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Climb: Media Luna (Base of cerro torre)-Rubio y Azul Date of Climb: 1/15/2005 Trip Report: Im in patagonia right now, just got back from attempting a route on the base of cerro torre. I went from Puerto Natales, Chile, to El Chalten, Argentina with Steve Schnider and his wife Heather, where then we met the 4th person in our group Fredrico from Venezuela. In chalten we hired horses to carry our gear in, so the approach was a breeze, set up a base camp at camp birdwell. Heather and I had 8 days for the climb, short amount of time for trying anything in patagonia. Dean Potter was in the camp attempting to climb cerro torre and base jump off with an argentine guy, the Huber brothers and stephan seagress where there as well attempting to traverse cerro torre, torre egger and cerro stanheart(sp?). Tony (cant remeber last name) was there attempting the original maeistri route, hes the person who has gotten further on it than anyone else. Quite the sceene in base camp. Though the weather didnt alow us to climb anything we tryed to get to the base of the route twice both times being blown down by 70mph gusts. But we did have many rad bouldering sessions at base camp and in town, as well as slack lineing with dean potter who is fuckin amazing at that. when i have the time ill post photos of the guys batteling it out on some highball boulders and some mountain shots. all in all it was an extremely rad experince, thought we didnt do anything that we had hopped i guess thats the pataognia experince. steve and fredrico remain in base camp to attempt the compressor route. ciao from patagonia Gear Notes: shoes and chalk bag Approach Notes: easy with horses

I took a 25 footer when a cam blew and I was caught by a bolt on some shitty sandstone, my foot hit a slab... and welll... Twmorrow Im headed to argentina with Steve Schnider as my rope gun, so hopefully I´ll get up something interesting, and mabey have a TR. Take care in Oregon eveyone

nice im in patagonia right now with a slightly broken foot... so instead i real cascadeclimbers

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How in any way is climbing a tree in bad style comparable to kicking a dog? Adam knows Vern, youve been up the same 300' firs on the western side of marys peak, that they go and climb, Adam should chime in and post some pictures of climbing a tree in good style. This tree isnt at smith rock nor is it like a dog in anyway. Oh shit I forgot to mention the tree is on my property mabey I'll go dog kicking next time...

okay now lets have a drink

How did I try to brag about it? the extreme bad ass stuff was just a joke. I posted it meerly to mabey get a rise out of Oregon. Go spray all the diseased little kids out there building tree houses that are destroying our forests.

Okay, so I talked to a forestry professor of 25 years at Oregon State University. The probability of that causing disease to the tree is slim to non. Arborists cause much biggger wounds to trees by cutting limbs and leaving even more exposed area then our 2 nails 2 screws and pins, wich where removed. Some arborists use a sort of paint on sheild for the tree but some others tend to find this pointless. We chose a tree in a spot where no one goes and no one probably will go for a long time, like I said the first person to go to this tree will probably be there to cut it down. To a tree of that size a nail is like a pinprick, why dont you guys spray foresters for core samples, your arborist friends for cutting limbs. How many of you feel the need to go out and do something like this? So I dont belive there is going to be some huge movment of people going and nailing up trees. We used natural protection when ever possible, and tryed as many techniques as we could to not hammer or screw anything in. Its extremely saddening to me that our boredom leads to someones disgust, and like I said in my other post disgust is a pretty strong word for this topic. Our damage to this tree that non of you will ever see, was so minimial compared to what we could have been doing, or what else is going on out there right now. By my next trip out there I would expect all of the wounds to be coverd with moss and totaly unoticable. I find it really sad that you guys spray me for something like this, when I'm sure you all drive cars that kill trees and numerous other things, support companys that kill the enviorment etc. etc. and you make me and my buddy out to be huge ass holes, that dont give a fuck about then enviorment. If you guys want to see something written by a professor ask, and mabey I'll squeeze some text out of him. Now quit making us kids trying to have fun continually feel like the devils in society.

adams dad is a tree climber for the government, if we wanted to climb trees with crossbows and and proper equipment we could. you guys just talk shit and say your disgusted(wich to me means your pretty sickened by our actions, wich is sad, and makes me feel pretty shitty). but we are just kids getting out and having some fun us putting 2 nails and 2 eye screws and a pin in a tree that you will never see and no one else probably will come look at this tree, unless they are planning on cutting it down, isnt really going to hurt any one. if we remove the gear wich we did, it poses no real longterm damage to the tree. so you guys hop back in your gas guzzlin, exhaust ridden tacomas or what ever you have and go save the environment.

Climb: a tree-some route Date of Climb: 12/11/2004 Trip Report: it was 12:15 at night here in corvallis... not much to do sooo why not go aid up a tree in the rain? my buddy adam and i gatherd the gear and where hiking into the tree by 1:00am we got there and climbed up immediatly, and then rapped off... fun right? back to the car by 3:20am looking down at the ground! looking down route! bomber anchor! thats adam he lurks as (pfleger) mabey hell post something rapping into the abyss!! hiking out like a bad ass yes we are extreme Gear Notes: nails, rivet hangers, giant eye screws, a pin, slings, and boredom Approach Notes: wild

Climb: colchuck lake-nothing Date of Climb: 12/6/2004 Trip Report: 5 days after having a hernia operated on i decided i needed to get out... so risking bleeding to death internaly, due to stiches popping , nick (skyclimb) and i headed up from corvallis, to b-ham to get some boots from distel, then finally to the colchuck lake trailhead. long day of driving, we camped at the trailhead. woke the next morning to sunny skys and decided to head in to colchuck lake with no real objective, as i was still pretty damn sore. slowly worked out way through a little bit of snow up to the lake and set up a camp. woke up to about 6 inches of freshies with more comin down and decided to go for the colchuck glacier route. we got to the top of the talus and i decided it would be best for me if we turned back as my leg was going numb due to circulation problems, so we headed down... better safe than sorry. nick had fun bouldering around but being not so limber i couldnt really joing in we hiked around for the rest of the day, and headed back to camp where we made a fire wich was a crucial move. woke up the next morning to a bit of a storm and a foot or so of some fresh white stuff. we hiked out via the frozen lake, saw 4 people headed up to ski colchuck glacier. we went back into leavenworth not really sure what to do, so we decided to head into the sausage fest in seattle, had a great time there, thanks so much pax for letting us stay at your place the next day we awoke and headed home with a little stop at rocky butte in pdx for some dry toolin fun. here are some pictures.... mmm popeyes Gear Notes: quite a bit of stuff, ski poles where a crucial part of my success as a bitching cripple Approach Notes: snowy trail

we didnt do much, since i had a hernia operation last monday so i couldnt risk ripping my stiches out and bleeding to death internaly. but we walked across the lake and up to the colchuck glacier, camped out, smoked a lot of pot and had a fire, it was nice and relaxing. ill post some pics soon

reg 3.3.3 posts 666 loc smoking crack ???? whats up with this kid

there was one spot where there was a head smashed into a bolt hole

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hmm okay im not too sure what type of sandstone it is. the bolts that are there are not the glue in type(i bleive), they have hangers and are i belive are 3/8 inch. would you suggest the fixe glue in ones? like on some smith routes. i havent had to much experince with bolting, but i need to gather the right supplys as this is in another country, where it is near impossible to obtain the right stuff.

what type of bolts should be used to bolt in sandstone? thanks

first: bibler eldorado vs mt hardware ed veisturs what does every one think? i want to go light weight, single wall, 2 person. second: boots, i need a lightweight(soft not plastic) mountaineering and hiking boot that will accomidate step in crampons. what are some good ones?

what did ya do mike?

arnt you reppin the 503 dawg?

yeah i was thinking a guide w out smith. i was thinking of this as a projct that i may like to embark on, and was wondering what people thoughts where.

you dont need photo shop! only paint and your mind

sorry i had to...