chris_w
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Ooops... Steping on toes. I tried to be so nice and not piss anyone off. I guess I will have to a spray-lord now.
Dwayner - Your reports have been just as interesting. Maybe it can be an alternating Role. Not like you get paid for it. Do you?
Chris
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I think we should nominate Uncle Tricky as offical CC.com Pub Scribe.
Chris
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3 of us hiked into cirque of the towers late in the day. Didn't get to camp till 9:30pm. The next morning 2 of us got up early and hiked across the valley to Pingora. It took about 1.5 hours till we got to the base. I looked up at the route and then remembered the other guy had the second rope. We checked the guide book and everything said either 2 ropes on rappell or 1 rope and Mid-5th class down climbing. We took a nap in the sun instead. Did get pingora 2 days later.
Only one I can remember. I know I have done dumber stuff then this. Or maybe I just don't want to post it.
Chris
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Actually I pitched the stuff that was in the binder and used it for something else. Did you notice the picture on the wall. One day I was bored and printed out most of the N. Cascade TOPO's and taped them together. Now that is FOCUSing, just not on work.
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The instructions read....
quote:The pitons will come in handy when you need to rest or think about you strategy. Just try to get your climbers "axe" or "grappling hook" to latch onto the piton
There are brown pitons in the rock, they are hard to see in the picture and we already lost half of them last night.
You can't tell from the picture but there are 2 magnets that you put on your fingers behind the wall. There are also magnets in the climbers hands and that is how you get the climber to move. The flags are used for scoring points on your 3 attempts. It is so cheesy that it's great.
Chris
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With all the fun that everyone had playing "Extreme Rock Climbing" I thought we should name the Crag. I am taking suggestions the new portable climbing area. Since it also saw a couple of first free ascents, the routes need names. The first ascents was by Matt's Wife (sorry, I can't remember your name). She had the first ascent of the left Side Crag and therefore gets to name it. The second ascent was by Misty. She was at a neighboring table and couldn't resist the temptation and the fun. Misty if your out there, you get to name the right hand route.
The females had the first 2 ascent. No male could make it up until EddieE gave it a try and showed everyone up. Not only did he make a full free ascent, he also down climbed the route. Way to go EddieE.
Chris
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It looks like they are having a benefit this friday for the NW Weather & Avalanch Center. You can check it out at
Thought I would pass it on. Another opportunity to
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Chris
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I should be able to make it. What time are you going to start at.
I also have a cool new "extreme rock climbing game" that a friend gave me as a gag gift. I can bring it and I will buy a
to anyone who makes it to the top of the climb.[ 01-07-2002: Message edited by: chris_w ]
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I had the same thought after reading a couple of his books. I wouldn't go climbing with Joe. He is bad luck
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I did a butt slide down most of Mt Hood a couple of years ago. I beat my partner but my water bottle beat me down. I used to clip it to one of the pack straps. Now I use a locker on my water bottle. Luckily it stopped once we hit the top of the ski area. From there we butt slide down on the groomer tracks. I got going so fast that it felt like my ass was on fire. Once I stopped, I noticed that I partially melted my gortex pants. An expensive lesson in glissading.
I would guess that we did 3000' of sliding.
Chris
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I heard that BD made some changes in the leashes this past year. The leash with velcro is the old model. They replaced the velcro with a hose clamp. As for any other changes, I don't know. I haven't had a chance to try them out. I will have to look at the spring\pin connection.
chris
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So who is in the lead for the Most posts????
Captain Caveman 1862Dru 1810
how aboutTimm@y 50042
http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00000003
I guess we know what capt and dru will be doing this weekend
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I always take extra food. I think Iam afraid of running out of food. This past summer in cirque of the towers, we planned on 5 days, I still had enough for at least one more day. The extra food came in hand on another trip where I forgot my bag of oatmeal for breakfast.
chris
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I keep seeing it at Hollywood Video, but for some reason I never rent it. I read the back of the box, determine it will suck, and then rent something good, like Highlander 2 . I never heard of anyone watching it. I might rent it sometime to get a laugh.
Chris
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I camped out at colchuck lake this weekend and the signs were still up along the road. Looks like the same areas as a month ago. The only thing I saw different was a "climbers parking" sign for the area behind barney's rubble. Anybody know about this? Are they going to start ticketing along the road?
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Cavey - Ditching the netscape. Microsoft has brainwashed you
Ehmmic - You are probably getting cached info. Try holding the ctrl key when clicking the refresh button. I have to do that for my company's firewall.
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Cragging is a good way to get your confidence on rock. Once you get the confidence, it is great to look at a route and say "I can climb that" . With that confidence, and knowledge of rope handling, then start thinking about leading. And then start out on routes well below your ability. I didn't have mountains were I grew up, so I top ropped for a couple of years before I could get on any leadable multipitch. If you can find a mentor, that would be great. And you still can sign up for mountaineers climbs. There are some great leaders in the mountaineers. You just need to find them.
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I don't like to use the belay loop. I put my biner through the leg loops and the waist portion (parallel to the belay loop). I know to check the biner each time to make sure it isn't cross loaded. If you have the ATC and biner in the belay loop, it tends to twiet my ATC just enough to be annonyiny (rope is vertical in the ATC and not horizontal). Also having it in the harness gives me an extra 4-6 inches of rope each pull while belaying.
Chris
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First choice is Boston Basin (lower Camp).
My second is the camp above spider meadows. A great view of the valley.
No other toilets stick in my memory (good or bad).
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I was there about a year ago and don't plan on going back. We had a hard time finding the correct trail. If you miss the trial it's like climbing up a steep sand pile.
I remember leading a 5.7 bolt route (don't remember where). When I clipped the 3rd bold the hanger started spinning so I took a closer look. The bolt had a rounded top and was pounded in. Each bolt only had 3-4 hammer marks on it. Never seen this type of bolt and I didn't know how good they were so it freaked me out. I tested every piece and every move. The slowest 5.7 bolt route I ever lead. My parter then pulled off a 20 pound rock that I stood on earlier. It was not a good day.
I told my partner that I would never go there again, it was his idea to begin with. It just wasn't worth it. It makes peshastin (sp?) look like smith rocks.
Just my opinion.
Chris
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Flying pig sounds good. It will be nice to have a beer in a smoke free pub again. I still have to wash the smoke smell out of my clothes from the last pub club.
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RUCP - I am.
This is such a great thread.