[TR] Sweet Renton Granite - 1/23/2008

[tvashtarkatena]

Trip: Sweet Renton Granite -

 

Date: 1/19/2008

 

Trip Report:

 

At Alex’s suggestion, he, Rafael, and I headed for Issaquah for some Sweet Renton drytooling. The three 30 meter routes actually turned out to be really fun. The crag is a 3 minute walk south of the Cougar Mt. trailhead on SR900, just S of Issaquah.

 

In any case, mid winter TRs are few and far between, so this is whatcha get.

 

 

 

Alex on the right-most route

 

 

 

“WTF is he doing up there?” Rafael

 

 

 

Ice or gardening tool? The author on the right-most route

 

 

 

Alex becomes 1 ½ with the rock

 

 

 

“Armenian Technique” footwork. Rafael on the left side

 

 

 

Searching for a solid mud placement.

 

 

 

Gear Notes:

Tarp for the mud

 

Approach Notes:

Can be done alpine style.

Edited January 23, 2008 by tvashtarkatena

[rob]

Do you recommend that most parties should bivvy?

[selkirk]

Dry tooling in the daylight is aid. It's best done by headlamp and in the rain.

 

Great place to spend a few hours

[rob]

I thought sweet Renton drytooling was what happens when your hooker runs out of lube

 

looks like fun, guys

Edited January 23, 2008 by rob

[Mountainstyle]

I thought sweet Renton drytooling was what happens when your hooker runs out of lube

 

Wow, that made my day.

[klar404]

I'm curious if the access fund sign is still up there at crap crag.

[Doug]

That crag was created when Chuck Norris gave a roundhouse kick to the side of Cougar Mountain.

[Jens]

As for the AF sign, I took it down, relaminated it and hung it back up about 4 years ago. I haven't been out their in 3 years since moving in to the City.

 

The place (spy rock) actually has quite a history.

And for you sportos, their are eliminant problems up to V6.

 

[pink]

nice avatar

[Buckaroo]

It's not granite

 

there are a couple of other routes there you can TR

 

there's also a nice ground level traverse off to the left if you're solo

[glm]

Did you suffer the same severe leaf balling problems in your crampons that we did?

[Alex]

yeah, that's one of the (few) troubles with the place. Just gotta commit to washing the crampons after an outing.

[John Frieh]

Did you suffer the same severe leaf balling problems in your crampons that we did?

 

We had a similar problem down here... mud + leaves + precarious belay position. We leveled it and threw down a bail of hay... eliminated the mud issue and as long as you throw down a new bail of hay each year after fall it covers the leaves also