Kat_Roslyn Posted August 30, 2006 Posted August 30, 2006 Amazing!... It gets repeated.... By guys who live hundred of miles away (and 5 minutes from the Icicle) Aren't you two a long ways from home? What inspired you to schwack up there? I live in Bellingham! & found the elusive & cryptic Mike Layton ciggy butt. The shwack sucked but was much better on the way out, the blueberries were a bit too sour to make you happy again whilst being so sad on the approach. The climb was very fun, cool rock, it would be way nice to have a trail through that crap. Blake- we just crossed on logs or took off shoes. Quote
jshamster Posted August 30, 2006 Posted August 30, 2006 Ty & I climbed this in August of last year. Really good route for so close to home! The bridge was out then as well. Easy to cross the river this late in the year. Quote
DirtyHarry Posted August 30, 2006 Posted August 30, 2006 Yeah, Middle Fork was EASY this time of year. Green Creek required some shenanigans - those rocks are slickery! Quote
rat Posted August 31, 2006 Posted August 31, 2006 (edited) Amazing!... It gets repeated.... By guys who live hundred of miles away (and 5 minutes from the Icicle) Aren't you two a long ways from home? What inspired you to schwack up there? i went to college at western, did the obligatory sisters climb, and thought the rock was really cool. i had been interested in revisiting the area for a while. a climbing partner of mine and his family lives in bow so the trip wasn't as out of the way as you think. good thing kat didn't find the empty sixer of schmidt tall-boys that i stashed after smoking that ciggy. oh yeah, we did it in early july and the river crossing was cake. Edited August 31, 2006 by rat Quote
dberdinka Posted August 31, 2006 Author Posted August 31, 2006 Well Sweet! Glad everyone has had as much fun as I did! Quote
layton Posted August 31, 2006 Posted August 31, 2006 Wasn't me! Glad y'all think our route is fun. It wouldn't nearly be so cool if it wasn't in the Sisters range or awesome unique rock...well actually besides the 1st pitch, it's really fun asthetic climbing. Quote
DirtyHarry Posted August 31, 2006 Posted August 31, 2006 Yeah but I thought it was only Grade I, 5.8. Quote
cfire Posted September 11, 2006 Posted September 11, 2006 Mike Lynn and I climbed this yesterday. What a great place and a fun route! It does seem like a different part of the country up there...certainly not western WA. Thanks Darin and Mike for finding the route. And yes, the butt was still at the tree belay... : Quote
Blake Posted September 11, 2006 Posted September 11, 2006 come on people... climb a new line in there while you are at it! There's lot of untrod rock along that valley that would probably yield more nice climbs. There's also a 3.5 DMM cam about 6 pitches up the arete to the right of the Mythic Wall. Quote
G-spotter Posted September 11, 2006 Posted September 11, 2006 I'm here to post on this important thread! Bellingham is almost part of Chilliwack anyway. I like the sound of unclimbed routes and booty. Can anyone post a topo showing location of unclimbed routes and stuck cam? Quote
wayne Posted September 12, 2006 Posted September 12, 2006 I want a detail on the cigarete butt too so I can have the park rangers make Layton go back to retrieve it Quote
Blake Posted September 12, 2006 Posted September 12, 2006 I'm here to post on this important thread! Bellingham is almost part of Chilliwack anyway. I like the sound of unclimbed routes and booty. Can anyone post a topo showing location of unclimbed routes and stuck cam? Cam is not even stuck, just sitting in an obvious spot 3/4 of the way up the Evil Twin route. Quote
layton Posted September 12, 2006 Posted September 12, 2006 I want a detail on the cigarete butt too so I can have the park rangers make Layton go back to retrieve it Not mine. They should make Beckey clean up his garbage on the liberty crack bivy ledge. Quote
Dannible Posted September 14, 2006 Posted September 14, 2006 How big, steep, and broken is the glacier east of Skookum? I'm thinking about looking for something new and am trying to decide if it would be worth it to bring ice stuff, or to just plan on avoiding the glacier. Anyone up for some adventuring (Saterday-Monday)? Quote
AJScott Posted October 2, 2006 Posted October 2, 2006 nice find guys!! Had a blast climbing it on saturday, didnt have fun reversing the bushwack in the dark though. Has anyone thought of trying to stay on the elbow lake trail and dropping straight down into green creek? I got confused on what tree I was supposed to head to on the first pitch and ended up stretching the 60meters out to a higher tree left of where i was supposed to be(guessing) Climbed a hard finger crack for ten feet, then some insecure slopey traversing right led back to the big ledge and from there I was able to climb up to the tree below the 5.10-pitch. (maybe I have been climbing a lot of cracks this summer, but that really didnt feel like 5.10...not trying to be rude or anything.) The roof pitch was great! What a find...guna have to head back up in there next year and do some exploring myself. Quote
tyree Posted October 15, 2006 Posted October 15, 2006 nice find guys!! Had a blast climbing it on saturday, didnt have fun reversing the bushwack in the dark though. Has anyone thought of trying to stay on the elbow lake trail and dropping straight down into green creek? I got confused on what tree I was supposed to head to on the first pitch and ended up stretching the 60meters out to a higher tree left of where i was supposed to be(guessing) Climbed a hard finger crack for ten feet, then some insecure slopey traversing right led back to the big ledge and from there I was able to climb up to the tree below the 5.10-pitch. (maybe I have been climbing a lot of cracks this summer, but that really didnt feel like 5.10...not trying to be rude or anything.) The roof pitch was great! What a find...guna have to head back up in there next year and do some exploring myself. -5.10 Quote
dberdinka Posted July 21, 2008 Author Posted July 21, 2008 Anyone been back in here recently? Print at 150 dpi and it fits nicely on a page. Quote
Tyler Mitchell Posted June 23, 2012 Posted June 23, 2012 While I understand keeping things 'wild' is good, I also thought it would be beneficial to those of you wondering where the climb is, to know. Having not climbed it myself, these pictures are my guess as to where this Mythical Big Wall is located. I am trying to convince my partner to bushwack with me to this climb... When was the last time someone climbed it?! Just how bad is the non-existent trail from the Elbow Lake trail to the scree? See if these links work... _MG_4525 by Tyler Mitchell Photography, on Flickr _MG_4527 by Tyler Mitchell Photography, on Flickr _MG_4488 by Tyler Mitchell Photography, on Flickr Quote
Tyson.g Posted June 23, 2012 Posted June 23, 2012 Go when there is snow covering the brush and is not too bad. Quote
Blake Posted June 23, 2012 Posted June 23, 2012 Your guess is good, it's the face on the right aspect of the left of those two aretes. The schwacking isn't unusually fierce. Quote
dberdinka Posted July 2, 2012 Author Posted July 2, 2012 The approach on the east side is absolutely beautiful and the shwacking is tame (all blueberries, (almost) no devils club). Still if you want pitches go to Squamish, if you want a wilderness experience close to home the Green Creek Valley can't be beat. With a multiday trip in there, either basecamping or traversing you could knock off a lot of good routes from the Mythic Wall, to the South Twin, Skookum, Cinderella..... Quote
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