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Trip: Spring Mountain, WA - Strait Creek Boogie, Rolling Thunder Date: 9/4/2009 Trip Report: The Fat Bastard, The non-Climbing Climber, and Mr. Abb's go to Spring Mt. WA, hitting the calm before the storm The guide: The rock: 1st Pitch Strait Creek Boogie styled by Mr. Abb's Second pitch nearly styled by Fat Bastard: The real Goat Nuts/Ball Jangler and Great Oogglie Booglies!, sweet steep 5.9 called Rolling Thunder, very steep and exposed right off the bat, no slab climbing here, second pitch 5.hard steep roof (not attempted or contemplated by us) awaits FA. 1st pitch follows clean crack and steep featured face next to arete, then pulls bulges on awsome fins: Great Jiggly Tittlies, the Fat Bastard lead this? Hey Fat Bastard! Steep roof/wall above (poor photo below) takes gear and is bolted awaits FA, Holy Sheep Shit! Rolling Thunder ascends the crack up to this face to the right of the arete, then over bulges past that: Gear Notes: standard rack to 2.5" (TCUs and Tricams helpful) Approach Notes: Follow hanmans guide: http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/892735/1

I suppose if one were to dress up in camouflage and surveil the parking lot, then you might spot the white rabbit and follow him down his hole, or up as the case may be, to be enlightened on the subject. Of course the rabbit likes cold beer, of which imbibement of such might make his vocal chords more lubricated to spill forth the whereabouts of the key to the lock that opens the latch to get to the royal snatch (or trail as it were), and I do mean a “snatch” of a trail. But of course the camouflage-surveil thing might be kind of weird and probably only appropriate for a certain double-hip replaced gun-toting member of the DEA.

Bring your Snorkel, we might be at Spring Mt. Friday

http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=484680 What no Big 4 Tower Route on the list?

Will be in Spokane with nothing to do on October 19th, wondering if anyone wants to go cragging. Haven’t climbed in the area before. A little googling indicates that Rocks of Sharon is my style. Have big rack and know how to use it. I like anything 5.6+ and over. Also really like beer. Send me a pm. I live on the west side and climb mostly around Darrington. Shapp

Will be in Spokane with nothing to do on October 19th, wondering if anyone wants to go cragging. Haven’t climbed in the area before. A little googling indicates that Rocks of Sharon is my style. Have big rack and know how to use it. I like anything 5.6+ and over. Also really like beer. Send me a pm. I live on the west side and climb mostly around Darrington. Shapp

How does this apply, hard to take a photo in the heat? After reading some of your TRs I know you aren't really that much of a pussy!

For god sakes, someone on the Oregon forum, get off the key pad ranbling about beacon this or Hood that, and go take a freaking photo of this thing.

Well said my friend, although the pounds are continuing to shed. Will be at the gym tomorrow.

Regardless please remind Sir Bag of his water replacement obligations, hopefully to be conducted soon

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You can make it in one hour in this fashion, set your watch forward one hour, hike for 2 hour (if you know where you are going) once you get there set your watch back one hour. Finally the approach to GGB is returning back to the stick up your ass FA conditios for maximum adventure. Now if we can just remove a few bolts and re-install a few more 1/4 inchers

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can someone please take a photo and post it here so all can see that the state archaologist is a wanker!

Hanman is one tuff MFer, one of the only MFers that can take a rock up the ass and sort of walk away from it. This is all due to the Darrington S and M monkey buisness stick up the ass training that the DEA requires to be a goat roper slab-a-dab bush whacker squire creek-big 4-whawetkin-balony-chrome-Roan-dome-spring mountain master. Get well soon! Shapp p.s. you are still a midget though

Na it is probably near the ground. So with a park with such a long history of heavy human use, they haven't inventored all along the base for rock art within 15 minutes hike from the trail head? Hard to believe it has been there all along, maybe some climbers fooling around with new age art work.

Holy toothless Crack Whores batman! That crack looks "unfuckwithable" Yo!

well seeing as how climbers have been visiting smith for over 50 years now, they probably found some old rusty pin that is now old enough to be "Culturally" significant and sensitive. Or maybe some other shard of pre-whitty history. If you dig deep enough anywhere along a river in central oregon, especially near some big rock outcrops, you are likely to find something. Granted, I am all for actual meaningful culturally significant site being protected, but how big of a site could it be? The funny thing is the way the rules work, they can keep it a secret, so we may never know.

5.10 A2 I believe

Good!, Stance or Dance is definitely 5.10 through the bolted part, thank god for the fat shiney bolts that caught my several falls.

The Rash and Stance or Dance today - Yo, anyone climb Stance or Dance?

Pete Pollard's Pole?, nope - its the Old Man

anything in the Gorge that is rated 5.9 and 5.10 is harder than anything on tuft that is rated the same grade. Also explosive energy child seems hard for the grade, but of course Mr. Belskis told me it was 5.10b as I launched up it on lead.

In the Elkhorn Mountains adjacent to Anthony Lakes ski area, of note is that one can routinely observe teenagers skiing Lees Peak Coulier on any given saturday during the winter (hiking over from the ski area).

Nice TR! Yell yes, something other than smith, beacon, or hood! Please put it in the Oregon forum to spice that area up a bit. Please note that Lee'S Peak Slab usually has snow at the top until late in the summer. Make a trip out in late August to climb it, make sure to sample the excellent, but mostly laughable overbolted, routes at Spring Mountain too. Make some time to pop over to High Valley and lead Do or Fly in the early morning or evening (badass but way to short!), but watch out for rattlers (seriously). However: No fu**ing-a No! The lame ass Falcon Guide book is a piece of shit and is totally inaccurate and sucks balls! Those jesus freaks suck pole and can't even read a regular USGS 7.5 minute quad. They also made up the names for the routes themselves that were put up long before they were born! see my post here, which has been added below for your historically correct pleasure. http://www.summitpost.org/trip-report/432314/a-date-with-an-angel.html Clarificaiton from the lame ass guide on the Lees Peak route (not the route you climbed): Everyone that bought the lame ass falcon book has been an unwitting victim of poor documentation by lazy guide book authors. Lee's Peak peak is on the left (east side) and angel peak is on the right (west side). Two anyone interested in this Peak and route, the USGS 7.5 minute quadrangle accurately depicts the Peak names. A little information that Bolf and Reuf neglected to determine is that the name of the route is not "free ride to heaven". As far a I can surmize they made this name up themselves. This route is known locally by several names such as Lee's Peak slab, Lee's Peak coulier, Lee's Peak ramp etc. The first routes to the left of the ramp were put up by Dave Jensen in the early 1970s, it is uknown who first climbed the ramp, Dave suspects others climbed it before him. There are several lines on the prominent buttress to the left of the Coulior, but they have fallen into obscurity.