experience to really throw myself into the thick of it. Would anyone in the Bellingham area be willing take me and my brother out to show us the ropes? I would love to pay for a course, but don’t really have the money to do so right now. Thanks!

I think this route might have fallen apart?

Thanks so much for the suggestion! I'd posted it to the general forum on Mountain Project but did not know there was a women's forum.

If you haven't yet, I would post it to this Women's forum on Mountain Project... https://www.mountainproject.com/forum/103989406/womens-forum

Trip: Snow Creek - The Chisel (North Face, 5.9) Trip Date: 06/14/2024 Trip Report: After stumbling across Jplotz's photos of the Chisel on SummitPost taken in 2006, I was inspired by the aesthetics of this pinnacle and the lack of information about it. (Edit: I found JPlotz's CC post shortly after writing up my own report! Turns out their ascent was in 2004.) Jplotz, 2006: The photo that captured my imagination Photo from 6/14/24 Working with only the 2006 photos, a brief mention in the Cascade Alpine Guide, and a location pin on Caltopo (later discovered to be inaccurate) my buddy Sam and I set off for a Cascadian adventure. We approached via the Wedge Mountain Trail, bushwhacking and scrambling south along the ridge to the point where we would drop down into the 4th class terrain and descend the 500 feet to the base of the Chisel. The bushy ridge of Wedge Mountain, looking north. The tower in the middle is not the Chisel. In hindsight, the more sane approach is to take the Snow Lakes Trail and ascend a gully (unless you have a hankering for a scrappy, scrambly day out) even though the mileage and elevation gain are higher. This way, you can avoid most of the schwacking, the loose descent off the ridge, and the heinously overgrown road to the Wedge Mtn. Trailhead. The second crux of the day (the first being the road) was locating the Chisel. Caltopo's pin is about 400 feet too far north, and this caused some confusion as we continued down the ridge with no Chisel in sight. After traversing a little farther and scrambling up to a viewpoint, we finally laid eyes on the pinnacle and felt a mixture of stoke and worry as we realized how much kitty litter and pine needle-strewn 3rd and 4th class terrain we would have to descend to reach our objective. The Chisel reveals itself! We hemmed and hawed for a few minutes, then started carefully down-scrambling. We made one rap off a tree, then roped up and traversed south across a dense 45˚ forest slope, using the trees for a natural running belay. Just when it felt like we must have passed the formation, Sam shouted back to me that we were close! Soon we were back on rock, scrambling to the base of the climb. We took a short break to settle in and rack up, then started up the real climbing. I led the first short step to the big belay ledge, a hand crack behind a flake. Up next was the 75' 5.9 pitch that I had seen referenced but never photographed. I was surprised by how protectable and high-quality it looked. 75 feet of 5.9 crack! I started up the wide layback, noting how much the lichen-crusted rock reduced the friction beneath my feet. At a good stance, I placed gear and moved into a section of good hands followed by good fists. More laybacking on flakes and solid gear led to the final section of hands with increasingly abundant and positive face holds. Topping out, I whooped with delight and stoke on the fun lead and spectacular position. I brought Sam up, and we took a moment to enjoy the views and take photos. There are three bolts at the top, an assortment of rusty 1/4"ers. We replaced the old tat and equalized the two best bolts, backing them up to a nut. Woohoo! Sam on rappel The scramble up and out was straightforward enough, though accompanied by many laments of the Wedge Mtn approach. Burgers in Leavenworth capped off an unforgettable day out! We initially believed we were the first to climb this feature since 2004, but the JPlotz TR reported a hole count of one at the summit and we found three. If you climbed the Chisel after 2004 and before us, reply and tell us about it! The little summit block of Wedge, a small bonus on the day Gear Notes: If you want to sew it up and have a solid anchor: Singles 4 to 0.4 Doubles 2 to .75 Approach Notes: Wedge Mountain approach is much more bushwhacking and scrambling. Snow Lakes Trail is probably much more straightforward than what we did, but longer.

There isn't a size tag on the coat...but it's probably men's large in today's sizing.

Hyperion is still available. Price lowered to $220.

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Is there a size listed???

I have iPhone 12 and Ian has iPhone 15. Most of these are his pictures, they look quite a bit better than mine!

Super cool, that doesn't get done very often. What are you using to take photos?

Congrates ... well done

Wow there is a name I have come across in a while. I loved Conquistadors of the Useless.

Purchased in Kathmandu. Lionel Terray was a French climber who died in 1965 so this coat is old. Has been stored on a closet and unworn for decades. Two rows of snaps, very warm high loft down. Own of piece of history, and a warm coat. $30

Not that I would know, but I bet you guys just got ideal conditions. I also enjoyed the video. I'm also someone not psyched about drones in the wilderness. No doubt that footage is awesome, but the TR would totally not be diminished if that footage didn't exist. Thanks for sharing here.

Continued thanks to those that utilize the "Donate" button in the upper left! We've had a few people donate more recently, and these funds go towards stuff like software licensing, domain registrations, and other expenses. Thank goodness the biggest cost is covered by American Alpine Institute.... our only sponsor other than you! Together with AAI this site lives on without Google soul harvesting. And should any of you want a free Cascadeclimbers.com sticker or two reach out to me. Would love to see these on vehicles at the crags and trailheads. I still have a good amount of them and they aren't doing any good sitting on bag on my desk. If your work at an outdoors store or climbing gym or whatever, I can get you some to give out.

@strongsexysmart have one for you -- sent you a private message.