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Ottoman empire - the river rock route on the left was 10d, routes get harder and more natural as you move right. Fossil wall is mostly on DNR land and is mostly closed to climbing due to a rare fern or plant. I've heard of 2-3 routes on it (in the 90's) and been on one. Although there are some hard and loose lines to be done, most of the wall is more than a bit suspect. If the rock was solid or at least more consistent there would be reason to try and develop it further as it is tall and steep. I kick myself for not picking up a guide when they were available, it was a bit ghetto but it did have a lot of the routes out there in it.

I'm surprised Jibby could climb at all after walking that far!

Try doing it yourself, it'll be ugly but you'll willing to ship the next pair out to the 4-5 we've already recommended here at cc.com

Thx for the pics, especially up high. Only been up there on a mostly foggy day. We did OK following the OMR guide but got a little turned around at the summit and started down the wrong gully!

Closed yearly from tim pond to the bend feb 1 till lifted in apr or may. All I could find at wcc and access fund sites. Lots of stuff on the north side of the river should be good.

Seriously I doubt the anchors were put there to aid descent, more likely just to make TRing Pumpline simpler.

tell that to the guy who had a heart attack and crashed his golf cart into the river and drowned!

Wednesday looks good for me, I'll be driving out from oly. Duke

I thought it was traditionally solo'ed naked!

so what climbs are affected? There are a lot more than 40 established climbs there.

This is the betabanned guy Off?

The way I rememer FR the crux was about 20 feet of steep face at 10D. The 11 part was a friction move or two on the first full pitch after joining LC. I've always wanted to go back and do the lip tho...

No aid required at all if you start up Freedom Rider, but u don't get to aid the lip either.

BBQ chicken sandwiches at the Tenino Pizza & BBQ after a great nite at Hercules #2 like last nite.

Most UFO and Sasquatch sites have more believable documentation than this troll, but 3 pages is not bad at all A bit of hearsay and a somewhat related news story have been well played Sir!

Avoid stalag 13 and stay at a 5-10 yr old casino. Do at least one long multipitch far up a canyon. Take headlamps and walkout in the moonlight. Rocco's NY Italian style deli at buffalo and charleston. Buy 64 oz sodas on your way back into town. Look for water machines in front of grocery stores. Don't go north of the Stratosphere after dark. Take decent water up to your room. Walk in before it gets hot.

I bailed mostly because the snow was warming up fast. I didn't like the cliffs just out of the summit picture below the route I was looking at. With very little chance of arresting before a 50 foot drop it would be a long slide down the backside for sure. With no snow there's a 4-5 foot wide ledge around the to the right but it was well filled in. Not being sure of my descent I got conservative. On a cold day it'd be cake!

Trip: mt washington - rte 2 to surprise Date: 3/6/2010 Trip Report: Saturday was great, hope you got out. I almost made it up Mt Wa. I was curious where my wife and I got lost in the fog looking for the SE butt last fall so headed up that way (drove to reg carpark no prob) and headed up the rte 2-3 trail. Hit soft snow a little under 4k as I was crossing to the W side of the butt. It was easy to see where we should have gone with unlimited visibility. Not sure I wanted to solo somewhat snowy 5.7 I continued groveling up the basin east of A peak staying close to the ridge. Lots of big avalanche track from friday, almost all the top layers on everything steep had released so I just cruised up the mostly firm avy path to the head of the basin. It was about 10 by now and it was warm so I decided to regain the SE ridge via a half shaded coulier. I'm pretty sure now it was surprise coulier and a nasty little surprise it was! Great views of the E ridge and a 75 degree snowslope/cornice? to ascend to hopefully safer ground. Fortunately there was a crust underneath that I could chop holes in and pretty good snow under that. A short while later I was looking across the saddle at the summit and I decided to bail. I had planned on going down rte 1 and the guys I saw heading up it from the carpark were not to be seen. I briefly contemplated traversing the shady side to Ellinor but decided to give 1 a go and see how soft it was. The dicey part was getting swept every couple minutes with small stuff coming off the rocks above so once again I jumped in the track and went for it. Halfway down I turned and plunge stepped the rest of the way to the big bench. It was much easier than when snowless for sure, all that nasty scree buried under the snow. Finally saw another human in the snowy gully thats normally full of slide alder ( I think you can avoid this part) and it was soft and warm but not too bad going down. Once in the trees the snow firmed up and it was easy going to the meadow. Shortly after that the snow went away and the pons came off. What a great day! Gear Notes: axe, pons, sunscreen Approach Notes: Drove to carpark

Went to paradise a few weeks ago, the ranger watching the sledding area had a gun! "No cutting in line Jimmy, or I'll pop a cap in your ass!"

Definitely a good one and shady on a hot day

Reclick the link!

Just kill yourself now if ya don't like hiking at JT

I had a similar experience 3 pitches up Freedom Rider, its amazing how fast those rocks come at you. I too got pegged on the left hip and was happy to lie in Icicle creek most of the next day. So you all be sure to add Liberty Bell to your list of choss piles

Sometimes just getting out is enough, thx for the report.

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