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way to stay focused jens! great job team and tr shaun

Steph- thanks for sharing those spectacular pics! John-your hobby is fantastic!!

way to go young Ruana! tuff bones indeed...

Thank you OKclimb for the new beta. Looks like some good stuff.

GREAT JOB TEAM! This is sooo needed. I can't help but notice the fact that the imagine toilet here location in the flyer would be in the classic Frenchman's Coulee photo shot. ~IS this the proposed location? I just want to clarify the location. Why not put said toilet over in the SE corner of lot across the small access road/hill from the kiosk? I.E. where the old honey bucket was located. Much more aesthetically placed IMHO. Also, is it only 1 vault or 2 for $50,000? Lastly, why is it so many of you call it Vantage? The guide books call it Frenchman's Coulee and the climbing is closer to George, WA. Never made sense to me.

Yep its early Spring-like Conditions out there. South facing slopes fairly dry..cold in the am tho, 26F currently at my house, southeast of town, in the shade. The Ski Hill is now closed for the season due to lack of Snow. I hope we get a bit more snow, the Leavenworth Winter Sports Club x-c trails have been superb.

that had to be the most granite in one TR ever on cc.com. thanks for sharing! looked nice and tasty...

ditto

fixed draws are lame. I don't understand why it became the norm other than climbers can be very lazy. i.e. very difficult to remove draws every time you're done working the "proj". i say if you leave it, shouldn't it really be "left booty"? another pet peeve of mine is TRing on the fixed lowering/rappel point (chain, fixed carabiners, etc.). If you plan to TR, add your own slings to the anchor, then remove when rappelling. pretty easy to do and also saves the wear on fixed hardware...big time. Chain/fixed biners or quicklinks are not cheap!

looks rad! can't wait til the wife and I go to Patagonia.

Good times always had in Stronghold. Thanks for the reminders.... the nesting closure usually starts Mar 1 Cochise (WML) Dome and Rockfellow Group being the only closed crags til june. Granite Mt is earlier.

ah yes the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness and Granite Peak is such a wild place. Saw my first real grizzly bear swimming around in Huckleberry lake on my wife's and I failed attempt (she had seen many spending her younger days in WY during summer break). yes we turned around because the bear was headed for our path of ascent since we had neither horse, dog or gun. they are so f'n big! can't wait to go back. endless amazing buttresses and such solitude! thanks for the story and pic to remind me of round 2.

five ten

just curious. i don't rope solo. partners in crime or bouldering is best. i suppose at times the boulder happened to be really big.

awesome Kurt and Jeff!

any thoughts or experience on trango cinch as Rope solo device? seems to feed easier and less kinks on rope.

frozen water, ice, floats too! I agree bad name. maybe translation error?

mikey, why don't you buy a drill? Even if you already have one somewhere else, buy another... they aren't that much $. Then sell the old one. I do have one you could use, but it's here in Leavenworth. good luck on the quest.

'cause thats all the good rock we got in this sheithole of a town. but remember pick up your cigerette butts, tapewads and don't tick the rocks unless you are going to clean ugly mess off when done. thank you

Psyched for the new gym! also stoked for the upcoming new shoe boutique..

FYI: the trail has been re-etched thru the blowdown. Needs some log cutting work but mostly easy to follow. Also bushes have been pruned considerably. Thanks for the hard work L-town crew!!!

WFACE is NOT grade 5. Thanks for the beer stash.

OK, OK. The approach was 'strenuous' but not particular bad. There was one shitty section of brushiness between 3300 and 3800 (for us at least). The rest wasn't too bad, especially the bigger boulder-hopping, slabs and snow. Nonsense!! Hook creek is littered with the bleached bones of those unable to endure the extreme suffering of this approach. Count yourself lucky. To all else, might I recommend Colchuck Lake or Stuart Lake. I completely agree!

"There should be porta-potties at Index fairly soon!" -the plastic guaranteed-to-be-destroyed type or the preconstructed Forest Circus type?