Jens

Sweet pics! Makes me wish I was was hanging at Yos like the younger days.

The tools are a deal! I didn't personally care for the reactors, or vipers and I didn't like the grip of the cobras.

I'm headin' over to 11worth early Friday morning. I plan on climbing all day Friday @ Nason ridge, hitting the kegger Friday night and then coming back to Seattle early Saturday morning if any clown or clowns want to join me for both or part ways and split gas money.

It does look a bit like the days of yore.

Thanks for the pm's!

Ouch dude! I used to write gear reviews for climbing magazine and have worked on the retail end of selling climbing gear. Come climbing with me sometime.

Churning in da wake dude. over and out.

Anyone care to reveal personal favorite food joints in your neighborhood that are amazing? I'm talking hole in the wall places that fly under the radar. On the other side of the coin, any places that get all the hype, yet plain suck bad and are riding on name alone? A chef I met once told me that the LeGourmand (spelling?) the small brick place about 10 blocks east of the Ballard Safeway was hands down the finest food to be consumed in the State of Washington. -------------------------

Pussy, uh no. I guess I'm a bitter dude. In all my cc. lobbying, I've never revealed that I tried to free solo the line back in the early 90's (before it was ever bolted). I downclimbed from quite a ways up. I'm sure the rock is much cleaner now. Hat's off to the guy that climbed it with natural gear and rope (featured in Rock and Ice Magazine)before the second ascensionists let their Hilti power drill hit it with bolts every 18 inches in places. I'm a sport climber to the core but this just ain't right. If you ever tie with me, don't tell me about about your climb of Infinite Bliss on Mt. Garfield (the pussy reference). I'd keep your climb a secret.

Sweeeeet! Why aren't some of us Cascades guys over poaching some of these plums?

I guess I meant to say "reasonable access". I've had to many crags become super long bike in epics in my climbing career. They suck. The Rangers, BLM, DNR, Wheyerhauser, or whomever says "Oh, you could still go if you reeeeaaaallly wanted to". It has been my experience that bike in crags get dirty, mossy, the hardware rusts away, and trails disappear.

Are these guys ever gonna go out of business? Everything they make seems to be inferior to the competition, yet they seem to get bigger and bigger every year. They got product placement with the 96' guided Everest disasters and ran with it. Are they safe because they are owned and run by Columbia now?

What are the top five most deadly animals (that are larger than a baseball) on planet earth? I'm not counting mosquitos, and other micro. critters. -Total kills per year? -By encounter vs. kill per year. (It seems like I heard that the polar bear is one of the only animals that will outright sprint toward you to kill and eat you on first sight)- However encounters with them are rare?

That Quark Ergo add of ChadA's? is the best deal you'll find anywhere, anytime. I have both the ergo and regular quarks and love em' both. Whatever you do, don't put a leash on whatever tool you buy.

Sad. Static is some of the best slab climbing in the U.S. Someday we may lose access to both Static and Darrington.

Classic Thread! -------------------------------- Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, and Everett Mountaineer's Organization Red Alert!

If you drive in and for whatever reason instead end up on the "Infinite Bliss" route. You'll be hexed for six years!

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Looking for an A/T rig for my wife. Any part of the system. Skis, bindings, or AT boots (she has really small feet) Like 6?

Amen clint. Sadly, to many routes in WA and SW B.C. are pushed up watercourses or seasonal drainages and aren't worth the effort as it is a losing battle. In my book, if it requires more than two full days of moss cleaning to clean a single pitch it will be a futile effort over the long run. just my two cents. (I've been guilty myself though.)

Infinite bolts, infinite bi#ch, infinite bullsh#t. 82 minutes. This route won't exist forever. (although I'm not a chopper). ------------------------------------------ -I'm a sucker for Infinite Bliss threads and couldn't resist.

Does that mean I don't get to go next summer?

amen

I knew a guy that could only do five pullups and could lead pretty much any pure ice route. He'd led all the (WI6+ish)big rigs in the rockies. --------------- Ice seems to be more about head and balls. When I was a younger sport climber weighing 139 and getting up the occasional 13 rock route, I'd frequently chicken out and pump out on steep ice leads. Now as an older fatter, veteran I do much better (and we don't use leashes anymore). I got the ice bug today!

Awesome send! ------------- The moss on the whole crag seemed to be less bad before the seasonal falcon closures were instituted. I TR'd supercrack and also belayed a buddy about 5 years ago (and about 25 pounds ago). I remember the gehtto anchor. Nice work with the bolts. Thanks. As for ethics,even Bachar would have drilled that anchor. I have medium to smallish hands and had to layback the top section and found it completely desperate. The way it lays and the size it is, it can't really be climbed feetfirst using leaviation at the top.