powderhound

i forget how to get there, will you send me a pm with his address.

Yeah....were getting close to the weather window aren't we? My rat is crawling at my soul to get my body back to the GCC.

how stoked are you for the new movie? I am done with my test next week, we should get out and climb this june.

Mt. Rainier is climbed less than hood and it has its own forum..... i have never climbed the thing i am restlessly of tired of the same damn hood TR clogging up the oregon forum.

MOG X2 with a factor two.....yep that happens all the time.

Trip reports are only boring to sprayers that DONT climb, do you still know how to tie a figure 8?

well no more than any of the other fools traditional climbing and protecting with small gear. I have whipped on the #3 BD microstopper rated @ 5kn or 1124lbs, also the #3 & 4 wild country zero's rated 6kn. While I am not condoning CCH, I am just stating that 5kn is a good bit of force and doubt that many of your average falls generate that much force, and that the most rock will break before the gear does. I appreciate your concern for my idiotcy.

Can we please get a just: Mt. Hood Forum, all the constant reports, and pitter patter that goes on over that snow cone should be in its own forum section.

right on

i think 5 kn's is quite a lot, its almost 1100lbs of force. I have fallen on several smaller nuts and cams that are rated to 2-4 kn and have yet to see failure.

sweetness...thanks for the photo stoke of buck

so maybe I have missed the point.but why have you felt the need to post this picture five or six times in two different threads over the last couple of days. the kid is cute and all, but with no prompt or background it just makes you look creepy.

Looks like you guys had a great time, nice work. Is this the first ski descent of Hozo? Any shots of the zorro face?

Looking for a partner to climb may 20th, wednesday. Send a pm climb until I head over to help Jim O move.

can we climb before hand? I'll come out from salem and help, does anyone wanna meet up around 10:00am and get some pitchs in before we help Jim move?

Leaving PDX area around 5:00ish and will stay through sunday at least. Wont be on my computer much the rest of the day so call if you want a ride. 503-550-3373 -must be 420 friendly

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