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Its interesting how that wall seemed to be a popular draw in the 1960's then seemed to fall out of disfavor completely. As a young Mountaineer I can remember the "67 Wild Flowers Route" being routinely listed as an Intermediate climb and wondering if that was something they actually routinely did? I'm curious, did you pick your line well in advance or settle on it once you got up there? If in advance what drew you to that particular zone? Seems like those deep gullies would make some world class mixed climbs in the right winter conditions.

I thought we were making America great again?!

BITD I climbed Castle Peak in the Pasayten a couple months apart and the old brass mountaineers summit register had disappeared in the interim. Only takes one very active peak bagger with an excessive ego to make them all disappear in short order.

Sadly there is some truth in this. Banging around on clean granitic rock for a few days in the Cascades without another soul in sight was definitely a perk.

That’s a lot of people. I think had I been in the middle of seven parties climbing on top of one another I would have collected my gear, muttered something under my breathe, unclipped and jumped off. Glad the younger generations are not as antisocial as myself.

Was noticing that recent TRs are seeing many hundreds, if not many thousands of views in a few days. Feels like for the last decade it’s been way less than that, so what’s going on? Is cc.com about to experience a Renaissance of community, culture adventure and creative writing? Or have bots really replaced human beings and it’s just a 1000 different AI start-ups scrubbing the Internet for data?

You Gorge climbers are just a different breed!!

Has the great Wayne Wallace never climbed Backbone Ridge? !🤔

"Sahale Arm please. Well if not there, can we go to a nice alpine lake, that's not to far from the car, and has lots of solitude with some amazing views?"

As if you stepped out of a time machine into the hallroom of the Darrington hardmen of yore.

That’s some serious effort! Look forward to checking it out.

Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

Was this person really a "guide"?

Check with users Lunger and Sam Boyce. They did something up there last summer? And we’re at the time unaware of the BB lines as well. They may have a copy. Weird how that guidebook seems to have totally vanished. Had all kinds of random Doorish routes and what not in it.

You might try to track down a copy of Bryan Burdo's old WA-Pass guidebook. He did several routes on that feature (if I'm recognizing it correctly as above the big waterfall east of the pass). I know that a couple other CC users went up there a couple years ago and climbed something.

Those are quite the photos.

Missed this. Very cool. Its been too long since I've done a self propelled journey from home to the mountains.

Also went here twice in the pre-Instagram era. Beautiful and quiet out there. Wonder how different it is now?

Tell us your story Manheartmountain? Soloing west face sounds spicy!

Seems like the ultimate winter plum! WI3 on the dagger?!

Don’t think so. Everything but polish looked thinner than typical to me.

If anyone is thinking of Colfax with this high pressure. As of 1/13 the Cosley-Houston is not formed, though the Polish Route looks like it may have connected. North and east side of Lincoln look like the future of local Alpinism.

gawd I sorta want these....