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[pdawg]

I've got little more than a month left in the Northwest and I want to swing some tools before I leave. Any suggestions for a casual (up to WI3plus) long route? I've heard of some stuff on Hood but do any classic, not-to-be-missed rambles come to mind?

Edited October 2, 2007 by pdawg

[catbirdseat]

Still a bit too early for the North Face routes and too early for Wayne's favorite crag too.

[pdawg]

CBS,

 

But a month from now? I've been here a year but I wasn't climbing last fall. Which is to say, I took off from climbing last fall...Would they be filling in by Halloween?

[catbirdseat]

I recall that November is the usual month for the North Face routes. I think I-Rock is later than that.

[pdawg]

Is I-rock on Hood, or elsewhere?

 

Granted, I'm being lazy, but with limited time left for rock routes, I want to avoid all non-essential research. For research often turns into an ends not a means, leaving me with cheeto-stained guidebooks, a chair-numbed ass and no climbing. In Colorado, people start talking about alpine stuff about now as we don't have much in the way of summer snow slogs. I was hoping to find something generously iced, forgivingly mixed and close to the road. Also, I'd like a pony made of gold...

[G-spotter]

With a strong La Nina you may have trouble finding moderate alpine WI under ten feet of fresh wet snow

[pdawg]

Thanks. I'll take that as a hint to focus on rock for the duration of my stay.

[Couloir]

Is I-rock on Hood...?

Yes

[pdawg]

Having scanned the usual suspects (this site, mountain project, summit post), I don't see any reference to a route called or resembling I-rock on Hood.

 

Is this the mountaineering equivalent of having someone page Mike Hunt?

 

I did find plenty of references to the North face and Steel Cliffs. Is I-rock one of those couloirs?

[dan_forester]

look for "illumination rock"