LUCKY Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 I was hang'n and drink'n at the local pub with a few of the locals and was doing quite well coming from a logging/ construction worker back ground. When I mentioned Frenchman's Coulee one of them said are you a KCB, when I ask what a KCB was, his reply was that only a King Co Bitch refers to the old Vantage road as Frenchman's Coulee So after going over the maps, I realized that most of the climbing is in Echo basin or the mesa top and very little is in Frenchman's coulee. So was Matt Stanly's guide Vantage Rock copyright 1995 a better or more proper name for the area ? Most climbers think it's a cooler name! I find both names being used,i'm sure there is some back ground history. So Frenchman's Coulee or Vantage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Szyjakowski Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 doesn't the name have to do with the fact that you drive into Frenchman's coulee to get there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUCKY Posted August 30, 2004 Author Share Posted August 30, 2004 doesn't the name have to do with the fact that you drive into Frenchman's coulee to get there? oh yeah! some feedback you actually drive down the Vantage road on top of the mesa above Frenchman's Coulee past the climbing than into the coulee. So what name do you like best, I hear both being used? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpinfox Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 I always say "Vantage". Only "MotherFin' 206'ers call it 'Frenchman's Coulee'". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChocChick Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 Yep, Vantage. Frenchman's Coulee, no way, hate calling it that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 Who gives a shit, anyway? Just climb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWolfe Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 I call it Lousy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drederek Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 I've always called it Vantage, you know, Frenchmans Coulee. Or was it the other way round? Blewett or Swauk Pass while we're at it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b-rock Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 Who gives a shit, anyway? Just climb. Who pissed in your Cheerios? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Szyjakowski Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 I've always called it Vantage, you know, Frenchmans Coulee. Or was it the other way round? Blewett or Swauk Pass while we're at it! the highway is on Swauk, the old highway (fun drive btw) is on blewett or was it the other way around........ I always like to call like that (cool-guy everyone loves) ERIK does, DISVANTAGE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drater Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 How about hot, snake-infested, greasy-shit-paper-everywhere choss pile? Some of us MFing 509ers call it Frenchman too! BB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jens Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 I called it Vantage when I was a 509er I still call it Vantage. (I'm a 206er) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUCKY Posted January 11, 2005 Author Share Posted January 11, 2005 Now that I have read The Washington Desert by John Eminger and John Kittel 1991 I see how the name has transfered from that guide to the new guide, but most of the climbing is in Echo basin or off of old Vantage road not in the Frenchmans coulee. Vantage does sound cooler and I did have to look up coulee for the meaning. I call it both...it's all good I love to step back in time with old guide books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWolfe Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 360 Represent! I like to think of it as Vantage because it reminds me of the petrified ginko forest, and the old highway that goes right into the Columbia.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 I've always called it Frenchman's Vantage, but then I'm a King County Beyotch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COL._Von_Spanker Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Frenchmans coulee is what people who are sort of in-the-know call it to sound cool to the folks at REI. Person A: "...yeah, I'm going climbing at Frenchmans coulee" Salesperson B: "really, where's that?" Person A: "Well it's near vantage, in fact some people call it vantage" Salesperson B: "Cool dude. Would you like to buy some fleece gloves PERSON C: GO BACK TO FRANCE FREEDOM HATER!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUCKY Posted January 12, 2005 Author Share Posted January 12, 2005 When you stand on top of the Mesa after a days climbing and take in the setting sun it's definitely the Vantage point of euphoria Hey.... to some it may not be the best climbing area, but to me it is the best climbing experience. Nothing like the Coulee in the spring ...oh please let this be a short winter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nalo Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 word I'm with you lucky... I know it's not cool to do so but I still love that place. Thanks for all the work you've put into making it even better. And from now on, I'm calling it echo basin, cause it sounds kickass and noone will know what I'm talking abut, which will make me sound 1337 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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