LUCKY

My climbing heros are any one putting up good clean routes I can get my old weak ass up. :tup: Those famous names in the mags and books that I recall when I was a arm chair climber don't mean jack to me now Alex Lowe RIP

My request for beta turned into a reto bolt paranoia phone call. It seems I need to be clearer and choose my words carefully Sorry for the confusion.

Whoa!!!! the phone is ring'n....I never said anything about retro bolt'n anything...just some cleaning and new hardware to replace old all I have heard is the Talon is choss and it used to be said that the rap anchors were cuting nails that you had to sling Don't get your panties in a bunch...I think I will just bag on the whole Idea

Thanks for the link SOBO. It sounds like some of the stories I have heard, I would like some new first hand beta...maybe with some cleaning and new hardware the easy line could be made into a classic of an awesome looking spire...just a thought I might give it a go sometime soon,I'll let you know how it goes. That is if the stories of the scree and choss doesn't scare me off

Anyone been up the Talon,in the Tieton river area lately? I am looking for beta, is it worth the long scree approach or is it a choss pile, it looks cool from a distance but I have heard scare stories years ago about choss rock and bad anchors, I was just wondering what it was like now that Joe and Stoney have put up a couple of routes on it.

It doesn't get any better than my climbing girlfriend Mary :tup: Eat your hearts out sausage fest dudes

Last Year the military had drop zone practice right in echo basin complete with quads tear’n up the turf, that is where the new trails to the middle came from, no one seemed to get there panties in a bunch over that. I heard the bikes, the noise was a little annoying but they did seem to stay on the beaten trail/road and the sand dune and they were not there all day, just a short time. As I though about the people that would want to call 1-800 RAT, I though how in this cramped up world if we are not all going to stay at home playing video games and getting a fat ass, we ALL are going to have share the sand box…. even with those old men bicyclers wear’n camel toed day glow spandex, ride’n down the road clog’n up traffic when there is a rail to trail that my tax money paid for parallel to the road The dirt bikers are risking getting a big ticket and they should ride in designated areas, but I would not be the one to rat them out …just not my style

When you can't drag your old ass out to the outdoors then you done! I was a peak bagger till 40 than the rock took over, Woooo, warm dry rock... balance and grace over stone, dude it's the shit. Over 50 can still climb 5.11 and hope to at 60, still can get up a snow slog and loose my head in a long hike. Eat well, have lots of wild sex, hang with a climbing betty,and unless you look in a mirror you won't even realize your old!

The sausage fest dudes don't have a clue....once you have a friend and a climbing partner and a mate you are sooo spoiled I soo like my gal to dress seductive, I am confindent in myself and not into that possessive stuff like my mom used to say ,got it flaunt it.

You suck and so does Vantage Trying fossil sunday, closer for me and a better forcast, see you next weekend at Vantage if the weather is right, cross your fingers...spring at the coulee is coming...warm dry rock and partying around the pits, i will so be enjoy'n fool'n myself

Funny how Vantage is dis'ed till it is the only place to climb. Old ouote: people who climb at Vantage are just fooling themselves Next new climb at Vantage ... fool'n myself...coming this spring New anchors(replaceing old at belays) to be installed on old classics because i am just fool'n myself

OOPS!!!!Maybe not PC for this site

Ironworker, welding, bolting, connecting and erecting structural high steel, like in skyscrapers I so like being up in the air and around so many bolts

Post #1 Troll #1 :lmao:

Frezzing FOG at Vantage Friday, we started a fire in one of the pits at the Feathers, took rocks from around the fire to warm up our hands, climbed in double coats and aproach shoes. When I got home I saw the high for the day was 28. I did climb on real rock one more weekend tho.

That was really nice of you to post a weather update dude :tup: ,that Definitely helps the motivation.

What up Matt!!! Mary is my motivation, with out her belay it would not be possible,sometimes it's just me and her out there.... I am sooo spoiled. No, no cameras Dude thats a climbing story that will be told around the campfire for a long time to come!!! Been wanting to get a hold of you, to ask what you thought about the new climbs you were going to try the last time I saw you. PM or email me the beta.

I'm think'n I am not done trying...one more weekend..oh please dear rock god, just one more weekend!!! sunny and not tooo cold friday on the east side. :tup: A little should keep me warm friday night, maybe even get saturday in also, that would Have to work off turky day LUCKY

When you infringe on other groups right to enjoy there sport is when it usually comes around to bite you in the ass

Mary and I have climbed every weekend since the beginning of March, sometimes it has been tuff, a wedding to go to, and there was that weekend we went to a biker bash in Maytown, drank and partied from noon till midnight got up the next day with a wicked hang over and still went to nevermind and climbed, a friend said it was character building .Telling people that you can’t do something on the weekend because you HAVE to climb can also be tuff …they just don’t get it . I took some time off this summer and during the week I would work on a route, do a scramble or munge in a dirty FA crack at the Tieton with a friend that also had time off and then I would climb on the weekend with my sweetie. My sweetie and I don’t climb to be better climbers we climb to have fun and stay in shape and it has been a great year, We had one of the best times ever climbing and campout partying with close friends last weekend . Well we got rained out at the coulee yesterday… I guess the climbing season is almost over, I think I will go pull on some plastic on my woody…as we all know you can’t put climbing down or it will hurt you. Look'n forward to spring LUCKY

My opinion, not that it is jack …ethics opinions are like asshole, everyone has one and they all stink, the FA changed the route, if you don’t like it, put up your own route and we will have more routes to climb, if it has more bolts than gear…well …the call is iffy The people you are spray’n about on the internet have put up hundreds of routes , Can some of you sprayers that are sooo critical dooo some work ,hang your ass off a cliff risk your ass instead of jack’n your jaws(or your fingers) Tequlia is my weekness and the reason I open up...good or bad??? afterthought...as I get that agro hair up my ass...they put up 2 new routes last weekend for us to enjoy, WTF did the rest of you you do? YO old climbers don't like to get hurt...we are still out there crank'n.... I can count on seeing them till WE can't walk to the crag....get it!!!!

I hardly ever verbally communicate with my belayer…she always knows what I am doing …she can feel it thought it through the rope, sometimes , I yell slack when I get a tight clip …but it is always a kink in the rope …she is sooo good!!!! Tequlia midweek sooo bad!!!off to work at 4 am that soo sucks

Mary’s project all the way to the left on Dream wall at Lava Point Tieton river area got finished this spring. Objection Sustained 10-B left most run of hangers to a set of chains, the thing I like about this route is you can reach up high off a jug and make your clip than pull all the moves of the crux, not like some of the run out stuff on that wall. Mary did a lot of cleaning on the lower part before it gets steep.Love that girl!!!

There always seems to be something stupid going on in that area mostly because of the noobs At nevermind we are usually spared such bumbly episodes but recently a guy could not finish a 10-C so he lowered off his last draw just under the anchors, his partner got on the rope to finish it and pulled all the draws except the last one right under the anchors it had everyone there a little nervous to say the least. Saturday a kid showed up with his dad that did not know how to belay and he got on a hard 10-C way over his head after multiple falls he was offered a to have a top rope set up and declined and his dad said why not, some scary stuff was going on, I did noticed he was down by Hurley Burley with his dad when I left.

and Lucky: never met ya, but I'd tie in with you. Ditto dude you seem like you would be fun to climb with!!! I am just a loser and off topic LUCKY