spotly Posted April 16, 2007 Posted April 16, 2007 (edited) Trip: Goat Wall - Prime Rib (of goat) Date: 4/15/2007 Trip Report: Started at 9 and topped out at 3:30. The route was clear and pretty clean. One snow bank on pitch 8 required bypassing the first bolt with a long unprotected but easy traverse. Rock was nice and dry. Wound up as a team of three but swapping leads was still pretty efficient and everyone led their share. A few really good pitches with some nice exposure and a bunch of ok ones. A good route to start off the season. No rockfall problems. Got real lucky with the weather. The route was in the shade till about pitch 6 or so but the temp was just high enough to stay warm and when the sun finally hit the rock....great stuff. Worth the trip from Spokane. Gear Notes: Single rope (we took 2 [team of 3]). 14 Draws. Approach Notes: The approach described on the topo is accurate. Staying in the talus to the right of the path/scree seemed to work best when slogging up the talus field. Dry - no snow on the trail. Edited April 16, 2007 by spotly Quote
kevbone Posted April 16, 2007 Posted April 16, 2007 Looks like fun.....where is the Goat wall? What state? Quote
Dan_Miller Posted April 16, 2007 Posted April 16, 2007 Goat Wall is in Washington, just above Mazama, Okanagon county. Quote
spotly Posted April 16, 2007 Author Posted April 16, 2007 Driving towards the Mazama crag, the TH is about 3 miles from the Mazama store on the right side. Good fun. Some moving of the belays but mostly just pretty good rock with great views. Quote
ianv Posted April 30, 2007 Posted April 30, 2007 awesome, ive been waiting for hwy 20 to open to get back over to mazama. did you notice if the rest of the wall was dry? specifically "restless natives"? thanks. Quote
spotly Posted April 30, 2007 Author Posted April 30, 2007 I know you've been waiting, which is why we headed over there before the grand opening Can't say specifically about that route but there was a large patch of of snow to the east of our route that was still on the wall. I contacted the N. Cascade guides for current beta and they provided pretty accurate info on conditions. Quote
olyclimber Posted April 30, 2007 Posted April 30, 2007 Looks like fun.....where is the Goat wall? What state? A nice hint is which Forum the TR was located in. Quote
AlpineK Posted April 30, 2007 Posted April 30, 2007 You think Kevbone has the time it takes to look at the title of the forum Quote
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