ColinB

Woah, woah, woah. This is the internets, don't get carried away.

You could just bike out there like I'm gonna do. RB sketchy high schoolers be warned, I have sharp pointy things this time around. See you folks out there tonight!

How late are you gonna stick around for tomorrow?

Eastern Oregon ice TRs: http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=426628 http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=518874

It's beer-thirty already?

This is from Wayne's site: When ever the new guidebook is released, there are topos and high res photos of the face for your reading pleasure. Do post up here conditions that you find and any photos you get; info is scarce and greatly appreciated.

I'll second the Bozeman Ice Fest as a great way to get your feet wet. For an hour more driving you can end up in the Canadian Rockies, where instead of 30 m routes you get 300 m routes of all grades.

We can gladly deliver Graham MCing in his wall creeper sporting the jihad beard... for the appropriately sized donation of course Bring your dollar bills! We're raising money! Are you saying that we get to stuff the dollar bills into his SuperSnuggie?

Beer and pointy metal things! Hell yeah! Thanks for organizing this beast again, John.

Yeah, but I hear that it takes 10 years for it to come into condition.

I'm a big fan of the Mammut Phoenix half ropes. The dry treatment actually works well and they're just thick enough to inspire some confidence in them. Considering switching to single+tag line for mixed stuff specifically because it cuts down on tomfoolery and slop in the system a lot. Used that set up with the Mammut Serenity alpine cragging on Illumination Rock and liked it quite a bit.

Its almost winter in the Canadian Rockies. Sharpen your ice tools and get driving.

I'll second Strobach. It has some good stuff that comes in regularly. The approach takes about 2 hours and isn't that bad (hardly any bushwhacking). Everything from WI3 to 5+/6, mostly single pitch stuff.

Details?

Same drug bust? Bears protecting the drugz

More importantly, when is the summit espresso stand opening?

Yeah but these people are from a fictional book. You might as well quote characters from Lord of the rings. Does that make the Egyptians the orcs?

Source?

If you can move to Seattle/Leavenworth/E-burg/Everett, there's no reason to move to Portland. Much better climbing up north and better access. The secret to good Portland climbing is that the drive to Washington isn't that bad. Even Beacon is in Washington...

Trip: Colchuck Balanced Rock - Scarface (III, 5.10+) Date: 8/15/2010 Trip Report: On Sunday, Nate F. and I climbed up the highly visible rock scar on CBR. We believe that we climbed a new route several hundred feet to the right of the old NW Buttress line. However, we might have connected with that terrain higher up for the last couple moderate pitches. If the NW Buttress did indeed go straight through the rock scar , we probably still climbed new terrain as what rock was there is now hanging out in the meadow 1000 ft below. The 2nd pitch was the highlight of the route for me with a sustained steep handcrack and awesome exposure. The rock scar was mostly clean with some loose blocks on the ledges still from the rock fall. Nate on the 3rd pitch. Slab on the 4th pitch. Topo of the route. Stewart's Photo with the route added. Gear Notes: RPs, 2x #2 TCU - #3 BD, 1x #00 TCU & #4 BD Approach Notes: 'schwhack.

The new Petzl Quarks are really really nice. Sliding trigger lets you plunge away and match on more vertical stuff. A lot of hard alpine routes got put up on the old quarks and they still climb the moderate stuff well. Here's a link: http://petzl.com/us/outdoor/verticality/ice-axes/ice-climbing-tools/quark

I second going up to Anthony Lakes. Lots of fun mellow multi-pitch granite. Some of it is a bit loose, but there's fun to be had.

I'm going to be in Leavenworth from June 14th till July 9th with weekends and evenings free to climb. I'd love to hook up with some locals for evening climbing sessions and weekend alpine climbing. I lead 5.9/low .10s, got a rack/rope(s)/vehicle/social skills/beer drinking abilities, etc. Shoot me a PM or email at colin.bohannan(at)gmail(dot)com if this sounds like a match.

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I second fenderfour on that one. Humphumphump. Plus when I climbed it, my partner found someone else's older #4 lying at the bottom of the bearhug pitch which was kickass considering our rack only went to #3...