Raindawg

Your answer can be found here, on page 57. And look around for the bones of one these next time you're up there:

Oooh! I'm so hurt! All that anger and insult because someone doesn't appreciate your favorite bolt-raped piece of choss! (By the way, when did you become an expert on my life?....what?...you aren't?...you don't have a clue!... I suggest you tone it down a bit...and while you're at it, if you're going to cite my real name as you did above somewhere, I suggest that you come out from behind your cubicle and use YOUR real name). If you fully understood the bolting polemic, then perhaps you'd understand the nature of my comments. I'm glad you have fun out at Exit 38...have at it...the place is ruined and in my opinion, it's a disaster.....I'd have more respect for it (and a lot of other smaller crags) if people would settle for top-roping these cute little routes rather than using it as a stepping stone from the gym to rampant bolting elsewhere. You can disagree if you like....others certainly do. P.S. So...what's your real name, "Lucky"? Come forth or sit down! And by the way, "expert", that's not even my photo...nope...and those aren't "hamburgers", they're "B_LT's". If you knew your cc.com history, you'd know that a couple of years ago, some of the bolt-drillin' folks here were paranoid that THE MAN might be monitoring cc.com and discover (SHOCKING!!!) that not everyone approved of bolting so in order to continue the discussion, some such folks resorted to using the term "B_LT" to thwart THE MAN and his insidious attempts to "google" the word "bolt" and learn the truth. I'm still laughing!

The answers to all your questions regarding the formation of a "climbing church" can be found in THE BOX (Click here to look inside)

This is all that Santa be bringing you this year, 'bone! Gift In A Box

Depends on your perspective. Here are some: Is Smoking Kosher? Israeli cigarette warning labels in Hebrew: Clockwise from top left: Cigarettes hurt your physical fitness; Cigarette smoke hurts your children and those around you; Smoking causes premature aging of facial skin; Each cigarette brings 43 carcinogenic substances into your body.)

Move this crap to spray...you guys don't know from religion!

CLEAN UP, OR GET OUT! Too bad Vantage and Smith Rock aren't on Indian Reservations.

Au contraire, Sparky, I'm on top of the hill, in my prime and far more relevant than you'll ever appreciate. It's a sad, sad shame that you or anyone else around here can relate to this world: By the way, it's "past your prime", not "pass your prime"...get your insults straight. Pitons? Send them over...they make great windchimes.

Uh...I don't get it...are we supposed to enjoy the cute girls and/or pity the rap-spewing white fools? or what? Truly, pretty close to the bottom of the bucket of American culture...and that's sayin' somethin'! And while we're swimmin' in da cess pool, here's a few choice pic's of some sport-clime-bers:

And you're getting nothing!

Wake up, pal. "Clean climbing" barely exists at your local crag, nonetheless in the big mountains.

Stay out of the ditch! Here's the short version of my own experience in one of them things. Sometime in the mid-1980's, before there was a parking lot at the Peshastin Pinnacles, people would park along the orchard road and if it got really busy, they'd even park on the shoulder of Highway 2 and then walk. So I'm done fooling around at the Pinnacles and my car is parked on the highway, and I don't feel like walking around to it, so I decide to make a short-cut through the orchard to the highway...but then I encounter the irrigation ditch...It looks no deeper than about four feet and doesn't look like it's moving very fast and that I can just wade across it. So, I take my pack and throw it across the canal, and then I take off all my clothes, and throw them across the canal and get in....at which point, I'm immediately swept away in a fast moving current...the walls of the canal are all slimy and I can't crawl out...and away I go, bare-butt naked, heading for a place where it passes under the road where there's probably a strainer. I eventually was able to find a crack in the concrete sidewalls and hang-on with my fingers while my body was swept horizontally to the side...the crack extended out of the canal so I was able to "climb" out of there ....and then there was the nudist-walk for a ways to find my clothes and gear in the orchard...it was rough going because I was barefoot and there were a bunch of small broken sticks and such I had to walk through. Won't do that again....nope! And by the way, more than one dog has taken a journey down that Snow Creek Wall irrigation ditch...never to be seen again. Lesson? Stay out of the dang irrigation stuff! Drink a beer instead.

I'm in Norway andddddddddd, I'mmmm ddddddrrrrrruunk! The local beverages go well with the pickled herring and accordian music. aaaaahhhhoooo! - Raindawg

I´m in Sweden and I´M DRUNK!!!! You know all that wild stuff you heard about Sweden? It´s all true and then some!!! There´s a bar, in my hotel, that is completely made of ice. Even the drink glasses and the tables are made of ice. It´s called the Ice Bar. You have to make reservations and then they give you a fruity-lookin´ long down jacket to wear and some booties. The place is sponsored by Absolut Vodka and that´s pretty much all they serve in the ICE BAR... Did I mention....I´m dddddddrrrrunk! Hotcha!

You proud of that? Dude....if I didn't know you personally, I'd think you were a complete BOZO.

Foss? Absolutely, it's an easy cruise on the ridge-line after dropping down from the Unicorn area...it probably saves you some annoyance from side-stepping the heather over to Castle. There are a couple of ephemeral trails that can be found in the area that will make travel easier. Stevens is WAY out there...as I may have mentioned in a post above, getting to Unicorn is just the approach and from there you need to descend and then traverse quite a ways. To add it to a one-day traverse you'd need to start very early. I've done the traditional traverse in one day twice, bagging the summits of Unicorn, W. Unicorn, Foss, Castle, Pinnacle, Plummer, Denman, Lane, Wahpenayo, Chutla and Eagle. Once, I started from Paradise and it took me about 12 hours and the other time I started from the Bench/Snow Lake trailhead and it took me 10 1/2 hours...tagging all the summits, and running, if not fast-hiking, much of the time. Adding Stevens (and Boundary) to the show would require probably another three or four hours. Regarding Unicorn: There's a little gully and scramble, Class 3 or 4, on the south side of Unicorn (just around the corner from the west facing short vertical face that is often climbed) that can get you up to the top. If you're the nervous sort, a 50 ft. 8 or 9 mm rope and a sling might make you feel more comfortable coming back down the same way you came up. If you're coming from Unicorn and Foss, you'll encounter the Castle as you come down the ridge. If you go straight up along the ridgecrest, you can more or less scramble up the east face of Castle on it's right side. A short dihedral leads to a broad ledge and then there is about 15 feet of vertical climbing (5.4? or easier) leading to Castle's summit ridge, which can be followed on easy ledges to its true summit perhaps 50 feet away to the west. If you're careful, you can follow bushy ledges down the northwest side of Castle to the Pinnacle/Castle saddle. From there, you can climb the short east ridge of Pinnacle...spooky, kind of loose, class 4+, or traverse over to Pinnacle's easy-to-scramble south face. Check out this web-site with some GREAT photos...especially note the distance of Stevens from Unicorn! Tatoosh Traverse Have fun. I LOVE the Tatoosh Range! - Raindawg, self-annointed King of the Tatoosh Range.

Ya, man. It kinda of looks like "Rap Wall" up at Snoqualmie.

Nice try with the cool looking bridge. (if the bridge breaks, won't they all go sliding off the end?) Anyway, I have yet to see a via ferrata photo that exudes the same power and emotion of the favorite below. There's a little village below and the guy just crawled out of his bedroom window late in the morning, walked a block to the rungs, and set out to meet his buddies on the summit where they'll pass around a girlie magazine and swig down a couple of tall ones. This exuberant fellow seems to be saying: "Hey you! That's right, you! This is where the big fun is and I'm having some!"

No sir. I'm not talkin' 'bout Chutla. See the picture below for the southward running spur which runs far left out of the picture. Also, note the nice-lookin' crag ("separate peak") that sits between Wahpenayo and Lane. I've never climbed it but it's possibly technical. No sir. The peak to which I refer is the one pictured below in a photo I modified from Orygun Jim. Foss Peak is well along the ridge between these Unicorns and Castle.

This reminds me of an incident a few years ago on Castle Rock near Leavenworth. I was free-soloing a route and was sort of lost on small holds about 50 feet from the top and a bit nervous. All of a sudden, a big rock comes flying by my head followed by a couple of more. I did not appreciate this and as I approached the summit, I found some local dumb-donkey unearthing rocks with his clod-hopping boots, picking them up, and heaving them down directly above the classic beginner's route, Saber. Not only were there routes below, but an approach/descent trail as well. The rocks were actually crashing through tree branches with people down below. I rushed by the moron, telling him to cease and that he very well might have killed some people. When I got to the trail to see if anyone was affected, I found two students from my university, cowering in fear in the Saber arete. This was their first attempt at leading a climb and what they got was a near-fatal terrifying experience. The lesson?...yes, trundling is fun, but it has consequences and it's more prudent to resist the urge than frighten, maim or even kill.

Nice work, amigos. A couple of tips from someone who's been out on the traverse a lot: It's a bit easier if you start from Unicorn and head toward Eagle. The general trend is at least downhill. Although I've done the traverse from Unicorn to Eagle, bagging all of the peaks on the way (about 10 hours), I've done Stevens but once. Getting up to Unicorn is merely the approach and from there it is a long ways east to summit Stevens. It took me and pope something like half a day to get back there and return. I suppose if you were to technically do a complete traverse, you'd have to add Stevens and Boundary and it would make for a very long day indeed. (Plus there are is a spur and a major feature off of Wahpaneyo, though unnamed, which are perhaps also legitimate summits....plus a sub-peak off of Unicorn [to the right of the Unicorn saddle] which is likewise unnamed but we call it "West Unicorn".) To get back from Unicorn or Pinnacle Peak to Longmire, find the Wonderland trail near Reflection Lakes and head on down towards Narada Falls and beyond. It's only about six miles back to Longmire and it is a fun run or hike and sure beats hiking the long, long road. cheers,