pink

but...like...yeah...you didn't do the same second pitch... guess i should have left a trail of bread crumbs....

and the first pitch is better than the second had you led when it was a carpet of moss.... the first pitch is all natural gear.. kinda tricky to follow a natural line??? i'm confused

so basically the first two pitches are good you are very welcome... to bad the second pitch isn't as bold as it could be... sigh

ivan... ur a walking premature ejaculation...

red head,,,, step child??? Bernie is a TRAD climber...

That second pitch has become the bastard child of Beacon Rock...

Looks like most of IVANS TR's minus the burgandy and the insane ravings ....

just name it "KEVIN"

tolerance

u r a big one

what are you going to let me know? i'm confused?

no bolts to the left of stone soup and nothing to right for about 30 yards until you hit pink's route (starts in a small cave - has 2-3 bolts than thin n' skittery gear to the big tree) plenty of room to put in some ground up routes between those 2 climbs - gotta get me a drill and go rescue my hammer off the side of tower rock what does skittery gear mean! that's a good thing right

Sometimes you eat the BAR, and sometimes the BAR eat's you!

7 bolts, 2 fixed pin's and a Link Cam. Oh, and please refer to the correct name, named by the first ascensions in 2009: Leprechauns in Leotards. 5.11B they say. teacher IVAN drawing topo's on classroom dry erase boards recruiting the next generation of Beacon Mother Fuckin Rockers this topo is missing westbay, bachar, grossman, and the quack....

But Bill forgot to tell Jeff... and Obie never showed up with the twenty-seven 8 x 10 glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, sat down. we all sat motherfucking down

Except the lower part i'm guessing is the cherry part of the wall... damn decaying tooth glad ur up and posting Steve, ur a bad mother fucker... PROPS

99' His Daughter Heathers Birthday...

ain't nothing like a lovin spoonful of Democracy....

how much fixed gear is on the second pitch of smoked signals! i know i put some pins in on lead but we removed them as i was going to the ditch shortly after

What do you mean traverse? The variation on the right? Id talk to Jim about a fixed pin there,.. All this stuff was originally lead without fixed gear, pins were added later to give the route some direction and make it more appealing We did a little more exploring above the second pitch as well, also Jim and Marc Farrah did quite a bit of exploring up high, as well as some oldtimers... pre- internet.. pre- beatard... pre- closures... pre- steve johnson...pre- fontaine There is more potential up and around Smoke Signals, lets keep it BOLD AND IN THE WAY ... Also it would be cool to come up with a name for this area, maybe "Lower North Wall"... "Upper North Wall". There is also "the 420 Boulder Problem" that Larry Harpe and Chris Hill put up, it's just west down the Lower North Wall, and guess what tomorrow is I'd say most of this activity went on back in the summer on '99 Don't forget "The Forbidden Slab" (5.10B) which i think is a BOB route, to the right of that "False Profits" (10d) Chris Hill and Myself Bolted and did the FFA) which i was calling "Cry Baby" in previous post, Jim reminded me of that today... Props to IVAN for talking to the ranger and getting this face opened for you guys, even though it was retarded that it was closed to begin with. WTF, we're climbers, we eat falling snags for breakfast

This is the original line, little more flavor.... Not sure who cleaned out the right variation, it was nicer when it was more isolated... guess it's more stone to climb. You can see chalk on the holds if you zoom in... The first piece is a #1 rock and then climb up to a v-slot it think By taking the variation you are really missing out on the appetizer, preparing you for the next serving and then the main course taking the right variation and ur eating hot dogs at costco maybe come up with a name for that variation "skipping stones variation" is pretty fitting and ties in with IVANS name. Pretty steep climbing for it's grade, such positive holds and the gear is really pretty decent all the way up. The creative gear placements really adds to the route and at the same time very preserving, which i feel is the true spirit of Beacon Rock. Pre-Internet, Pre-Beatard...

So i guess Brad put that one in after i left Portland with Jim's permission... Not like Brad needs permission

Jim's church is Beacon I never even remember him going to church and wearing tin foil until they closed the rock for the birds