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  1. The logging roads that go to Steinbok and to Old Settler needs some alder removal. Preferably with a chainsaw.
  2. Here's a shot from the cleaning process a couple weeks ago. Most of the moss carpets peeled off easily. The dirt and roots in the cracks took the most scrubbing to remove. At one point I actually just waited a week for a heavy rainstorm to do some of the route washing for me.
  3. Trip: Harrison Bluffs - FA Wildcat (32m 5.8) and Surprise Fall Date: 6/16/2011 Trip Report: So I haven't really been doing any trips lately, I have an upcoming deadline to graduate and I've been spending the last 4 months working on that. But hell, it's spring, you can't think about school all the time. So I've been going over to Harrison Bluffs for the last month or so and cleaning a new route, a couple hours at a time. Not the hardest or even the best route at Harrison, this rig takes a slabby buttress rising out of the forest. A boulder problem start leads to a curving handcrack to a small ledge and then a featured slab to the top. Nothing too hard, one boulder move and then mostly 5.7 with a three move 5.8 crux on the upper slab. Hopefully a good warmup/moderate route as Harrison has to date been lacking in those (at least ones that stay clean - a couple of easier routes put up in the 90s are fully overgrown). So anyways I got this thing all clean last weekend and did a no-falls burn up it using my Ushba on the fixed line to check out the moves and figure out bolt locations and number. At the time it seemed totally cruisable and I thought about just soloing the FA and placing bolts later but it was the end of a 5 hr scrub session and I was out of water so I just went home instead. Hmm. Went back yesterday and Ushba'd up the fixed rope again placing four bolts and doing the moves one more time. Normally I bolt on rappel and it was interesting to try this bolting-while-pseudo-toproping approach, the drill weighs less than I thought it would but it's still more involved frigging around than it is on rap (mostly with respect to keeping the hot drillbit off the rope and/or the legs after the hole is made). So Shaun showed up and belayed me while I sent the rig, except that things did not go as planned. 25m up the route I stand on a good foot ledge right below the final bolt - a ledge I have stood on with full body weight several times now and which appears to be totally monolithically solid) and am about to clip in when my feet do a Wile Coyote spinning on air dance and I can't hold on and I'm airborne. Suddenly I'm taking a 10m slab fall. WTF? And Shaun mentions he had to dodge a big rock. So when I reclimb the route on the next redpoint (WTF, two redpoint attempts on a 5.8?) it does turn out the big foot ledge below the last bolt is suddenly 50% missing. A brand new scar. Somehow that super solid ledge broke off under full body weight. And this is granite that appeared 100% solid during my last month of scrubbing attempts... The rest of the route goes fine and we climb a couple other routes nearby before the rain starts but, I'm thinking back now, FUCK ME I'm glad I didn't decide to solo that thing last weekend! I'd be in the hospital for sure and possibly even dead. We ended up calling the route Wildcat btw due to a bobcat that was prowling around the base while Shaun was waiting and I was bolting. Gear Notes: 3 or so cams in the hand size range (0.75 to 2 Camalot) and four bolts. Approach Notes: Park by the golf course and walk in on powerline road 5 minutes to the crag trail. This line goes up the slabby right side of he arete forming the right end of the Wayback Layback wall.
  4. I've heard that those packs cause your hockey team to win and your Cup Beard to look sexy too! Shit, it's my fault they lost then
  5. G-spotter

    Go Bruins

    Why didn't they send Tim Thomas out on the streets? He stopped everything else...
  6. G-spotter

    Go Bruins

    I went to a riot and a stanley cup final broke out?
  7. I guess you are right. I better buy a $1200 handmade nwd pack then. It will totally save weight on my next ascent of Banana Peel.
  8. G-spotter

    Go Bruins

    The Boston Pedobears?
  9. If you go to the gallery index it looks like anonymous spam is hitting quite a few of the photos.See all the "last post" with no user name associated? http://cascadeclimbers.com/plab/
  10. G-spotter

    Nanny State

    And, don't forget, they have MILF terrorists.
  11. G-spotter

    Nanny State

    Do they have a nanny state in the Phillipines?
  12. Montana was the state Jared Diamond used as an American example in "Collapse".
  13. G-spotter

    Go Bruins

    Canucks at home = win.
  14. You guys should do like the other USA, the Union of South Africa. Orange Free State has "Free State" right in its name. Washington could become "Apple Maggot Free State"
  15. I thought mountaineers were always free?
  16. Everybody should have one or two of those DMM Revolvers.
  17. Mudslides full of ticks and rattlesnakes.
  18. Those goats drink more urine than Bear Grylls
  19. There's another guy named Dan with a dog. Maybe you could race him.
  20. G-spotter

    Abortion?

    Isn't fornication an abomination unto God? Put that protestor to death immediately. He's probably wearing clothes made of different fabrics.
  21. G-spotter

    Abortion?

    "had decided to not kill" is grammatically poor. "had decided not to kill" would be better.
  22. No clear nights = no freeze crust = mush.
  23. I had a pet dinosaur once. It was a chicken. Tasted great.
  24. Apparently, he was a Bruins fan. Fucker's gonna be crying when the Cup is hoisted.
  25. That was a dead brown falcon.
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