Braydon

I haven't been climbing long enough to really have any but I know there has to be some funny ones out there.

But washington has the volcanoes!

Alright so were planning an ascent on the weekend of the 23rd. Anyone else interested?

Anyone been up there lately and know the conditions?

Anyone want to get on the north ridge anytime soon? I'm open anytime up to the 13th and from the 20th onward. I'm open to other ice routes as well (kautz glacier, etc.). PM me.

before we go or with us?

sounds kinda like how i learned how to climb...study it, practice it, study it some more, have someone evaluate it, and the best part - go out in the mountains and do it!

I want to climb Ultimate Everything but don't want to climb a deathwish route on the Apron. Are there any routes on it without serious runouts?

What are some 5.9 and under routes with bolted belays at Darrington?

Thanks for the advice Matt. I understand your point but ,for me at least, climbs with bolted belays seem to go faster and offer easier (and cheaper) retreat if something should go wrong. He's competent at gear placements but I think I should spend a little more time with him about building and equalizing multi-directional gear anchors. With bolted belays you just pull out your Quad and start belaying.

I have a friend who is just getting into trad leading and I am looking for some good climbs for us to start swapping leads on. Bolted belays are great because they can take off some of the stress for a beggining trad leader. Any ideas? I know that Squamish has some good ones on the Apron but most of those routes can be pretty runout at times. I heard Ultimate Everything is fun. What about Darrington? I haven't been to Darrington yet so I don't really know much about the climbing there. No mind boggling runouts though please.

wow, especially at 1am, route finding across the cowlitz would be an adventure.

i was climbing at croc in neverland at exit 38 yesterday and had some rockfall. i was climbing one of the routes and i grabbed a hold the size of a football the let go on me. i was holding it between my stomach and the wall and didn't really know what to do my belayer was a above me and i was only about 20ft off the ground so i made sure no one was around and let it got. there was really no where else to put it. you have to be careful in neverland. it's a fairly new area and still needs some more cleaning.

you probably already know this but you'll definatly have some problems navigating the crevasses...

Anybody been up or around there lately? Are the shrunds passable this time of year? What about that waterfall? How much ice should we expect this time of year (how many ice screws)? thanks!

whats the Priest-Coupe route? Any cc trip reports on it?

are there any alpine ice routes around chiliwack out this time of year? like matier...whats the ice route on that btw?

I need a set of curved shaft ice tools. I'll need them mostly for alpine but some water ice. Nothing harder than WI4. Let me know if you've got some. I can get a brand new set of BD Vipers on Mountaingear.com for 300. Let me know if you have a better deal on petzls or BDs.

Also I could carpool up there if you need a ride from seattle area or somewhere along the way to split gas.

Marc Leclerc and I will be doing some climbing from the 13th-19th. Depending on the state of the pocket glacier we may give the NE buttress of slesse another go. If not we have a few backup plans. Since these are grade lV/V routes our parents don't want two fifteen yearolds climbing them by ourselves. We are looking for another team of two if anyone is interested just for that extra help if something goes wrong. pm us if interested

scree surfing...so thats what was causing all the rockfall!

stuart's cascadian couloir is a pretty fun one. hood's south side (calling it technical or not depends on your comfort level on snow). around the end of the season for that one though.

Thanks a lot guys. Are there any long sport climbs around us (other than IB)? It would take some pressure off of me than leading pitch after pitch of trad and maybe I could let him try out the sharp end. Maybe after he gets down the multipitch system...

Well it looks like we can go to Squamish after all. What are your favorite moderate, long climbs?

I took him out for a long weekend to get down the basics just a few days ago. It was him first time outdoors so he has not lead trad yet and isn't too familiar with anchor building and leading trad.