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Everything but that. Mycophile, Moss Killer etc.

You're 10 years too late - it's an 11b slab route in Squamish.

Yes he did. He went from soulclimber to media whore in a few short years, and lost his dignity in the process.

Phyllis Beltz thought the then-unclimbed spires looked like a choo-choo train and the name has stuck. Congrats on your canoeless ascent Darin. Canoes are aid! It's kinda awe inspiring to think that Peter Croft linked Castle Towers and the North ridge of Sphinx with a complete circumnavigation of Garibaldi Lake in less than 24 hrs from Rubble Creek parking lot.

Sounds like your hand might need to take some antibiotics.

It'd be better if you said "Sit on my fanny" in a British accent

For you, a bouquet of stinging nettles, deadly nightshade and something you're allergic to.

I made a 30 foot tall robot out of milk crates and dismantled turntables. I'm sending it over to your house to smash your table.

Trip: Norrish Creek - Canyoneering Descent Date: 9/10/2008 Trip Report: I had found out from a canyoneering friend that you can do the Norrish Creek Canyon (6 or 7km of the lower watershed) near Mission as a relatively easy descent - a couple of pool jumps and swims but no mandatory rappelling or downclimbing. We do a lot of work in the watershed and I have done research for both my degrees there so doing this one was a no-brainer for us. My boss and I took the day off work yesterday and took the trip through the canyon in about 4.5 hours. Beautiful scenery - tight slot canyons in granite, waterfalls, water-worn boulders, landslides, dark pools, bright pools, frogs, fish, minks (not minx ) and long stretches of boulder, cobble and sandbar walking. Some old growth cedars too! There is a lot of deep-water soloing type climbing potential in the canyon but a lot of it is mossy. Wearing approach shoes with the wetsuit means you can do some bouldering, though. I'm definitely doing this one again next year. Gear Notes: Full wetsuit, approach shoes, helmet. Waterproof camera (mine was "weatherproof" and after taking 47 pictures, turned into an expensive brick about 1/3 of the way through ) Approach Notes: Two car shuttle. Leave one car at 3km and park other car at water treatment plan. Enter canyon at Rose Creek and follow downstream to Sally Creek. Exit along north bank of Sally Creek to pick up trail leading back up to road.

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair Fuzzy Wuzzy didn't care Cause Fuzzy was a Doukhobear!

During the Paul Bernardo trial in the 90's it was alleged in testimony that Bernardo prowled the streets carrying a "rape kit" consisting of a pair of panties, duct tape and a large knife. A few months later a friend and I were hitchhiking to Squamish and got a lift with a 40-ish social worker and her client, a wizened old native guy who must have been near 70. After we got in the car he turned to us and said with glee "You've got to watch out who you're hitching with, boys! I've got a knife" (and he held up a $9.99 Swiss Army special) "and I think she's wearing panties!"

When Jeremy Frimer and the boys went to the Miyar Valley in India they climbed a 1,000m long ridge at 5.10a, and retreated 50m from the top and called it a new route and named the peak and everything. The Grmjsoviks* from Slovenia (* I bet I spelled that wrong) were there the next year and climbed the whole thing to the top and gave it a new name and a new grade: VII- which is Euro for 10c. Jeremy got all pissy in the Alpinist comments and said something like "your line isn't new and you didn't make the first ascent and anyway it is 5.9+ not 10c" Tanja Grmjsovik responded politely to him "The crux was the last pitch that you did not climb." Anyways I don't know what that has to do with first ascents in the Cascades but it is a pretty funny story. Another contrary example from the Andes is The Slabs of Koriancha route on La Esfinge that was rated 13a by Bubu and Silvo Karo on the FA and last I heard was downgraded to 12a or 11d depending on who you talk to. I think there's a lot more inflation in the overall grades in these parts, be it I-VI or F to ED+, than there is in number grades. I know when I climbed Graveyard Shift I was surprised when Alpinist asked me to write something up for them because as a route it was no big deal. Several year prior when they didn't have such a news-hungry website we sent them some details from Talchako and they said something in reply like " a new 30 pitch V 5.8 AI3 is not hard enough for us, you should have done a sitstart to bump the grade up and make it newsworthy"

Some climbers get sponsored for climbing the hardest routes, and some get sponsored for climbing the fastest, and some get sponsored for soloing. Personally I think soloing is rad but not for money. When soloing is tied to cash, judgement is compromised and bad things can result. So far Alex seems to have avoided the trap of having a pro photographer and video crew along to document his solos and sell them afterwards (no shots of him soloing Moonlight Butt for instance) and I hope he maintains that.

It's cool but more to the point, are we going to see any photos or video of this, especially in ads or DVDs? I hope not. That (sponsorship cash for boldness) is the start of the slippery slope that led Dean Potter from his French-free solo of Half Dome to Delicate Arch.

MTV has soaps now? That ain't workin That's the way ya do it

Hexes are way cheaper to rap off than cams if you have to bail

I don't believe that's the case, I don't know that he's ever posted here, or on any climbing related BBS for that matter. Dru had said he posted as Trask. Trask was banned...ergo... Did you know that "gullible" is misspelled in most dictionaries? OMG!

Since Mccain can't raise his arms above shoulder height i'm guessing they will stick to slabs?

yeah, maybe you over-lubricated the springs

If you clip three Rockcentrics to a biner and throw it, it makes a pretty good bolas with which you can bring down small game if you are starving in the mountains.

The population is on a multiyear cycle that has highs and lows. Wasps, their major predator, generally lag the webworm population by a year - next year will probably be tons of wasps and no webworms.

That is a purty looking line It is strange how much those "stinging nettles" look like fireweed. If it's got Distal in the name shouldn't there be a bouldering picture in the trip report?

If all you want to do is repeat routes, your first step is to actually go out and climb some of them. Once you've climbed a bunch of them here, you can start to visit other parts of the world. Within North America, The Coast Mountains, Canadian Rockies and Alaska as well as some more obscure locations, generally have longer and more demanding routes than the Cascades. Overseas you have all sorts of destinations in the Greater Ranges. Some people however, aspire to not merely repeating routes but climbing first ascents. This is a complementary game and requires, amongst other things, better research skills on your part. If you can't at the moment find any beta on the Pickets or the north face of Sir Donald, you are going to have a whole heap of trouble figuring out exactly what things in the mountains are still unclimbed. You should start by improving your research skills - primarily by buying maps, journals, and guidebooks and reading all the trip reports you can online.

Although commonly called "tent caterpillars" around these parts, real tent caterpillars only build tents in spring. What you saw was actually the Fall Webworm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_webworm