In the environment, pretty much everything goes through cycles of boom and bust. Chaotic fluctuations are characteristic of population biology, for instance.
Why do people get surprised and cast blame when the same thing happens in the economy?
The best thing about not writing TRs is that when you climb something and don't tell anyone about it and then years later someone does climb it and write about it, you can be all like "Oh yeah, I climbed that years ago. N00b!" Because of course, it wasn't good enough to even mention at the time and only becomes important enough when you can deflate someone else's experience.
The buttress that appears under the Pi in the photo is actually the East Ridge.
The Pillar of Pi is the one with the brand new scar which is actually on or very near p~9-10 of the climb.
trask is running a general store in rosedale
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=trask%27s+supply&sll=49.18204,-121.80748&sspn=0.025415,0.055275&ie=UTF8&ll=49.196288,-121.828251&spn=0.050815,0.11055&z=13&iwloc=A
Or it can go years with no repeats. If publishing a topo on the web was all it took to make a route popular I can think of plenty of routes that ought to have dozens of ascents by now but have never been done twice.
I think of that one RE cam that failed, a lot more RE cams held. Ive fallen on that exact same size/make of cam a few times. Im pretty sure metolius and BD cams have failed once or twice in the past too.
I've heard of Metolius cams failing, Aliens cams failing, but I've never heard of BD cams failing. Maybe its happened though.
I've heard of the old dual-stem Camalots failing but never ever heard of Wild Country Friends failing...