irregularpanda

Do it! Be prepared to lose money for the first year or 3, but it's all in the start. This can be very valuable for a community. Here's the deal: soccer moms bring birthday parties to the gym, charge them more for 2 hours. Also, family memberships work too, lotsa dough And, these college kid arguments, I went to evergreen (olympia WA, it's a tiny town) which also has a free gym for the college. The gym downtown had plenty of business from the college kids. These kids are loaded, and they will be for a long time. GIVE US A GYM.

Please try to keep this place quiet on RC.com. Just so you know. I plan on coming back to washington in a couple years. Just so all you guys know, Washington is about the only place on the west coast I've ever climbed that DOESN'T have lines at all the climbs. Let's just try to keep these places safe, well bolted, and quiet. When you encounter someone on the internet who's asking about NW climbing. Point them to the trade routes like the beckey route, or outerspace, but I usually tell them that there are 2 seasons in Washington: rainy, and less rain. The climbing sucks, its chossy, etc etc.

All my epics were on the N ridge. Attempt #1, hiking from teanaway @ 11pm, and I went to work that morning @ 4:30 am! We reached the split in the trail, and I said to Kyle "lets go to the right" he said, " no it's this way" When the sun finally rose, we were on the backside of mt ingalls (WTF?) and I was falling asleep while walking. Literally. We took a nap, and then climbed the S face of ingalls instead. 2nd attempt.....failure 3rd attempt, I forgot my sleeping bag..... 4th attempt (4 people, my buddy forgot his harness, WTF), so 2 of us went on to traverse the glacier just before the sun set. We took too much time on the ridge as we weren't comfortable with simul-climbing yet. Got scared at the bottom of the gendarme. Rappelled to the gully. Oh did I mention we were climbing with brand new twin ropes; being new, they were kinked to all hell. (Naughty ropes). So just unkinking the ropes took 45 minutes to set up the rappel. WTF!!!!! Innyhoo, that gully sucks balls. Staying on the ridge would have been smarter, and there is a bivy spot on the top of the gendarme. 5th attempt: same partner as #4, we approached from the N and did the complee ridge. We climbed faster, more confidently, and did the gendarme. AWESOME! The only hitches in the girdle were these: my bladder scraped against the wall on the 3rd pitch, and I dumped all my water (like a full gallon) at the bottom of the climb. I was very dehydrated. The other screw up was that I stumbled on the hellish descent, and broke a finger. No biggie, it just sucked. After that, we hitched 4 miraculous rides all the way back to the mt. stuart trailhead. So freaking amazing. For future reference, don't tell distastefull jokes to people giving you a ride. (what's the difference between a hooker and an onion?) 6th attempt. Climbed it with my girlfriend. Standard route, crossed the glacier, climbed the gendarme (no way am I ever going in that stupid gully ever again!) and then froze my balls off while we slept on the summit.

could I have your e-mail address please. I can definitely pay for shipping etc. -Trevor

thanks man, I love the views up there. How was the beckey route?

is it a nondescript cobra walkie talkie? It could be mine.

On 8-06 (sunday) I found a mini first aid kit with a credit card and some cash (and car keys, ouch) on top of North Early Winters Spire @ washington Pass. If they're yours, lemme know and if they're yours you would know the name on the credit card...... This was an odd one, I really wasn't expecting to find a credit card on a summit.