SidR

Trip: Liberty Bell - Beckey Route (SW Face) Date: 6/13/2017 Trip Report: Ed and I got a 7:30am start and tried to follow the trail with GPS. Terrible idea - it turned a ~40 minute hike up to the base of the gully into a 2 hour ordeal. We were ahead of one other team on the route. The gully was packed with hard snow and was fine going up. The climb was cold and windy - Ed led all 4 pitches. From the summit, descend/downclimb a little to find a tree with rap rings, go down and traverse over to find chains - three raps total to get back down. We were a little late getting back down and the snow in the gully had gotten quite soft. Pretty treacherous getting down the gully - there was lots of slipping and arresting going on. We didn't follow the trail going back down - it was much more direct. Got back down at 7:30pm. Gear Notes: Set of cams up to #3. We doubled up on a #0.75 and a #1. Approach Notes: Don't follow the trail in snowy/winter conditions. Just take the straight line up to the slabs where you cut left to the Beckey gully. Lots of spruce traps to negotiate if you try to follow the trail like we did.

Hi Allan (and all), I'd love to join in on this second rope team. I can only do June 14-19 (if you're ok with that short notice). - Sid

I'm looking for a regular climbing partner to go to a climbing/bouldering gym in Seattle (don't care which one, as long as it's in Seattle and not the east side) to lead/boulder on weekdays (evenings after, or mornings before work are both fine), and go outside on weekends. I've been climbing or and off for the past decade or so and want to climb harder/more regularly. I TR 5.10 and lead 5.8-5.9 sport and 5.7 trad. Looking to do alpine rock (moderate routes are fine) and go cragging outside. I also just started doing glacier climbs as of this summer and am hoping to do that more as well. - Sid