JosephH

Bummer, I'm hoping they can get themselves down and off sometime today...

Short season, hurt surfing, will probably do it all again next year.

That's why I quit using it.

For a number of years I used a grigri with the triangle tab by the biner hole removed before getting an Eddy. The grigri was servicable enough for all the roped solos I've done except Dods. That I'll only do it with an Eddy, SP, or Soloist (but don't care too much for the latter two). The grigri just cranks you up short too often for my taste, however.

Mass extinction is a recurring theme of planetary life - again, all these choices are about what lifestyle we want for our children.

Yep, you have to remember these are all 'lifestyle' choices - the planet will be fine.

Hard to imagine it will really be addressed given we already turn a blind eye to the extensive impacts and costs of Mountain-top removal and fly ash accumulation which underpin our current use.

When you strip it all down to basics, it's really all about coal.

An avalanche from where? Are you saying the comp areas were buried as well?

I'm not familiar with the Grotto Wall or Hyalite Canyon so can't understand how this could have happened during a comp. Maybe John Frieh, who's been there a bunch, could help us understand how the comp was in harm's way from an avalanche.

Bill, thanks, I'll take you up on that. Don't know that I'll put it back, but if we have to hang multiple lines off of that spot again, then that particular pin was the ticket.

Again, it's a pin that was very well suited to the purpose there - way, way better than a Bug or LA. Yeah, I hear you other folks might come out and free climb, but not with a hammer and funk - and that pin was not coming out easy even with a hammer and funk. That is nice, but it didn't need replacing - none of the anchors currently need sling replacements.

Hmmmm. So look, pretty much no one's going out on these cold and windy days but us chickens. And no one but one of us is heading out there and up with a hammer and funk. Again, I sure would appreciate a heads up on that pin, putting it back, or dropping it off at Jim's - thanks. P.S. Dave, good to see you keeping after that free stuff; Windsurfer is a solid go...

How about just accepting things as they are if it's not on your own property.

The bottom one, in the notch.

So, whomever pulled it went out to Beacon with a hammer and funk; hard to imagine they did so just to pull that pin so I'm guessing they were out there aiding. Hoping someone will man-up and either put it back, get in touch with me here or by pm, or leave it with Opdycke.

That doesn't explain Ivan's voices, though I suppose it could explain someone jacking the pin.

Ivan, I always figured god was screaming through you.

Steve, thanks, but it was a particular type of long, large-eyed Euro pin that is particularly suited to both that placement and what we were clipping into it. I don't have another so I really would like to get that one back.

Yes, I did actually. Jim and I placed it and the one at the top of the ramp for an overhead 5-gal. bucket rig and as rap anchors for part of the 2006 two-day pre-opening clean up of a bad New Year's Day rockfall. Jim and I had to clean up the area where it cut loose on the first day so it would be safe for two crews of four to do side-by-side raps to clean up after it all given it was all raining down on the SE Face p3 and base. We discussed removing them, but we are pretty sure we'll have to do another round of the same around that spot sooner or later so we decided to leave them and so we'll need that pin back, thanks. Scene of the crime, entire East flank of the South Face above the SE Face p3 pitch strewn with rock Hanging debris at the dropspot before cleanup Jim after the cleanup was finished and the bucket rigging is down Lisa Lantz, the WSP SW Regional Resource Steward, and Erik Plunkett (BRSP) both helped with the planning and Lisa, who 'owns' Beacon and is climber friendly, came down to help supervise on the second day of the cleanup. P.S. And for those who don't know, Jim is out with a knee injury and you might call or drop by over the next couple of weeks while he's on the mend.

Missed you today, got a late start on YW. It was a beautiful day out there, that's for sure. Quite the rockfall from the lip of the big East Face roof - big blocks almost made it up onto the trail and one pretty good flake did make it to the high side of trail. Oh, I'm not sure which one of you budding aidmen pulled that pin, but please get ahold of me because I want it back. Thanks. Also, still have someone's greet DB.

I don't know, it appears to be rolling the same as ever, from the top down.

Also, both anchors are hanging. The top one has a short safety rope out to it that you can clip into until you are situated on the actual anchor. Both raps are dead vertical. It's also the best place at Beacon to do jugging and hauling practice.

So post up over on ST if you've had an 'encounter'.

Steve, two clean, fast raps to the ground with a 60, one w/ two 60's. If you do it with a single 60 then you have to remember to go to the 'Bears in Heat' anchor out of sight around the corner to the left near the end of the first rap - don't go to either of the anchors your can see as you start rapping and especially don't try to reach the one on the right. Only go to that one if you have a 70.