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Hey ncascadesranger! What's the official skinny on riding bikes on the first couple of miles of the approach (flat, abandoned road, part)? Verboten?

KEN SCHRAM FOREVERRRRR!!!!

Get yourself a Rotweiler. Otherwise, don't go to Squamish. I think the climber's campground is probably relatively safe because it's up at the end of a road (only one quick getaway), and they lock up the place at night. I guess the road to the Squaw has only one way out too though.

If you don't give it back, you'll never be able to be righteous about that guy's dickheadedness again. Give it back. Unless that's inconvenient. If so, just call them and tell 'em where they can pick it up.

Cool! Does that mean I led a Kearny double skull route? I thought that corner was really nice (and a bit exciting).

I think we hit the maroon dot then the light blue dot. The light blue dot was a beautiful sustained corner with a crack that closed up a couple of times that made for some nervy stemming. The squeeze described in Beckey is just down and left from the maroon dot.

Had he recently ingested any battery acid or cat pee?

Couldn't help but noting a new sign just across the tracks from the parking lot stating that the area is part of the Sky Forks State Park. Complete with prohibitions on camping, fires and hunting, and a ranger phone number. Nothing about parking fees though. Just thought some people'd like to know.

Saturday night: Matrix IMAX, then THE BOOSTER at the Fun Forest. Sunday: Index, pretty hot in the sun. Uncrowded (smart people further up in hills) Knocked off the 5.9 classics GM/HOC various [the mysterious blue sling of GM is still mystifyingly there, the "11a" last part of HOC is more like 10a (if you use the face hold)] and Godzilla/CPP2 [timided out on Sloe Children, heat excuse], then climbed the steep 'n' dirty FREE AT LAST [someone appears to be working on the upper pitches of that, perhaps the "A2 variation", I think that resulted in the upper pitch being even dirtier than usual. one 60m rope suffices (just barely) for descent]. Then got to experience the Sultan Traffic Light crap and was late getting home .

You're the clueless one if you didn't know she was hitting on you. Perhaps Trask could fill you in on some replies that would have kept the ball rolling.

Anyplace that has been outfitted using a power drill is a crag. Let the counter-examples flow freely kids.

I think of a "crag" as someplace you go more to practice the rock-climbing than to get somewhere (like the summit or a traverse). Places like Washington Pass or Exfoliation Dome could be either, but I think of them as crags because they are relatively close to the road and they have many different variations of varying difficulty for getting to the summit (and some don't even go to the summit), so it seems like the preponderance of use is more for the pitches, rather than the summiting. That's my answer.

Dragging a fat rope up slabs sucks. Someone should put it in a backpack. Or better yet, get two more people to go, then have them use it!

So are you saying the Mountaineers have a "No Gays" policy ?!?!

On that cordial note...I think I'll be heading up there this morning. Meet me at the Alpental parking lot around 10:15 or so? Let's do it. Delayed, unexpectedly. Won't be there 'til like 11:00.

Hey guess what you condescending f**ks. When people solo past you while you're protecting the third pitch the "right way" (or with stoppers only), they laugh at you because you're using a rope.

Take the little trail leaving from near the NW corner of the Murrin Park parking lot. About 30 feet into the jungle is a really cool overhanging handcrack boulder.

I called it a "hook up" not a "link up" Think of it as thread drift. Can you answer my question? Have you done that method of ascending the Chief? And btw, if you were a real weeny, you could do Sq. Butt or UE by first walking up the Broadway Ledges descent.

Anybody done the Borderline -> Angel's Crest hook up? That looks like it might be pretty cool.

Condomorphine, that's the place for you. Hope you have a lot of draws.

It was a bunch of unmemorable stuff, a lot of ropedraggy tree roping (about 4 belays ),then three cool pitches at the end. Then you're two pitches from the top on the NW face route.

Did you go the choss gulley way?

Rattletale I was totally intimidated from the belay and then I told myself that this was the bomber crack you dream of when stuck in line at the grocery store or something. Overhung and totally locker jams. I'd post a picture ripped from the web except f**king COMCAST IS F**KED UP, so I'm at f**king sub 30 kbps . I want my money back

That's not a purple smart guy, it's a RED (4.5) .