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I disagree. It is longish but that's about it. Slab moves are cheatable with holds, it would only be rated 5.7-5.8 at Darrington, is over-bolted, is often occupied, and freeway noise is LOUD. I will refrain from rattling off a long list of better (IMHO) X38 climbs as this thread is about wasps. I am with Dru: wasps are not bees. One key difference is that bees have barbs on the end of the stingers so they can only sting once, their bodies are torn apart after they sting you, and they die shortly thereafter. Wasps have barbless stingers, can sting more than once, and tend to have meaner dispositions, perhaps relating to the low cost of stinging you. Still, you have my sympathy. My wife and I stumbled on a nest above little Si and were chased down the trail hundreds of yards. We each got four stings that hurt for days.

Please write a guide in haiku using only pictures with lines because Google and CC are aid.

There is a big difference between key nubbins that pop and make routes harder and large belayer slayers that can ruin your day/life. I guess you climb what you've got. Have fun and be careful and keep posting cool pics for us.

I recently did Rock and Resole in CO and was pleased with speed, price, and quality.

I understand, first hand, how much hard, dirty work it takes to clean a route on a chossy cliff, and I respect your efforts. Congrats on the new area! That said, and this will probably not be well-received, I certainly wouldn't send the general public out to climb routes I'd developed if I thought they might get badly hurt or killed because I didn't finish cleaning out the dangerous choss. If people are well aware of the risks then that's another story. Hopefully the guidebook has a LARGE warning about potential hazards, perhaps route by route.

Climb on!

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Tigers are carnivores and hunters, as are all cats. Bears are omnivores and opportunists that mostly scavenge. I feel much safer in bear territory than tiger territory. Very few bear attacks result from bears hunting people. Not true for tigers. Interesting you chose bears in Alaska. There are probably as about the same number of brown bears on Admiralty Island as wild tigers in the entire world. Much scarier, in my mind, are crocodiles, which are big, smart, predators that steathily hunt, kill, and eat people when given a chance. crocodile eats harborview doc

What about their joker in the plastic bag? Seriously, though, this is probably the best FA of the year so far. Nice work!

So, the best trad rock climbing in Oregon is in Washington? I was in a conference in the hopping town of Vancouver, WA last week but couldn't steal away for a visit Beacon. Someday.... Except for a few bumps, it sure is flat down that way. Carry on...

Thanks for investing the effort. I've narrowed my arsenal to this (not all at the same time): Good gloves. A lightweight saw (replaces clippers of various sizes). A lightweight hammer (Yos hammer is nice but usually you can get the same done with a smaller one). The claw can be used to pry off loose flakes/blocks etc or dig out dirt. A weeding tool (great for digging out cracks). A nylon brush. Sunglasses for eye protection. Dust mask when serious dirt/lichen are involved. Onsight FAs on clean rock are easy by comparison. If it's really green and doesn't get traffic odds are good it will go back to green. go get some!

Nice work Marc. Perseverance is a quality that will take you a long way in life. Keep it up!

Very sad indeed. RIP.

I've met Alex and he does have a 3 digit IQ. Still, to call for bolt chopping despite having a Bosch avatar suggests some kind of identity crisis. Maybe he's being possessed by Raindawg or Pope.

That talus above Melakwa Lake is longer than you think it's going to be. If your son hopped all the way to the top and back again then I'd say he got a good dose of alpine travel and earned his pizza. Good job.

I like how the letters on the side say "ZZR". That's the sound my 4 yr old son would make while imitating it!

Nice report. Given the gender imbalance of this website, perhaps Porter should sponsor YOU to take trips and post photo-laden trip reports.

Nice work. How long is the approach?

Cool! Plenty more lines on that formation await first ascents...

JayB captured my thoughts exactly.

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You could post in the partners forum and roll the dice. If you're willing to pay for gas $ and act as belay slave people will bite.

Great pic Brandon! I agree 100%. Actually, the chimney has a crack in the back that takes #2 camalots down low and 0.5 camalots up high. Sounds good, though we actually started up around 9:30am. We were just slow. Anyway, we didn't find it cold at all up there.

Nice adventure. My first (and only) trip up the W ridge was a marathon outing as well, starting at 5:00am from camp below Ingalls lake and returning to the same spot the following 2am. We learned a lot of lessons on that outing. I look forward to going back at some point.