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Take it easy on your body and hands when you are younger, as when you get older you will very much appreciate it and still be able to climb. Some things you do in your youth, you think they make you tough, but they end up messing you up permenantly, and you don't realize it until much later when no circulation or can't bend your fingers or have arthritis or your dick falls off.

Whats not to like about Beacon? Strong winds, loose rock, detached columns, strange pins, trains beneath your feet, tourists trundling above your head, chopped bolts, Rangers and raptors, moss and lichen, chossy ledges, Seasonal closures, permit system to place fixed gear, holy shitttttttttttttttttttttttt but the worse thing of all......Joe Healy passing you while he's roped soloing!!!!! Thats not right!

Funnest climbing beer drinking spot for me is UW climbing rock on a warm summer evening. Gettin a workout and doing some gravel splatdowns with your buddies while having a cold one.

hey Joseph, I've always been of the atitude that if you're going to drink martinis you might as well throw away the glass, olive,rope, gear,and lime twist and drink it straight out of the bottle solo climbing.

chalk sack do you mean? I myself like a bolt at my knees, and a hot babe there also, but that doesn't mean thats what happens all the time. I'll run it out with the best of them, but have to admit being way out on marginal gear on difficult terrain is not really that fun now, is it?

How about Mark Hudon just sent the Nose in 15 1/2 hours, oldest guy to do Nose In A Day (NIAD) at 54. I think there are allot of strong older American climbers, but you got to have the mullah and the drive BOTH to make it happen.

and maybe because its really 5.9 instead of 5.7..... I mean really now....

Best island song and island dude....RIP IZ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ltAGuuru7Q

Looks like this week's weather might allow a few Beacon sessions. Skied Mt Hood Meadows today and since it was closed yesterday due to extreme storm, it was epic conditions this morning in 2 feet of new, and in the sunshine all day. At 2:30 they opened the upper chair Cascade, and got to plunder the upper part of the mountain, sweet pow. It was warming up there, so I think this week will put a heavy crust up on Hood, and it it chills back up next weekend, could be good winter ascent conditions. Bring it on Ben, anytime!

Whoa, that last photo really scares me. Had a tent all pitched and then.....

you guys must drink allot stronger coffee then I do. Way to get out there in a raging storm. Those pictures make me dizzy...

Makes you wish you had dropped a little coin and put a little GPS monitor in your rig in some hidden place. You could show up on the guys doorstep. I got my van stolen several years ago right before my eyes. they saw me coming, and the guy sped away as I got my hand on the door.

Who's da dog?

What route is the guy on the left coming off of?

a little Gorge chimney climbing

Guess I will stop by and pick one of those up Edelreid ropes. The green New England rope in the photo above, I have the exact one and I love it. Wears well, keeps it stiffness and handling over time, and was pretty cheap when I got in.

Any of the Beacon crew want to drive on out to Hood river and we'll take you guys cragging out here? When its raining at Beacon many times, it will be sunshining out east here.

Red Rocking, way to go get it guys!

Best technical finger splitter cracks in the Gorge by far near Lyle on semi remote crag. Hwy. 35 has some fabulous crack climbs just developed that rivals anything at Beacon. But if you are referring to andesite crags and the general choss, then I agree with you Joseph!

I guess I should qualify my photos are places you climb if you live in the Gorge. Beacon qualifies by my reckoning. Ozone, Horsethief, Crow Butte, Hwy 44 areas and everything in between.

Great resolution on that video. How many people go to Smith and walk under this wall and then keep on trucking past it, quaking in their boots. I have looked at it and looked at it, but always thought something like this would happen, son of a ..... Good for you guys going after it!

Bulo, Area 51, places like that.

Hey!! Thats my video. Made it for my biking/climbing buddies a couple years ago, I know its a little lame but was my first time using a Silent Partner device, so I thought I would get on something 5.6 so mistakenly did the first pitch of Young Warriors which I had never done, thought I was on Broadway. Anyway, I got it down now. The 2nd climb in the video is Crusing It which I had done before several times, but again the back up knot kept catching me unaware.