sketchfest Posted April 26, 2004 Posted April 26, 2004 Who's up for some Thursday climbing at the Butte??
b-rock Posted April 26, 2004 Posted April 26, 2004 I'll be if the weathers nice. How about this afternoon?
sketchfest Posted April 26, 2004 Author Posted April 26, 2004 Can't do today, got an interview this afternoon.
MtnHigh Posted April 26, 2004 Posted April 26, 2004 Jeff, when can you be there. I can get there by 5ish.
ivan Posted April 26, 2004 Posted April 26, 2004 not to be an iconoclast, but why don't we climb out at broughtons? more options, better routes, fewer busted rubbers....
sketchfest Posted April 26, 2004 Author Posted April 26, 2004 ...but it's sooo far to walk to compared to the butte
texplorer Posted April 26, 2004 Posted April 26, 2004 I like Broughtons better too Ivan but noone ever wants to make the 15 min drive to a much better crag. After all it is light until 8:30 nowadays. I'll see if I can make it to the butt this thursday though.
ivan Posted April 26, 2004 Posted April 26, 2004 anyone want to climb other times during the week?...i can be at broughton's round 330 most days.
sketchfest Posted April 29, 2004 Author Posted April 29, 2004 Bump! I should be there around 5 unless my afternoon meeting gets out early/late. I'll probably head down to Silverbullet....anyone??...Hello....is this thing on??
billcoe Posted April 29, 2004 Posted April 29, 2004 I'll might make it, try to get there but it would be closer to 5:45-6 for me.
texplorer Posted April 29, 2004 Posted April 29, 2004 I'll show up around 4-4:30 ish and stick around for an hour or two. Look for the red cougar with a novel bumber sticker.
sketchfest Posted April 30, 2004 Author Posted April 30, 2004 So where was everybody yesterday?? Tex and I climbed all by our lonesomes over at Video Bluff and never saw another sole.
b-rock Posted April 30, 2004 Posted April 30, 2004 sorry i missed y'all, got out of work a lot later than i expected, went for a trail run instead. next time!
billcoe Posted May 2, 2004 Posted May 2, 2004 Opps, wife and family obligations. Sorry I missed it. Â As an aside, another person pitched off the top yesterday. (I understand they lived, and didn't go all the way). Â Thats 4 in the last month. Countdown until closure continues.
b-rock Posted May 3, 2004 Posted May 3, 2004 Yikes!  Hiker rescued after fall off Rocky Butte embankment 06:03 PM PDT on Saturday, May 1, 2004   By ANTONIA GIEDWOYN, kgw.com Staff    A hiker was rescued after falling down an embankment at Rocky Butte in what was the third fall in the area in the last three weeks, officials said.     Rescuers transport the hiker on a stretcher. (KGW photo) A pair of hikers was walking near the top of one of the popular climbing areas along Portland’s Rocky Butte when they were startled by a dog. One of the hikers lost his footing and fell 20 to 30 feet down the embankment, landing near 60-foot cliff, said Dick Haney, fire inspector for Portland Fire & Rescue.   The owners of the dog were climbing on the rock face and were the first to reach the victim.   Portland Fire and Rescue's high angle/technical rescue team rigged safety ropes and lowered a firefighter down the embankment. The rescuer secured the hiker and both were lowered to the base of the cliff.   Crews carried the hiker to an ambulance and transported him to Legacy Emanuel Hospital.   His condition wasn’t released.   The incident happened on the northeast side of Rocky Butte, approximately half a mile south of the NE 92nd and Skidmore trailhead, Haney said.
sketchfest Posted May 3, 2004 Author Posted May 3, 2004 I was just talking to b-rock about this yesterday. I find it extremely humorous that the news always reports an incident out there as a "hiker/climber" fell from the top...blah, blah, blah. Why don't they dig into the truth a bit and say that a crackheaded, meth freak was seriously spinning, strung out on a bad batch of ajax and decided that they could walk on thin air.....Christ almighty, why do they always put the focus on us climbers?
ivan Posted May 3, 2004 Posted May 3, 2004 i dunno, but i think i've met a few pdx crankheads/climbers
billcoe Posted May 4, 2004 Posted May 4, 2004 A pair of hikers was walking near the top of one of the popular climbing areas along Portland’s Rocky Butte when they were startled by a dog.    Film crew filming "devil dogs, the hounds from hell part 2" ???   Also, if anyone notices the absence of trash, it was the SOLV cleanup April 24th. Sooooo, I recently got invite to Yosemite for a bit, I'm gonna miss the next cleanup. Sorry, but I'll be thinking of you all. Anyway, as all the 5 cent beer cans are now all gone.....well whats the point?  cya when I git back with that California tan thing happening etc etc.
sketchfest Posted May 4, 2004 Author Posted May 4, 2004 Have a great trip Bill, see ya when you get back.
texplorer Posted May 4, 2004 Posted May 4, 2004 There are some "newly trashed" computers to the right of the silver bullet wall. That place is a constant stream of juvenile carnage. I don't think it'll ever be clean.
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