Captain panther

Any of you guys live over there or been there lately? Anything up the Icicle in? Tumwater?

Hey thanks billcoe! I have a friend down in patagonia who wants to develop some routes on some pretty featureless granite at a resort he is building. Also theres a few lines in the Bham/mt baker highway area i want to bolt, one of them is cleaned and i solo'd it but i feel like more people would get on it if it had some bolts...

anyone know if its in? or have any good guesses?

About how long does it take to put in a bolt with a hammer and hand drill?

I might be there sunday. pm me with a number and i'll call you guys if i show up sunday. theres lots of good alpine stuff coming in though

fucking bitchin dude! lookin forward to swingin some tools and skiing with you this winter!

my bad yeah, 1 and 2, and then 3 and 4!

Trip: Prusik Peak - Stanley-Burgner Date: 10/13/2010 Trip Report: My buddy Spencer and I went up for my first trip into the Enchantments to climb the Stanley-Burgner on Prusik's south side. I'd had the the climb in mind for about a year so it was awesome to finally get out and make it happen! Just a note about Asgaard Pass, if youve never been up there before go left and follow the mega-cairns, as we went right and got to do some fun mixed rock/ice scrambling. Other than that the temps are fuckin awesome for climbing right now so get out and send!. This routes is amazing and by far my favorite in leavenworth to date, that last move on the last pitch is wild. I'd just like to say summitpost.org is on crack too, you can rap off that thing with a single rope no problem Gear Notes: we took doubles in c4's from .3 to 3 and one number 4. one 70m rope and a set of nuts. We felt really good with this amount of gear combining pitches 1 and 2 and 3 and 4. Approach Notes: from stuart lake th to just below prusik pass took us 4.5 hours at a brisk pace, then about 30 min in the morning to the base of the climb.

He was a great man and I will miss him immensely. He did alot of great things for the community and Im proud to say I knew the man. He died doing what he loved. RIP Dallas

for the abrev. start pons and axe are a must still

fuck yesh! this route is badass. glad to see people on it. was there any water on the gigantic ledges if i were to bivy or is it totally dry?

whats your schedule like? im off lots of weekdays and hardly never on weekends, but i would be up for it if the days off link up. adam

whats your schedule like? im off lots of weekdays and hardly never on weekends, but i would be up for it if the days off link up. adam

nice work! looks like a badass bivy!

nice work!

awesome, i'm about 90% sure ill be there tomorrow so ill give you a call adam

I've been working too much lately and have June 1-4th off if anyone is interested in climbing anything let me know. I would be down for ice, snow, alpine, craggin, trad, sport, bouldering, whatever. I'd be willing to meet up and drive as far as skaha/squamish or maybe alittle further north, and as far south as smith and trout. Im looking to get some more summits under my belt so that would be preferable but mainly i just want to spend four days not working and hopefully going up something. Heres a few ideas i had: Any route on Rainier Any route on Baker Colchuck routes Triple Couloirs slab daddy safe sex Anything in the Olympics Squamish I lead 10+/11 trad, a little harder sport and wi 4. good all around mountain skills though i would like to refresh some crevasse rescue skills before heading up something thats riddled with crevasses. got a ton of gear too. Adam

Hey mark thats a pretty sweet operation youve got going on with your custom shoes! i hope those madrocks work out for you. did you look at those evolvs? the optimus prime? Im for sure going to Lworth this weekend so at the very least I'll stop by saturday night and have a beer and say hello at 8mile. Im planning on doing orbit and outerspace one day and a bunch of stuff on the castle the other. where will you be on which day? Adam

Trip: Wet Dreamer - Darrington Date: 4/24/2010 Trip Report: Yesterday my buddy phil and I got up at 3am and drove up to darrington to have a go at dreamer. It was the first time either of us had been up so the approach was interesting. We arrived at the trailhead at alittle before 7 and after trudging uphill for a while and boot packing a small patch of snow we were at the base and climbing a little before 9. The first pitch was a little damp and so was the second but with a little fancy footwork and some "slap and pray" style climbing we got past the nasty. Pitches 3 and 4 went off without a hitch and were pretty fun. Pitch 5 was my lead and I got alittle off pitch after confusing pitches on the topo but thanks to some down climbing and a lot of work on Phil's part to clean up my mess we hit the rest of it hard and summited around 2. A few quick raps and we were at the bottom rap station and it started snowing! woooohooo early season washington! then we took the forest on the way down instead of the trail and saw the most impressive old growth cedars i've ever seen! Gear Notes: about 15 draws and standard rack, doulbes on .5 to 3 inches and maybe triples in the 2 inch range for pitch 6. half ropes would be the shit on this thing as we tailed a full rope! Approach Notes: trail then cairns then a steep sketchy drainage as far as we could tell. the early you get up the better this time of year

we drove over a few bridges, i believe the one you're talking about is replaced, however we still had to park at a gate and walk about 30 minutes along the road with a few washouts to get to the trailhead

Trip: Mt. Garfield - Infinite Bliss Date: 3/24/2010 Trip Report: Saturday Mar 20th my buddy Phil and I headed up to Infinite Bliss. I'd heard about this climb for quite some time but never really wanted to do it but Phil was stoked enough for the both of us and I love to climb so it wasnt too hard to convince me. we left puyallup at 7am and were at the base climbing by about 930am. Knowing this thing was huge we brought 32 draws four small cams( small tcu's and c3s, although i wouldve loved some link cams or bigger gear for the runout on 16/17) and two 70m ropes, to make rapping a bit easier. Being a bit early in the season there was still a bit of snow on the climb which equalled exciting wet bits . We simulclimbed the first 6 slab pitches without a hitch until the last one which was quite damp and horrifyingly runout for how wet it was. There is still alot of snow on the ledge at the top of pitch 6 but its avoidable. phil with all our draws we hit the the gully pitch(8) making great time and enjoying some fun friction moves mixed with snow Pitches 9 and 10 were quite fun and bolted well. following a short traverse on a ledge at the top of 10, Phil headed out to lead our first hard pitch, number 11, going at .10b. the crux was definitely getting past the snow while trying to keep your toes dry. Pitches 11 through 15 were fun and fast with a little difficulty routefinding but we were still making good time. this is the 16th and 17th pitch with no bolts, a little confusing on the routefinding. I went way right of where I was supposed to and ended up finding some nice trees to belay phil up. Then after walking left on a little ramp we were right back on route on the 18th pitch, the crux i believe. Pitches 18 through 23 were great! alot of fun friction moves and a nasty wet chimney lead us to the summit at about 5pm. heres the last pitch and some summit photos. Heres where the fun REALLY begins on our climb. We knew if we could get below the unbolted 16 and 17th pitches before dark we'd have a sweet chance at actually making it down and not having to become much better friends on a ledge all night. Of course we didnt make it down past that until after dark and got lost rapping off the bush halfway down pitch 16 for about an hour. As luck would have it my partner Phil's headlamp died so we only had one working lamp, oh joy! And the icing on the cake, it started raining at about pitch 14ish, where we also had some trouble finding chains to rap. A few more wet dark raps and we were outta there. All in all quite the adventure and a fun climb, I cant wait to go back in summer when there's more light! Gear Notes: about 25 draws would do fine, two ropes, halfs would be the way to go, and some smaller gear but honestly on the runout parts i wouldve been thrilled to have gear up to an inch/inch and a half. Approach Notes: theres some good drawings and photos online, plus a cairn or two

how bout something friday?

Hey I just moved back from Bham to Tacoma and am at a serious loss of partners down here or partners with schedules that match up with mine. I work at rei so my schedule is part time and constantly changing but usually i have a few days off in a row mid week. Im looking for anyone local, or even close, like Bham or Seattle or somewhere south of here i guess. I will climb anything you want to climb. I trad up to 12a but im more than willing to climb 5.6 all day. sport ill climb anything and love to do anything hard and overhanging. bouldering is just fine too v0 to double digits if you like. I'd really like to do more alpine/ice/mountaineering, and soon, winter ascents and FAs if anyone is down. i lead WI4 fine and have most of my own gear, just need a few more screws, and lots of ice experience, less in general mountaineering but still a fair amount, tons in the backcountry from years of snowboarding and skiing. Adamllawson@gmail.com is the best way to get ahold of me