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cool picts!

wuss.

no joke, best get your hep B series before you use his #3 costalot.

the correct spelling is "brah".

thanks, I did a search on rec.climbing for Harlan quarry and came up with this pretty amusing response under the thread "The 5 Worst Crags" (From Kevin Pogue (pogue@whitman.edu)) I tend to agree with Brian in SLC that any day climbing outside anywhere is better than doing most anything else. I find the concept of a "worst crag" a hard thing to nail down. For example. When I was in grad school in Corvallis we were desperate to find some rock to climb close to town. The alternative was to drive 3.5 hours to Smith or head to Eugene and hang out with the posers at Skinners Butte. One day we blundered onto a 100 ft. high quarry wall in the coast range near the small town of Harlan. The rock is a mixture of graywacke, a type of "dirty" sandstone and siltstone, and water seeped out in many places along the bedding planes. The rock is actually quite incompetent and nowhere forms natural cliffs. The water oozing down to the base of the cliff waters a lush growth of poison oak and blackberries with canes up to 2 inches in diameter. The hillside above the quarry wall is very steep so that soil is constantly creeping to the edge of the cliff, promoting a constant rain of dirt and small rocks that quickly cover even the tiniest of ledges. Despite all of these delightful characteristics we resolved to "develop" our newfound "crag". This was about 1987 and no one we knew owned a hammer drill so we rented one and a generator and jugged up fixed lines hauling an extension cord behind us. We managed to bolt about 4 lines. Some of the best holds on our routes consisted of 3 inch diameter drill holes left over from the quarry operation. Every handhold and foothold (and probably bolt for that matter) was suspect and apt to aburptly detach itself from the cliff at any moment. Despite all of this, I spent 6 or 7 days climbing there and really enjoyed it. Of course, it only had to be an improvement over sitting at a desk writing a thesis. Eventually the area even made it into the back of the Portland Area Rock Climbs Guidebook. I'd love to see the look on someone's face after they drove 2.5 hours from Portland to climb there! From other folk's descriptions it sounds like the authors of the "5 worst crags" article were picking on manufactured areas. They should have included Leslie Gulch, a travesty where EVERY single hold is a drilled pocket! Of course, quarries like the one described above are entirely manufactured, so I would like to nominate the Harlan Quarry as my "worst crag" even though climbing there still beats sitting here and typing this! -=> kevin

oh yeah and the Turkey Monster, Menagerie after reading the 40+ pin description in Dodge's book, probably not never

You expect answers to this thread with all the testosterone floating 'round here? There's some routes on Mt. Washington down here in OR that I hesitate to climb, but one day will... nice topic though

Damn right, only way to fly. Seriously, I'm not sure what Tex is saying, but I don't think anyone's saying Hood is some hardcore sickfest (though you can find some spice if you want it). However it IS a superb alpine classroom where you can climb progressively harder and more committing climbs until you have some experience, with limited approach times and relatively easy bailouts. It's all about conditions too. Yocum Ridge has been called a walk in the park on good days, a terrifying nightmare on bad ones. Then there are the poor fools who think the fall is a good time for that one.

how 'bout ANY climbing in general in the Corvallis area. I've been looking for a good quarry to mess around with some highline stuff too.

so start climbing Hood from the Ratskeller in Govy, pussy.

I do all my banking through Nigeria now. Those guys are great! Giving away money constantly because they always seem to have a surplus.

could I bring the office coffee machine with me?

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Zimas all around!

OMG this is the worst thread ever

please, a few more avatars need to post here.

nice to see Visa has successfully brainwashed its way into pop culture once more. to ad execs.

boy are you out of the loop

they could tie it off to the engine up on crater rock BTW if you are forced up the southside routes these days I recommend adding on the gulley that splits crater rock as a nice enclosed short 50°ish ice poke (very short). Drops you high on crater rock looking down on the normal route, then you can traverse around and climb down to the hogsback or summit crater rock. Make sure it's cold. It may be gone already now that I think of it. There's all this old timber and stuff down in one of the gulleys up there from back in the '30's.

the current record for the brand new cat at T-Line (I'm not talking about the old blue Thiecol but the new Bombardier thing) is the base of Crater Rock during a rescue in May last year. Gets pretty sketchy when it is tilted back and you have to climb out of the thing to get out. Definitely couldn't go higher. And that's with the best-of-the-best cat drivers. Some of those guys are real pros.

Leaves of four, eat some more! Leaves of five makes the ski jive!

priceless b-rock!

sure it does. didn't you just read above that you can ski, and not use your ass? sorry boonecounty I could not get any time off work this week. btw that ski down was boilerplate awful on Sunday

you feel like you teeth are going to rattle out when you're in there. It's usually packed too. I'll admit, I've hitched a ride on the thing when there has been room.