BenWA
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Campaign is now closed.
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Hi folks,
We have launched a not-for-profit crowdfund page for re-bolting corroded hardware at a magical sport crag in the Dominican Republic called Playa Fronton. Please check out our page here:
Our campaign will be live into April 2016. No donation is too small.
We appreciate your support!
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Appreciate the insight Yak. Thanks.
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Yeah, looks like it's mapped as Sun Top unit of the Clear West Peak rhyolite, which by the geologic unit description on the map is typically better rock quality than Ohanapecosh (which makes up a lot of the popular sport crags of North Bend). My guess is that it couldn't be all that bad for climbing, especially considering how vertically it stands.
Surprised there's no info on it.
I'm going to scope the area out soon and talk to some folks at the local FS branch. I'm curious, but also want to make sure it's not a marbled murrelet or other bird paradise.
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I've been wondering about this for a while but haven't found any info after much scouring -- what's the deal with the crags above Camp Sheppard out on 410? Are there established routes or topos or underground beta or secret handshakes? Or is it just a big chosspile not worth mentioning?
I've read a couple of posts about ice climbing there but nothing about summer routes.
Any leads or beta? My understanding is its on FS land so I can't imagine it's a huge access restriction...
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^ good idea!
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Can I request a conditions report for the ice around Source Lake? I'm hoping it will fatten a bit with the cold snap this week...
Appreciate any beta on conditions.
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I read in another place that ice is starting to come in up at Alpy. Has anyone been out recently to confirm conditions?
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Has anyone checked out the upper Alpental road (Kiddie Cliff area and Source Lake) in the past couple days?? I would think it would be getting plump by now with this cold snap?? Although it will probably be a zoo up there this weekend.
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Spray is climbing talk - endless, obnxious blabbering about routes climbed; their grades; your opinions on their grades; your friends' opinions on their grades; your opinions on the first ascentionists' opinions of their grades; routes nearly climbed but for the wrong shoes, lack of chalk, or high gravity; your local climbing scene being overrun by "n00bs;" routes you climbed in the gym; intricate, unnecessary details about fancy new gear that will help you send your proj (in fact, I think any sentence with the word "proj" in it automatically counts as spray); endless streams of beta on every single move of the one route you have ever climbed outside; etc.
Not being a snowboarder, I have no idea what a "gaper" is (sort of "all talk, no action?"), but you're probably right that it's basically the same idea. It's definitely a universal climbing term (not just PNW), but I have no idea where it originated.
Considering that I have never, ever heard "n00bs" at the crag or in the gym "spray" about contemporary world politics, and considering that climbing is strictly off-topic in the CC "spray" forum, this place is clearly devoid of any actual spray.
Thanks.
Yeah, a gaper in snowboarding is basically someone who watches all the action from the sidelines, rather than who is actually part of the action itself. It's what the "hardcores" call the weekend warriors, but they also bust on their buddies for being gapers. So I guess it's a little different with sprayers.
So from my understanding, I picture a sprayer to be a guy wearing neon tights, no shirt, a headband, Oakley Frogskin sunglasses, with a French accent saying something like: "For you, dis is good climb. For me, maybe I climb dis when I am sick or when I am tired. But for you, dis is good climb." Am I close?
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God, I hope they paid a handsome fine for that "rescue".
I carry an ACR PLB -- in my airplane, not in my backpack.
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I assume it's like the climbing equivalent of gaper in snowboarding/skiing?
Where did the term originate?
Is it unique to the PNW region or are spayers far more widespread?
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pathetic.
I'm glad for you that you are above everybody. Congratulations, you're awesome.
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exceptions would be the cave and select routes at amazonia and nevermind.
That's sort or what I was thinking [hoping]. I would hope at least that most of the .11's and .12's at nevermind and amazonia are pretty legit...??
I definitely have climbed some routes that were laughably overgraded (like the mossy .10d at amazonia's right side which felt more like 5.9).
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...compared to other climbing areas around the country?
Do you think the grades (in general) are soft? Sandbag? Just about right?
I haven't climbed at many other places so I'm just curious about what the general consensus is, or if there even is a consensus.
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Yup, they're yours. That's some fancy luck! Reply PM sent.
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My climbing partner found some cams at the base of the slab climbs across the road from 8 mile campground.
If you can verify the number of cams, make/size, color, and initials that are written on them, they are yours.
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I'm sorry you choose to frame it in such a defeatist light.
The economies of the poor villages near this crag depend almost entirely on tourism from outsiders. The people in these villages are begging for this.