[TR] Index- Great Northern Slab, GM 10/14/2004

[Blake]

Climb: Index-Great Northern Slab, GM

 

Date of Climb: 10/14/2004

 

Trip Report:

Myself and AlpinistAndrew hit up Index today. we didn't try anything too hard, but had a great day on good rock and with good weather. We did a couple of routes on the great northern slab,

 

up to a crazy 4-anchor rap point.

Then we went over to the far right side of the wall and did SS ultrabrutal and the first part of GM.

 

I really want to get back and do the entire route on GM, as well as godzila and a few others.

 

What is the story on the door into the mountain with the creek coming out of it?

 

Gear Notes:

Nothin fancy. Stoppers, mid sized hexes and cams.

 

Approach Notes:

uphill both ways

[kenp]

I had heard that tunnel was a storage area back in the mining days?

[Gary_Yngve]

About the door and tunnel:

 

http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/threadz/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/372509/page/0/view/collapsed/sb/5/o/all/fpart/1/vc/1

[Sol]

Late evening last halloween my bro tyree and I were descending from the upper town wall after climbing the green dragon when we met this crazy mad scientist locking up the tunnel. we were picking his brain about what went down in there. in a really creepy mad scientist halloween voice he told us, " experiments....with gravity....experiments." from what we gathered its used by the university of washington to conduct experiements on gravity. they use the tunnel because the solid index granite that surrounds the tunnel prevents the gravitaional pull of the poles from affecting the....experiments.

[Dru]

the poles have no gravitational, or even "gravitaional" pull, dr. science!

[Uncle_Tricky]

Equilibrium

Lost polar gravity gone

I hurtle earthward

 

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