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Photo by Bob/ Ira Spring, Cascade Companion,1976

Reading my copy of Cascade Companion, Dock Butte is described as limestone cliffs columns and sinkholes. The photo shows only smaller clean boulders. The views should be good. North of Concrete, south of Mt. Baker

Very nice, the best kind of TR, one that inspires!

I climb because I cannot build a ship, sail across the world, kill you and steal your golden treasures, take your land, destroy your cities to build a giant statue of myself, then sail back home to write my memoirs at my country estate. It is our obsession to shape the land, to plow and till, to name and catalog, blast and cut. Fighting this urge is a new thing, constricted by law, bound by popular opinion, we languish in plastic handcuffs, Our grandfathers built the highways and cities, while we build nothing, frustrated and listless. Tell me what you thought the first time you held an ice axe....did you imagine thrusting it into the pitiless ice and snow on some unimaginable face? Welding it felt good, natural...like a hammer, it begs to be used, to be mastered. Swinging it at imagined ice, you decide right then...you are a climber, and this is your weapon.

Quartz is my mom's maiden name...

TR and photos please!

Ethics?... Photo taken from page 20 of Sky Valley Rock, used without permission from author, sorry DC

Rose Granite, sounds like one of my california cousins... I will be traveling with the extra-mysterious Mr. Cattalk. Collecting and selling healthful oil of granite and tincture du climbing shu (now with spagnum)

yes...google. that is all you need....look no further

July 26- Aug 8 Looking for local rockers.

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That colored tape just does not stick as well on the real rock, how will we make it to the top?

Looking thru my old Cummins guide to Index, Tatoosh stands out as a fun climb. While the rest of the Lower town wall's easy climbs are busy, Tatoosh quietly waits for you...

Mark never carried my pack for me...........

3 months of hell is a good trade for 9 months of sun.

I'm on a strict medical regimen.

The sharp observer might have seen a few already...

Bad nuts indeed! There is no way to say how strong a piece is going to be in the field. Those guys can pull test in the shop all day long... but everything goes out the window the minute you place them.

ahhh....110, gotta love it. kinda like arctic winter in shorts.

Most of the time, undamaged wire rope fails at the nicosleve.

Roxy's new guide is on store shelves now. Be sure to check it out! At 380 pages, this thing is as big as a CAG and full of unrecorded/ lost routes.

Climbed the Cosmic wall a couple times over the years. This area is a perfect stopping place for the southbound climber to make climb. You can camp five minutes from I-5. Don't forget to drink a Castle Crags amber ale while soaking your toes in the river!

goats

Who is Mike Jackson?