powderhound

The basalt is immaculate. The climbing reminds me of other pure trad basalt crags like paradise and devils. I personally do not believe in fixing pins, but i do not deny the damage they cause to the rock. Pounding pins on lead is part of the climbing experience, part that i particularly enjoy. That said I have only used pins on mixed/alpine routes, I haven't yet come across a free climbing section that needed knifeblades, you can put passive in almost anything larger. However there is a decent bit of Aid climbing out there which necessitates pins.

the tree walk that starts at the talus field and takes you to the trail. I call it the hobbit trail

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Short approach = Hobbit Trail Not close to much except oak ridge There are anchors, trees work great.

The toothpick area is easy to set up...Bill you in? You must be driving your wife carzy by now....its time for some after work fun.

time to walk the hobbit trail if you ask me

back in Oregon...just waiting for the weather to keep staying nice. I want to get back out to the Lack as soon as I can, have you gone out and checked the seepage? Time for some moss cleaning.

Top Rope after work: Today or Wedensday? Bill, John....ect...? Rock butte or ....anywhere else...

he is right...there are not blots at Paradise..one of the most special areas I have climbed at. I also don't know if there are any bolts at Moojack another special area that should be protected. Hit me up if you need some help with your no bolt crag, I have a set of old pins and warthogs I need to use.

i went rock clambering in oregon once i think...once. did you git dat der grab hold?

talking heads...getting the study on

What else did you find in the "Cave N' Gully"

climbing belt? do you refer to a harness?

I feel it coming it should be a main show at a cc event. It's got to happen when ivan post his 53rd TR and Tvash has to give up his heavy weight belt.

i am getting the feeling that he died in a base jumping accident. He was shooting for a film in Cham

http://www.sierrasun.com/article/20090326/NEWS/903269961/1066&ParentProfile=1051&title=Ski%20legend%20Shane%20McConkey%20dies Shitty thing, inspired lots of kids to start skiing.

thought you were "never going to climb that thing again" so you'll climb it with Jack but not me? I am disturb....JK hope your trip went well, and you said HI to tyler at Ramparts for me. Nice work.

Well since the thing is already "designer" I spent a day doing some toolin', the hooks and little cracks made for some really great tooling routes. Thinking of replacing some of the bolts and hangers. But if you have rock closer to salem, let me know, I am down for some work.

Does anyone know who put some of those routes up? I am interested in putting some "effort" out on that stone.

http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=717145 You can do the finger in an easy day: if you have a vehicle that can make it through the road. There is some cragging around the town but to get exact directions you need to stop in and talk to some of the guys at the shop. It is about 10 miles towards custer and has a dozen or so sport routes.

Really to bad for a company to fail because of some shitty mistakes made by one office. But that is the risk you have when you are such a large company. I would like to see them fail if that is what the market suggest.

Most courts seem to have ruled that in the instance of land owner/climber litigation suits that climbing is "so inherently dangerous" that EVERYONE knows the very real possibility of injury or death; striking the liability of the landowner. However, in regards to minors, I could see the courts placing a greater burden on the ADULT regardless of either climbing background. I would look into the liability of coaches to players, some coaches have now been found negligent in the deaths of their players and as, such liable.

Naw...I can't climb that hard. Its a kid named Andy, really nice kid and strong as heck. We climbed: Gold Rush, Squiggles, Suzuki, Monster, Tolken, and U4. That Monster is a full value route. I am always so impressed with the stone, the routes, but mostly the people and the social scene that is out there. Special Place

can you see them now?

someone upset that some other people may have gone climbing while they were inside?