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Hook, line, and sinker.

If your destination is the pass itself: From Source Lake, head up to the Great Scott bowl. Once you enter the bowl trend hard right and traverse below Bryant Peak on the north side. Cross over the low point between Bryant and Chair, drop down heading north to meet the climbers path just below the pass. If you are heading south from the pass, this is, of course a silly way to do it. I have always wondered if you can reach it by traversing under the N face of Chair Peak. Then over the NW shoulder at it's high point and down to the pass.

A clear definition of what is to be resolved by a serious discussion is in order here. The bolt/antibolt topic is too broad. Perhaps starting with a case in point (the added bolt(s) on 10%?), discussing it reasonably, gaining some sort of consensus and then acting on it in a reasonable fashion. What is to be accomplished, how it is going to be accomplished, then do it. I agree that Fern's idea about publishing an "opinion paper" first to get the views on the table is a good one. Moderators can be responsible for doing any weeding.

Add Little Si to that list.

I know what you mean... this tour was killer.

Thanks to you for what you did share.

A point to consider is that any moderating should be done with consideration for the poster being moderated. Diplomatically explaining to them (via a PM) why their post isn't appropriate and is, therefore, being removed would probably go a long way toward maintaining civility as opposed to just jerking the post without. (When appropriate, go so far as to give them the opprotunity to edit before removal?) Stepping on fragile egos breeds malcontent (as if that needed to be said.) I imagine that perhaps this is already being done by some moderators.

Yeah, I got my butt kicked. I wore my fingertips raw slapping and pawing for holds while searching fruitlessly for anything resembling a positive foothold. I don't know 5.12, so A1 works for me.

What, nobody's done this route? The thing sucks anyway; after the initial corner it's all blind reaches for crimper holds while the feet sketch on porcelin slabs.

Getting the time to actually tie into a rope. Doing a FA Watching my 4 year old climb the slab route on the columbia boulder at index.

I was wondering if anyone has done this route on Wart Wall in the Icicle. I'm no 12a climber, but tr'd it a couple of years ago anyway and found it quite sustained. Is there a crux or is it one of those sustained 11c things that gets a 12a rating because it is sustained?

8 hours to Boise. 2-3 hours from there.

Either that or Mary Katherine Gallagher

I watched in amazement as some egghead type soloed that corner in mt. boots (and no chalk)about 10 years ago. I took several falls before I got it in rock shoes (and copious chalk.)

Stepped around a corner on Madsen's Ledge once and startled a falcon. She freaked, took off, spun around and came back at me talons first. I beat feet out of there pretty fast.

The Back Road at Index (At least the first two pitches; I never got around to the last two.) The last pitch of Dana's Arch (A2 mungefest). Aunt Fannie's Pantry (pure stupidity, unless you like jamming dirt, leaves and ants)

I hope you wear a condom.

Can't say I've met the chola, but walking into Arizona's Salome Jug canyon in the middle of the night, I stubbed my toe on a ground level thorny fucker that summarily ended the trip really quick.

As you approach the start of the chimneys proper, right next to the lower Curtis Glacier, there is a small outcrop of rock that makes a nice bivy spot for three people.

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Wow, that's a first!

Hands to off-hands on the expansion joints of the pedestrian overpass between UW campus and the Hospital. NBD to bone crunching landings. On a side note, a friend and I got caught by a campus cop while climbing the flaring stem problem to gain the roof of the Humboldt State University theater building one stoned night in 1980. The Ucop let us go after determining we were really rock climbers. It seems he had done the same route some 10 years earlier.