John Frieh

- If you're looking for PDX based ice partners plan on attending the PDX ice festival... we're in the process of confirming a date... once we lock it in I'll get the word out... we had over 100 people attend last year and almost all of them had a story similar to you… interested in learning more about ice… should be a great venue to meet potential partners as well as try out new ice gear - don’t believe all “no ice in OR” talk… if genuinely, passionately pursue ice you will meet the right people and find out quickly where you can climb ice in oregon. M7-M8, multipitch wi5… all in OR (and not in the gorge)… - buy Alex's book

desperate man

yes submission #3 is midriff bulge... though I like Sol's name better

No. Backside near * pass

submission #3

No... but submission 1 is Teddy Bears to Free Lunch. Submission 2 is climbers left of submission 1.

Nope

Teddy Bear's Picnic? Kinda... you climb TBP to get to it...

submission #2 (both pics same route): Should be easy... PS: if you haven't climbed this route I highly recommend it... yes a little loose rock here and there but w/ a little traffic and some new belay bolts it would be an awesome multi

Same route as above:

submission #1

Congrats Mike and Yuko!

ill bring an extra beater rope for fixing see you little bitches there

I'll be there w/ a rope and some TR material... what time? I wonder if Knottygirl will stop slack lining for the afternoon and come out and join us

Yeah... all the money you will save will go straight into your gas tank and paying psychiatrist bills for the 1-2 hours you will spend each day idling your car on I-5 counting the planes land at PDX... unless of course you can find employment in the couv... I did hear that they do have excellent history teachers at Camas HS though

commuting tip of the day: measure your commute by time not distance troutdale. gresham. beaverton. tigard. oregon city. sandy. milwaukie... different city names... same strip mall sprawl my advice would be live where you live if your work is your life then by all means live close to it. if climbing is your life live close to a climbing area. if your boys are your life live in a good school district. if you value all the things that makes PDX great then you should live in PDX... and not commute to it every evening. etc etc etc PS PDX is way way way more houses than apartments so you can still live in the city and not have to live in an apartment.

Check thread daily. Even better post in it! http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/427588/page/1#Post427588

headed to beacon about 4 today How about rocky on thursday? Bill: my hands are still healing (again) so you and I should compliment each other just fine

how late are you going to stay out there?

Found 1 - #10 BD hex (non anodized version) just below east face of Chianti few weekends ago. ID cord color it is slung with and I can return it to you.

time for a trip back to bear?

So how do you keep the skinny line from feeding through the rap device faster than the fat line and then subsequently start sawing through the rappel sling? My tag line is ~5 meters longer than my lead line to account for stretch of the lead/fat line... this extra also allows for some movement of the knot on the sling... whoever raps second always repositions the knot back against the rap sling prior to rapping though as some slippage does occur... I have never seen so much slippage or at a rate that cuts/melts the rap sling. What I do to minimize the amount of movement is I put an extra biner on just the skinny line side (total of 2) for rapping... the extra surface area seems to give enough friction so that the skinny line moves at about the same rate as the fat line... it helps that I don't climb on anything larger than 9.4 in the alpine also. I can take a pic if that would help.

When using a tag line I rap both lines... when I set up the rap I set it up so that I am pulling the lead line (not the tag line) so that if the rope some how gets stuck when pulling the rap and I am forced to cut what I did manage to pull down/remains I am cutting the lead line... I set it up this was as I personally rather continue down with a piece of lead line not tag line.