KaskadskyjKozak

Trip: Eight Mile Buttress - Tree and Stump Linkup Date: 4/25/2010 Trip Report: My partner JH and I headed out to warm rock as a backup to alpine climb plans gone awry due to recent snow. We opted for a 5.easy day and the link-up described in the new Leavenworth Rock guide of the Tree route (3 pitches up to 5.6) plus the Stump (same) sounded like a good one to get back into things. I have never climbed the Tree Route and was worried about all the talk about it swallowing big gear. I found it pretty mellow, only needing a C4 #4 and #3 on the first pitch, and a C4 #4 and BD hex #11 on the "infamous" off-width (pitch 3). I carried a #5 cam up to the summit for no reason. The first pitch of this route is all under-clingy up to 5.6 - not my favorite. Protection was fine. The third pitch of this route is very enjoyable 5.6. Looking up from the base of the Tree Route: The Stump route has a great first pitch involving a nice 5.6 crack - very protectable. We had route-finding issues on pitch two veering far right of the bolted 5.10- route. We ended up with an "adventurous" pitch three from an awkward gear anchor near an old, ratty rap sling. I clipped an old rusty piton, and a permanently-placed nut en route to a large tree. We didn't quite reach the top on pitch 3 due to rope drag, and had a short 50 foot belay to the top. For pitch 2, we should have stayed farther left. View of Stuart from the top of the Stump Route: We carried approach shoes to the summit which made our walk-off a lot better. To rappel the routes you really need two 60 m ropes, and we only had one (and you still have to scramble a couple of hundred feet between the routes). We only ran into one other party the whole day (at the beginning of the Tree route). Gear Notes: Large gear needed/used: C4 #3, #4, BD Hex #11 Approach shoes if not rapping (2 60m needed) Approach Notes: Short, quick.

Anyone been up SEWS, Liberty Bell or Concord Tower? I'd be interested in if the main routes are (mostly) snow free yet...

Seems like your people kill themselves a lot. So do yours. Slowly. I wish you, personally, would hurry it up.

We're not #1 on this list either...

gotta love 'em chicken heads!

...flagging poll numbers... Who knew you harbored such affection for die-hard anti-abortion zealots. I have yet to understand why someone who withheld a yes vote on the bill until getting a guarantee that no federal money would be spent on abortions has drawn particular scorn from pro life groups. Because he licks balls wouldn't the teabaggers like him, then? Yes, if he were good at it.

...flagging poll numbers... Who knew you harbored such affection for die-hard anti-abortion zealots. I have yet to understand why someone who withheld a yes vote on the bill until getting a guarantee that no federal money would be spent on abortions has drawn particular scorn from pro life groups. Because he licks balls

or, one could grow a set and go climb a trad route

go eat a bag of bloody dicks, boner-boy

some people like oysters. kevbone prefers snails

Leave it to you to piss all over your own thread. Also, I fixed your spelling for you. Unless you were trying to use your GWB vocabulary to say that the mariners can hear? All you fuckin' goons can't bring me down today! Such language, Peter!

It's about fuq'n time for me to move back into my house, THAT'S WHAT TIME IT IS!!!1 The cheating, lying bitch moves her skanky cunt out of my house next Saturday, and I move back in. The divorce is still not final, but I am oh so close to crossing the finish line. I can see the ribbon from here. Sign me... Sobo, soon to be re-bachelored Does this mean you'll be climbing again a lot soon?

Chickenfoot rulez!

Isn't that what he promised? Isn't that what libtards who elected him wanted him to do? Isn't that the great hope for what he would do, once he was elected? Where is the libtard outrage about Iraq now?

:lmao:

In recent times that would have been the war in Iraq... Which your empty suit president is still funding

Don't flatter yourself. You're not doing so fine.

The dude free-solo'd Brass Balls. He'll be around for quite some time.

Obama's articulate speech begins and ends with a teleprompter. He's the empty suit we all new he'd be.

We can't all be as clever as you and drop some homoerotic reference

If only you could institute some 5-year-plans!

The citizen. The proletariat.

go eat some drywall

Guess the Dems (in the language of our libtard friends on cc.com): "hates yellow people". On a serious note, it's no surprise. Dems are genetically racist.

This guy and kevbone perfectly represent the average Democrat voter. They're both WAY better than your average teabagger. You are an expert at the skills of teabaggers, eh? Guess that's not pink around your mouth... yeah, but at least I know the difference between nazis and commies which are the teabaggers?