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waiving the right to go after them if they libel you is the most grandiose case of simultaneous corporate asscovering and chestpuffing I have heard all morning
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Speed boats make the best accidents. When I was a kid vacationing at an Okanagan Lake, this guy got wasted and went water skiing. He came in to the marina WAAAYY too fast and went right alongside the side of a boat at waist height. Basically cut him in half. Ambulance was 40 mins away, and the only reason he survived was that 1/2 the vacationers were surgeons
Now has a scar from his bellybutton to his spine 
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Burly jacket. Size large. red/gray.
Had it for a few years, but never used. Marmot's MemBrain XCR equivalent with burly Ironsides reinforcements. Helmet-compatible hood with high pockets above harness.
$150 CDN / $134 USD obo
send PM
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Brand new, never used. Size medium. Citrus color. Hybrid softshell. $200 Cdn / $180 USD
Apparently the hot shit colour just "isn't me"
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The "purple" wall seems a more likely location of a climb of any sustained difficulty. It is very compact and quite steep and although most of the time I've walked past it it has been wet, it seems comparatively clean.
Yellow wall may have been used as a location shoot for "Jurassic Park"
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Ok see here, you got Crater Couloir in red, Widdermaker in green, and more or less claimed line of "The Barrier" in blue... it does kinda skirt along that steep shadowed face low down but I wonder where the 30 foot roof near the top is???
Yeah, but you've got red to the left of the actual Crater Couloir, maybe for clarity though. Blue (Barrier) basically climbs the central wall in this photo:
which I can see providing a few pitches of real climbing . . . but the supposed top half of blue is basically the slabs Jesse and I climbed; it's all the same angle and no way any harder than fourth/low fifth class. Maybe the roof is on the summit block of the true summit of Crown - I can see that, it's pretty steep for 1/2 a pitch there.
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Yeah well you know something aint cricket when a trip report refers to the talus going down into Hanes valley as "a 50 degree scree slope"
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One further note. In the 1975 CAJ there is a report of a 10 pitch 5.9 A2 route somewhere around here in the vicintiy of the Widowmaker Arete. Long lost and likely never reapeated. By our judgments some serious drugks would be needed to envision a 10 pitch *wall* on this peak . . .
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There is a guy in Pemberton who will pull you out of a ditch with his CAMEL TOWING tow truck
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What's funny is hearing all these stories about people hiking down the trails in suits after having a meeting up there, or families coming down in the dark after dinner figuring it can't be that bad. They got a guy handing out rave-job GLOW STICKS to people who choose to hike down
That family we saw was in for a world of hurt 
Yeah mibbie it's faster coming up Hanes Valley but then you're shuttling cars and that's all a bit much
Never having done that route I can only say it looked like a lots of slide and boulder walking when you could be chatting with 80yr old legends with wooden piolets hiking around Goat Mtn 
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Climb: Crown Mountain-Crater Slabs
Date of Climb: 10/22/2006
Trip Report:
Jmace and I climbed the east face slabs of Crown Mtn yesterday in a super fun day out in the local hills. This route rocks as a moderate solo scramble and deserves to be WAY better travelled
We hiked the Flint & Feather to start cause we were too cheap to pay for the tram ride up and the Grind smelled like Quick Move people
A rough start especially for the Mace fightin back the alckie growlies, but we got to the base of Crown pretty quick and started up the north side gully
The crater couloir is wicked fun scrambling up onto the slabs of the east face where the rock is superb and solid. Consistent and challenging 4th class the whole way. We soloed it but it would be a different story if wet.
Lottsa lounging and bsing on the summit cause we were so amped at how fast the day was going, but we had heard that the main gondola was down and there would be a lineup to download.
Holy sh*t! The lineup was HHUUGEE, proabbly about 3 hrs
So after some bacon loading we forced our way down the BCMC trail, passing a Chinese family at about 1/2 way as the sun was going down. They had shopping bags and a 2yr old kid had conked out and was being carried. Probably bivied
Good fun super close to home
Gear Notes:
nuttin
Approach Notes:
trail from tram to Hanes valley.
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Yeah, sounds good except p2 had a fixed line which we just yanked on in the interest of getting down by dark. 5.8 maybe but really short. We found p4 to be consistently about 10a except for that one stinking move with the little branch growing out of a crack which was snot wet. We both slipped on that thing
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Dru, i'm sure you would know the name of it. I was on Harmfull Health, next to Quarryman in teh SMoke bluffs, and they were about 30 feet to my right... i think it was an .11- trad line.
They seemed like squamish locals, one of them had just downclimbed Quarryman before they walked over to do the climb on which the carabiner snapped.
Health Hazard? 10a
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Climbed at the Nicolum Crag yesterday and found it very fun
Hwy 12 first pitch is stellar. Things were a bit wet due to recent rain, and there was a fair amount of mud grovelling to get around the area. In fact, we got caught in a Class 2 dirtalanche descending from the crag. Full burial, kinda scary Anyway, we did the 4 pitch Hwy 12 to To Bee . . link-up. Nice varied climbing, especially the last pitch of To Bee which will be a fantastic pitch once the bolting is sorted out. Very cool chimney to crack to face deal
Good times, thanks for putting so much time and effort into these routes Ty!
There is only one copy of the topo left at Cheyenne Sports, so anybody seeking beta make sure you get them to make more copies. -
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I wonder what down home pleasant explanation Uncle Sam will give for peacefully liberating his backward nation to the north
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what the hells wrong with that
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All your skies are belong to us
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Look, this aggression will not stand, man
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I especially like the gin and tonic at far left.Tres esthete
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What drugs were you on when you took that photo
North Face South Twin Sister?
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Any line there is huzzah worthy!