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I purposely forget teh safewords. At least on the receiving end...

gneiss...did you send any real problems there? Drop Zone? Anorexic Nerve Dance? The Matson Problem? Heart Cave?

One would hope.

Only if I get to feel your new muscles. <3 kegels!!!

North Idaho will sell any of you dried up bitches our water. We've got lots, soon to be polluted by gold mines under the Cabinet Wildnerness. Line starts over here -------->

I'd hit it.

I remember when hockey didn't suck. Wait, I'm lying. It's always sucked. Wait, am I thinking of soccer?

If sex is a pain in the ass, you're doing something right. Or so your mom said. Wrong thread?

I have to poop.

Isn't that route called Dempsey's Brass Rail?

Does Eastern Washington have dirty crackheads? Paging Donnie Baker...

These would be teh infamous Red routes?

My cousin in Inchelium told me Donny has had more than a little Native in him, if you know what I mean... Goddamitanyway!

I'll let Sargent_Rock answer this if he will, I was 15 when some of this shit went down and probably don't have all the story straight. I was heckling one person in particular who made climbing at Omak a much more public endeavor. And yes, there was a guide published.

Hahaha. Your guidebook is actually good. And doesn't give details on areas with a history of access problems. Could have used some boldering tho.

Marty, I would have plugged your book here but since your website only has seven really cool photo's on it, and no link to your guide..... Here's Thad's gig.... http://www.sandpointonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=159&osCsid=53b21731bbd5e46656327dbf1205ffa7 supposedly he unleashes some previously insider only info, might explain his relocation to Bend?

I don't have a copy anymore either but Thad's new guidebook to North Idaho is supposedly hitting the shelves end of June, looked for a link but couldn't find one, I'll look in the magazine article (non-climbing rag) I read and post up any info on it. F'n guidebooks, routes are going to go from completely empty to seeing a few climbers a month....how will I cope?

pix?

Haha, maybe I'm not done! And the 500'ers would be the medium size walls in that area. Of course, Kix can tell you the hazards of following my advise on new rock.

Particularly in this instance. I personally feel it's the need the for acclaim and recognition that caused more harm than bolts in this case. Publicity sucks. It's why I post pix with no beta.

this thread reeks of a greek bath house

Got any background info on BLM policy/attitude towards climbing and more specifically bolting?

"but if I don't write a guidebook, no one will know how rad I am"

i feel dumber for having read this too dumb 2 3ven sp311 rite

That'd be granite point, out across the lake from Talache. You need a good boat (4-5 foot waves not uncommon out there, next point from granite is aptly named windy point) since the feds decided to rake up the high drive for "caribou habitat protection". Mostly single pitch stuff, lots of loose rock, doesn't see much traffic from what I can tell, would be really good if it cleaned up, there's a super classic crack I can't remember the name of worth doing. Around the corner in the Green Monarchs there is 8-10 pitch potential on quartzite ridges, I think the right side (slabby) would be uber easy, like 5.2 hiking and the left side (super steep) would need to be bolt protected and probably in the 5.13 range. I'm sure you could find something in between, possibly right on the arete. The fact that I'm sharing this info signals the end of my era as an intrepid first ascentionist.