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Three cheers for stewardship! Thanks for the report.

Don't worry about a big 'ol bacon eating family guy butt Sobo, you wouldn't be the only one. There is a 5.9 lieback down on one end, and the 5.10's are pretty friendly. Short too, longest thing is only 75'. 17th would be great, but as Drederek said, folks don't show up until 5 or so, about an hour after the crag goes into the shade. For family entertainment (in case you have them in tow) there are trails in the woods on the property, and there's a community pool in the quarry at the city park in Tenino, a mile away. Cold water, but has a waterfall and a for real high dive, a rarity in the lawsuit wary world these days. It'd be great to meet you.

8/3/05 Wednesday Wednesday, Be There, Be There Everything is plenty dry. Climbed Critter Corner down on the left end yesterday and swept down the winter debris. The as-yet-unnamed 5.10 lieback in the central drainage is dry and ready for a scrubbing and completing the bolt installation. Bolted Flake is also dry and seeing a lot of action lately. Tomorrow's gonna be warm, so the crag only gets better as the evening winds on, until the bats come out and the holds slowly disappear. Wonder kids breaking out of the gym, crafty old farts with clever footwork, developing climbers ratcheting up through the grades, steel tendoned burlmeisters: everyone's pulling down in Tenino.

just like a zen master....

I once rapped the Sherpa Couloir on Stuart. In late September, it was not a friendly descent for the cramponless. Someone else had rapped it fairly recently, there was a set of red slings all the way down, all with the same initials on them. Without fail, each anchor was scary as hell, but a few minutes excavation with a nut tool would reveal a bomber sling anchor. We reset each sling. The last anchor was several slings tied around a large peanut shaped boulder on a sloping gravelly rock bench above the schrund. The previous yahoos had rapped straight down the sloping direction, and you could see that the boulder had moved a couple inches. Just because someone has successfully rapped on something, don't assume everything is hunky-dory. Personally, I wouldn't hesitate to leave anything on my rack behind if that's what it took for a safe anchor. That said, I think I've only left two nuts behind over the years.

Some dogs become "quill dogs." They don't have a clear memory of the process that gave them so much pain, they just see a porcupine and think, "oooh, there's that thing, I hate that thing, I'm gonna bite it." I mean, inasmuch as a dog thinks. I came home from Seattle once at 2am and found my dog on the porch all full of quills. Veterinary emergency rooms are so much fun. Fortunately, she only repeated the process one more time, far less severely. I figured she had a scientific approach: "yes, this is a repeateable phenomena." Funny, coyotes know to flip 'em over and start with the soft bits, but dogs never seem to learn. It's easy to see how a good quilling would be (slowly) fatal without intervention.

Stellar photos and a great trip, thanks for sharing.

A minor overdose of MDA, two pitchers of any beer, and The Wipers playing on stage in an abandoned store front. Gotta be February though, so when you walk around outside your sweat soaked body leaves a contrail behind. The SS Oatmeal Stout is a brilliant brew though....

If you're the pagetop, it doesn't necessarily mean you're gay, right? This pagebottom trend gives us a new motto: CC.com: the race to the bottom

Doesn't anybody ever rap into the couloir instead of heading left into the steep rock?

Jesus is an inattentive belayer with a weak hand, as Tobin Sorenson found out long ago on the N Face of Alberta.

In the same vein, check out Hype!, a documentary about the Seattle music scene 88-94 and the whole grunge thing. Good performances, interviews, and tongue in cheek perspective on the whole wangdoodle.

AK's only a mod in Freshiez, and his shit is entirely his own. In fact, I believe the mutual animosity predates AK's mod position by a considerable margin. Good point about Spray though, this is pretty much a Spray topic, replete with Spray-grade strut and bluster. I think I'll move it.

I thought the lake was natural, but the level was raised due to the dam?

Personally, I'd rather see a TR than a press release...

Try a search on this board, the topic came up a year or so ago. My recommendation was Banks Lake (bring a boat). Life preserver self-belay is an option.

Hotlum-Bolam glacier side of Shasta is good.

Have you seen the documentary, "The True Meaning of Pictures"? Interviews with the artist and his subjects. The guy's actually from there and has long term connections with the folks he takes pictures of. Sure, he's an artist with a point of view, and he does direct his subjects, but it seems less exploitive than one might imagine. Those folks all laugh and smile a lot more in real life (missing teeth and all) than they do in his photos.

Telepherique to the top of Squamish Chief? Close the Middle Fork Snoq road? (done deal, I believe) Don't repair the Dosewallips road? NW Forest Pass? Bolt wars? Ski Area on the northside of Adams, including summit chair? Expand the Cooper Spur ski area? Private subcontractors running public campgrounds? Snowmobiles to the summit of St. Helens? Little colored polkadots might be silly but they're hardly the most horrifying, inconvenient, or damaging. Ages ago, when I did Constance in the Olympics, someone had marked part of the trail (then heavily damaged by blow-down) and a lot of the ROUTE (!!) with circles of white spray paint. Any recent ascents notice this, for instance up around the top of the N. Chute? Of course, maybe you mean "endorsed" on this site

Heh, I figured it was either you, or one of the other two in your party. With an earlier start you'd have been past the lake before dark. The problem isn't land management, it's more likely tequila management.

Brutish women?

What a waste, he could be a great climber.

Are you sure you aren't looking for the "specialed's tit" thread?

Down by Lone Pine, the N. Ridge on Lone Pine Peak is a fun outing.

probably more like this, if a google image search on "bellingham big wall" is any indication