Aren't we all.
If you need to brush up on elementary skills like belaying and rappelling perhaps you should spend some time on some super easy rock climbs, or at the gym, before you head into the mountains and kill yourself.
Ha. Dragontail reminiscent of Cham. Gimme a break. There's like one moderate climb that forms there every couple years. Hardly worth putting bolts in for it.
Yeah bushwacking blindly around the cascades really sounds like a blast. Staying at home and crawling naked through your local blackberry patch will produce similar results and involve less driving.
Perhaps you should at least wait for it to get cold again.
We rapped down from Slow Children after DPS fixed those nuts and they definetly weren't coming out with a simple yank. We didn't bother trying a rock though.
Wow. After reading this awesome ROCK STATUS REPORT, for a moment, I actually thought it might be worth driving down there to go climbing. But then I remembered Index is one million times better, and the thought just sort of drifted away.