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Damnit, you guys beat us to it!!!

Hmmm, How were the anchors? I wonder if you did "Granite Jihad".

Trip: Static Point - Online to The Right Line Date: 5/26/2008 Trip Report: After a great day at Index on Saturday, my partner Jessie and I decided to climb Online at Static Point on Memorial Day. We invited our new friend Bill who brought his trooper of a daughter as a partner. The road is gated at Olney Pass so you must now walk about 4 miles to the rock. There was intermitant snow and gravel on the road. Once we reached the normal parking area the trail in was a bushwack through the snow all the way to the culvert and broad stream. The trail uphill was relatively snow free (avi debris in the woods below the left side of the rock). The Approach took over 3 hours due to the snow and schwacking. Jessie and I hopped onto "The Right Line" thinking it was "Online" which I realized upon reaching the bent hanger on the first pitch. We got back Online and climbed it to just Below the crux. After assessing the crux along with my embarrassing slab climbing skills, I chose to traverse back onto "The Right Line" and finish at a manky anchor (anyone want to retrobolt this route sometime? I'll help!). We finished the route and rapped down "Online". Everyone had a great day in a beautiful setting! A little shout out to Joe and James who climbed "Lost Charms". Leaving the cars. Stream crossing. The trail uphill. Jessie Leaving "The Right Line" for "Onlne". (J's first time on halfs) Top of 3rd pitch. Bill atop the 3rd pitch. Jessie leading pitch 4. Rapping past the crux. Ugh, a mile and a half of this. Gear Notes: -First and foremost....A CHAINSAW!! -Slings. -Small rack to 1". -We used 70m half ropes, but a standard 60m and a tagline would work great. Approach Notes: Give the approach another month before the snow is gone. Look for large cougar tracks.

CFF, If you want to know the conditions at Index, ask me, I can see it from my back window. It has been raining up there all day. Probably gonna be wet up there on Saturday from all the rain it's had all week.

I'll probably be there, sounds like it could be fun?!

I'll second that ph. Again, Don't be a hippy, go to MSU instead! I just graduated with a degree in ripping pow with a minor in ice climbing.

My climbing heros are those who put other more important things in the fore of their life. I used to have big name heros like all of you but then I realized they were all dead (some leaving their family behind). Greg Carocciolo (general manager of Northern Lights Trading Co) would be my climbing hero because he could be a world class climber but chose to be a little more responsible. He understands the need to be there and provide for his family. However, he manages to crank rediculously hard and get out and play very hard whenever he can. He is a phenominal human being and is a climber that all should look up to! But hooray for all those who make the pages of Alpinist and the AAJ every year. Climbers who I don't like = Bean Bowers

lol.....No, we were the idots who dropped the cam while falling off the third pitch of GM while your party was climbing Heart of the Country. You basically told us that it would be safer wait a bit until the area was less crowded to climb and it's wiser to avoid crowded climbs altogether. There were about five parties on the route. We always knew this but it wasn't until you brought this up that we really understood. We just don't climb on crowded routes anymore because we don't want to be endangered or endanger other climbers. Thanks again!

I agree with this 100%! The first and only time I have been fortunate enough to meet mattp was when he was giving my partner and I some very friendly advice while we were causing a dangerous clusterfuck on a crowded route at Index. This happened about 3 years ago. We were both fairly experienced needed to put our ego's aside. We definitely took his advice and made some changes on how we conducted ourselves at popular crags. Thank you MattP!

The trip report index has tons of beta on these peaks. It's probably better for you to figure it out on your own than listen to all of us argue about which beta is right/wrong.

Don't Be a hippy, go to MSU instead. You'll be so close to sick ice climbing in Hyalite.

Fully

TGR is definitely a less "sophisticated" site than CC.

The solar panel is probably for a snow-tell site?

That's the most snow I have ever seen there! unreal.

Word!

Looks great Graham. I'm writing my copy right now. Seriously, this place is freeking AMAZING and we need to save it!!!!

Good work anyway Sky! I gotta ski that someday.

I think the Lotus Flower Tower is my choice. Got a trip planned there with 2 friends for summer 2009!

OK Hugh, I see where you're coming from. I think in terms of ski mountaineering and touring for faceshots. My setup is used strictly in the backcountry with occasional sidetours. I won't argue with you about the great features that the Fritschi has, its a great binding; I used to have Fritschis. However, My experience in the shop, and the feedback from customers leads me to believe that Dynafit is a more reliable binding granted you're not hucking cliffs on them or any other binding. I guess the only way to settle this is to have a debate for the sales reps for each binding to duke it out (like we'll ever see that)!

Soooo, it's Sunday now, how'd the TC go?

Yeah, I would be interested in the % as well. What kind of breakage issues?

jacket sold

At the local backcountry shop I just quit working at, we saw tons of Naxo and Fritschis come back for warranty compared to the small number of Dynafit. Our shop actually quit carrying Naxo because of all the warranties. This is in Bozeman where about half of the people who are serious about backcountry skiing use Dynafit. My neighbor fell off a 100' cliff in crap conditions on Gorra Blanca only cracking his heel piece. I'm not saying that Dynafit is indestructable, but it does have less moving parts and has far less plastic than others. From my past experience and education on this subject why would I choose another binding? Whats your story?

not as easily as that other crap out there.