ScottP

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.

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.