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Nice chatting with you for a moment at Kool Aid. I'm stoked that you tagged mixup, it was looking burly. I was almost bulldozed by the black bear and cub above Cascade pass as they came out of some bushes less than 5 feet from me while I was turned the other way changing my shoes. Quite a moment! I wish we would have noticed the cinnamon bear below Kool Aid but we missed it. Zack

Ooh nice one! Cool, ok it was probably the smallest variety of weasel around. Weasel shaped, but size of a squirrel, maybe smaller. Ermine is probably the winner.

Got on Skeena26 Labor Day weekend 2020. We found the approach trail to be easy to follow - THANK YOU for all the work to put this in clearing rogue branches, and deadfall, etc. Really nice job - thought it remains a big steep haul and the gulley crossings in very dry conditions are exciting. For 2nd gulley, we went up the side of the gulley and found a really nice camp in the woods, then we went up the ridge 5 more minutes and found the "grassy meadow" and decided that would be a nicer camp spot so went back and got our bags. From Grassy meadow, I scurried up and right on slabs and identified the Africa flake marking the Concerto line, but we decided for Skeena26 being that we are slow and it was shorter and maybe easier??? Anyway, we had to 4th class climb a bit from the high point to find the bolts marking pitch 1. First bolt is excitingly high (I'd say maybe 25' above a pool and a big fall), so we opted for the 5.8 line to the right, but later climbing pitch 1 after the descent - kudos to you guys for bolting that on lead as the whole pitch was pretty sustained! We got up and onto pitch 9, but bailed half way up as we had a hard time finding the "good crack for pro" just below the 5.8 bit and had figured it might be the last pitch of the day anyway due to daylight. The third bolt on Pitch 4 (before the overlap) isn't there - on descent, I discovered there was pro under the rock overlap. The first bolt after the overlap on pitch 4 is the only 1/4" bolt - the only one on the whole route - it didn't look super confidence inspiring. The bolt after the 1/4" has been damaged pretty good maybe from ice fall. By the time I got to the next clip, I was feeling happy to clip it. So - just be aware that right now Pitch 4 is pretty run out and/ or you are into a few suspect bolts. Another bolt on (I think on pitch 5) was loose enough to nearly pull out, which I realized when hand screwing the nut back on and the bolt started to come out! Higher up, everything seems in good order and all belays were in great shape. Wish we were faster and could have made the summit - rock is so clean and it is a beautiful little visited place. For trad gear, we brought way too much rack, but some very small nuts could have been placed in the micro-cracks if one really was desperate.