lancegranite Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 Reading my copy of Cascade Companion, Dock Butte is described as limestone cliffs columns and sinkholes. The photo shows only smaller clean boulders. The views should be good. North of Concrete, south of Mt. Baker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jens Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 If somone ferret's out some limestone and opens some routes that would be cool. Marcus is a looong drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyjizzy Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 I will read my geologic map to the area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 If somone ferret's out some limestone and opens some routes that would be cool. Marcus is a looong drive. Chilliwack Valley has, count em, 6 limestone sport routes, 10d-12c, more going up.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancegranite Posted July 26, 2005 Author Share Posted July 26, 2005 Photo by Bob/ Ira Spring, Cascade Companion,1976 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Szyjakowski Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 oh no, lance we aint climbing limestone. we are climbing granitic rocks when you get here...granitic rocks. yah know like in your name....g.r.a.n.i.t.e.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordop Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 NO limestone for BEN!!!! I think Layton may have checked somethign out there a while back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Szyjakowski Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 that shit was marble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Scurlock Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 Dock (or Dock's) Butte is known locally as an easy hike to a great viewpoint for the S side of Baker. Access is off the Schreiber's meadow/Wanlick Pass rd, stay to the L (do not go to Schreiber's), then L again at Wanlick p. on the Blue Lk rd. I do not know any climbing history on it but from flying over it I would say it is not exactly Yosemite-esque. Blue Lk has a black fly rep as I recall. I would be a bit surprised to know that it was limestone, as I thought those deposits were concentrated near the lower end of Lk Shannon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 that shit was marble. I think it was limestone that had lost its marbles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plexus Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 The flies ARE horrible at Blue Lake. I don't remember Dock Butte as an area that I thought of exploring for climbing possibilities. If I remember correctly there were no good looking lines and the rock wasn't that hot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCramer Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 (edited) I wonder what made you think of this? Maybe it's already been found... Edited July 29, 2005 by DCramer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kix Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 geology. look for the marine sedimentary rocks. pukey brownish green color. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Scurlock Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 You are right, there is significant limestone up there; after digging around in my cerebral cortex, I also remembered the following: Halliday, W. R., 1963, Caves of Washington: Washington Division of Mines and Geology Information Circular 40, 132 p., 9 plates. (out of print) I recall reference in this to one of the longer limestone caves in Washington being located W of Dock Butte/Wanlick pass. (I don't own this pamphlet - probably read a copy at the FS years ago). So I was wrong in questioning Dock Butte's dolomitic heritage! No one can accuse me of being a geologist... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 Limestone isn't extremely common anywhere in Western Washington. There are a few deposits that were mined near Granite Falls. Those were abandoned in favor of ones found on Whidbey Island, I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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