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Thats a little known crag in the photos. yeah, who was that masked man throwing down at the gym? Same place, same station next week. All you can handle. Thanks for the beta Kevbone, very cool stuff.

Heres a video link to a day at Beacon last season. Ivans youre in it somewhere, heres to those lazy crazy days of summer. Kevbone was Crushing it last night bouldering session, man I got to get fit like that to be ready for opening day!

Linda Lovelace

Right on!

Pretty casual to hitchhike out in that neck of the woods, so Banks lake and Vantage are within reach.

Are you talking centimeters? Adams is great training and can be really wild weather. I have been turned back a number of times by high winds at the false summit. If you are doing it with a bivy, don't stop at the early campsites, keep going to the Lunch Counter area and get a good place up there. Also, when you get to the false summit(Pikers Peak) make the effort to locate the old inscription by Arthur Jones up in the rocks to your left, its very cool. The ice filled cabin on the summit back in the day when it was inhabited, the residents would occasionally experience lighting balls which is not hard to imagine when you are there on a stormy day.

My dog Sam climbed Mt Adams and he didn't whimper and didn't even have booties or a ice ax. Adams is a good hike but I wouldn't call it a climb by the south spur route, no I would not. If you are coming out here to climb something, Adams is going to dissapoint you. Borrrrring.

You're from Everett?? Jeebus, I'm sorry. That means the odds are you are an overweight alcoholic dropout with a meth problem, bad acne and worse tattoos, and still driving a car from the 1970's with a "I love cops" bumper sticker, no drivers license, no insurance, and a girlfriend that is uglier, fatter and smells worse then you do. Don't ask me how I know, I just do.

Who has seen the Marmots dance?

I guess I'm confused. I didn't realize that when you guys said you were meateaters, you were referring to the fact you can suck your own dick. Suck it.

I don't eat animals because I respect all Life, thats me. Sorry Rob, you are a little off in your estimation dude. Have you killed allot? Is it easy for you to blow something away with a gun or to slit the throat of a creature? Look it in the eyes while you do it? I was a hunter since I was 8 years old, and I laid down my rifles and shotguns about 15 years ago. I got really really good at shooting, marksman awards since I was 13, and hunting and tracking became second nature and way to easy. Ate what I killed and all that. But I finally figured out it doesn't make you a man to kill something OR to eat meat. If you feel you need to, go for it. Everyone has to walk their own path, but unless you are killing the animal, you are just subsidizing the horrible factory farms that our processed meat industry has become and also have no idea what really goes into taking the life of another creature. Being a hunter/meateater doesn't the man make.

What a crock!

Was that Ivan in his younger days?

Sounds like allot of chickens and geese have to die so this place can stay in business. Probably more enviromentally friendly to sell pitons....just saying. Speaking of which, I think my new A3 route on the lower wall might get a name related to this whole fiasco...Hammertime or some such, because I'm just begging for some loud mouthed salespeon to try and kick my ass since da weather hasnt been to condusive to free climbing!

Larry, was that just in case they ran into sport climbers at Red Rocks?

20 years ago I was selling my fin manufacturing company to a company in Long Beach, CA. I had to go down and set up the manufacturing process and while I was there, I got to know the manager pretty well. he was very anti-gun, and also happened to live very near some rough areas of town in LA. We got into a discussion of what would happen if someone were to break into his house, and he was adament that he would not use a gun to hurt anyone, etc. it wasn't worth his posessions,etc. I raised the question what about the safety of his wife and child. He still did not feel he needed a gun. After I left, several months later, the Rodney King verdict happened, and the huge riots went down and they were looting and burning the area right near his house, killing people, etc. I get a phone call from him asking me if i could PLEASE Fedex him a handgun,rifle,anything. As he had determined that it was the only thing that would save him and his family if it came to it. I'm not a gun nut, but I'm also a realist, and if the other guy has a gun, you better also. It took the actually seeing it in person for him to be convinced.

A couple feet of new snow up there, light and powdery.

Learn to wait tables and ride a bike allot and you can cruise thru life pretty casually and for not much.

now thats funny. Not!

I got sketched Kevbone 1) it was the first time using my Silent Partner. 2) it was first time climbing the route, I thought it was Broadway but it was YW. 3) so I kept forgetting about untieing and retieing my backup knot every 20 feet and I would be climbing up and hit the end of the rope and be in a bad place but have to reach down and untie and drop the knot, sketchy! So it was a learning experience. Doing Crusing went much easier. I have since learned I don't really need backup knots so much with a silent partner. The thing always locks off, just make sure to take the fall and not try to slow yourself down.

hmmm, does the chossy mossy NW face of Beacon resemble at all the above mentioned areas Joseph? If Ivan could put a route up on the east side of the Captain that used such a minimum amount of hardware, he'd be a hero. but the fact remains that once again you like to compare apples to oranges. I have no problem with bringing it over to Supertopo, all you can handle.

Another one of your typical responses Joe. Evasively sidestepping the issues and throwing up a smokescreen of bullshit. I'm pretty amazed at how you know so much about Yosemite and Index ethics and climbs without ever climbing there. Sorry, what you say is inaccurate and untrue.

Joe, you could go to Yosemite or the upper Town Wall and put up a new route like this and it would be applauded. There is nothing wrong with C2+ climbing. Of course Ivan could pull the fixed pieces and then it would be A2+, whats your preference? We know what your preference is, and that is that no one climb at Beacon but you, but sorry, its not your personal arena. and yes hauling, hauling bivy gear, I challenge you to go out and do this climb in a day. Lets see it, money where your mouth is. I'm not saying it can't or won't be done soon enough especially in the long days of summer, but its not a gimme. Maybe if you actually climbed the route your opinion might carry some weight since you would be somewhat educated on what you are discussing.

When fifty fixed pro placements are required for your adventure - no, that's not what it's about. When it is a 7 pitch route that requires bolt anchors for belays and hauling, and Ivan made the call to leave pins and peckerheads insitu instead of beating out the rock, it is what its all about.