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Thanks for all the kind words everyone, hopefully we'll run into you all out at the crags sometime.

Peter, I was wondering about the anchors on top of the Narrow Arrow itself not the east ledges ones you speak of.

On the 23nd of January my wife and I had to make a trip to Seattle so she could go for chemo at the cancer center. Since the weather had been clear for several days and we had deluxe accommodations at the Marriot for the evening we decided to go to Index on the 22nd for a day of climbing. Since we’re not planning anything too aggressive I take a really spartain rack and we start with The Great Northern Slab via the hand crack above the railroad bolts. After topping out on the slab we wander on over to the terrace hangout a while then throw a rope on Breakfast of Champions and I run a bunch of top rope laps on it. Aside from being longer could there be a better hand crack? Peggy at the Rodgers Corner tree After rapping from the tree at the top of Rodgers Corner I run a few laps on it taking the 10c start. Sugar Bear So there you have it no gruesome chilling headpoint leads just two old timers having a great day on the rocks. The next day I went back up and did some brushing up by Quarry Crack while Peggy went for her treatments. before after On an unrelated note are those anchors atop the Narrow Arrow still lousy or have they been upgraded? view from a short way up Narrow Arrow standard route

Cheamclimber, This is a shot taken in June from Mt Larrabee. Looks to be plenty of snow.

I ran into the trail crew forman up at Olympic NP. sez that North Fork Quinault is nearly blown flat from junction up to the ranger station, the park is actually gonna sell some logs. Graves creek road is washed out and will have to go thru NEPA to appease the tribe before it gets fixed, possibly closed for the season. I'd heard from some friends who live down at Quinault that the forest behind the mercantile to the forest service nature trail got heavily hit as well.

Olympic forums kinda dead lately, here's some stuff to entice some of you would be peak baggers. Mt.Pershing Upper Royal Basin Mt Mystery and Deception Basin Dusk on the Snowdome

Eric when they were filming The Hunted it was the dead of winter.I was putting up One Shot Deal at the time, and the crew treated me like royalty they would feed me fancy breakfasts shuttle me down to the dam and give me a lift back out when I was done. Also a couple of props guys would come over and hang at the base of the wall to stay dry torching bowlfull after bowlfull of good weed.

Hey Peter, I live about 10 minutes away from the Elwha and things are looking really wet right now. The routes One shot deal, Jason's route and San Berdino will dry out after 2 days of no or little rain. The rest of the wall is plagued by some persistant seepage that doesn't reliably dry till early April. After that most lines stay dry in any weather. Drop me a line when you're thinking of coming out and I'll climb with ya.