Who Climbed Cruel Pools Sat Jan 8/05???

[Don_Serl]

Fromage and 3 others climbed Cruel Pools southwest of Hope Sat Jan 8/05, discovering that it offers about three times as much fine easy climbing as i describe in West Coast Ice 2. turns out Bob Koen and Darren Melnychuk only did the lower sections.

 

so, there's a historical detail at issue here - who will i credit with the first complete ascent in the third edition, due in about a decade? a pair from Bellingham immediately preceded Fromage and party - who were they?

 

pls lemme know, either by replying to this post, with a PM, or direct at dserl@telus.net.

 

and if anybody out there did it earlier than Jan 8, lemme know that too pls!

 

tks, and cheers,

[jordop]

Don, when we climbed it on Sunday, I spoke to a party whose friends were on it Saturday. This was apparently "Dave Leahy" and "Jeremy", both of Bellingham.

[layton]

dave leahy! right on!!!

[glassgowkiss]

now that info might not be correct since i have heard Dave Leahy climbed on Summalo Bluff (Buszowski route) on sat.

[Dru]

this was the weekend before (jan 8)not two days ago (jan 15).

[glassgowkiss]

i know. and that's the day i am talking about. this info is from coley.

[Steddy]

i sent jeremy and dave's emails to don before these posts with what i knew from dave himself.

[Don_Serl]

many thanks, all you guys. you're all splendid!

cheers,

[Don_Serl]

best info to date is that Dave Leahy and Jeremy Allyn climbed Cruel Pools complete on Sat Jan 8/05.

 

any prior claims to the fame and glory that goes with this astonishing piece of advancement in Coastal ice climbing?

 

(but seriously, when it comes in, it sounds like the House of Sky of the Fraser Valley, and a great alternative to the Mousetrap)

 

cheers,