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all my oregon spire sh.tuff is old (maybe the last outing cured me?) but for what it's worth: pillars of hercules west smith summit: the bird from a coupla summers ago: Jeff exploring the possibility of an FFA (J. Leary photo hyperlink) magic brownies celebration on the dome summit (J. Leary photo hyperlinked)

a funny story really...look for details on smithrock.com (bogus)

fun looking climb!

that's too bad Wayne - I've always enjoyed visiting & looking for new postings. hope you get it up & running again soon.

great job on tombstone! saw you guys starting up on saturday. was hoping to get some shots of you later/higher but you must've been done for the day by the time we were hiking back. PS that is a beautiful photo in the topmost post if I may say so myself, Geoff snibble tower is nbd - esp. if you use the sport line on left for 1st 1.5 pitches (like we did). rest is cake. here's some shots: aid pitch .7 choss ramp - looks worse than it is: choss of the direct chimney finish that would avoid the short ladder (apparently first freed by A. Kearney & co). superfun .9 pitch

some sweet photos Tyler. Looks like Oregon towers are back in fashion. Nice tr!

Great stuff. Beautiful pic's.

Josh, no anchor that I could see at the start of the thing. Final bolt had a fat hanger on it & there was somebody's cam stuck near the start of the flake.

Nice J - sounds like a fun adventure & nice of Tyler to clean up the hw on it. That mitten looks like fun - just don't yard too hard if liebacking (chimneying??) it or you might take out burma rd

very cool outing & tr - looking at the date of your Warbonnet climb, looks like we might've passed each other on the trails.

yup & thnx! - unfortunately the container was leaking. the sheet with your entry was pretty soaked. tried to tighten up the lid a bit more. On the other lines....next time I guess - beautiful area, well worth another hike.

Trip: Baron Spire - SE Face Date: 9/6/2009 Trip Report: Posted a tr from our climb on summitpost: http://www.summitpost.org/trip-report/551002/baron-spire-tr.html

Great stuff John!

it's mentioned almost as an afterthought. It would cover many old classics & new routes as well. seems pretty significant.

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Brian - my deepest condolences for your loss. I'm very sorry to hear this.

yeah, 2 strands & I think one (at least) looked beaten up but I was not really looking carefully (both might be iffy for all I know). the opener 5.8 was enough for me - looked more unpleasant up higher.

Personally, I find it to be the exact opposite...go figure.

JL, Tyler, it is Wombat but I don't think it was Santiam HL -- I think that one went right of this line which I also don't think is in Watts or supplement (I also did not finish this pitch). new bolts to the flared crack/chimney(?) you see. THere was a bail cam in the crack. tad chunky. didn't have the balls to continue. btw, Tyler is that your ongoing effort on CS Concerto?

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T, it's Wolf Rock but Barad Dur or something else - i dont know??

maybe not in all cases. I thought that Wildfire is much easier than Pack Animal Direct for example (both 10b per Watts).

Matt, yes, a lot more.

very cool TR - looks like a beautiful climb!

thank you very much Bill