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Thanks....I finaly got my camera to work, it finally downloaded my pictures with no problem...

Beacon Ben at my house getting ready to take off..... Racking in the "pull out"..... Ben about 100 feet up on pitch 1..... Ben, starting one of the best pitches on the route....the crazy stairway pitch.... Ben about to belay me up the first crux.... Sea of granite 2000 feet up..... Ben's great smile on a great ledge...... On the rapell...... One last look.

Thanks..... why did you change your name?

JH....I would say there are 3 or 4 chossy pitches.....the rest are solid as granite can be. And yes....it needs a walk off.

Thanks....I was very happy to be able to get out and climb.....I wanted to climb this last summer but opted to get on Purisk instead.....

As in getting a blow torch and a par of pliers.

That is a good way to put it.

Well said.....would you think IB is a big wall? Its like 3000 feet of climbing.

Is that a definition? Because if it is then my description of El Cap would put it at a cragging level.

El Cap.....big wall? I would say so....but it has been climbed in under 2 hours.

Great photos.....thanks for sharing.

What constitutes a "Big Wall"? Height? Commitment?

Dr. Coe has spoken again.

For lighting his fat joint.

If I'd screwed up so horribly and so publicly, I'd hate my job, too. He was only in charge of a small piece of it until recently…..then all the mistakes started and they threw an ungodly amount of money toward him to take over the entire thing…..he could not refuse…..he states with the way things are run….he is being set up for failure.

Nope.....he is in charge of it all....his boss is a politican. BTW....he hates his job.

I would say the route needs cleaning as well.....right now the upper half is a death route waiting to happen.

Did you know my brother in law in is charge of the Big Dig.....all of it. He is an engineer

You forgot 16th 0 bolts 17th 0 bolts

Seriously.....if I were to live in the Seattle area....it would be West Seattle for sure.

Portland.

You mean wanted?

Who is that?

Ben and I reached the top of the first crux pitch only to have Ben say "shhh....what is that? Do you hear that? We looked up to see fist size rocks and many smaller ones come whipping by us like bullets. We leaned in to the wall and prayed we would not get hit. There was two different showers of these in like 8 or 9 minutes......like a bowling alley.