R_Fee

Hey Doug Your right about it taking forever to clean those routes. I actually went so far as to attatch a wire brush to a cordless sawzall. Then as I was loading my pack with all the other needed crap I said screw that idea and brushed all that moss off the old fashioned way. It took Elmo and I two years to clean, bolt and redpoint this route. I found a fixed pin about halfway up the first pitch with a weird gold and black titainium bail biner on the first aid/cleaning ascent(yours?) All that effort paid off with a really good route. The third pitch of your route Pumping For the Man is one of my favorites at Petes. I dont know if you remember but we climbed it together back in 98 when I was just a young whippersnapper. Sadly these routes will quickly get mossy if folks dont get out and climb them. Last summer when Rick Harrel and I climbed the first picth of Pumping to retrive some booty draws he had to do a bit o nut tool gardening to find nut placements. Reed Fee