Sherri Posted October 16, 2007 Posted October 16, 2007 Thanks, hun! I'm glad Kelster and I hung around a bit on that first night...easier to get to know folks when it's a smaller group. Interesting to hear about your "Trees at Risk" test too. Good luck with that! Quote
Sherri Posted October 16, 2007 Posted October 16, 2007 I think you're right, Bug. Looks like she's already double-posting to fatten up her count. Â Glad you had a good run up Midway! Quote
Bug Posted October 16, 2007 Posted October 16, 2007 I think you're right, Bug. Looks like she's already double-posting to fatten up her count. Â Glad you had a good run up Midway! Excellent beta by the way. I liked the howling dog. Â Quote
KaskadskyjKozak Posted October 16, 2007 Posted October 16, 2007 Â I wasn't at rope-up, but I was at Castle Rock on Sunday, and knocked out Sabre and Midway as my (2nd and 3rd ever) multipitch alpine leads. Just started leading on rock about a year ago. Not many folks there... I kept asking people if they had come for the cc.com rope up or not. Â Quote
Bug Posted October 16, 2007 Posted October 16, 2007 Is Sabre the 5.8 to the left of jello tower a couple lines? Quote
KaskadskyjKozak Posted October 16, 2007 Posted October 16, 2007 Is Sabre the 5.8 to the left of jello tower a couple lines? Â I think that you are talking about Canary. Sabre is like 5.4 or 5.5, and yes it's a few lines passed Jello Tower - around Castle Rock going clockwise. Quote
Bug Posted October 16, 2007 Posted October 16, 2007 Thanks. But I was talking about the other way. I saw a couple guys on it as I was leaving Sunday. Looked fun. Quote
KaskadskyjKozak Posted October 16, 2007 Posted October 16, 2007 Thanks. But I was talking about the other way. I saw a couple guys on it as I was leaving Sunday. Looked fun. Â On Jello tower itself? I think those routes are (going clockwise) 5.8, 5.10, and 5.9 (the crack on the other side). Don't know about anything further left... Quote
Bug Posted October 16, 2007 Posted October 16, 2007 No. Left of Jello tower. There is Dmanation Crack 5.9 right in the corner on the west side of jello, then a couple more lines to the left/west is the one I'm talking about. Canary is the other way, to the right of Jello tower. Quote
KaskadskyjKozak Posted October 16, 2007 Posted October 16, 2007 No. Left of Jello tower. There is Dmanation Crack 5.9 right in the corner on the west side of jello, then a couple more lines to the left/west is the one I'm talking about. Canary is the other way, to the right of Jello tower. Â ah, I didn't notice those lines. Cool. Â Quote
TrogdortheBurninator Posted October 16, 2007 Posted October 16, 2007 Maybe you are talking about Saints Quote
Bug Posted October 16, 2007 Posted October 16, 2007 Maybe you are talking about Saints Yup. That's right. I forgot until you posted it. Quote
markwebster Posted October 16, 2007 Posted October 16, 2007 Chris (crillz) and I hooked up again via cc.com and came over for the festivities. We stopped at index on the way over saturday am and did princely ambitions. I backed off at the crux and Chris finished it out very cleanly. Â Next we let a variation on Lizard, finishing on the beautiful 5.6 hand crack up to the 5 bolt station. While I was getting ready to belay there, a woman began top roping the 5.6 crack. She was very photogenic and I snapped these photos of her. Her belayer was amused and commented: "Those will end up on cascadeclimbers.com, right?". I replied that they might actually, surprised that he'd heard about cc.com. As we went through the weekend, it seemed that everyone was talking about cc.com. Â Her partner commented that he'd been out of climbing for a couple decades. I asked him what he'd been doing instead. He said one of his diversions was singing opera. I asked him if he'd sing a few bars, and damned if he didn't...the dude was awesome. Who would have thought I'd ever hear opera sung, 2 pitches up on a granite cliff? Climbers are cool! Â Â Â Â Â Â We stopped in at the eight mile group site and watched a couple slide shows, but didn't get to socialize as we were tired and headed off to the secret free spot to crash. Â The next morning we hiked up to Poison Ivy crack, which turned out to be much shorter than I'd imagined, though it's a great spot for taking pictures of your follower. That exit move is easier than I thought, next time perhaps I can do it without hanging, and falling, and sewing in so much gear. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Does anyone know who owns that bizarre hippie kind of house below Poison Ivy? The house looks kind of like something you'd expect to see on a commune back in the sixties: built into the boulders with very little woodwork. Â We headed over to castle after that and did south face of jello combined with midway direct. Midway direct is a very cool climb as it's only 5.6, but has some vertical sections that look scary, but turn out to have monster jugs you can't see until you commit. Much cleaner rock than the standard second pitch of Midway. Â thanks again to cascadeclimbers for giving us a place to meet! Quote
catbirdseat Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 I'm bummed that I didn't get to meet Mark Webster and Sherri. Quote
MisterMo Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 Maybe you are talking about Saints Yup. That's right. I forgot until you posted it. Â Saints starts up a short dihedral about as far left of Angel Crack as Angel Crack is from Damnation Crack. Quote
Sherri Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 I'm bummed that I didn't get to meet Mark Webster and Sherri. Â That's sweet. How did we miss each other?? Â I think we watched you on Icicle Buttress on Saturday morning. There was a group on R&D for most of the day, then another group doing some stuff to the right that looked fun(one of the climbers wore a white helmet, burgundy shirt). Â Â Quote
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