lancegranite

The hillside you speak of is covered in madrona trees, a strange sight so far from the ocean. The cliffs that surrond Eagle Lake are total shite, but some fine, but totally off limits, bouldering exists. Eagle Lake used to form the eastern end of the Love Isreal family's property, they sold the ranch a couple years ago. I grew up with the ranch kids, and many fine hikes were taken to the top of those cliffs, where a fine view was enjoyed by all.

When riding a long( for you) board, setting the bindings "all the way back" is a total mistake. That is something you do to make a little board work in deep snow. I am 5' 5'' and I have rode boards from 165- 180 for years. A longboard works best with a no or only a slight setback.... Here's why: A freestyle board's holepacks are usually centered on the board, a longboard's are usually aready set back from center. Take a tape measure and measure the distance from the nose to the center of the front set of inserts, then do the same for the tail/ rear set. This gives you the factory setback, where, if propery designed, also happens to be the center of the sidecut. This is where the board should be mounted. Make equal adjustments in/ out from this point to accomidate your stance width. Your stance width should be slightly wider than your shoulders, a comfortable, "action pose" width.

Nevermind, all is better...anybody want to do load calcs for me so I can climb this weekend?

Good job, that climb is quite the departure from the 10's at the gallery. Nice to climb with you guys, come down anytime. I realize now that I should have given you the gnome!

I belayed John the Gambler on Desert Gold... the headwall crack is overhanging and so haaard. the roof is pretty easy. I deftly pulled on nearly every piece following the first part, managed to follow the roof with little trouble. Those with big fingers might do better, as the hard part is mostly 1 - 1.5"

I left my business card on his pack that afternoon...

You beat me to it... she's a real nice lady, and stronger than all of us.

March has proven to be cold and wet here in the great basin, causing the unprepared to search for suitable clothing long forgotten. I had to wear a jacket to my car today, I considered taking the day off. Would you be so kind to take your rain, sleet, snice, fog, wind and assorted nastiness back to the PNW? Thanks.

The stranger voices his opinion...

Sounds like the magic roommate I once had.

You can only count FAs on boulders if they have a prominence of at least 10 feet.

I like the taste of moss...

The wedgewood thing got me buzzing. It sounds like there are many small outcrops and strange little areas. Anybody ever been to these obscure haunts: Van Zandt? Lake Cavanaugh/ Split Rock? Granite Falls area? Name your terra obscura!

Lake Stevens was one of my first times climbing. It really was a fun spot, I had friends who climbed there quite a bit. The Lake Stevens rock would be a good Access Fund or WCC project, and I'm sure that the local fire department or SAR would like a place to rap/ rescue practice... LINK

Let me put it this way... I work as a rigger, we swage wire rope in our shop all day long. If this happened, there would be a company wide roundtable meeting and the person responsible would be fired. I've seen it happen. Everyone makes mistakes, you just don't get to make THAT one twice. Sad, because I love their products.

Anything bolted by guys taller than 6'2"

Wow, I was pretty pissed. It was a total bullshit move to abandon all that junk. My pop said "well, that's just the law of the deep... are the tools any good?"

That nicosleeve was never pressed! The person who QC'd the piece should be fired. It does not take much imagination to see how this could have turned out....bad, very bad.

Congratulations on a fine ascent, now how about that line to the left?....

CBS is right, I have seen this problem at work before, somebody grabbed one off the wrong stack.

VROOM!

It must have been 96-97?, the year that Bridal Veil falls completely froze solid, that thing was fully formed, and there was 2000 foot ice climbs in Anderson Creek drainage. That's the only time that I have saw that thing touch down....

Hike up to Scottish Lakes high camp.

Using these gloves on the sharp limestone down here really works well, real hankletterershuz! They are also swell for ski touring.

The first pitch of the Zipper is fun, and usually dry.