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I'll bitch about the blackberry bush on Cruising. On the final part up above it snagged me as I was passing by and wouldn't let go. Only one blackberry bush but it was tenacious, tried to knock me off as I was wrestling with it.

Joseph, you come off as one of the most "victimal" people I know.

actually Ogden is the new sports center of Utah Bill. With the completely rebuilt awesome resort from the Olympics of Snow Basin nearby, and the downtown center that showcases a climbing gym as the entrance to the mall, along with a Flowrider Surf Park and a outdoors ice climbing venue, the place is amazing and totally up and coming. A number of big sports companies have already relocated there. The area also hosts a extensive via ferratta area for non technical climbers, and there is a guidebook to the surrounding rock climbing areas. Move to Ogden, not to Salt Lake.

Road from Randle sucks. Better and faster to come in via I-84 or Hwy 14 on the Washington side and go up 141 to Trout Lake.

Anyone remember the old Honeymoon Silver Mine that was at the Lake Serene trailhead hidden back behind some trees? It was the coolest old mine to explore, something right out of the Hobbit, with deep shafts covered with boards with a hudred feet down, caved in spots from the ceilings, air shafts with ropes hanging from logs, many passage ways, just an amazing old mine. Quite dangerous. Does anyone know did they fill it in or cover the entrance as i could not find it when I was up there last year?

Holy snikes, thats rad.

You are damn right when I say that the complete closure as it now stands at Beacon, relegating the climbers to this very dangerous mossy chossy wet scary area and yet completely closing the traditional climbing crag in its entirety, two seperate faces, even that area past the SE corner that is nowhere near the nest, is not right and has increased the danger factor for the local climbers exponentially. Anyone wanting to practice trad climbing or multipitch or wall training, there are no safe routes available. and you Joseph advocate that discussion of this issue should not be addressed with the Park Service, and that any accidents that happen are just luck of the draw. The climbers deserve better.

Free for All must be a real anti-tedious super monkey kind of crack for you Joseph because just about everytime in the past 5+ years I have taken a newbie up it, you show up and climb right up their ass, even if there is no one else at Beacon and tons of routes abound. Oh wait, its 5.8 and its a crack, so it can't be any of those definitions you laid out, what is it then.....just plain bad manners and the inability to climb anything harder? I also noticed earlier in the thread you stated that I seem like a victimal play it safe kind of putz. You don't even know me, I find it fascinating how you would draw your conclusions. Wierd, kind of the same way you denigrate Yosemite but don't climb there.

Thats gonna leave a mark! Great video!

It doesn't miss the point. Multipitch climb all day, and then sport climb or boulder in the evening to wind down. Many of the older bolted climbs in the Valley can be pretty scary, and most of the newer ones are in obscure places like Schultz's Ridge base, etc. that were rarely visited before and the routes not do-able with traditional gear. The Valley is cutting edge and has a strong contingent that keeps it honest, finger on the pulse. A couple guys from Washington that don't climb there taking potshots and making snide comments, well its frankly embarrassing.

Perfecto.

Raindawg,have you EVER done Cookie Monster? Now or before or anytime? Or do you just like to jack off your mouth on the internet like Joseph instead of actually climbing?

Dawg, you are talking to THE MAN. Chris Mac has done more climbing and big walls then you have even thought about. If anybody can publish a book like this, its him. Yosemite is for everybody. Keep your negative attitude and BS to yourself. Chris Mac might be to nice a guy to kick your ass, but I can't vouch for everyone else.

Got to say, Paul does it right and nary a complaint except for those scary shunts at the top of "da Eagle and da Crow" in the chossy overhang. Scares me everytime I clip em but sure makes for a smooth ride back down in a rough world. Most of the stuff he puts up is to hard for me to climb anyway.

in answer to all your questions, look what happened to poor Jeff Smoot. Also you can't rename climbs unless you kill the first ascent climber and take all his gear, or they were aid and you freed the climb.

yeah, fixed it.

Who's the guy in the orange shirt on Davis Holland? For you guys who weren't able to get out, I probably shouldn't post this video of my weekend but hey what the hay....to much fun.

now thats a avalanche!

Hard to believe Al Gore would assault anybody. Sounds more like some scammer chick trying to get some "settlement" funds.

The location was on a Jim Anglin route, if that helps any. Maybe the snake was the ghost of Jim telling me not to grab the draw. I didn't, really I didn't!! Ok, I did grab it on the 11b, but only for the clip just for a second.....waaaaaa, I am so busted.....

Way to get it done and way to persevere.

Not like snipe hunting at all, the snake was really there. If I told you where I was, I'd have to have the snake kill ya...but GAKK, it was scary!

I was leading a climb today out east. I was almost to the anchors, and all of a sudden a rattlesnake dives by me to a small bush. It literally dove off a little ledge by the anchors and went past my head on the left. Then it sat there and stared me down. I threaded the anchors with shaking hands and then slowly lowered, there was a draw about 4 feet in front of it and i was determined not to loose the draw, so I stared back at the snake down and talked to it in a calming manner and got my draws back. The guy I was climbing with, Tim Wilson, he was determined to do the climb and got up under where the snake was and said "That is a really big snake, holy shit." he lowered from there, spooky. Be careful out there of flying snakes.

Looks fabulous!

Go hangdog Davis Holland, excellent training.