Craig Pope

32 is great if you are with one other buddy who just wants to climb hard, otherwise if you are with climbers of different abilities. . .38. nevermind wall at 38 is fun fun fun. lots of great 11's, and a couple 12's wourth doing. check out Negatheron. . .first half rocks!

very true. . .some of the best trad routes are above 5.10. there are only a couple under worth doing, ei. Party in your Pants. . .some fun stemming. the frequency of rock fall is dependant on where you are climbing. some of the lower walls are directly below cayote wall and tilted pillars. . .

would gibralter wall be up after this weekend?? or climbable/?

nope, but there will be on monday, gotta go climbing I just put some more photos up, but the links are funcky got to work out some bugs. http://www.verticalpope.com/trips_06.html also, those of you who live in or love North Idaho. . .check out http://www.nor-id.com

K, the prev/next thing is a good idea. I like the verdana font, but I can see that I couldbetter the contrast of the text vs. the background. oh, and could anyone think of another link that they would like to see on a climbing website??

it is still under construction, so you got to go to trips, then /07 and I want some input on the navigation of the site. and other things i could add to make it more interesting.

thanks. . .know who you talk to go correctly go about accessing the land for future reference??? did Lords mention anything about that???

Hey, so I tried out myspace, tried out facebook, tried the emails with fouty pictures that everyone eventually got pissed off about. . .so I just made my own friggin' web site. http://www.verticalpope.com won't be here much more, unless you know where any ice is still standing in the lower 48 Yeeha. CRAIG POPE

Oh wait, maybe cause been there done that, why not try something else???

Well, perhaps I am on the wrong forum, should one read between the lines. . . I should be on the 'looking for ice climbing buddy' I'll take my bubble some place else.

It's bolted, let's go do it anyone!!!!!

would someone email me with some detailed beta on how to get there/?? cjrpope@hotmail.com

Oh my God!!! Who here from the palouse wants to get together and climb this?? I have all the time in the world, and no obligation to stay alive. . .lol

I would love to. I wont have a working phone till the 17th, but if you get hold of me on my email, then I would love to get together. That wold be something a lot of people would appreciate. I have some locations in mind too.

you might if you got on it, I don't know.

Yeah, wear your brown pants, and it already partially fell down.

I would really like to know who bolted 'rotten crack' at granite, and why they did such a horrible job. until you pull the crux, you will deck off the first three bolts, not to mention the first is completely un-needed, considering I can clip it from the ground. It is the easiest bolted climb there, and the people who are going to be climbing it may not have the discernment not to. that one 5.9 move could cost someone both legs. Also, who the f*** chopped the bols on steriods to Heaven??? You could lead it trad but it would be a dangerous one as well.

good pointe, Kurt, I've was born here, and climbed Granite till there was nothing there I couldn't climb. So the next option was Drytooling, however, I was not thinking, and the other locals have a problem, I can def. find someplace else to go.

well, the M rating is more of an ecucated guess than anything. Honestly, I have not done that much Mixed, there were about three hard 10.c/d moves before I had to pull 2 Figure 4's, (someone else might not have to, but I am ot that powerful a climber). I've dry tooled a couple 11's and a 12c at granite pointe on the snake river, and thr dry tooling out of the cave on Death by Chocolate was a little easier. that was all I had to draw from. It is going to be getting back to the 20 degree mark in acouple of days, and I am looking for a couple people to repeat it with/without me, and let me know what they think.

the mixed is climbing out of the cave above the top rope I set up/ you just have to pull a couple of inverted moves on rock, and pull out of it on the hanging icicle just to the right of the tope rope.

oh yeah. thanks, catbirdseat. Just excited to be doing this on ice now. Awesome season for the northwest, eh??

got a couple more photos of the repeat, just to know I wasn't a farse. . .but I am looking for someone to get on it soon, (before it falls off), and collaborate about the grading - primarily pulling the little cave before topping out. http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/plab/showphoto.php?photo=24688&cat=505 Just curious, how do I put the photos directly in the post, not just the link??

http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/plab/showphoto.php?photo=24564&cat=505

so I pulled the second ascent on this thing with Lee Neer today... It was so much warmer. Grrr. Wet as hell, couldn't even get into the Mixed part of the climb, or the hanging ice that was so sweet yesterday. Oh well. perhaps it will form again in a nother life.