suburban erratics and rural outcrops

[lancegranite]

The wedgewood thing got me buzzing.

It sounds like there are many small outcrops and strange little areas.

Anybody ever been to these obscure haunts:

 

Van Zandt?

Lake Cavanaugh/ Split Rock?

Granite Falls area?

 

Name your terra obscura!

[ken4ord]

Did someone say Renton?

[Blake]

There is a glacial erratic within a few blocks of UW (I thought north?)

[Tony_Bentley]

Yes, yes and yes.

 

Peter Puget was kind enough to make a copy of the guidebook on Split Rock and it turned out what I thought was a first ascent a few years back was in fact, a second.

I also apologize for the random bolts all over the place out there. Most were for short top-rope problems but at least they are 3/8".

 

I was just thinking about Wedgewood's rock while developing another web project and if it wasn't so protected from the neighborhood, it would be a great place to boulder.

 

NWHikers has a writeup that basically says dont' go there except to look at the rock.

Now why would I go to the rock just to look at it?

[olyclimber]

Now why would I go to the rock just to look at it?

 

there is no way I'd go there unless I can touch and caress it.

[Dechristo]

don't go there

[glacier]

The wedgewood thing got me buzzing.

It sounds like there are many small outcrops and strange little areas.

Anybody ever been to these obscure haunts:

 

Van Zandt?

Lake Cavanaugh/ Split Rock?

Granite Falls area?

 

Name your terra obscura!

 

I saw webbing on the wall opposite Granite Falls several weeks ago - any info? looked like there were a couple of potential lines there.

[counterfeitfake]

There's a bigass boulder in Bothell:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=l&hl=en&q=&near=bothell,+wa&t=h&ll=47.767778,-122.17616&spn=0.001156,0.003251&t=h

 

Haven't looked at it up close since I was a kid. It's got a lot of moss on it.

[Off_White]

There's a kickass white granite erratic in the parking lot at Miles Sand & Gravel in Tenino with at least a half dozen good problems on it. It came a long ways to wind up here.

[Johnny_Tuff]

There's a kickass white granite erratic in the parking lot at Miles Sand & Gravel in Tenino with at least a half dozen good problems on it. It came a long ways to wind up here.

 

Shame, that shit's probably going to wind up in the middle of some suburbian subdivision's community center water feature, surrounded by lily pads and koi.

[northwest_dad]

Elk Rock Island in Portland, It's like some wierd party zone with some sketchy routes accesable only by boat. That's pretty erratic or whatever.....

[G-spotter]

there's a massive granite boulder at renton, in this canyon near the school...

[Mos_Chillin]

 

Erratics Rock!!!

 

Afriend of mine recently found a bunch in the depths of the Snake River that have tumbled far with perfect silt landings....

[Off_White]

There's a kickass white granite erratic in the parking lot at Miles Sand & Gravel in Tenino with at least a half dozen good problems on it. It came a long ways to wind up here.

 

Shame, that shit's probably going to wind up in the middle of some suburbian subdivision's community center water feature, surrounded by lily pads and koi.

 

I dunno, it took their two largest loaders working together to lift it a foot off the ground. It's a gravel pit, and they found the thing underground. I confess, I tried to buy it but the owner didn't really want to sell, and I wasn't sure I could move it.

 

In the same vein, some really large pieces of stone go through town sometimes from the Columbia Granite Quarry down by the Skookumchuck Reservoir. Large as in one piece fits on a large lowboy trailer. My wife and a buddy were going to go in on one to start a bouldering garden, and at $15 a ton the price isn't bad, but the moving and manipulation costs were unwieldy. Pity.

[Johnny_Tuff]

I dunno, it took their two largest loaders working together to lift it a foot off the ground. It's a gravel pit, and they found the thing underground. I confess, I tried to buy it but the owner didn't really want to sell, and I wasn't sure I could move it.

 

He probably knew you already had enough climbing on your property, and was protecting you against a possible hostile takeover by the hordes of PNW climbers who would be unquenchably jealous if you added a sick granite boulder to your collection.

 

It probably wouldn't be so hard to move, though. I mean, you're a contractor; you've got trucks, right? Just get a few pals together and lift it into the back of the F350, and off you go! Or just hoist it onto the roof rack of the Brand X company van?

[Dechristo]

I've got a 15-ton RT58. I'll FedEx it to ya if you pay the postage.