dyno_merchant

quote: Originally posted by durkee1: hey just wanted to say hi to all the bellingham locals, and welcome to back to you, Jason. Well, I wanted to say that the local stuff at Larrabee are good for practice, and well to work on, I've been working down their, trying to do problems that I might get or not get, but I feel that the climbing is part of the process of what makes it fun. I am not really interested in what is sand bagged or what is right on. I am more interested in the process of it. Well had to defend the Bellingham scene; I have traveled to a lot of good spots when I was in the rangers (army), from Moores wall NC, Looking Glass NC, Table Top TN, to Joshua tree, to Red Rocks, and many more areas. I feel that they all offer something from natural beauty to some really awesome climbing. I may not be the strongest climber, but I like to have fun when I climb, I think that is what it is all about right? right on...have you been bouldering at sehome? what's your favorite spot to boulder at Larrabee?

.[/qb] when are you gonna put up some routes on the Van Zandt pinacles and make it the next Peshastin [/QB] I've been up to those cliffs years ago and access sucks. You either have to park at someones house and ask them if you can hike through their property or hope that the local logging company has a gate open and go the long way... either way the rock is a super hastle to get to and would only be the next peshastin if it were next to the road and didn't have any trees, dirt and moss on it! The quality of the rock actually isn't that bad but just not worth it! I'll stick to pebblepinching on the boulders.

quote: Originally posted by Alex: hey Jason, welcome back! The ham has missed you too! Thanks... I love the northwest!!! So much new bouldering to do!!!!!!!

quote: Originally posted by Dru: Climb Chuckanut Sandstone and for a limited time only, take your favorite holds home with you! usually true if your on the wrong problems...I hear you though, that's probably what most people think of Chuckanut Sandstone if they have gone there in the past and tried to climb on the chossy stuff. I'd join the club and diss chuckyournut sandstone too-if I wanted to hord the good stuff for myself...Yeah-you can't climb sandstone-it's choss-don't even try-all the holds crumble in your hand and then you'll land in the ocean and cut your butt open on shells and oysters and be eaten by a crab! Stay away-go to squamish!!! Whatever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! drew...we should hook up sometime and I'll show you some of the good stuff.

quote: Originally posted by Dru: Hmm, a chosspile or Squamish. Big hard choice dru... Ox isn't trying to pull your chain. The stuff in bellingham is super good. It, obviously, isn't as extensive as Squamish but you will be very pleasantly suprised if you get a tour from someone and get to see and climb on alot of the newer stuff and even some of the old classics. Or you could go to Squamish all the time or hope or Leavenworth or...you could climb on something besides granite....I ain't jokin' this stuff is worth the visit if your a pad totin' pebble pincher.

quote: Originally posted by sexual chocolate: quote:Originally posted by dyno merchant: bellingham bouldering...hundereds of problems...V0-V9...harder projects...more areas being developed as we speak... but you could just go to the Udub wall...hah! Can you tell us the location of this bouldering area? I sent you a PM about Larrabee State Park stuff-will send you more later...I'm tired and going to bed!

quote: Originally posted by sexual chocolate: quote:Originally posted by dyno merchant: bellingham bouldering...hundereds of problems...V0-V9...harder projects...more areas being developed as we speak... but you could just go to the Udub wall...hah! Can you tell us the location of this bouldering area? It's not just one bouldering area...but about 4 or 5 with more on the way. If your looking for classic Bellingham sandstone, there is alot of new stuff at Larrabee and Sehome. If you have visited these areas before they may not seem to extensive...but alot has gone on in the last few years (especially this summer!). Sehome has almost 50 new problems-most being at the top of the hill (truly amazing problems!). Larrabee's new stuff is mostly harder additions and projects mixed in with other walls already being climbed on...except for south of clayton beach. Mt. baker hwy is starting to see action, especially on one large and extremely overhanging boulder (a true gem). The bat caves (if you can stand the hike with a pad which is manditory there) has some beautiful problems despite the boulders "chossy" appearance. If you want beta on specific areas, problems, style of problems (steep, vert., traverses) etc. post with a specific...I don't have "secret" areas! I'll hook you up with the good stuff.

quote: Originally posted by ILuvAliens: quote: Your dissin' the rock cuz your not good enough. The UW rock is where I lerned to climb. What the fuck else you gona do after work on a nice day?, go inside to the gym and pay? I'd rather smoke a U-DUB sack and wander the woods in search of better bouldering. yep!

bellingham bouldering...hundereds of problems...V0-V9...harder projects...more areas being developed as we speak... but you could just go to the Udub wall...hah!

quote: she's my cherry pie [/QB] bring back 80's hair bands and we'll all crank V15!

quote: Originally posted by Buckwheat: So, what if you do both? What's your label for that? Buckwheat...forget this doing both nonsense! Just boulder all the time...besides I need another spotter and pad!!!

quote: Originally posted by erik: DYNO, i aint baggin on ya...or your climbing medium of choice......i just think it is soo funny that peeps think that there should be directions to climbing a piece of rock....all that match foot to mouth and such seems contrived. i hear boulderers saying that bouldering is more free...allowing you to focus solely on movement and power....wheres the freedom if i am required to do the same exact thing every else does??? why should 'english' be reuired sometimes? why cannot i do the problem the way i want too?? why would my ascent or accomplishment be looked down upon because i used an 'off' hold?? please do not say "boulderers aren't like that" cause ummmm...yes they are. when was the last time you were below the cheif crankin or down behind camp 4 when your ascent was invalidated because you didnt do toby's killer arete because you stepped on the 34 finger match on bob's wicked slab? yup ive heard it and been told it.... oh well my man, have fun and keep crankin!!!!!! I agree bouldering is contrived. Who cares. For me, climbing isn't about suffering and all that...it's about having fun while pushing my mental and physical limits. Bouldering gives me that more than any other aspect of climbing? Other aspects of climbing (trad, sport, tree climbing)may be other peoples choice-what does it matter... As long as people are psyched and not hurting anyone else they should be able to do as they please... Again...I don't go on trad topics and spray about how my form of climbing is better than yours...please don't go on bouldering topics and attack us...well...unless it's really, really funny and well thought out...of course....whatever..blah, blah, blah

quote: Originally posted by trask: quote:Originally posted by dyno merchant:

quote: Originally posted by trask: Why the hell would some wanker want to carry a bigassed unwieldy kotex pad into the wilderness? Why not just climb the shit with ropes and such? This bouldering sounds a little precious. Just curious. So I should cheat and use a rope? Boulderers are lazy anyway...we would never survive into your precios wilderness....

quote: Originally posted by erik: one word: contrived erik...I was wandering when you would post on this topic. I knew you couldn't resist. one word: rumpola!

.[/qb] A guide is coming out cause Nate and Mark want to spray about all the 'hard' problems they have done...[/QB] Why don't they get their website going again and post topos to just the boulders with these 'hard' problems and then the rest of the boulders would stay reletively quiet still. If I want to go somewhere and try some hard problems I tend to look on the internet first (i think most traveling climbers do that now). I don't want to buy a 20 dollar guide when I'm only going to use 1 percent of it. Guidebooks are for the masses. If you don't want the masses coming then don't produce a guidebook.

quote: Originally posted by Greg W: quote:Originally posted by trask: what is a boulderer? is that like a wanker or something? It's like those kids that hang out in front of the 7-11 in your neighborhood, except it's a rock and they have big pad thingies. Fuck you!!!...ahh that kind of feels good...

quote: Originally posted by Dru: really all those areas have so much potential i rarely repeat problems but rather scrub & climb new ones every time i go there. i personally find a lack of "developed" landings, trails and chalk on holds to be a big plus. Hope is gonna be a pretty dead area until the guidebook comes out then all the trendy losers will show up blabbing about chris sharma gossip and grabbing each others bum. I understand what your saying it's rad having a place to yourself and running around putting up problems like crazy...so why is a guide coming out then? Keep the bum grabbers at Squamish.

quote: Originally posted by trask: what is a boulderer? is that like a wanker or something? I love you.

quote: Originally posted by Greg W: ...No hope for boulderers... why is it that we can't talk about bouldering on this forum without some tradster posting some lame comment about how,in their mind, we aren't as good as they are? We don't post on their topics and say rude things about them! We love and respect you, trad climbers-can't you love us too???

quote: Originally posted by Dru: routes from 11a to 12+ across the valley... talk to mike crapo for info on the routes. ahhhh... i figured someone had developed at least some of it. Looks good. Has he found any caves or super steep stuff or is it all vert to slightly overhanging? What are the approaches like? Man o man I love limestone...

quote: Originally posted by Dru: I heard the website was down? LOTW the boulders get bigger the further uphill you go. Thats easily one of the biggest boulderfields aside from the Soo Slide anywhere in SW BC. we didn't go very far because of time. We went to check it out to late in day. Is there a specific climbers trail to follow or do you just wander up through the forest and boulders? this is the area at the lake just north of hope on Hwy 1 right? Just wanted to make sure I'm talking about the same place you are. about the web site..for some reason I can view it but sometimes if you go to a new page or leave the site on for too long you will "loose it". hit the site and see what I mean.

quote: Originally posted by Crackhead: what is the story with chiliwack? It's oh so close to home. pretty easy to find...drive to chilliwack on Hwy 1 and exit at walmart. Drive east to the chilliwack river. Right before the Chilliwack river bridge turn left. I think this road is called Chilliwack Lake road but don't hold me to that. Drive this road for a while as it follows the Chilliwack river. The road will cross the river and then continue. In a little while you will see the bridge for Slesse creek(slesse creek runs into Chilliwack river). Park at the bridge. this bridge has an obvious chossy cliff right before it. The bouldering wall is hard to see...look maybe 50 yards to the right of the large chossy cliff and there will be a couple rough trails into some trees. look through the trees and you will see a overhanging wall with super flat and spacious landings. good moves and holds on averagelooking rock. We found that the full traverse (about 25 meters)is fun and there are some good short up problems on the left side that are worth doing (with many variations to play on) look at fraservalleybouldering.homestead.com if you want a topo of the problems. have fun! the wall may stay dry in rain??? i don't know if it seeps...may be a great rainy day area? by the way does anyone know if there are sport routes on the limestone up there? Looks like serious potential if you could find easy access. [ 08-15-2002, 01:55 PM: Message edited by: dyno merchant ]

quote: Originally posted by Dru: ya, its a secret spot, eh? did you expect base of the chief type crowds? if'n you want beta to the hard problems like how to find them, i will pm you with the address of marc lefebvre who is working on the guidebook lake of the woods is way better than goldrush aka old hope, IMHO. there isd also an area of maple canyon like cobbles right on the outskirts of hope somewhere. I guess I expected too much. I just figured that if there is a web site about it and the old hope area has been talked about by the bouldering community so much then I would see way, way more evidence of climbing there. There only seemed to be a handfull of decent problems also...maybe we've all been babied by the world class bouldering of squamish! Interesting though...even the bouldering of Larrabee State Park and Sehome Hill has a ton of chalk and obvious trails and landing and those areas seem super local to Bellingham. I never see people from out of town bouldering there. Even with the lack of "base of the cheif sized crowds" b'ham bouldering see's ten times more traffic than old hope. I had to be missing stuff because old hope seems super over hyped for what it is.??? I'd be psyched to find high quality stuff to boulder on and can't wait for a guide. I'm sure that there must be better boulderfields in Hope than I saw. about lake of the woods...We went there we think? We must have missed the good stuff because we only saw lots of little boulders. about the cobble stuff...sounds cool and there seems to be a topo for it in the fraservalleybouldering.homestead.com site but with no direction on how to get there (on purpose?).

we went up to hope to check out the bouldering today.... we checked out the stuff by the "hope next four exits" sign on highway 1. Are we missing something...we barely saw any signs of chalk and the trails and landings didn't seem like they have seen traffic for years. what's up? if this is one of the spots that I keep reading about that's supposted to be rad I must of missed all the rad stuff... where is it????? by the way...the limestone at chilliwack was fun for the day. cool holds and great for a workout! Thanks for the beta.