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who all is attending the PDX ice festival (minus the ice) I am excited to test the new fusions on the plastic and drink some beer.. come get some

I would like to climb at Beacon on Wednesday. Anyone want to rope up....I just lost my rope and rack in a fire....but can belay safe and lead up through 5.11 trad. send me a PM.

GCC time!!!!!

give you an idea what these boys did, the summit left of baron is the fang and is 600 feet, the north ridge is 1200+ ft with 2/3rds of the pitches 5.9 or harder. For those of you that have climbed sunrise book, imagine lots of that "5.9". Way to go guys, how were the anchors? any bolts?

those spantiks are new

did you do it in a day? Think that is the 3rd or 4th ascent according to dowdel. You guys must have more pictures than that...come on hand them over. I want to see photos of the upper chimney pitches. There has to be more of a story to this excursion, visor? That thing doesn't get a drop of sun until 4:30pm. Thats cool that you pulled it off, took dowdel several summers and many partners to get it done. There is a 5.9 that follows the prominent corner system to the right of Destroying angel.

nice....you sign my summit register? There are some better lines on the east face that have more 5.8 and 5.9 climbing on them. The lawdogs lamment is the sickness.

that route is a stupid piece. If it were in the sawtooths, tetons, winds,beartooths, ect..... it would be a NO star route. I would not recomend that people climb this route, a route cannot be a "classic" and only have 70 feet of good crack. The descent is going to get someone killed, rapping off a single four inch slung root. Come on WA climbers bring a drill up there and put in some real anchors this anit no wilderness and it anit no party. The lower pitchs are so manky.....not worth your time and burdo don't know dick about shit when classic is concerned. Yes I know what I am talking/typing about I have been on a summer alpine trip since July.

anyone know anyone headed west from montana in the near future? do they want a car companion? if so please feel free to call me 503-550-3373. I just finished a trip and am trying to get back home without using the greyhound. mods can move if they want to put in the partners section.

:[] see you in the toofs

one article just is not enough....even though I told myself I wouldn't read a second or a third I did.

fuck mt bikes i ride one...there great this is cascade climbers... ENOUGH SAID get a HOOD only forum....oregon is a lot cooler than the GD south side.

the hood forum is so needed....the bullshit about south side updates always kills any real new topics. hood is climbed far more often and sees many more requests for information and conditions and TR than any other mountain or area on this site, if that doesn't make sense , but having several for WA does, than I guess I am the one that is clueless.

found out today that I passed my last two CPA exams.....amazing what you accomplish even when is seems so impossible at times. now all I have to do is work a 1000 hours of audit for the corporate man. time to roast a victory J. thanks for all the support. bryan

the fling by MSR....they say two people but I have had three guys in it in the snow and rain and it is cozy and for three peps its under a lbs a person. Dude i like this thing for just about everything except BIG storms.

still looking for real wild country wire kits??????

weed wacker string works pretty well and you can ball it up at the end by lighting it on fire.

just wanna say that they really take care of their customer. I had a broken .1 cam that I sent to them and they offered to replace it with one of the new C3's for cost and they reslung and re triggered an older bd #1 for $15. cheers

anyone climbed at the are right by the camp ground for the big horns crags?

doing some research and the rock is supposed to be andesite...wondering about quality?

thursday?????

one of the most striking lines I have seen in oregon or a bout anywhere for that matter. reminded me of excommunication on the priest but hard .11 instead of .13

did a quick search for a couple minutes and turned up shit..... what you got?

east of roseburg about 55 miles...for old man

Trip: The Real South Side an Update - some rock by some river Date: 6/6/2009 Trip Report: SO IF YOU CLICKED here HOPING TO FIND THE NEWEST BETA ON THE THE BREADLINE THAT RUNS UP HOOD THAN.... this picture tr will highlight my last weekend in the umpqa area. Climbing at the old man and old women and then venturing not far to the wonderful mckinley rock. I was delighted to meet greg orton, chris farlick, and harold hall on my trip. Without the company of these three my trip would not have been as great and memorable. cheers friday: massive wind storm, tree falls on sisters car, i get the hell out of dodge, pick brian up in C-Town, drive to the upper north umpqa river valley. no pics this was a boring day, lots of cops on the road... saturday: wake up, meet the crew that came with greg and harold to set up the tyrolean, hike in, climb the old women, climb old man, come down, climb old women agian, fly between the two pillars, hike out, let'er buck with the fire, lost shoe to river, passed out.... sunday: wake up alpine early ...NOT, drive to mckinley, meet greg and harold, hike in, climb testosterone monkey, rap, climb hang ten, hike out, get lost driving on paved forrest roads, found freeway home. pictures old man and his woman tyler going for it on the first pitch of the prize tyler and chris on pitch three of the prize greg on pitch 1 of dilley's delight my shameless summit photo chris descending between the pillars with work being done above air time my turn RANDOM SCENIC STUFF: mckinley only 35 minutes to the base from here tyler linking Pitchs 1 & 2 on testosterone monkey looking down mid pitch 3...which you can link with pitch 4. get up there and get that grab hold brian on pitch 1 of hang ten top of mckinley with diamond in the back ground thanks again to everyone that was able to share this weekend; great rock, great area, great people COMMENCE SEARCHING FOR HOOD BETA