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dito- wonder why there hasn't been a full page write up and cover shot of the ordeal in Rock& ice? Someone told me that but I hadn't seen anything, kinda too bad.

appreciate your hard work and time, tyler.

I prefer the older black diamond .2 and .1 pre C3. I am personaly waiting for offset metolius master cams for my next small cam purchase. My aliens are still my fav, don't have any of the new master cams but placed them a couple times and think they are just as good as the aliens.

spent 5 days surfing a couch in greenwich village, NY. Had buddy that couch surfed 30+ days we he went on his trip to europe. The system is a lot bigger and better known in Europe, that said it seems to provide an excellent resource to the bum .

here is a nice site: couchsurfing.com works everytime i have used it

i think during one of my sleepless nights I found a thread on rc.com that was page after page of anchor pictures with a small description followed by,endless critiques and spray. might try a search over there.

i like ozone, some of those routes have some great movement on them, and the mixed routes are sweet. I really do appreciate all the hard work and thought that went into ozone...I am just not sure if the developers realized just how MANY people would use this great resource. I don't think trying pleasing everyone ever achieves much IMO ...but this crag does have lots of great attributes to offer the pdx climber. The evolution of this crag will be intersting to watch and dicuss Its to bad that they didn't finish straight up and instead bailed out left. The climbing straight up looked to be sweet when I came down the route.

just pointing out the obvious here...pdx has large outdoor enthusiast population... and up until(ozone) Portland didn't have an area that people could so quickly go from the gym to the crag. Kevin, I agree with the lack of respect and knowing who came before you etcetera etcetera etcetera, but don’t fool yourself this is a designer crag. In addition, you can't deny that the moderate grades, lack of approach, and ability to TR, among other things, make this the most logical place to take a gumby and for gym gumby's to start outside. I was there on a Friday and there were at least four groups of obvious first timers…and ozone’s popularity will only continue to grow. that said I would never condone fooling with someone route, its like fooling with your buddies girl, its just a no no.

That really sucks about that route, last time I was out there he (martins dad) had done pretty much everything but bolt it, he even had ticked the spots where the bolts should go. Route stealing is recockulious and just displays a lack of respect and understanding of tradition. However, it doesn't surprise me that some yahoo didn't follow the grail. What did you expect to happen when you put a gym on the side of the Columbia River and than give everyone the map to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow????? You think this is some wack...just wait, its only going to get worse. -promise

is that lev? if so he is a rad trad climber as well...

count me in

that was me Making me wish I would have just ditched this CPA shit and spent some time and $ at the Ruth...glad you slayed and didn't get slayed. Lets get ready to roll to The Wadd.

wow.....if a route has gone free than whats the deal with placing a green alien, people clean up old mank iron all the time, if it didn't happen at places like el cap than it would just be a clip up. plus free insinuates that all gear is placed on lead.

thanks for sharing, Craig keep me in mindin the coming months if you need a P.

me improve? I improve through climbing not training. But these help me build a better base for when I can get in a climbing cycle.

I take my vipers everywhere...the viper swings better, but weighs a decent bit more. Don't think there is going to be much difference trying to arrest with the viper or the Aztarex. If you plan on just climbing volvcanoes, not much need for a technical ice tool.

photos from AK usually suck

The west face is often climbed in late january and february, I have done several trips in may...always very good. The water next the cabin needs to be boiled there is lots of grazy cattle in the area. You can rap with one rope with a we bit on downclimbing just make sure you rap the ridge and not the noreth face, so I never see a reason to bring anything more. There might be snow on the north face side, that you decend but just bring some boots. Standard rack is pretty good, bring a good selection of small wires, hb offsets work real great out there.

hopefully not...hopefully his training has made him hard to kill: root canal: landing zone at the base of ham and eggs

john is gone....will be back when the root canal spits him out.

anyone seen this thing recently? I still need day #34 an 35...

what is that

Thanks for the correction, I wasn't quite sure if it was WW1 or 2. The cleansing comment is mostly to stir britches and make a play on words that might incite more debate/conversation.

So recently in the news we have seen the Swine Flu which is and will be hyped just as much as the Bird Flu but, here is what I am wondering...when will we see the next GLOBAL disease epidemic? We haven't seen a mass death from an epidemic since the 1940's during the end of WWII. I may just have a glass getting bout empty view, but, I just don't have the faith that science can keep outpacing evolution. Millions died in the 1940's; what will happen next time after years of suppresion. -just a thought.... parents got home from mexico yesterday, seem fine.

RodJ: please look: tyler's ACTION speaks for itself. http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/643064/Oregon_Bolt_Replacement#Post643064