I'm moving to Oregon!

[iceaxe23]

Hello all, I have been on this sight for years and only visited the cascades to climb on vacation over the last 10 years. Well I got a job transfer to your state!

 

Just need to find a town near portland to live and some climbing friends!

 

 

Cheers!

[ivan]

congrats - good call on bringin a job w/ you too

[billcoe]

The jobs tend to run on the West Side of town (Beaverton, Hillsboro) while the climbing tends more on the easterly part. So, depending on where your job is, don't live east of your job and you'll most likely be fine.

 

Welcome to Oregon!

[Water]

awesome on ya! yeah find where your work is and unless you live close to it, try to stay on that side of the river or you're in for traffic fun one way or another.

[iceaxe23]

I will be working near woodburn, so I guess I need to find a place south of portland.

 

How is Wilsonville?

 

Anyone need a roomate

 

or know a nice place to rent from?

[JosephH]

What work is happening down that way? You'll be a ways out of town, but the idea of not living far from work still holds. You could probably get away with from Wilsonville (14 miles) on up to Durham / Lake Oswego (25 miles), but not really any further north than that I would think. At least living north a bit you'll be going opposite of most traffic.

[iceaxe23]

What work is happening down that way? You'll be a ways out of town, but the idea of not living far from work still holds. You could probably get away with from Wilsonville (14 miles) on up to Durham / Lake Oswego (25 miles), but not really any further north than that I would think. At least living north a bit you'll be going opposite of most traffic.

 

 

A retail management position. I am really thinking Wilsonville because of the distance. I will temporarily stay in Corvallis at a friends.

Edited April 19, 2011 by iceaxe23

[JosephH]

Probably in the outlet mall I'm guessing. Wilsonville will work fine. Good luck and give us a shout once you're here.

[iceaxe23]

Probably in the outlet mall I'm guessing. Wilsonville will work fine. Good luck and give us a shout once you're here.

 

Yes in the outlet mall,

and thanks for the info.

I should be there sometime after may 7th!

 

 

 

 

[iceaxe23]

Just got in....LONG drive, but have the week off. Going to climb something this week.

Edited May 9, 2011 by iceaxe23

[JosephH]

Just got in....LONG drive, but have the week off. Going to climb something this week.

 

Will be going out either tue, thu, or fri - I'll pm you with my info.

[iceaxe23]

so far only climbed at OSU. Who would have known that I have been belaying wrong for almost 20 years

 

Glad that epic ordeal of getting belay certified is over

 

 

Well now I'm a local...

 

My climbing history started years ago at Devil's lake Wisconsin in the late 80's and over the years climbed many of the cascade volcanoes and popular rock faces in the US.

 

I have climbed Rainier 6 times and never summited (only mt I never summited) due to weather or not adjusting well to altitude (yes I made it to camp muir in a couple hours once but my head wanted to explode). So I would like to get myself back up to speed on all aspects of alpine climbing and do rainier again soon (and often). The times that I acclimatized well the weather just was horrible, go figure.

 

Rock climbing on plastic I'm a solid 5.10+ climber and trad lead I would say 5.8 but love easy 5.6 to 5.7's ( my favorite climb as been the owen spalding on the grand)

 

I'm also 35 so sometimes have some old man strength which is a good thing.

 

So the only thing hardman about me is my yellow closed cell foam pad.

 

Cheers and glad to be living here now

 

daniel