G-spotter

Skwellepil Creek road has been opened up for logging, just in the last few weeks. The washouts and debris on the road have been graded out making access pretty good for anyone with a 4wd. If you hanker a desire for the 1000m of class 4-5 scrambling on the SE face of Stonerabbit, ***now*** (Sunday-Monday have a good forecast) is the time to go.

You can always do like Max and launch your paraglider from the meadows below the Fraser Tower

I got a big bag of 1/4" buttonheads with SMC hangers attached in a box of climbing gear I bought from some guy who quit climbing a few years ago. I have been saving them assuming that whenever I degenerated to big wall climbing I would be able to use them for bolt ladders. But that isn't going to happen so now I've started finding new uses for them. I have a whole bunch with the scary Leeper hangers too. Maybe I can make them into key chains and sell them

The original post is actually in response to some discussions with Matt re: second edition of Scrambles guide but I suppose it applies to some of the others too. If I ever write a guidebook the approach beta will be less detailed than the climb beta. I'd rather a party get lost on the approach than bail from partway up a climb.

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Sheep dips? That's not fuzzy logic - just woolly thinking.

The next pushup contest should consist of doing 1 (one) pushup and being marked for style by a jury.

At least you weren't stumped for what to do

Are you sure the "sketchy beta" was intentional? Yes, in many cases, the author's introduction stated that route descriptions were kept short in part to preserve the adventure and ensure that future parties would be able to experience the same route finding challenges as the first ascent party.

Here are Hugh's last words as haiku it often goes bad quickly. The tree falls down, the flood wipes out the trail.

Guidebooks used to have horrible beta to "preserve the adventure". It led to thousand of descriptions like "Follow the most promising line past several difficult bits to reach the obvious gully" for a 15-pitch route. Nowadays it seems guidebooks have swung the other way, determined to prevent any complaints about "bad guidebook beta" by telling everyone which hand to use on which hold and which tree to turn left at when bushwacking. Soon the paragraphs describing the approach will be longer than the approach? "Proceed up the third creek gully (counting from the parking lot), beginning at GR 567 890, for 238.1 meters until you reach a large maple tree (GR 567 892). The tree has been marked with 15 rolls of flagging tape. Turn east (climbers uphill right) here and, being careful not to step on a seasonal wasp nest, take three steps to get around the tree. Now locate a large boulder 16 meters way at bearing 283 degrees and proceed towards it, using short steps on the blocky talus" blah blah blah. Anyways how much is "not too much and more than not enough"?

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Yeah but the rockfall scar has tripled in size over the last 6 years. Some of Shaun's bail gear is up there probably mixed in with fresh rockfall debris at the base. BTW the Puzzle is like 300m high, MAX. Not very big, but quite steep.

All your smoke was belong to us

he means the fresh rockfall scar

i could probably get a pretty good placement between them 8========D

some real hardmen Messner Dumerac Edwards have had total fuckin' epics on that route boy! better watch out when you talk shit about it lest you end up epicing too!

I think if Hugh is behind your back, he will at least give you the reacharound

From what I remember, there is a good reason why you don't any longer, too.

If they rebranded them as ligatures and made them in black velvet they could sell for a lot higher than $20 a pop

Pirate Confucius say, time to Wok the Plank.

And the stupid two-tone alternating colour bars in the forums are still present even in this version