cman

i heard that the mounties are planning to build a outdoor climbing wall in magnuson park as part of the grand expansion plan going on up there. Anyone know anything about this? I know the park is soliciting individuals/businesses to build and operate various athletic/play places and offering favorable leases. whether this would be free or pay to play i don't know, i imagine the latter.

the walls look cool. the only thing i don't like about gym bouldering is that there is not much opportunity to cruise some moderate climbs. too much cranking all the time starts to hurt. if i were to make a bouldering gym it would inlcude some easier traverse/warm up areas. also newbies are a big part of making $ so they need someplace to climb. Also what is up with the website, why not put a picture of the gym on the front page instead of all the cheesy graphics.

i see lots of people who get into gym climbing and don't seem to have much interest in climbing outside or are otherwise to busy to get outside.

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

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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.