layton

same thing happened to me lane and becca last year on Mctech. inches from death. scary.

The whole climb was like a waking dream. I've been climbing in the sisters and living off and on in Bellingham for years and have always dreamed of a multipitch climb on olivine...and one only 30 miles from the 'Ham. I think it's truly fortunate that we were the ones to finally finally find the mythical bellingham "big wall". This climb is a MUST DO! Thanks for a great 1st climb toghether darin!!!! The area where the climb is located is totally unlike any place i've EVER been. Emerge from the jungle into the alpine arena of something like the Sierra! A total desolate dry redrock playground split by a clear blue stream originating from a high alpine glacier. Totally prisine wilderness and beautiful peaks. Oh My God! What a totally happy happy place and good time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! p.s. don't fret the approach. Blueberries every time the approach makes you feel sad. Did I mention that this climb is one of the most surreal experiences you'll ever have in the mountains? A Bellingham "Big Wall"??? I never would'a guessed in a million years. How fun fun fun amazing awesome happy goodtimes climb can you get? I'll spend my whole life trying to top this happy adventure. Thank you Darin for being my awesome partner!!! This experience will most definately stand out.

looks like your mom's panis folds

too bad i took those photos in a drug induced hallucination! they're actually photos of my cheesy pernium

i heard it's really steep and a rock dropped from the top wouldn't hit until the ground!!??? gosh, that'd be neat. maybe it'd be steep like this:

i said physically...like they would actually leave the country.

i wish most of oregon, idaho, and southern washington would physically seced? from the union making the drive to other climbing areas way less boring.

too bad, i thought it was cool. fuck the leavenworthless locals.

I got this forewarded from Mr. Limage in Vegas. thanks Mark. Dear Red States: We're ticked off at the way you've treated California, and we've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren't aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California. To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches. You get "intelligent design" and alligators. We get Elliot Spitzer. You get Ken Lay. We get the Statue of Liberty. You get OpryLand. We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom. We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss. We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama. We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay their fair share. Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms. Since our high school sex ed is based on science and acknowledges human nature, we get high rates of teens going off to college. Since most of your school districts insist abstinence until marriage is the only legitimate curriculum, you get higher rates of STD's and a bunch of teenage single moms. Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire. With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent of the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners), 90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus Harvard, Yale, the University of California, Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT. With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia. We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you. Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties. By the way, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico. Sincerely, Author Unknown in New California<<

questing for the mythical bellingham big wall. i have returned. der toofel hast getfallen.

that happens to be Necro's backyard. i'm spotting/snickering from above. I call it the "secret garden" where i go when i'm feeling blue and need some space to clear my head.

that is the one of the world's most retarded bolts! someone should chop it. the world's dumbest bolt is at the end of the last pitch of springbok arete on a flat summit after 16 boltless, and sometimes gearless belays. i wonder if the filmmakers for "K2" put that there for filming.

but it probably doesn't really exist

or maybe something like this?

I hear it looks something like this

Anyone ever hear the story of the mythical big wall just outside of bellingham?

thanks for the extracurricular activity input, however, i don't plan on actually spending any time at holden. if i get back early i plan on sitting at the dock and waiting. now when to go....???

jimeny crickets! i love this website. instant information. thank you for the quick response. i think my partner and i would feel safe and secure holding hands and praying to our lord.

what college? where!

anyone know how to avoid the 11 mile walk and get a ride? becky states there's a shuttle, while the Holden Village website says there's not. hmmm. thanks fer da help

no, he's just a cunning linguist

oh....we see him show up more than you may know

agreed

Here's the lowdown. It's a very very very easy solo, BUT not everyone is comfortable doing so. If you do bring a rope, however, you MUST have protection connected to the snow/rope the entire time you are roped in. Otherwise you are soloing with twice the risk.