summitchaserCJB

Keep letting your girlfriend do your dirty work.

congrats, then dude! i am happy for you! reaching a milestone is a big deal in life and climbing, and is definitely something of which to be proud. do you say it to everyone here in the tone of (insert snide sounding voice here) "well i did this, so there..." (end snide voice now), or are you telling others because you never, in a million years, thought you could do that and are just so stoked by doing it that you have to tell people? I admit, it does feel good to get off the beaten track and not do the 5.9 everyone else does. Make sense? i can understand the latter... the former, however, just doesn't fit in my philosophy for climbing (or life). Hope it doesn't come off that way. Ya I guess I never thought I'd be climbing the more (sorta) serious routes.

Well it was a big deal for me.

Man, leave it alone dude. That's what we call a technicality. At least I didn't leave fixed lines sitting on it or put a string of bolts up it. I found zero physical evidence of previous ascents. In fact, there was a preponderance of evidence against any previous ascent. I cleaned off, not just a little layer of moss, but in some places a foot thick of moss. I trundled many blocks, uprooted ferns, ect. I was covered in mud and dirt. Take a look at the pictures. Any reasonable person, seeing it in its previous condition, would say it hadn't been climbed. It isn't in any guidebooks or internet databases. So, if it was a classic, or even a remotely good climb, why wasn't it in any guidebook?

I'm OK at research. I guess I need to go beyond the guidebooks.

Ok. Deal. But only if you do too.

And people call my route crappy. Just kidding. These at Index? They look hard.

Choda, didn't you just put up a FA at the gym I heard about? But you blew the onsight? While you spray, some of us actually climb. I onsighted a 5.10b 8 pitch route yesterday and come home to this. Stop sitting in your basement concocting whatever BS you are going to spew at the world. And I know anything I say now will get spray so whatever. I can't imagine what lives you guys have. Seriously.

Yep it works. Well...I did it with 85 but close enough, right?

+1 for being awesome +1 for sending in the wet +1 for drinking good beer -1 for being a member of cascade climbers -1 for not wearing Lycra -1 for spray about a dubious previous ascent with no evidence.

Great idea.

Call me a douche again.

You should, it is fun. But careful about claiming even the most modest of projects as a FA.

Hey rad, Thanks man. These guys don't make it easy.

Nothing to be proud of here man.

You'll notice I asked if anyone had any other information on the route. It appeared in no other guidebooks. Just got unlucky.

sweet dude.

yep I'm a huge pussy.

You're up.

Just drop it. seriously.

Ya. In places it seemed just slightly harder. Hard to believe it's been climbed with the amount of moss on there. But if you say so I believe you. You don't have the FA info do you?

Probably last time 10 years ago or so? Is it in a guide that you could show me (I'm curious about the rating)?

Trip: Index, Inner Wall - The Route of All Evil- 5.9. PG Date: 6/21/2010 Trip Report: I cleaned and put up a route at Index over the last couple weeks. Most likely a FFA and FA but let me know if you know otherwise. Checked all available sources already. It's left of the 5.10d View from the Bridge. Overview. See far left. Here are the pictures- Photos Thanks Todd for the belay. Gear Notes: Two number ones, two number twos, and a yellow alien. Approach Notes: To the left of Toxic Shock at the Inner Wall.

Just curious- are you supposed to nikwax those particular boots?