OlympicMtnBoy

Sweet! I'm glad you'll get your shoe back Lisa. I was bummed when we knocked it into the moat.

I did it many years ago when i think my entire rack was 4 cams, 9 nuts, and some draws (which is more than you need for that route anyways). I think I just had one 50m rope too. I don't recall it being too difficult to get down. I think it was just about 80 ft to rap the 5.0 pitch to the little ledge.

All of your questions are miraculously answered in this thread here from the frontpage. :-)

Nice job guys, I love Olympic rock climbing!

The boy was legs with lungs in college, and he hadn't been guiding yet. We got him to carry a whole full size watermelon in his pack into the Olympics once back then, so I'd like to take credit for helping him train. ;-)

Nice job, one of these days I'm gonna get in there!

Nice lookin route! I was doing Angels Crest a couple weekends ago and I kept looking across the gully at your route thinking how cool it looked! Maybe someday I'll be able to do it. :-)

SMC Himalayan Hammer? I think that may be only up to 55 cm though. What are you on that is steep enough to need to pound pins but not need a second light tool? If you just want the axe for easy snow on the approach, just get used to using a short one. I find anything longer than 50 cm gets in my way while rock climbing anyways and I can arrest fine with a short axe.

You mean the one with the sheep on it?

Nice job burninating the offwidth, thanks for cleaning out the fixed body parts too!

Actually I think the OlympicMtnBoy on summitpost is Byron S, who somehow beat me to it there (but not anywhere else). He probably can answer your question too but this time of year I'd take my aluminum axe and crampons. :-)

Partner found! :-)

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? C'mon cc.com, don't let me down. I know someone out there in work land wants to head out on this fricking beautiful day!!!

I just found this from the WTA the other day: http://www.wta.org/go-hiking/trail-closures That may be of some help to you.

It's sunny and warm and my afternoon meeting just got canceled (so my boss can work in her garden). I've been climbing lots of cracks but for some reason I feel like clippin' some bolts today. Anyone wanna head to Exit 38 or 32? I'd like to hit some stuff in the .8-.11 range, but it's sport climbering eh. I'm in Fremont and can leave around 2:30 or so. Drop me a PM or call 360-301-2585. - Stewart

Isn't that the drytool crag? You really shouldn't be free climbing there, you might ruin the rock for the rest of us who only come on dark rainy fall night to scratch up those with our ice tools. You'll just have to find another choss pile. ;-)

Nice job guys! Kinda makes me wish I headed in there instead.

That was me! And that steak I had in my pack was mighty tasty fried up with a bunch of walla walla onions. Never forget your cast iron pan!

Looks good up there. Nice job Andy!

Took a slip on the only vertical part of the route on Steeple Rock near Hurricane Ridge. I was trying to take a "more interesting" variation in winter and lost my feet on the ice (no crampons) overcoming a chockstone. Fell onto a #1 BD cam which was just below my feet. I landed on my ass in a snowbank right as the rope came tight and my partner who couldn't see me barely noticed. I took a minute to recover my composure and check out the couple of scrapes i got and then finished it. Maybe 4th class in summer.

I saw it at Feathered Friends a short time ago. I also bought mine from Stone Gardens, but it was the last copy they had at the time, not sure if they restocked.

Nice job!

I'd be in for the 28th, unless the weather is stellar and I'm on something bigger. I have no boat but I have some gas/beer/boat money and a life jacket. - OMB

Bear Gryllis uses it when he's solo on a glacier, it must be the ticket! He drags his pack at the end of the rope to help weight it. Everything I know I learned on the Discovery Channel.

Awww, now I feel all warm and fuzzy inside. :-) Thanks for the comments. And what are you talking about Moof? I am a totally awesome dancer, I'm sure everyone wants to see that. How are you on that list anyways?