FFSummers

We are up there tomorrow all day if you want to join in the fun? We are trying to lead 11a's as well.....Hope yours went well today

Thanks for the invite, I haven't been up Mt Jefferson. I have my little guys on the 14th and work the 15th so I wouldn't be able to go though. Im running out the door now to go climb, I found some good company!

The sun is out and all my climbing partners bailed! I know it's a long shot but, anyone want to go do some climbing today? I am up for climbing anything, anywhere, any style and have a car. If I don't hear from anybody in the next couple of hours I'm just gonna head up little Si and do some rope soloing. If your up on little Si, I'll be the tall skinny white guy with a big smile and a red BD pack. Enjoy the day!

"Don't like it?" It's an illegal rap-bolted sport-climb, on a mountain, in a wilderness area. You're right: "Don't climb it!" Boycott it for what it is. Someday, officially or otherwise, it will likely be erased. I hope the route doesn't get chopped, how lame. I was heavy into 4xing and an avid rock crawler before getting back into climbing. I've seen first hand what can happen when a user group starts overly policing themselves and turning on eachother. Some encouraged others to turn in ileagal wheelers and would point out trail damage to the "athorities". In the end we all suffered when the ORV parks got shut down. The "moral high ground folks" imposed their ethics on all of us and killed the sport in the state of WA. I don't think hikers and other user groups have a problem with IB. Just let it go man

It sounds like some fun Trad potential up there, thanks. As for the bolting by L.W. I climb his routes out here and all over the state and I have nothing but respect. Thanks for the info, I thought this Crag might date back awhile.

Oh good, there is even more! Blonde Bluff.....I will go looking for it when I'm up there. What is the 3rd area?

After looking into it more it sounds like there is atleast 1 other crag further up the hill behind this one. I've climbed much of what X38 has to offer and this is a new crag for me so I plan to give these routes a try. It's nice to know that there's still unexplored areas for me, I live right in North Bend so I feel obligated to climb all the local crags. The beta on the Crack pitches make them sound dirty but the rock quality is good.

Ah, the "Fun Forest". Thanks guys! And yes, they do look to be stout, short and interesting. I think the tunnel is interesting too. I don't think it's for drainage, it's a man tunnel with an asphalt floor. Just not sure why there would be an access tunnel built there? Cool that it happens to lead right to a climbing crag though.

There's a small Crag off of I-90 around mp48, I can see 4 bolted routes and they look like fun. Anyone have any info on this crag?? I stumbled onto it probably 15 years ago but never climbed any of the routes, they look hard. I stopped by there tonight, via the access tunnel under the freeway such a novelty, and it was cool to see that theres been some climbing going on there. I look foward to climbing there when things dry out, even thought the freeway is super loud.

When do we leave???

I don't know how or why he had a ground fall, but I work with the guys who responded yesterday so I got some details when I came on shift this morning. He fell 80' and suffered a leg injury, it was at the Neverland wall. The bad news...... another fire/ems crew was over exuberant and took chainsaws and cleared the trail, making a wide swath of destruction so they could carry the guy out on a stretcher. The trail is now a lot more obvious and a super hwy. They didn't know any better and SMR wasn't onscene so the "rescue" was run by firefighters. I'm curious how somebody could take such a bigger whipper there too. Usualy if the belayer drops them we know it cause they are there spewing appologies the whole time