wayne

They are doing great lately too. I enjoyed the slide show a month ago.

Nice trip! thanks for taking us there. loved the video too.

Nice! Good topo too. I that the standard W Face route in the Beckey book?

You could do it, just be in kickin trad shape.

Trip: Springbok Arete, Les Cornes - Date: 8/27/2011 Trip Report: Every now and then, I run across a route that challenges me to the near-fullest. I cant think of more that 10 free routes that I have done that compare to SBA in terms of difficulty and length. A few come to mind: Sunshine on Snowpatch, Scenic Cruise in the Black Canyon, and Liberty Crack are in the same league. The league or 2 above these routes would be the Nose on El Cap. Hard, classic, and exhausting climbing from start to finish, nearly every pitch must be taken seriously. In this case we did 15 pitches of outstanding crack climbing up the Southeast Face of Les Cornes. The route must be started by doing the the first 3 pitches via the Sprungc_ock Erect start. That makes it a full day of steep fun. Easily one of my favorite routes of all time. More on blog below.

Nice, who is Richard?

Here! Here!

Nice! Federal offense if in the park Seattle Pi

Just found one of Toms cans from last year. Funny coincidence that Tom told me the other can story upon finding it. try looser underwear. Got my trip loaded despite loosing all of my photos due to some glitch in transferring them to Big T . Gotta watch that guy.

really long cruiser. Have you ever done the Nridge?

"youve been tagged in 2 trs" cascadebook

How can that be, I was taking pics of you two? We all took some pics worthy of the adventure. I just took 398 of them before Tom got his camera out at the end. great climb, but after my 4 prior experiences/attempts, I am looking at OTHER summits.

Good reporting Josh, thats a hell of a mountain.

Looks nice, Thanks for the stoke

Access creek turnoff is the 1st key. There used to be a stump with a wood arrow at the turnoff. Once in Access, stay somewhat close to the creek stay on the right side of creek until the last minute. second key is once you get up in the sub alpine stay on the ridge as long as you dare and avoid the 60 degree grass slopes to the left. 3rd key, enjoy yourself and expect to bungle it up in or out..

Say it isnt so, Off. On a serious note, I hear he is looking to update the brown and green. ugh, I am working on my list

Yes! This looks great. Thanks. Where is the Adventure center?

Thanks for the heads up!

Nice one guys!

Ah, the pickets. Bees love to sting me. 2x on one trip in different geographical areas @ Queen Anne got one on the tip of my tongue, dangerous The worst sting I ever had was from a huge bumble bee about 3 months ago on the leg. Brutally painful for a week.

I wished I had a pin rack at the time. It was a sick line. Paging Jens H.

Trip: Wine Spires, Rampage, Action Potential - Date: 8/7/2011 Trip Report: Lane and I went on a hard route spree last weekend bagging Paisano Pinnacle via the Rampage route (4.5 p, 5.10d)and the (probable) 3rd ascent of Action Potential (9p, 5.10c/d, imo) on the East face of Burgundy Spire (a route we had attempted a few years ago). We had a great time on these wild routes of similar character. Both routes had steep flaring thin-cracks and very strenuous cruxes. After humping the bivy up to the col saturday we racked up and hit The Rampage route on Paisano in the afternoon. The 4 and a half pitch route was great, offering 2 crux pitches that had similarities to a fist fight. Maximum effort was required to stick to the rattly jams and locks. The last pitch we got off route and I ended up traversing across some wild face to avoid the disappearing seam I had got stuck on. Sunday, We were up in the morning to chop steps with a rock to get around to Action Potential. A couple of my friends, Mike Layton and Mark Allen, put up this route . I liked the name, and Lane and I wandered up there a few years ago only to find it foggy. This time we were headed up it and found good rock and fun moves with a very demanding crux. Their sense of humor was evident on pitch 6 with the "fun" 5.8 pitch. Expect very serious climbing and route finding on this, the 2nd crux. Impressed with the exposure and the how dang long the route was, it was great to be on the summit after a 14 pitch weekend. Not bad for a couple of 48 year olds. More on blog below ]

Nice report, thanks. traverse eh? hmmm

please do it, The jerk who took the Logan one actually posted that he did.

Bump for last minute takers.?