powderhound

No pics of the trip sry guys. Just want to let everyone know that there are some great routes at Castle Rocks. Spent two days there and had a blast. The routes grades are a bit more modern then at the city of rocks. Climbed at the crack house there are some awesome moderate routes there, I think we did 5 pitches in like two hours. Go to the hostess gully and climb "between heaven and earth" one of the best 5.9's I have ever done. 200 feet of stellar patina pulling. “Shock & Awe” was fabulous and the “southern rock opera” is stout bring lots of yellow aliens. The Dufree hot springs right as you come into Elmo are $5 and is open until 10pm on Friday and 11pmon Saturday. Fill your water bottle with your drink of choice and enjoy. Some notes on The City Columbia crack on the back side of elephant rock is open and is a super duper 5.7. Go to "The Gull" (right behind elephant) and climb the 5.8 great beginning lead route sorry forget the name. If you are looking fro some great climbs in the 5.10-5.11 range and wanting to get away from the crowds look at the building blocks.

This gives you a great reason to tell your wife that you need to head out to the rockies. You are welcome anytime and we can get some good climbing in. I'll take you out to dwights old stomping grounds and see if we can't find some FA's for ya.

damn, those are some scrawny gunz!! is that a can of oly, or pabst

Nat, I am in bozeman now, but if you park at the little church thing and walk up and around the gate you will find a trail. Go to the second wall ( the one w/o the big disclamer sign) On the second wall there is a slab that is good for TRin, I think that it is like 5.6 no matter which way. The slab will be to looker left of a striking overhanging finger crack. have fun good luck at getting them into it young. Wish my parents would have done the same.

Hey if we both get the chop in two weeks we should cash out all our stock... between the two of us we should have enough to get a double wide in Stanley... It has to be some of that prime real estate right behind the bakery, to make it worth your while... breakfast burritos rule...

it is 5 miles around the lake have fun

1st. Your making me jealous that I can't be there to join in on the fun. 2nd. John, is that by chance a 7 inch offwidth

You guys (joe,kev,and flying pig boy) are a bunch of clownpunchers. get a life

If you have some time I would recomend climbing in butte, on the way in. the granite is city of rocks quality, with no one around. however, if you are going to climb around bozeman go out to the gallitian. What range do you climb in and I can give you some classics to get on if you want.

I have lived on the willy for 15 years, swiming in it every summer, and never gotten a rash, infection or sick from it. this is not to say that I won't have some crazy cancer or kids with three eyes later but for the time being I have yet to see any bad reactions.

John has more cams on his rack than other climbers have dingleballs on their ass. In fact, I heard if you look up "gear whore" in the dictionary they have his picture right there. I saw the picture in websters with my own eyes.

We attached a backpack to it but the back pack only weighed maybe thirty lbs, so it was not a sufficent test. To make things further problematic we only had one jumar so we were going to have to prusik and jumar up the rope which would have been really slow and dumb. To dirty man, peps post about attempts all the time, plus it was kinda fun and something fun to share and chat about. Figured I would at least get some good ideas on how to make it work next time. Plus how can I miss out on a chance for you spray, I just enjoy it so much, just makes my morning, afternoon, and night.

What ya doing the bozone? If you have some time, you should go climb the wedge. Ahh white boulder balalith.

Hence why I don't regret not taking the leap. Maybe whenI plan the thing out better, and spend some more time designing the anchor and rope set up. I think having a full body harness would help as well.

Look out in 11worth. look at icicle creek area.

The anchor I did build had four seperate points with four seperate lockers all equalized and going to the two ropes. I didn't want to use a dynamic because I was worried it would be hard to get it taunt enough to swing out. One of the main things that stopped me from doing it was I forgot the life jacket. I think if I had one of those i might have done it.

I had a feeling you guys would raze me, just wondering why satan hasn't chimned in?

Climb: Bridge over the Willy-70ft swing attempt Date of Climb: 8/12/2006 Trip Report: Been talking about this with my buddy for over three years. This friday we finally got together and decided that we would make the attempt. The bridge is no longer used as a road and just transports water across the river. We built a four piece anchor in the middle and attached two static ropes to the equalized point. we then went over about 70 feet out. I pulled the ropes as tight as possible unclipped from the bridge and was just about to go when a boat came by. I just could not get the gumptiopn to go for it. My buddy decided that he would try by first rappeling down to decrease the angle and tighten the rope so there would be no drop. He came down ten feet and still could not do it. We packed up and went home. For another day when my balls get bigger. Gear Notes: A big set of nuts Approach Notes: out by the most used boat ramp on the willy

yeah, made me a bit uneasy...

and I ice climbed more days then I skied.

Frisch Freeride, must therefore, be the best and only binding to use and anything else will come apart like Jenna Bush's legs at a keg party. Well since Satan never lies I must assume you are telling the truth. There is no denying it. p.s. I would tell you to burn in hell but I don't think it would do any good.

First I apologize for the spelling they incorrectly. Now let me defend myself, I tele, but have five or size friends that use an AT setup, and all use the Fritschi Diamir Freeride Binding. They swear by them and in their own personal experience work better than any other AT binding out there. For two main reasons first many companies sacrifice strength for weight and second the DIN setting on the bindings goes to 12 and most are in the 8-10 range. And per you $400 claim take a look at this. http://www.backcountry.com/store/BLD0783...&mv_pc=r105

Are you looking to alpine in the backcounty? Or tele.. if you are going to alpine in the backcountry, you should buy frisch freerides. Anything else you will break. They run about $300 and will fit your current skis and boots. they make the heel pop up so you can skin in.

HOLY SHIT

Had a great 17 hour car to car go up to prusik, oh so tired. Will post TR when get pics.