The Layton Chronicles

[EWolfe]

I just got a call from Mike reporting he put up the first grade VI climb in the North Cascades this last week.

[olyclimber]

SWEET! Did he cry at any point during the climb?

[EWolfe]

He's wiped out enough that he pushed OUR trip back a day

[Dru]

Is it rated 10dR, or 10d X?

[olyclimber]

Just wait till the day the Queen of England knights him. Then he'll be the cock of the walk.

[JoshK]

I just got a call from Mike reporting he put up the first grade VI climb in the North Cascades this last week.

 

Huh? There are already grade VI climbs in the N cascades.

[EWolfe]

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[Blake]

I just got a call from Mike reporting he put up the first grade VI climb in the North Cascades this last week.

 

Huh? There are already grade VI climbs in the N cascades.

 

What are they, and why isn't Goode's NEB Grade IV?

[wayne]

Mt baring, N. Index, Bear mt, Selesse, Picket Traverses ,All have G-6s. Just let Mike have his little moment to himself.

Cant wait to hear what it is.

[EWolfe]

Maybe he said first at Washington Pass?

 

I thought for sure he said North Cascades...

[wayne]

SHIT! I wanted to that with him if its the one I am thinking of!

[EWolfe]

O.K. I just talked to him, and it is the first one at Washington Pass...

 

My bad.

[JoshK]

SHIT! I wanted to that with him if its the one I am thinking of!

 

 

LOL...cc.com drama unfolds!

[snugtop]

Who cares about Layton, there are rabid owls on the loose!

[Blake]

Washington pass has been a drive-to climbing mecca for decades, it amazes me that new routes get FAed quite regularly. Rock on Mike.

[Dru]

Maybe he meant the first VI at The Gritscone?

[EWolfe]

Maybe he just passed Grade 6?

[foraker]

maybe he meant 5.6 and was just chest beating?

[Dru]

I think making the first ascent of the entire North Cascades should be at least a VII.

[layton]

"Just let Mike have his little moment to himself."

 

i have nothing to do with this thread. sheeeesh!

i'm totally wasted, i'll type a TR tomorrow if i can remember any details. man, somehow the spray starts before i get home!!! too funny! and it's a grade MCMXIIV

[layton]

I think making the first ascent of the entire North Cascades should be at least a VII.

 

if you remember back a couple years ago, Jordop and I did the entire N.cascades in alphabetical order (easier to remember that way)

[sobo]

...and it's a grade MCMXIIV

 

hmmmmm, if'n I knows my Roman nummers right, that's 1913, but you shoulda written it MCMXIII.

[olyclimber]

if you remember back a couple years ago, Jordop and I did the entire N.cascades in alphabetical order (easier to remember that way)

 

OMG YOU'VE JUST GOT TO BE KIDDING WTF OMG!!!!!!!!

[JoshK]

Layton, if you were a real climber, you'd go do the "cascade trifecta", not this new route bullshit.

[olyclimber]

and I can't believe you hired MisterE and not me as your publicist! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE and shit like that. You would be the fuggin prince of arabia by now!