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Who raps Young Warriors? Never seen anyone rap it except some chick who had dropped her phone from top of the 2nd pitch, and if they do, isn't the bolt hangers good enough for the rare time that they do? Seems wierd to me to be chopping bolts all over Beacon, but then have colored webbing setups at anchor points rarely used for rapping. Not trying to be nagative, but just curious what the reason is? I am ready to be enlightened...

I remember the Walker Valley boulders as a pretty mossy place. Huge boulders but it seems like the landings there would be gnarly if you were bouldering as you would fall onto other rocks. We just rope climbed. Dallas Kloke posts on here and he wrote the guide to the place. Myself, I don't know anything about Equinox rock.

Have you done the regular route up Garfield, Raindawg? The hazardous enigma? or just blowing smoke?

Good photo, thank you.

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Right on, Riverside looks great! I am pretty sure thats the climb Rick said was Diagonal, as it had a small roof that I saw that appears to be the same one in the photos. It is kind of confusing up there...

Wow

Was that you hanging on the skyline over near Young Warriors on Friday Joseph with some sort of bag under you? me and Rick ran up to take a gander at the 10b Ivan had cleaned, but the one I thought it was Rick said was Diagonal Desperation or somesuch so still not sure which climb it was.

I'm sure, unless I'm blind... The one that is there is the one that you clip right before the crux, and then I thought the other one was higher up but can't remember exactly where it was, I just remember there were 2.

I was talking about the 3rd pitch near the top where you angle up right and there is a couple crimpy technical moves and there used to be 2 old pins there to protect it and now there is 1. No evidence the other was ever there. Some one had to have pulled it.

Did there not used to be 2 pins at the crux of Young Warriors? Now just one. I was sure there was 2 last Fall. Way to go Ivan and Dave firing up Dods/Dastardly yesterday, those boys were out getting burly, getting er done!

You feel like you got something done after Chimney Rock. Way to rock it, great TR!

I was referring to this sweeping generalization.

does "the man" wear Lycra becaUSE i saw some dude....he said he was The man but I question it....

rumr, I don't think thats exactly true....

As i was coming down the trail last night, there was a guy headed up the trail with a rope and not much else? Was he a "rapper"? Pitch 3 seemed like it could use a good brushing. The belay ledges at the base of pitches 2 and 3 are filthy, and also have a number of rocks that need to be chucked. Pitch 2 was clean, but pitch 1 needed cleaning. Pitch 3 why could you not rap to the pins, and then rap again down from them? Need to leave a sling is all... also to get to the top of 3, seems like from the base of the SE corner upper ramp pitch it is a easy scurry over to the anchors I asked about earlier near the top of YW pitch 4 on the left,you could scramble to them and rap down from there to the top of 3, I don't know why not?

and maybe some jamming skills....

Now thats a climb! Nice job you guys!

Well, not to stand up for Joseph, but it is a little unnerving in that area up there. If they put the anchors in the fresh rock scar it does make sense, as if you place gear right in that stuff, who is to say its not going to leverage those boulders right above you as they are all just hanging there now, held up by not much. I did not notice any anchors there when i cruised by but didn't really look for them I am curious though about a set of bolt anchors on the 4th pitch of Young Warriors that is off to the left somewhat near the top of the pitch. They have beefy homemade hangers on them, what route are they for? Also, probably been asked before but that 2nd bolt on the 2nd pitch of YW, has it ever been considered to relocate it up a little up and right so that the rope runs a little better. If you don't sling that bolt it makes the rope do a 90 degree corner, so i always sling it but just thinking out loud....

Wow, I would not be surprised if the top part of the final pitch of Young Warriors falls off someday as the rockfall originated right below it and there is a healthy scar there now of some size. Makes you think climbing up thru those rocks right above it what is keeping them in place now.

Roger thajt.

Ivan, will be at Beacon tomorrow, afternoon thru eve. I'll keep a eye out for you, or will swing by Tree Ledge on our second circuit and see if you are there and take a run on Riverside.

Riverside sounds like a cool climb, I'd do it. So none of the bolts or fixed gear on YW got the chop from the rock fall? Seems like it had to have taken something out with all that stuff coming down...

Bolt Love. How about someone replacing the 2 old bolts on Second Wind so it can be climbed again..

Plaidman has gotten faster lately. the guy was firing up some 5.10s at Klinger in short order a few weeks back.