MisterMo

I would not be too certain that the boulders, clearcut, or road are on public property. I would suspect patented mining claim unless it was subsequently sold to the state. I'll try to figure this out on the Auditor's website & post back

Turn left off SR 2 at Reiter Road just east of fire station Go where the road bears hard left (<1 mile) go straight. Pass a working pit on the right and a huge flat open area smitten with ORV's on the left. Just beyond, at the point where the paved road starts downhill, turn left onto an unpaved road thru an open gate. Go past powerlines then take first right turn. Two very long switchbacks lead to and through a two year old clear cut to the boulders. There is another gate, probably closed. You will also see the adit to the Copper Belle mine if you are modestly observant. This is very much bubba-country, but 99.44% of the bubbas are cool...they're just into ORV-ing like you are into climbing. The boulders and their location are glaringly obvious from the 4 lanes on SR 2 just east of where you turn off.

Your pic is what I learned as an "Overhand Bend" or "Water Knot", 'bend' being the overall term for a knot used to join two ropes. Yada yada.... What I'd like to point out is that those tails in the photo are awfully short, especially for webbing. Why variants of the overhand fell from grace, in favor of variants of the Figure 8, involved, I recall, claims of greater knot security, greater knot strength, and less tendency to become un-untyable post loading. For knots never to be untied...runners and nut slings (yeah, remember those?) I went to the double fishermans as it seemed to never come loose. To this day, both for frequent work applications and on those increasingly rare momentw when I actually climb something I still use the Fig 8 both for tying in and for joining ropes of equal diameter.

No Name & Jade Lake area above Deception Pass is really pretty & not too overrun.

Heat death of the universe will occur substantially before any significant percentage of otherwise active people can agree on a date in summertime for anything. If you want to do it, pick a date and do it. Don't look back.

Industrious! Great photos; I see you got your pano. It certainly was busy up there, looked like a ladybug hatch: ITW rockfall aficionados can see where the original P2 of Town Crier, which now litters the forest below, used to be. This is a crop; full res on request.

Fuck oh dear. It's easy to forget that the entire LTW is a bit of a house of cards, everything's all sort of wiggled loose from the quarrying operation. The rockfall against which all shall be forever measured was when the monster overhang which once dominated the western side of the quarry came hurtling down and filled the former pond site with all those giant boulders. It sent a wave of water up and across the railroad tracks. In the midst of a horribly stormy night in wintertime it was witnessed by no one, but the aftermath was pretty impressive.

This is one hard-to-follow thread. Weigelt named the climb Recurve Dihedral at the time of the FA done by he and R (not P) Doorish. This was around 1970 or so. The name Weigelt's must have gotten adopted sometime later...if, in fact, it refers to the same climb.

Not only that you can get MREs in the Army. No charge but you do wait in a lot of lines.

Hey John. Cool shit. A better use of your efforts than your previous undertaking, eh?

What he said. Make check payable to Kurt E. Fickeisen Trust Fund. Painless.

I don't think a fixed line is going to hurt anything, but I am also thinking that maybe a semi permanent fixed line creates some obligations as far as maintenance and also some real questions as to trustworthyness. Would you use a fixed line that you didn't fix, didn't know who fixed how well, and didn't know if it had gotten schlocked by a rock? By the time you meander over and check these sorts of things out...well...you don't really need it any more do you?

I have only ever suffered losses at Boston Mine ( lost a long-out-of-print Beckey Guide ) and East Fork Foss where they cleaned (stupid) me out pretty good. I guess I'll nominate those. I had a skunk move in my Squareback at Squamish once but he didn't take, or leave, anything. Call that one a draw.

Done. Tomorrow during the day sometime if you'll be there. Let me know when if not. How do I get my truck past the Brandenburg Gate at the bridge there?

So it's this Saturday? How are you fixed for firewood? Lemme know; I could bring a load up.

...and now it's summer again: blue skies, little puffy clouds, birds tweeting, butterflies...the whole deal

Heavy overcast, misting on and off, and probably way to late to be of any value.

No doubt about it. Y'know, if you just take your rope to someplace big and grassy and reasonably devoid of dog shit and uncoil it and drag it around the grass for a few it dekinks it just fine without people freaking out.

and you go crashing down onto the street below. My friend, you are going to need one helluva glide ratio to fall off the Montlake Bridge and land in a street. But, let's say you achieve just that and the following ensues: How does this sequence of events (save maybe the crime investigation and street closure) differ from what happens if you tank it off the Lower Town Wall?

How many thousand? To what end?

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Whatever's in season. The SO (and only the SO) gets Lemon Meringue, totally from the ground up...much much work. It's tempting to strike a deal with Mike the Barber, whip out a hair pie & Fedex it to Chilliwack.

That's a funny sounding fish. What test line do you use?

There is said to be a fairly large Black Market trade in Bear gall bladders & so a lot of poaching. Fuckers I like my bears walking around.

Are you thinking of Kemo Sabe? Quien Sabe of course is Spanish for who knows. John Marshall Junior High School lore had it that Kemo Sabe was Indian speak for "Horse Shit".