John Frieh

Fine with me... Bill might have some other ideas... let's call it on Thursday. Climbing!

Given the option to organize a weekly event: Seattle ccers have a drinking night Portland ccers have a climbing night BC kids don't organize shit (or at least post anything about it here)... They do seem to know the most about goats on the website

I will gladly buy any chouinard nuts/hexes/tube chocks/biners/ice screws/etc from anyone looking to sell them.

Next session is Thursday 5:45 - ? Will be climbing near/on toothpick. If anyone wants to climb or drytool tonight (Wednesday) give me a call 541-231-2062

OldManRock (Gary) is one of the original OR climbers... his name is on just about everything! Great climber with TONS of good info about OR goodness.

Good job guys Nix on Davis or are you saving it? Is Rolf looking for a partner for the madness?

We are climbing tonight (Tuesday) at Rocky Butte at 5:45 pm. Check thread in Events Forum Section for details.

Search the site... 2 previous threads exist.

Next session Tuesday night 5:45 - ?. Call me if you are coming (541-231-2062) or just show up

Mornings? Evenings? All day? Rock? What you looking for? Wheels?

PMs.

That's what I was referring to. Shit like "but tick marks were okay in the gym... why do you mean I can't do it at the crag?!?!?!"

Sounds like you missed the turn for Ingalls Pass... it comes quick right out of the parking lot (< 5 minutes)... you gotta watch for it. Great job on still finding the trail and sticking to it! Good work and great time! Sounds like you guys are ready for the north ridge of Baron Spire!

True but on the flip side their introduction to climbing is in an environment where excess chalk use, tick marks, pink pointing, and so on are accepted... and some times encouraged.

Bill Ivan and I will be there around 5:45 pm - ? tonight (Thursday) Call me if you're coming.

Cake. 3-6 hours depending on how much you are carrying. If you haven't done it before daylight helps. And you start the west ridge from the first pass... not the second.

OlegV: you need to be more specific on what you want to develop here... shoulders? pecs? triceps? biceps? Your "upper body" is very vague... Secondly: what about this plateau? where are you at... i.e. I can't break the 250 bench... or I can't do more than 50 pull ups... etc. Again: specifics… If you list where you are at, where you want to be and how (if possible) it relates to climbing... answering these questions and perhaps some people can offer some insight. And keep in mind there is a good chance more strength isn't the answer... I use to struggle with 5.8 about the same time I could bench press 300 lbs. These days I can't bench press anywhere near that but I can climb a lot harder than 5.8. What am I trying to say? Sometimes focusing on your footwork instead of your grip strength is the answer. And letting Bill pick where you climb weekly will only help.

There is some super tall shit on the columbia gorge. Fall could be fatal on some of it.

I did most of this in winter... lots of hiking but fun time out...

Dome (true and SW summit) -> Flat top -> Snowdome -> Dynaflow -> Overdrive -> hydramatic spire (or how ever you spell it... sub spire of dome). Forbidden West Ridge Davis Spire Challenger (5.8 though) Warbonnet Everything at WA pass (minus NEWS and Minute) can be done at 5.6 or easier. etc

The grivel one has common bolt head shape cut outs built in so you can tighten loose bolts... I have found this handy from time to time. I generally use a metolius though.

Thielsen's standard summit pinnacle route is 80 ft of 5.0. Multiple variations exist up to 5.9. PM me if interested. McLoughlin is 3rd class climbing... first class primo blend scree. Only Oregon's finest... Second for Hotlum Bolam (Bolum?)

I have used the gore tex patch kit on some pants and always had the thing peal off. My advice would be to stitch the slice shut (assuming it is big) to prevent further tearing and then use a small amount of seam grip to attach the patch (any nylon patch will do... goretex or not) over the stitching. Do this on both sides of the tear. Hope this helps!

Chickamin is super broken this year for it only being July. Could be spicy. A way to save some miles on the traverse and still hit dome is go over the col west of elephant's head instead of going all the way up to spire and then climbing up the dome glacier. Search this site for a ptarmigan traverse TR by Terry McClain and he details it well (or PM me). I would recommend doing the bachelor/downey creek hike out. It's long but it's trail. The slide path/avy debris starts at the top of the hidden valley. I have hiked directly down it (skiers left) and also done the "stay in the tree thing" and honestly they take about the same time. You can see where the old trail is most of the way down the slide path and follow it with the occasional tree to crawl over/under. Hope this helps!

Almost as good as the sawtooths!