David_Keltner

So, myself and a buddy went up last night to climb the Sandy headwall in July. This was an awesome idea. We've had some awesome ideas before. But this was super-awesome. A couple of you guys out there were trying to talk us out of it, but we like to just have our own ideas and just do 'em no matter what people say. Especially people trying to help us. So, we just went ahead and figured your advice didn't really apply to us and boy were we right! This route is so much fun right now! Especially the approach to the route, which is the part we did. I've been reading Mark Twight and Mark and I think summits and stuff are stupid because we're all zen and stuff. So, here's some of the hi-lites of our adventure. For starters, we climbed around on cool mud formations that you can actually front point up! and heard this really cool buzzing sound rocks can make when they're going really really fast like bullets out of a gun. We didn't even care when we got rock marrooned on a cliff above the Sandy glacier because it meant we got to spend more time hiking around on the mud and listening to that cool rock sound. I'd recommend doing the hard route finding at night like we did. You really get to know the mountain a lot better hiking up and down looking for this really clever traverse that starts, get this, on that cool front pointy mud stuff! There's tons of that to be had right now, so get out there while the gettin's good before it all gets covered up in boring snow again. -LURKER (coolest name I've ever had, thanks to whoever at this website gave me it)

Thanks for the feedback. We're going to go have a look tonight. Any tips on finding the spot where it's best to cross over Yocums?

Or has anyone been up the route this time of year?

So, is it too late in the season to get on the Sandy Headwall?

Anybody been up there in the last week to see if it's in? Ice as low as skibowl has us wondering.

Were you descending the west ridge of Prusik in the rain Monday afternoon, July 11th? Did you loose yourself a nice 35mm Pentax? I've got it.

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Has anyone out there been down to climb that 10 pitch 5.6 four star route on Acker Rock? It's listed in Greg Orton's guide book for climbing in Southwest Oregon and sounds awesome. I've been calling the Tiller ranger district off an on over the last year to see if access to the area has been restored after the fires, but could never get a definitive answer. Also, any beta on the quality of the rock, anchors, etc. would be great. Thanks.