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Hmmm, noticed, not climbed I notice.

Okay, you can level with me. Can there be too much of a good thing? Is this overkill? When does a bolt become more of a rock picket?

Dude, that's a photo of a bad thing, not a bad photo, but thanks for sharing. I guess.

Careful dude, you're making yourself sound like a drama queen with a soundbite.

Damn. From the Olympian online: Where's Iain today?

The flip side of the coin is every NIMBY and their brother griping about airplane noise. A high speed rail connection would seem to be the obvious answer, but nobody put me in charge. That Ericson-Snyder message exchange was hilarious. Please Mr. Snyder, answer the question, yes or no, have you stopped sacrificing passengers in satanic rituals yet?

Hah, and it's the chipping that chaps me. Bolt holes, including those that hold on artificial holds, can be filled fairly well. Chipping takes a lot of weathering to go away, and bashing away at the holds with a hammer or coating them with bondo is no solution at all.

I'm confused, did this happen on the snow slope that heads down from where you round the false summit, or in the couloir proper after you turn right from the broader descent area?

And if you filter it right away you could even make a tepid cup of tea.

Shapp's probably to young to remember all the bad ass routes put up with stoppers and hexes cj100f's probably too young to remember all the bad ass routes put up with a rack of pins and a hammer

You need to get your owner to shear you, at least your midsection, then loll about in the shady corners of your field.

Wednesday! Wednesday! Be There! Be There! Gonna clean up a new route today, might even be easier than 5.10....

Here's another descent option: After the NE Rib, we went more or less straight down the other side from the summit area, following a major gully. We'd intended to do the traverse to the West Summit descent as described in Beckey, but got impatient with the traverse prospect. The gully wasn't bad despite some anxiety over our venture into terra incognita. Mostly 3rd class with some loose stuff, standard cascade gully grovelling. Towards the bottom there was a drop off and a waterfall, we descended a little to the east down a bit of a buttress, about two leads of moderate downclimbing as I recall. We did leave one RP close to the moat to help the second over the trickiest bit. Down the snowcone to a heathery bit with scrub trees and tons of dead downed wood for the plushest unplanned bivy I've every had, toasty fire all night long. Next morning we began traversing to the west, and wound up on the Beckey described descent, a little bit of elevation gain was hard on our overworked underfed selves, then over the shoulder and down through steep timber back to the road. The timber was endless, but not brushy, and I don't remember any devils club slide alder vine maple hell on it at all. We were back to the car by noon. This way seemed much safer than the CJ couloir, sounds less gripping than the E Ridge downclimb, and shorter than the Gunsight traverse: I'd take that way again.

I think you're looking for the Nature Conservancy.

Spring Mountain in eastern oregon has exactly what you're looking for, complete with great free camping and no trail pass, but it's prolly a little hot right now. Check it out sometime. Free online guide here

Kind of thick and sultry today (Wednesday 7/14), but it'll be a happening thing all the same. I expect I'll go wallow in the ultra cold free old quarry pool at the Tenino city park first, so I won't be cragging until 5:30 or 6:00 is my guess.

He probably also discovered all the people who were living there too.

Same map suggests that Brinnon is even farther left, eh Snarkboi.

"Gaper On Board" is one of the old default names. The defaults only change when you cross some threshold of number of posts, so the legacy titles tend to hang on with higher number posters (since the title change steps get farther apart).

THAT is an interesting idea.

That's funny, Blackjack the office cat was just thinking this thread needed a bump.

Hey ya'll, this is the climbers board, not spray. Assume the question is sincere. Tip of the hat to Specialed for providing some real suggestions.

Well, among other things involved in trying to wrap up my up and coming Portland rental house in time to provide an end of the summer alpine season for me, I got to modify a cheap bathroom cabinet to accommodate a side supply and drain set up, with jamb extensions and service cubby, as well as back extensions to fit the deeper than standard cubby. I even got to use my pocket screw jig, which is neither as fun nor perverse as it might sound.

You mean nuclear material that the US already knew was there, that the UN had sealed for 14 years, was not involved in a concealed weapons program, and that we failed to secure when we invaded? Not a smoking gun yet, but keep hoping, okay?