DirtyHarry

pics or Scurlock photo showing route would be cool.

I'd rather eat a fox.

I've never seen any mountain lions around Seattle, but definitly lots of cougars. True story though, my buddy was hunting elk around the big hole in MT and at the end of the morning hunt he was tired and hungry. He was headed home empty handed when he heard some strange noises coming from a clump of aspens. He goes over there and there's a mountain lion that just backed off a fresh elk kill growling at him. My buddy takes out his hunting knife and cuts a hind 1/4 off the cougar's elk kill and runs away, with dinner!!

That's cause Sky wasn't wearing his orange firehat brainbucket.

But its always a good time when you do show up!

Looks like a nice thrutchfest. How many pitches?

Don't use plastic boots.

Say what? The Ropeup IS Oktoberfest (and Easter, Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Boxing Day) rolled into one!

Pic's Added.

The enduro corner and under the roof pitches on CBR are rated harder b/c they are almost always wet. There dry this year for some reason.

How did the "5.8" chimney treat ya?

Bunch of thieves down in Portland.

They're great holds until / unless they peel off. But the top two pitches of the initial buttress were pretty stellar, I'll post some photographic depictions tomorrow.

Sounds like its worth a trip.

Sounds like they got what they were looking for.

I've never climbed at Eerie. From what I hear the climbing is somewhat uninspiring, but the views are great. That true?

Deadmen tell no tales.

In the same elocution, GW said something to the effect of things are tough right now because his foreign policy is focused on ensuring that other countries are democraticly governed and don't violate human rights instead of being focused just on whether they cooperate with us economically. So that made me wonder when are we going to attack Saudi Arabia and China then?

How did you forget your shoes!?

Find any neutrinos up there?

Hee Hee. Looks like stellar rock on that bed back and beyond buttress.

I heard this route sucks. Looks like it too.

Bitchin'. Nice stainless steel 12 gauge - a bit big and heavy for packin' round though.

Climb: Pernod Spire-Indirect West Face Date of Climb: 8/4/2006 Trip Report: Two weekends during a flailed attempt to find a new line on one of the wine spires I spotted a potential line on a west facing buttress to the looker's left of Pernod Spire that looked like it led to upper Pernod. Without giving the route a go we desended back into the valley due to little white things falling from the sky. Returned this past Saturday with Cappelini and Rolf and climbed it. The Initial butress was the best part, going in 4 pitches, with the upper two pitches being the best. It went at about 5.8, 5.10, 5.9, 5.10. Above the buttress was a sandy gully that the Bale Nelson route goes through. I was hoping the route we climbed could stay on the rock ridge visible from the base, but that would be pretty contrived as the gully was right next to it. I scrambled on the rock anyway though. The Nelson Bale route continues way up the gully and climbs a final 5.10 pitch to the summit. We stayed closer to the west face of Pernod and geared up for what looked like a stellar hand crack leading to the summit ridge. It turned out to be a thin finger crack which turned into a seem for about 10 feet. Dan climbed a stellar but dirty 5.10 finger crack to get to it then up some precariosly stacked and huge loose blocks before realizing it wasn't a hand crack and he'd used all his small gear getting to it. He eventually built a belay and brought us up then I led the seem using a few points of direct aid. Another easy pitch on dirty loose rock led to the summit ridge. Heading toward the summit tower we realized we'd have to rap down towards the gully then climb the final pitch of the Bale Nelson route if we wanted to summit, as Ross and Tony had done on their route. As it was 7:30 and we were running out of light we made two rappels into the gully and headed down. As it was our descent plan had us rapping down the buttress that the Nelson Bale route goes up in the darkness. Maybe going over the to the east side would have been quicker? Anyway, a decent route with some good adventure. Gear Notes: Dan's new rack.

The skiiers right of it I believe.