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I remember it being pretty straight forward, they view from the col looks intimidating but there's a nice sidewalk on the north side. Select climbs mentions a 5th class step and we stayed climbers right on the way in and down-climbed the left side on the way out. There was a rap sling here and that was the only spot that I thought could be 5th class on the ridge. The views are great from the ridge, here's some pictures from a few years back. Start of the ridge from Luna Col Farther along the ridge One of the rock steps Down climbing

Found single crampon near the bottom of the trail on Tue morning.

Nice job! I'm glad to see that someone else is in there enjoying the great rock and exploring some new lines. We climbed the Northwest ridge (from the notch by Jaws Tooth) of Skookum a few years ago by approaching from the Hamilton side and recommend it as a good climb also. Will have to try and get in there before long and get on some of the stuff your putting up.

Good work and nice Pics! Which route are you talkin about that starts closer to H. Pass? We did the route up through the gully mentioned in Beckey book a few years ago in August and it goes fine, bit of 4th class at the top that we rapped on the way down. The ridge below the summit is fun and exposed, imagine it would be a bit more exciting in the winter.....

How'd you guess?....... I was actually going to put that in the post, but I figured the poor guy had been smacked down enough. Still funny though! But I really did find something that the owner probably would want back. Also found a matchbox car stuffed in a crack?????

If you lost something recently on the ridge, shoot me a PM with description and I'll get it back to you.

what a drag.......why do they have to make it such a pain in the ass to get in there. That was the best way to get to any of the peaks south of the S.twin.

Sounds like fun, did you get any pictures?

I've been happy with the iPod mini for running and mtn. biking.

Ya, the full size jpeg is 900kb, or the bloated photoshop file is 33mb.......

Just got around to scanning some pics in from the S. Pickets. Used the handy photomerge in photoshop to stick these 4 shots together. Shot from a high point of the Barrier at about 7000' on 8/2/04.

Did anybody go on Sunday? How was it?

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holy shit thats funny!!

how about "Gneiss" looks like gu-nees but it's nice

Nice job guys!! Great pictures. Hey Highclimb, You mentioned that the Terror col gully was shitty, just wondering what the upper part of the mess was like? Was it any better than the lower half? We were up there the week before to climb the W. ridge of Terror and made it about 100 feet above the lowest rap with the knifeblade and small nut with a red runner before we decided that we had enough of the scary loose crap and bailed. It was tough to turn around but it looked like it was no better further up the gully, and we had already scared ourselves silly dodging a bunch of rock fall and couldn’t find any thing solid to pitch it out.

Thanks for the TR, I remember looking at that face a couple years ago when climbing the “reverse Z” and wondering what it was like. Glad to hear it was fun.

Nice work, thats a burly day. What did you bring for a rack?

Hoping someone had some info they would like to share about the approach into the Chopping Block/ Cresent Creek Basin area via Terror Creek. Sounds like people have been getting in there lately, how is it? Already familiar with the approach to Terror Basin as for W. Mac and Inspiration. Thanks.

here's a pic of the n.w. ridge on skookum pk.

Skookum is the next peak south, been by the west ridge a couple times and it looks fun.

2 as of right now, both mountain bikes. Giant AC air Norco Shore

Climbing guide to Mt.Erie, published by Skagit Mountain Rescue,1995. New guide is due out Nov 15. web page

I have been using the MYO5 for the last 4 months or so and really like it. Seems to be built tough and is handling the abuse just fine. The switchable brightness of the LED's are nice but I seem to end up just leaving it on the lowest setting most of the time for anything but routefinding. The halogen works great and the whole setup with the batteries is small and light. In fact I've used it as a back up for Mtn. biking at night, my nightrider light lost it's charge last time I was riding and I was able to ride out with just the MYO5 and it was almost as bright as the 15 watt nightrider.

anybody have any luck waterprofing the trango s boots?