McGinnis

Great info and articles, hadn't thought of some of these things yet. Some of these guys/gals are crazy!

I ate a lot of spam when I lived in Alaska. Goes well with pilot bread!

Here's the link to the Portland company if anyone is interested. http://theflystyle.com/

Watch 00:31-00:52. Seems that trees aren't a huge issue, fly over them or through them! Just got off the phone with Daniel at Flystyle. They sell an assortment of speed flying and paragliding equipment. Apparently just got some special winch in where they can tow you up to a mile high. Hopefully the weather clears up next weekend, they're going to take me out for my first lesson!! They have a group rate if there aren't some more people who want to give it a try with me. $175/day with the group rate and if you buy a wing system after level one they discount the lesson off of the price. I think my girlfriend might disagree on the awesomeness of this

So it doesn't sound like anyone else has done this? These aren't actually paragliders. They're speed flying wings. Feck/G-Spotter- These speed wing systems are much, smaller ranging from 18 to 8 sq meters. So yes, with harness and wing they weight around 2 kilos. http://www.speed-flying.com/gin-yak Ivan-It's not BASE jumping, from the videos I've seen most of them run off. I'll probably call these guys tomorrow and see what they have. This sounds like too much fun to pass.

I'm all about making the best out of a good hike or climb up a mountain or ridge but have a personal vendetta against taking the same route back down. Yes, I'm lazy. Has anyone tried speed flying down a mountain after climbing it? I've done some research into it and it seems like carrying a 5 lb "paraglider" that would allow you to actually fly back to the bottom seems like well worth it! Apparently skiing down is an option as well. From what I found, a company in Portland called The Flystyle sells these. Might have to check them out and see what they have. Anyone done this? What was your experience?

What a retard! Anyone missing gear? http://portland.craigslist.org/clk/spo/1519380111.html

Ummm... metal, points on the bottom, kinda looks like something I wouldn't want to get kicked with. They arn't mine but was perhaps looking to refresh the memory of who ever lost them.

I prefer your mother

Don't forget the bottom of your chin and under your nose... All i've got to say.

For those that haven't heard, this is where glory starts at 4 inches. http://www.widefetish.com/index.html

I'm heading up there today and will be free afternoons of next week. Anyone down for some sport, trad or aiding? -Brian

I've never hiked to the top but decided to when rapping for these bolts. Ya learn something new everyday. If anyone is free today i'm going to be out at Broughton slinking around on the Bat Wall solo probably until about 5.

So... who's free to replace some hangers tomorrow?

Now it's got TWO pichers!!

How was it? Pics?

Thank you Matt Buckle

...ouch

Thanks!

If I had known I would have helped, where can I get info for future projects?

I scanned through but couldn't find anything on who was doing the trail work at Broughton. Past the Hanging Gardens it seems some one went to work with a shovel. Well done! There wern't but a few different tracks present so I would imagine it's fairly new?

The anchor I used to fix my line to while removing these seemed quite new. No rust but dirty, obviously hadn't been used in a while but even still...

Go with the OR mitts!! I've been using them for years up in AK and never had a problem with cold fingers even at -60!

Did anyone know there's a cabbage patch at the top of Broughton? It's been taken care of, the bolts and hangers are gone. From what I can tell it should be an easy patch job. All but one of the sleeves were sunk well into the wall. Rawl bolts all the way up. *I expect some love and hate because of this... If it ends up being a HUGE issue they're easy enough to put back up.* Sorry to not comfirm with everyone before heading out there and pulling these. I had work off today and felt somthing needed to be done. I'll give it a week and if no one claims (publicly) that they put this up and their reasoning I feel a discussion is to be had as far as doing some rehab to older bolts on the wall. Not all of the bolts up the "ladder" were a result of these guys so it was deffinatly crossing some lines. Deffinatly cut through parts of "Go Back to the Gym". In all 12 hangers and bolts were pulled. The bolt on the roof was left. I could tell it was older and was also a different size than the others. Red are the bolts that were pulled, green means they were there long ago and left. If the parties want their locker (red, white and blue) bolts and hangers back let me know. The other biners were pulled from higher up and if they're yours or you know whos let me know!