cman

I was there, up at the world wall, doing the sport climber thing. there a couple groups up there, and a few hard climber who nicely set up some TRs for me. that was the place to be, what were you doing down at the "easy" area?

I think it was age, the tram was finished in '63 and has seen year round use since. corbets will be sick if you have to hike to it. when i lived there a coule times friends and i hired a guide for a half day on sick powder days, we would get 5-6 trams laps in by noon. there is nothing better than getting off the tram and just charging down 4K and getting right back on it.

all they said in those articles was that it would cost 15-20 mil for a new tram, sounded like they were angling for some state or federal money.

sorry to hear your day got ruined but how do you think the lower wall became such a nice place to climb? just because all that cleaning happened years ago doesn't mean it didn't happen and that we are not all enjoying the good work done. also if you are so concerned about the affects of this cleaning, you might consider yours, making a huge stink and letting rangers etc, who look at this site, think this is a real problem out of something which will probably wash away this weekend.

Jackson Hole is planning on closing their tram permenantly next summer. jacksonholetram having spent a couple winters there i have to say it is the best lift in the country and it will be a shame to see it go. you can still get out there this winter. typical ski area, they are spending there money putting up lodges, condos and beginner lifts.

Sorry to hear you are getting so much grief. sounds like you are doing good work on this new route, i look forward to checking it out

Sounds like this guy chose a bad time to start his project, should have waited until fall. But I'll bet if this route turns out to be cool we'll all be climbing it and possibly even thanking him for all his hard work. As for the birds, did he actually destroy their nest or just get in their area and piss them off?

South fork's a fun crag. it has a nice variety of sport and crack. goose egg was a fun climb but all the looseness just left me waiting for something big to come crashing down. crazyjz tried to get me by setting off a fair sized rock up high but i still made it up.

when was that picture taken? looks snowy.

climbed some fun pitches at rattletail at index, nice and shady. once again i forgot my brush to give the bottom of the climbs their needed spring cleaning. the trail is looking great BTW

Thanks for the info. are any of those old little si guides kickin' around, i have never seen it.

I5 through chilliwack was the way i went. some friends returned via 97 and said it was almost 1hr slower.

up higher at the far side you can TR some stuff, interstate park i think.

i placed a #3.5 in the blue crack, but it mostly took #2 & #3. i got pretty bad rope drag on both the undercling pitches. we were using double ropes but i was clipping them together. guess i will be smarter the next time. how do you prevent your rope from getting stuck on the second undercling? i placed gear sparingly and used long runners but still the rope got wedged and i had to lower off the bolts and pull it out. on the plus side i got to climb most of that cool pitch twice.

i have an subaru outback and we were able to drive to about 7 1/4 miles, where it says the road gets rough, right before a huge puddle. we only had to walk about 5 minutes to the end of the road.

last time we were at little si we were looking at rattlesnake ledge. after looking in the rock climb WA guide i found the name, it mentions routes. anybody have any useful info on the place, approach, routes worth doing, etc

luckily for us it cooled off in the afternoon, right when i finished all my water, i had to put my jacket on for the last couple pitches. it actually started to mist a little just when we started to hike out, perfect timing.

Climb: Darrington -Dreamer Date of Climb: 5/29/2005 Trip Report: KJ and i did dreamer on sunday. after doing some 4 wheelin', or as much as i have done with the subaru, we got to that base of the climb right as the sun start to come out of the cloud. a party was already on the route so thanks to them and matt's free topo routefinding was not a problem. sun started baking us, i have the sunburn to prove it, and the slabs felt greasy. the undercling pitches were great, and i was thankful we brought a full rack. it was a great day, except my wife was a little pissed when i got home at 11pm, screwed up our diner plans. Gear Notes: full rack was nice Approach Notes: dry

afternoon filled.

anyone with the afternoon free want to climb? some sport out at the Xs or index if we can leave early enough. i can be out of work by 1pm PM if interested.

That is somewhat true. the shifts are during the day, weekday and weekend. Summer camp is one entire week, but you get up to a 6 month membership for use next winter. BTW one year to the day between the 2 posts, pure coincidence.

i liked becky route + concord tower, the 2 together were worth the reasonable hike. the tooth not classic backbone on dragontail, incredible setting, almost direct to summit. my only beef was for all the effort there were really only 5 quality pitches, the offwidth down low and 4 on the fin. that said it was great to do once.

skiing mt baker. i tried three springs in a row and got it the third time. i have not wanted to go back since. Memorable exchange from the second attempt. a member of our group standing about 20ft away from us in a whiteout "where are you guys? i can't see you?" reply "we can see you! we're right here!" "I can't see you" "wipe off you goggles" "oh, there you are"

we did that route a couple weeks ago. good times. it was easier than i expected. the hike was a pain, i guess i need to get in better shape.

we did iconoclast, to the left of OS, last year and my partner was saying the same thing. there were enough anchors and fixed slings in that area to rap down but it was hardly straightforward from what we saw. unless someone has set up some more anchors it did not look like something i would recommend. also i am not sure where you would start, i assume at the top of the bolted routes to the left of OS.