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Nice work, Kurt. Wish I could be around to help out with the fun, but the new employer in CO is keen on keeping me around here... Hopefully I'll get to clip some of those in the near future.

Thanks for the appreciation. The buttonheads took a little work to get out... I'm in Vegas til next summer, but will probably be back at Erie then. Yeah, those routes need a lot of love - surprised there haven't been any incidents.

According to a friend that was at OR, the totem Basic cams are not the resurrected Aliens. Fixe bought the Alien name and patent, and will be producing them sometime in the near future (?). So that is probably the answer as to the name change, and only having a few of the size, i would guess.

I agree with you on the glue-in idea. I just had ASCA 5-pieces, but I was pretty perplexed at times as to new bolt locations. Quite a few of the old ones were in loose/hollow rock. Did you do any of the other Powerline Wall work? There's a bunch of wedge bolts there, and I was wondering if they were all SS. I'm actually back in Vegas for the winter season - I just do summers up in the Ham. It would be quite nice to get a bunch of those local organizations involved, at least in the fund-raising dept. (The core bits are a little pricey...) With all the climbers in the PNW, I'm amazed at the poor quality of the hardware.

That looks perfect - I need to get one. Thx. Yeah, it's nice to see how much crap everyone else carries in the rebolting kits...

Nice work, D. Thanks for the pix. Good educational tool. You just use a regular ol' hacksaw? I've taken to carrying a DeWalt 18v grinder where I can, but have a few spinning studs in the Wilderness that I haven't had too much luck with. A "metal-cutting" keyhole saw hasn't quite cut it, pun intended. scott

Kurt- thanks for getting it going! I think i told you about replacing the anchors on Classic Crack and Twin Cracks, but if not: They're done. 1/2x2.75"SS 5-piece w/ASCA double-ring or chain. Second the p1 anchor on outerspace. It's a 1/4"stud (uriosite style) and a 1/4" buttonhead. It's a great flat slab, so would be easy drillin, if you wanna shred your wrists already... or if you put in one, i'll do the other next summer. Anything on Green Giant Buttress, again if ya wanna hand-drill. Always the rest of Mt Erie. I posted what's been done there on mtnproj, but the rest of the sport routes at Snag Buttress could use some serious lovin'. I'da rather fallen on the 1/4" buttonheads than some of those Grade 2 studs...

Never mind. I ran up and got it myself. Conditions were about perfect. Right where I left it...

If anyone happens to find a camera on the south side bivy area (around back from the gentle col) before the steep snow on the Traverse, I would love to see it back. Beer reward.