Off_White

It is a bouldering area, not a cragging destination. Good bouldering in western WA is harder to come by than chuffing, so I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand if I were you.

It's not that hush hush, you will find this link to the online interactive guide in the RC Links thread stickied at the top of the Rock Climbing Forum. Sounds like development is on hold while a plan is negotiated with the Park Service, but climbing existing routes should be fine. If you go, take pictures and tell us stories.

I haven't checked, what actually worries me is the rain prediction for Wednesday. Someone didn't get the memo: rain is not allowed on Wednesdays. I'll give a look tomorrow, but I'm confident if we get a dry day there will be ample routes available. I'm sure it's been more than a dozen years since that route got a redpoint, and I believe only one other person has done that. It's going to be a good season out here.

Unless you're trying to do a speed ascent, then it seems like ethics don't matter, only speed, so even the hard boys nail things that have gone clean. buncha bigwall howeetz if you ask me.

You're off to a great beginning, but this other site will better assist your personal growth in your chosen branch of climbing: boldering.com

Yes CBS, it is a bit lame to use this fellow's misfortune, but what I wrote is essentially what came out of my mouth at 5:48 this morning before I even had my coffee. I just wanted to share what it's like to wake up with me in the morning.

Oh my dear, if only you could see what I see...

Yes, heard about this missing runner on the radio while laying in bed this morning. Turned to my wife and said, "I'm tired of this waste of taxpayer money searching around, the should make runners carry beacons." Really, everyone should have one, in fact, they should be implanted. They could also work as a national identity card. If you implant them just under the skin of the forehead they could be programmed to glow in a variety of colors signifying illegal or simply immoral behavior. I'm pretty sure that beacons would solve everything that's wrong in the world.

Tazz - if you go back and edit your image tags so they end in .jpg instead of that ?v=0 your pictures will show up. I did the first one just to check that it would work. Rule of thumb is that the image file location must end in .jpg (.gif works too I think).

not if they're pre-chewed.

You forgot to mention that you also really want to see The Hold Steady.

Snide, I don't think you're all that new to this place, but Dwayner's not really out of line here, he's really just making somewhat predictable conversation and not writing an epistle. Your venting is rather more over the top. Old clowns are not necessarily cuddly, and the minority report from our old crusty pup is a bit of a tradition anytime those areas crop up in conversation.

It's messy, and it doesn't really work, the seal will always fail at some point. Silicone doesn't adhere all that well to steel anyway. Caulking makes a poor primary waterproofing strategy. Glue in bolts would solve the water issue, but would be a bigger replacement problem with the annual avalanche problem. Best to just carry a wrench.

You know Muffy, some of us just like the pictures and stories, whether it's earthshaking or not. We encourage trip reports in general around here, it's actually what the broadest cross section of users enjoy most. I know plenty of folks would find a story from you about struggling at your own level of climbing, and plenty of others would be happy to hear your TR from the fucking bit. Please note that the board administration does discourage the posting of porn here, so sadly I must suggest the latter trip report not be illustrated.

Hah, I wrestled a sheep, top that!

Okay, this was my first attempt to prune our mud wrestling event from it's congenial trip report beginnings, but it failed to take everything with it due to the nature of topic threading. This branch is where we diverged, but it's now locked, and you can continue to the active sucker off the vine here.

Okay, I trimmed off the sprayfest and sent it on to it's home in Spray. If you want to carry on about that, please go here. Please return your chairs and tray tables to their full and upright positions, this thread is now returned to it's original topic. Squabbling digressions will be deleted.

Nice pic, why doesn't anyone ever do the Gerber-Sink in these conditions?

At least they're both in the Northwest, not scattered to lesser places like Arizona or New Jersey.

Tom, you confuse me, first you state on your board (link) then you do this mumbly "sorry to intrude" shuffle dance over here? What is it, do you want to be all humble and polite or do you want to whack each other's bees nests with a stick? You'll get a more spectacular result during spray season after the rain starts in the fall, but everyone loves a good rumble. Damn, now I've got "When you're a Jet" stuck in my head...

It's nice to have some good news now and then, thanks to all who fought this one.

Maybe being pedantic just gives me wood.

Hey, this is tonight. Should be a great show, pity I can't make it. In light of all the recent Alien failures, discounted C3's sound pretty good too.

When most folks around here fill in the missing vowels & consonants in your name, we come up with MountainWanker. Maybe that's what you intend, so there's no need to change your name? I think carting your own "name" from site to site can be a good thing, at least it's the same entity standing behind what they spray on the net. Certainly there's a lot of cross pollination, both on the regional outdoors level and climbing boards in general. I'd give Tazz-the-nwhikers-moderator some grief for being so immoderate on another board, but seeing as how I've been accused of that myself, it would be strictly a tongue in cheek that joke few would get.

Yeah, I think it's really nice that we have finally have something to offer both of our boulderers.