Blake

i think the answer is called self-restraint

and they are black-capped chickadees.

Jens, no offense, but... are you crazy? Simond's product line better than BD's???

mythos are good, but Pax is right, my toenails have been mythos-purple for 2 months.

Penny Lane in Squish for 5.9

Thurs May 4th 7pm Arntzen Hall room 100 (map) Mike Libecki FREE! (Can this please be moved into the events category?)

There's a piece in by my left foot Rain + Wind + Easy climbing = climb fast I guess...

You are commited to going straight up that wide crack/chimney to the top. It's about 25m and graded 17/5.8. I suppose maybe you could wait until low tide and then rap off some gear to the rocks... The picture is like that because I thought it looked cooler. John, Dru's right about that crack. It was too hard for me to work out the crazy boulder start thing, and the crack is so greasy it wont hold cams at first, so when I tried to A0 my way past the bouldery roof, my piece ripped out and I fell on my butt.

Think if it dead-ended at rainy pass... no thru traffic, just a climber/access road, and not visible from the peaks of WA Pass.

Does anyone know what the closest a part has come to really following the ptarmigan traverse and climbing all the origiinal peaks? IMO the traverse has not been repeated, although the general route has been followed. Now that these are not FAs... will it get a repeat? Is any route from Cascade Pass to the Downey/Bachelor area considered a repeat in your mind?

noted in '01 by RobertM .... sounds like a fun spot Here's a Ptarmigan challenge, top out on all the summits that the original party did along the way. This has NEVER been repeated in almost 70 years! Is the Ptarmigan Traverse still waiting a true second ascent? nm... new thread.

Like most you you, I wasn't around before hwy 20 was put in, back when the upper Bridge creek area would have been REALLY remote. Atop Liberty Bell one day I was wishing that I could have seen it like that, without a ribbon of asphalt below my feet. If you could make the choice, would you be in favor or HWY20, or wish that it were never put in and you had to make longer approaches for more scenic remoteness?? I guess I'd be in favor of not having the hwy there.

I was thinking the same thingPax, but no tests yet. They re protected though.

It was more recent than that as well, I saw it in the summit reg last summer.

Thanks, it was probably my favorite pitch in NZ so far... here are a few more of it. One of my partners whipped repeaedly on this blue alien ...be back in June!

I think maybe Lowell took a similar route on and over Logan a few years ago on a ski trip from Rainy ->Cascade Pass. Sky is making up for last winter's dirth of snow by hitting it up 2x as hard this winter.

were you rapping off the tree atop Roger's Corner? Get well soon!

Rad trip.. nice photos. Did you consider a possibly easier approach from the Fremont Glacier side?

In the vacinity of Cocaine Crack?

Why all the injuries on R&D? seems like moderate climbing with good pro the whole way, right?

In a few years, Luke's baby/rock prodigy will be onsighting your kid's projects

wasn't there any accident on R&D (mounties group) last year when someone took a lead fall in that chimney-ish section?

anyone know if an orange #3 friend-sized cam is still fixed on Turtle Soup? even Billy's hammer and funkness couldn't dislodge that thing last spring.

was it a golden/yellow lab? did you hear someone call "Caddis"?

His show last year was pretty good, people should check this one out. It says it is free though Drew. Arntzen hall is right in the middle of campus.