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    Royal Columns Closed due to collaspe of column

    in Central/Eastern Washington

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    Wes,

    It was the entire column. Here's a photo of the aftermath. Route destruction is evident in center frame. You can still see the big slab/boulder that is the belay spot below Thriller Pillar, where a large portion of the debris hit.

    Photo is courtesy of Larry Nevers Jr. (apeman).

     

    I smell a new crack FA (or a serious stem :o ) behind the fallen column in about three weeks when WDFW opens the area back up again. Who's gonna nab it...??? "Ladies and Gentlemen, start your engines..." :)

     

    Royal_Columns-Stress_Management_Price_of_Complacency_destroyed.JPG

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    in Spray

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    Where at? Pack a harness; lots of unclimbed desert towers here. I'm in Riyadh ~3 months a year; let's connect.

    That's a no-go, NOLSE. I'm back stateside now, since late-June. Spent 9 months in KSA after leaving AFG - been in Jeddah since September 2014. All done overseas now.

     

    WTF are you doing over there, anyway? Teaching those fat, lazy, arrogant Arabs X-fit??? :shock:

    it's that time again! the Xth annual rope up.

    in Events Forum

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    ...I know people don't like the drive, but I'd love to do one again up at the Chatter Creek Campground if the road is open, away from the maddening crowd.

     

    If there is enough interest I could see putting one on again next year, but it would be super casual...as in I don't even know about doing a slide show. Just get a group camp and people can hang out around a fire and swaps lies and do some climbing, thats it. Less production and more climbing.

    Any chance at a RopeUp 2015, oly??? I'm back in the States now and would really like to get out for some casual climbing and drinking with friends before the snow flies (since I haven't climbed any since before I left for Afghanistan way back in 2012).

    Goose Egg Mountain - Project 8?

    in Central/Eastern Washington

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    You were looking at Spoil Ill. Do a search for Joe Puryear's (R.I.P.) site - you could prolly find a link for it here on CC.com using the search function. Once you find his site, you'll likely find any beta he had on it. I've been outta the country for the past several years, so I don't know if Joe's widow took the site down or if Stoney Richards is keeping it up.

    Summitpost Mt. Hood

    in Spray

    Posted

    I read all 40-some comments and ROFLMAO'ed the whole time. :laf:

    I think "Diesel" could actually be our old nemesis Divot or Arc from years gone by. Hell, it could even be the Marmot Prince!

     

    Whaddaya think, Off? Does Diesel smell like Divot?

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    in Spray

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    I think the plane crash you're talking to is off a little spur trail right before Tubal Cain mine. Its an old WWII crash I think.

     

    The fun part is going to the back of the Tubal Cain mine. There is a waterfall you can run through back in the mine....pretty fun.

    Thanks, Porter! I did read somewhere that you have to take a side trail near an old mine to find the old crash site.

     

    And I really appreciate the extra nugget about the waterfall. I hadn't read that anywhere. The kids will love it. Need headlamps to get there safely? Is it safe for kids (10 and 12 years old) to hike back in there? How far back in the mine is it?

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    in Spray

    Posted

    yer gonna be sooooo bored back here :)

     

    Which is why I won't be staying for very long. I'm going from AFG to Dubai, where I'll spend a few days exploring my reclaimed freedom. I'll climb the Burj Khalifa (tallest building in the world), drive a dunebuggy in the desert, ride a camel, and buy some golden shiny things in the souk. Then I'm headed to my old childhood stomping grounds of Pisa (Italy) for 10 days on the beach at the Italian Riveria. Even flying the GF over from Seattle to meet me there! :hump:

     

    Then flying into Dulles and spending a few days with the 'rents in NOVA, and then finally back Out West to you guys. For my son's 12th birthday, he wants to go on his first overnight backpacking trip, and he wants that to be with his old man. So we're headed into the ONF and up to Buckhorn Lake. I understand that there's an old plane crash along the way. Any of yous guys know much about that?

     

    Finally, a week at home visiting friends and catching up on medical/dental/vision appointments before shipping out on September 01 for SAUDI ARABIA and the NEXT GRAND ADVENTURE!!!1

     

    I guess at that point we'll have to lock this thread and start a new one for Sobo Updates from Saudi... :rolleyes:

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