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See the following article by Terry Richards in the Oregonian. Also a similar article in the Columbian. http://blog.oregonlive.com/terryrichard/2009/03/washington_ponders_closing_som.html

Little Finger? or Index Finger? Poplar is in the Background.

Your third photo down shows why no one should try climbing the West Face, Central Pillar, or King Rat as marked in Oregon High. The reddish rock in the left side of your image shows where parts or all of those routes USE to be. A huge piece of rock came off in the late 1990s and what is left can hardly be called rock. I thought the word had gotten around to avoid those lines. Anyone thinking of trying them should stop thinking about them right now. Read the thread on the deaths of two climbers in 2004 starting with #379129 - 07/31/04.