Drederek

Nothing in the way of fresh snow on Stone last saturday. Hope you get a nice weekend.

Its a 3 Hour Tour !!!!!!

Might be able to get some up and down out at Pt Defiance after skating out Ruston way. Haven't been there in a long time and never did hike there so I wouldn't be surprised to hear that its lame. Lots of good hard hikes in the Olympics within an hour of Olympia.

No ya didn't!

Am glad I got to climb this early this year before this happened. I'm also glad that the first bolt (hangerless) was there for me to wrap a small stopper around as the first pitch was still especially slimey for the first 30 feet and wasn't really dry till I got up to the hard slabby bits. Please don't get overexcited and pull that one, it'd be easy to ignore when the route was dry and perhaps even clean. It has been awhile since I was up there and P2 seemed a bit different, maybe fewer pins and more bolts? Spicy seems a good description. And tricky with a key foothold wet. But there's no way any bolts are needed on P4, an immaculate stemming corner with good small cam or wire placements all the way up it!

Being in construction 99% of the epoxy I've used has come from the lumber yard - mostly Simpson brand. Its not cheap but they do offer a variety of sizes (some that don't require caulking guns) so you could buy a small one and get a feel for how it works. I can also look around our shop and see if we got any laying around if you can wait till next wednesday. D

Its a 3 Hour tour!

Yeah thats funny! I hope he at least bought that bush a nice dinner.

I keep telling ya the underside of the seats at oly hi stadium. I'll loan ya some bolt cutters to get thru the fence. There's also a good spot where the rail line goes under the freeway between the tunnel under Capitol way and the Union street crossing. Was a lot of grafitti there the last time I went thru sometime in the 90's. Sposed to be a very nice tree to climb on Union as well, between Plum and Capitol way. And of course the sweet splitter hand cracks on the parking lot east of the GA Building. The south end is only 15' and north >25'

I remember it the way PP does, up to a crack that angled over to Library Ledge after clipping the bolt and edging around the corner. Seemed like you are already above the Pedestal at that point.

Yeah its pretty straightforward for this kind of thing. It seems a little bit further out of town than it ought to be to me.

Its not any single peak that Mr Beckey is known for climbing, its just about all of them. So why should only one peak, knob, thumb, crack etc get his name? Why not all of them as in " The Beckey Range"

Hows the weather down there Off? The forecast doesn't look good but I know its drier down there.

Beulah Butt of Verlot! She's so big Fred must have nailed her first!

The tow guy from Granite Falls is gonna be pissed at you. He seemed real happy towing towing that Eurovan outta there! Thanks for the effort.

You never know when its going to start raining and this awesome venue will be shut down - better come on down this week! As an added bonus the bats are back in force

Anything with Dean Potter in it I'll pass on.

Should be fine on the shady side of the canyons (left as you're walking in) When its 98 in vegas its nasty walking in but fine once you get there. Moderate covers a lot of ground these days, Epinephrine is good for a hot day because you start in a chimney and if you time it right you're in the shade when you exit onto the face above. Its easily 10 degrees cooler in the canyons.

Not bouldering (shudder!). I guess the part I latched onto was the part about PRG answering questions and whatnot but I haven't been down there in years so have no idea if they are as helpful as the one site indicated. GL!

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There are no lame forums, only lame posters!

I'm pretty sure the crags are just before you get to the point so I'd hazard a guess that they are currently unburnt from the link (thx) Also it appears to be spreading more towards Staircase than the crags so ignore my previous prevailing wind speculation.

From the little bit of info I've heard the fire started by the large boulder people climb up and jump into the lake from which is about a half-mile from the cliffs. With the general wind pattern of west to east I'd guess the fire is creeping in the direction of the cliffs but I have no idea how far. I wonder if the guys on SE Butt of Wa had smoke from it?

Please tell me I probably never clipped that bolt, Off. And I especially don't wanna know if it was an anchor!

From one of the posts I read it sounded like they set that up as a sort of Via Ferata to practice soloing on, just climbing while sliding a mini traxion up the fixed lines. Sounds like a good way to train for endurance to me. But its very poor style to just abandon it or even leave it up for any length of time. If anyone doesn't see this as the logical extension of leaving draws on a route they are naive. I used to think it was great that some people were able to make a living from climbing but now I wonder if the price isn't too high if this is the kind of shit they have to do to prepare themselves for magworthy feats.