ScottP

There's one in a trailer park in Edmonds (across from the veterinary hospital on the road into the ferry.) There is another that is accessible at an abandon airport north of martha lake. This one has some real potential; 70-80 degree highball face problems mostly. There is a 3/8th inch bolt with no hanger on top.

Type this into Google: "west ridge" "mt stuart" It is a much documented route.

First time on the route, we got stuck behind a really slow party. Rather than stand around, we looked for ways to pass and ended up doing some rather good alternate pitches to the north . They weren't really faster, but the rock was generally solid and the climbing interesting.

An old climbing partner of mine typically takes 4-5 minutes to take a leak. He must have a prostate the size of a baseball.

Two variables to consider: 1) The amount of water you drink 2) The size of your prostate gland.

The trail to SCW is sure a "roundabout ass way."

Came back to my pack at the base of the GNS once to find that some fucker had tied a boxer-type dog to a tree right next to it with about 20 feet of slack. As I approached it started whining and growling and shit. I got this long, thick stick and approached it with the stick between us, talking really nice . It backed away from me to the limit of it's slack, snarling and whining and showing it's teeth. It had this look like, "If you didn't have that fuckin' stick..."

hey i don't like that last one! There's 13 letters in my name! Is that better?

12 witches in a covenant, Satan makes the thirteenth. 13 people at The Last Supper. 13 letters in Osama Bin Laden.

Sounds like quite the relationship you've got going there.

Did your feet get cold?

The climbing guide to the Sawtooth Range in Idaho. You've gotta make a side trip to Ketchum to see it.

I was reading a back issue of Climbing Rag that had an article by Jay Smith about climbing in the Fitzroy group. The title was something like "Eighteen Pitches in Fifty Eight Days" Conservatively, I figure that's about a month of sitting around waiting for weather. Imo, can't see a FA of an already climbed summit being worth so much mind-numbing boredom. With plenty of drugs, it might be a different story...

Rockfest

(note to self: read before you post)

Make sure to add some of those homemade-angle-aluminum-meathook bolt hangars to those star-dryvin 1/4 inchers. Also, remove the nut and strip the threads off some1/4 inchers and angle them downward for those spicy stopper-looping clips.

I agree with GT...I have seen some places I otherwise never would have while learning how to use my receiver. My 4 year old son gets a big kick out of going on the "treasure hunts."

Yates "Big Dudes"

It seems to me that X number of permits equals X number of people in the Enchantments. How they get there-individually or in a guided group-seems irrelevant from an impact perspective. I can see how guides (and therefore clients) getting preference over individuals for permits could be an issue, and one that probably will be if this idea flies. "money talks..."

White Slabs/Umbrella Tree Linkup of the moderates on Careno Crag. The path of least resistance on Bathtub Dome.

The runouts that are currently there are long enough that it is more like soloing than sport climbing. Why not just use pitons and remove the bolts? For that matter, why not remove all the bolts and make it a solo route. Who decides how this is to be done? I see new bolts going up all the time and I don't hear a lot of complaining about it. I'm just trying to get a general concensus ." It sounds like more than "just" consensus building to me. The consensus is loud and clear: If you have issues with the runouts, don't do them.

There's a nitch market... molded replicas of classic hard crack pitch cruxes.