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I got a muscle-up ... yay me ...

this info has already been posted as a sticky notice at the top of the forum. there is also permanent sticky thread there which archives recall notices for the last several years. thanks for the reminder.

in the vicinity of Copperhead Road in the forest, or caught in the canopy above. Dropped while grovelling up bolted OW. Reward for return will include a copy of Bob Seger's Greatest Hits and a fresh cheese sandwich. Go Git 'Er!

I dropped a whole biner of nuts and burst into tears halfway up a pitch. Then lowered off and went to eat icecream. ... booty alert

lets not. lets keep this thread on the topic of cellphone reception. or it WILL disappear. start a new thread if you want to argue about ethics of using cellphones in the backcountry. or search the archives and resurrect one of countless old ones.

missed this thread before. I am not sure the root cause of my shoulder problem - possibly a hard fall on ice after catching an edge skiing, compounded with some construction work. It got progressively more painful so that even using that arm to turn the steering wheel hurt, and I would pretty much always get numb hands when sleeping. I did a few months of PT, maybe 6 sessions with the electric and sonic whatsits and some elastic band exercises, but at the same time I was very consciously resting it, never lifting my arms above parallel etc. and the pain did subside mostly, but would return sometimes. I never got it really diagnosed, but the PT said something about the pectoral tendon. But like Rafael and Will, when I got into genuine strength training (as opposed to PT type elastic band stuff) I gained functional range of motion and experience way less pain or nighttime numbness, though I still have to be careful with certain things, especially dynamic movements. Exercises that seem to be good for my shoulder are handstand and handstand pushups, overhead squats (both 1 arm with dumbells and regular 2 arm), kipping pullups (crossfit style), ring dips (NOT bar dips or bench dips!), turkish getups. I noticed this spring when I stopped my regular strength and fitness training and was just climbing for a few months that I lost flexibility, my shoulder felt more 'twingy', and I would get numb hands again.

I said 3 times already I think it's a good route. I didn't mention gender or grades. I hope more people are excited to climb it rather than intimidated by hyperbolic descriptions of long pitches and pumpy endurance climbing.

here's my re-drawing of jordop's topo showing where we went in relation. We belayed at the circles. Pitch lengths are estimated based on where was the middle marker of a 70m rope. Maybe we can claim an FA of a significant variation . Maybe the slab shrank since last year. do you want to know if I got pumped on the ENDURANCE CRACK? keep in mind that I am very very very very good. . It's a beautiful clean crack and it was a joy to climb, but my ankles were pleased when it ended. It's a good route and an awesome area. I hope it sees more traffic. Lets spray more to keep this topic at the top of the forum so more people read about it

Quickdraw Publications (Marc Bourdon / Squamish Rock Guides ) put out a pretty good select guide to Squamish. They/he put out new editions about every other year and the website is quite up to date with new routes, free topos and errata. squamishclimbing.com is another free online resource for sport climbing beta and topos. Cairn Publishing (Matt Gunn) has produced an excellent guidebook to scrambling in the area, with good approach and road info for many of the routes in Alpine Select. The climbing counter at MEC in Vancouver has new route books going back several years which are available for anyone to read/copy/republish. Info about most new routes (i.e. the additions that might make it worth buying an updated edition of a guidebook) can be found online, or at MEC. Elaho/Kevin McLane is not the only option when it comes to finding route info for the Squamish-Whistler corridor. Vallhalla Pure Squamish rents copies of the Squamish guidebook too... and I bet you could find a photocopier somewhere in town ... like the library ... which probably also has copies of the guidebook. I agree that $45 is quite expensive and the quality of that guide is soso, but shelling that $$ out is not the only option.

we climbed pretty much straight up the crest and didn't find your 10b, but looking down I think I saw the "obvious" OW and we were well climbers right of that. We just climbed up the crest with a ~50m pitch, ~60m pitch and ~25m pitch to a big ledge. I don't know what you would grade them. I thought it was a good route. Mostly straightforward with only a couple tricky short cruxes low down, though demanding of good crack technique. I just think some of the previous TRs exaggerated the lengths of pitches and distances of crux sections and such. The rock was probably the best alpine granite I have ever climbed and I thought the route was similar in character and quality to McTech Arete in the Bugs.

we did it in 3. One 35-40m to just above that little roof near the base, one short one through the two crack traverses, and one more 35m to the grassy ledge at the top of the slab. Then 2 1/2 more before we unroped and scrambled. It was shorter than I expected, but then boys always lie about length.

Climbed this yesterday. No gate on the road but it's heavily crossditched and blocked by a bit of rockfall a few kms past the bridge, just before it starts looping around into the objective valley. At KM15 the main branch drops down across a bridge, instead of going that way stay on the skid trail straight ahead and follow it as it angles up into the forest, where it hits the drainage coming from the objective basin just start bashing up through open forest for about 20min to reach the talus basin. The whole approach from the blockage rockfall to the base of the route took us 3hrs at a pokey pace and a diversion up the wrong spur. It's pretty diet. A couple of shovels and crowbars and a few hours of work would make this road drivable to the end again (4WD), the ditches are not big, but they are sandy and uncompacted. It's a fun route, very doable.

Any date you choose will be good for some and not good for others and may or may not have rain. There won't be a most or best. Just pick a date and go with it, whiner-can't-shows can suck it, me included . Besides, I don't schedule my beer-drinking and girl-making-out-with this far in advance.

pretty much the same unstructured debauchery thing but at the Grasslands in Smith and no slideshow nonsense. Usually there is a few varieties of donated beer (Terminal Gravity! Triple Bock! ) and a big fire. It's usually in mid-to-late October, and coincident scheduling with Canadian Thanksgiving (Oct 9) weekend is nice. Sometimes it rains but Oregonisms don't whine about that possibility as much as Washingtonists when it comes to picking a date

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(hint: sticky thread in BC forum gives link to BC map viewer. Map viewer lets you locate places and print maps of how to get there.) I would post maps but this website is non-functional ... email works

see that middle photo? descend the right skyline. You don't need descent notes. I wish I could remember how to get there too though ... I drove up a road ...

see that middle photo above? climb that. you don't need a topo. www.naclassics.com has some beta.

I fell off Diedre once. It was the last time I climbed with my car-keys in my front pants pocket. Diedre is greasy.

knock it off. this isn't the Spray forum.

it's the elbow of the big digger arm sticking through the deck of the bridge.

assuming things are 100% efficient 1hr of charging from a 6.5W panel will give you 1hr of output to a 6.5W device. So to run your 600W of household appliances you'd need close to 600 Hrs of charging. And that is getting full charging at 100% incidence of sunlight, no clouds in the sky etc. Figure you maybe get 8hrs of sunlight per day, if you could get perfect collection for every sunlight hour it would take 75 days to charge your PowerBox enough to run your 600W of appliances for 1 hour. That said, you could probably get a reasonable solar charging system for your swinging backcountry bachelor AV system. Those devices are usually pretty low power. That Canadian Tire one looks kinda jingus to me, but there are lots of those types of things around

not much incident solar energy when the cells are pointing straight back off your pack. The sun is UP ... that's where the panel needs to point to get anywhere close to the 6.5W they claim.