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I was driving out to Hood River at 4:30 and the lenticular was in perfect form. The lenticular over Adams was less formed but was starting to. I will post a pic soon.

It was a huge lenticular camped out over Hood all day yesterday and one forming up over Adams. I took some pics but the fiance has the camera. As soon as I can get them I'll post it up. Did not look good to be up there yesterday afternoon and it told me to cancel any idea of heading up today. Sorry you were caught out in it....

Mmmmmmmmm.......Domilise's........Best Po Boy in the world! Winter, if you haven't been, then you have to go. It is required. Was down there two weeks ago for a bachelor party during French Quarter Festival. Dinner at Arnaud's on the upper balcony, music, a crawfish boil at a friend's house out in the Garden District, and Po Boys from Doms to cure hangovers..........I weighted 10 lbs. more than when I left! Oh, Happy B-Day, Drew!

I just read that the City of Portland is flush with money due to development on the West side but that Multnomah is in the negative.......I am just saying that the bridge in Chatanooga built in theearly 1900s and still in use (limestone) was drilled. Are there are stone bridges around Portland like that? or all steel? it would be awesome to have Thailand-esque routes coming off of the Morrison or Burnside Bridges. They are retrofitting the Sellwood and Sauvie Island bridges right now. ouldn't they find an easy way to allow for bolts and hold holes? It really would not adffext the structure......I know this is a pipe dream....

John, is it because they were pout up without permission? I know the guys at Rock Creek Outdoors who got the Parks Department to put up the wall. it runs like a regular climbing wall, with membership dues, it can be rented for groups, and staff to monitor and set up routes. Maybe that is too organized for most, but it would prevent the routes from getting chopped and by the time you ad up all the investment you lost on gear being chopped/removed, you could have simply paid the parks Department for a membership and still have the ability to climb there....Thanks for the update kev. It hslds trees up on the highway side? So, they cannot be used for climbing?

If you drive on I-5 North past the Portland Blvd. exit but before you cross over to the Island, you will see some climbing holds drilled onto the noise barrier wall on the right hnd side. have no idea how to access these. Also, someone needs to put up some routes under the bridges by North portland off of Interstate just past Widmer! Those would be some sweet routes! Chatanooga did it, why can't PDX? They bolted and added on holds to the Walnut Street bridge right in downtown Chataboogie.

I wonder if he has even climbed Hood? Or in the Cascades? He is from New Mexico and written other books on climbing but have not ever seen or heard of them. I am curious just to see what his point is and what his "facts" are. But, I am sure, tht is what he is banking on for book sales.......

The thread is a joke, he's not getting banned. I am on rock climbing Bill , and the ice, and looking at conditions on Alpine Lakes, North Cascades, Oregon Cascades, posting TRs, etc. You found one thread out of his 4,300 posts? I know he posts in RC and other forums. I am sure he is a really nice guy. He's even willing to buy me a beer, and I know, from meeting a lot of you at Rope Up, that their online personalities do not truly represent who they are in person (ahem...Dru). So, I am sure he is an awesome dude. He just says more dumb stuff than the average poster. Maybe he is easier to pick on and part of it is because I am on a computer and not in front of him. I know I can be a dick too, especially behind the anonymity of the interweb. As an aside, what an awesome day it was today!

I never once had a problem with the guy until he started personally attacking me about3 months ago. I never said a word to him and am rarely in Spray. I rarely read what he has to sayanymore because it isn't worth addressing. He would probably have more aquaintences on here if he did not personally attack everyone he disagrees wyith. he has never once, to my knowledge posted a TR or positive climbing beta and contributes absolutely nothing to the site that is climbing related, besides climbing stuff considered Spray. Even Trask and PolishBob would throw a TR out every now and then......... "Then shut the fuck up. Because apparently you do. " See what I mean????

Wow.........This is terrible, terrible news. Chad is one of the most amazing and friendly people I've ever met. He talked about Lara as if she walked on water. My condolences go out to the Kellogg family, her family, and friends. You are in my prayers.

I don't mind the useless spray. It is the fact that he acts like a complete idiot and may have an IQ less than 20. He is an absolute dumbass. That doesn't make him a mean guy or affect his niceness, just that he asks the dumbest questions and tries to justify useless points made. He reminds me of the Billy madison quote, "Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

I just found out this was started about three years ago by a guy wanted to celebrate his 40th birthday and prove that he "still has it." He turned it into an annual event for friends and anyone else who wants to join him and picked mid-May as the current heading out to the ocean is at its stroungest with snowmelt coming down. Still, a huge excursion over 4 days.

I am.

Anyone in shape enough to tackle this year's Wang Dang Doodle? Bike from PDX to Timberline (65 miles), climb Hood, ski down, bike back to PDX, portage kayak to the Willamette, paddle from PDX to Astoria (88 miles), bike from Astoria to the beach, and party like a rock star, surfing, and drinking a lot of beer. Who's in?

Well if you are looking to replace the PDX restaurants then a trip to the Tp Notch Cafe in Colfax should make you feel right at home! The Red Door is an over-rated restaurant in Moscow and taere is one decent place for dinner over by the movie theatre and one great lunch spot down by the train tracks in the center of town. Pretty cool wine shop though. If you are into fly-fishing and upland bird hunting for pheasant, this place is paradise. I don't mind going if I get to do these things on the side, but outside of that I personally could never live there. To each his own though. Definately a much more conservative community except the way too far left Moscow Mountain hippie communers just over the border. makes for interesting political discussions between Moscow and Pullman though!

I travel there for buiness weekly. The only good thing about that area is that there is descent fishing close by. That is it. Other than that it is in the middle of nowhere. Moscowites all have soapboxes to stand on and nothing gets done and the two communities whine about what the other is fdoing. There is not much to do there especially coming from Portland, but if you like really small towns hat are not that pretty, then you may like it. Cost of living would be a plus! And some aice comes in during cold durations! They are college towns so if you are single watch out. Its college or middle-aged divorcees. Watch out!

Yeah, I'v never fished up by the footbridg. Always down below the big pools where it moves into more of astream. The fish are tight-lipped but think it is due more to the pressure. I've had great success out there in the winter when few folks are around. Kind of like Jackson's flat creek in August. if you get there opening day, you will have 30 fish over 16" within a few hours. Try the same thing two weeks later and you will be lucky to get a rise at all.....I'll PM you some stuff on Crab Creeks. They get pressure too, but a lot of belly-boat fishing to be had. I don't do too much of it, but for 8 lb. trout, it can be worth it!

I fished Rocky Ford last spring when the Yakima was blown out. Long drive from Portland, but we were already camping at Red's and ditched our drift boats for the drive over. It is fun for a while, but felt a little too much like casting to fish at the hatchery. Too many people, but big hatchery fish though! Fish Crab Creeks area ever? That place is fun too. Time to start drifting the Deschutes (right after turkey season ends....)

you know i am stunned at how many peaople are shocked and appaled that there is access to guns and they should be illigal but think that drugs are just fine. drugs kill just as much if not more than guns do. Guns don't kill people. People use guns (among other things) to kill people....

Wild....When I climbed Chimborazo back in january 1999, at about 19,500' we were traversing diagonally up the slope and the whole area around our rope team settled with a loud thud. Really scary when it is completely dark out. We turned around and headed down fast. Right before you get back to the "ice step" to get on the glacier, there was a decent sized avalanche that came down right where we had crossed only hours before and we crossed over the debris and high-tailed it to Banos for sport climbing and beer drinking.....

Although a Hokie, growingup in Va with a grandfather and two uncles who went to UVa, I always heard redneck jokes about tech, but not too much about the Wahoos, like "All dirt roads lead to tech..." As an aside, I doubt he is on cc.com, but there is a pretty strong climber from UVa named sEli Helmuth. He is married to Majdka Burkhart (sp.?), from Climbing Magazine. Here is his Bio . Really nice guy too.

No, I went to Sewanee (University of the South) down in Tennessee, but grew up in Roanoke and both parents went to Va Tech, so by association, I am a Hokie. My parents still have season tickets for football and head down every weekend from Smith Mountain Lake for the games and tailgating....Almost went there for grad school but chose oregon instead. Hokie! Hokie! Hokie! Hi ! Tech, Tech, VPI!

Any climbers in the market for a new house?

Also U of O has a great outdoor program that you should definiteyl get involved with once you get to Eugene and climbing at the indoor wall is right up the streeet from the architecture building..

I may agree with some of your points but not all of them. I am a gunowner (shotguns for hunting ducks and geese, upland birds) but even if handguns were bannedb or all guns were really hard to get a hold of, it is just as easy to make a pipe bomb and cause serious damage. You don't have to use cutting or blugeoning instruments for this. If people are angry enough, they will find a way. This incident was pldanned this is not some random spontaneous thing......I am from Roanoke and this hits really close to home.....I pray for the friends ands families.