Sol

Badass, I gotta go back to Zion soon!

11c all day

What time of year and what kind of load were you packing? September, Heavy

I took about a 15 footer off the crux of Edge of Space in the rain. I went flying towards the edge sure that I was going to fly over it and the rope was going to cut on the edge and I would fall 300 ft to the base. I screamed like a girl. I was fine, totally safe falls on EoS. Lots of folks could get up this one no problem.

Oh Yeah! SOLID WORK HOMIE. Edge of Space is one of the best routes in Ltown. Yes, it's scary, yes it's safe. Clean enough, it saw at least 3 ascents this year. Wait for cold, dry conditions (I climbed the crux pitch in the rain, oh god).

Nobody is going to post their list of sacred climbs that stay dry in the rain. Go seek them out.

Tragic

Get some! Very cool winter project.

Sounds like a good adventure! Though mildly epic, that bivy looks sweet. TICK!

Action on the M&M Wall! Thanks for the clarification Hanman and well done going ground-up! Who's gonna get after it???

Found a little write up on mountainproject about the direct start: LINK It seems a little strange that they spent so many bolts on a slabby direct start when you could just go for a new line on the face. But, it seems likely that it was bolted on rappel.. Psyched to get on the direct start next June and link it into the unclimbed direct finish. Those with some October free time should go give this beauty a whirl..

Lots of good pro on RC, you gotta run it out a bit at the top but that's after all the difficulties. You should take your cragging skills to the hills and go get on Der Sportsmen..

Cilogear I own a 20, 30, 45, and 60. I used the 30L for 8 days in the Pickets, best pack in our team of 3 hands down.

Strong work John!! Proud send homie! What's next? Rainbow Connection? We should work Shriek of the Mutilated..

G-Spotter, I think that's the whole point of Blake's thread. In Squamish the local crushers are venturing into the hills and putting up sick new alpine lines, and repeating the hard lines that are already up. In WA state, there's chalk all over the test pieces at Index, but phenomenal free climbs like Thin Red Line and Let it Burn get climbed only by a handful of folks. I would indeed agree that the alpine rock scene and the cragging scene are quite disconnected. Why that is, i'm not so sure.

That looks awesome! Thanks for posting.

I hadn't been to Index for a couple months til monday and I was impressed with how many climbs were chalked up. Same thing happens in Ltown on the boulders (but usually the stripes are much more ridiculous, i.e. foot long stripes). We just scrub em off when we see em and if we see a party tick up a climb and then start to leave without cleaning their ticks we just do a friendly reminder/educate them on good tick mark etiquette.

Inspiring climb! Thanks for the TR.

5.8 A4 = HARDMEN

SUPERCAVE Blogpost

Trip: M&M Wall - The SUPERCAVE (Ellen Pea) Date: 9/24/2012 Trip Report: Jon Pobst, Blake Herrington and I had a wonderful day out climbing the SUPERCAVE route. This is a phenomenal line and should be on the hit list for WA Pass enthusiasts. It is an ideal early and late season wall with lots of sun, weather protection, a short approach, and anchors to bail on at most any point. Full write up on my blog. Gear Notes: Single purple tcu. Dbl from green alien sized to #2 single #3, single set of nuts. Slings and a few draws. Dbl 70 m ropes to rap. Approach Notes: Running water at the chockstone. Fixed hand line to the climbers right of the chockstone (recommended over the bolted rap on the way down).

Blake, Jon Pobst, and myself went up and climbed the route to the summit on Monday. Awesome route, great find! The rock quality for the majority of the route is spectacular. We figured it was you guys putting in the bolted intro pitch... geuss not. Seems pretty contrived... but oh well it is quite a clean slab. Anybody else ever top this route out (hard to imagine this was the 2nd ascent..)?

La Nada

Nice TR Mark!

Thought i'd mix it up a bit from the stuart threads and ask if anybody's been up to the pass in the last day or so. How was the smoke?