Peter_Puget Posted December 4, 2002 Posted December 4, 2002 Does anyone have good (as in specific) directions to that overhanging sport climbing Mecca known as Butler Bluff? Tried to find it Sunday but failed! Quote
vegetablebelay Posted December 4, 2002 Posted December 4, 2002 I heard it's down somewhere in Renton by the school. Quote
Peter_Puget Posted December 4, 2002 Author Posted December 4, 2002 Silly! No it is a real place definately not really a Mecca but it does have a few very overhanging routes I hear are worth checking out on a rainy day. Quote
Peter_Puget Posted December 5, 2002 Author Posted December 5, 2002 SOmebody help before Saturday! P-L-E-A-S-E Quote
Peter_Puget Posted March 7, 2003 Author Posted March 7, 2003 Well crappy weekend coming up and I thought I'd try again to find that ElDorado of the NW - Butler Bluff! Anyone with helpful beta for finding it? Â PP Quote
ccs Posted June 26, 2003 Posted June 26, 2003 Is this what you're looking for? Â Butler's Bluff Quote
Eerie Posted June 26, 2003 Posted June 26, 2003 P - You must be REALLY hard up if you're looking for THAT place!! Quote
Peter_Puget Posted June 26, 2003 Author Posted June 26, 2003 I heard a couple of routes there are fun - spill the beans! Â PP Quote
ccs Posted June 26, 2003 Posted June 26, 2003 Peter_Puget said: I heard a couple of routes there are fun - spill the beans! Â PP Â Never climbed there. Just saw your post, figured it was worth looking into, and used Google to find directions. If you end up checking the place out, share the goods. Quote
Eerie Posted June 26, 2003 Posted June 26, 2003 I only remember one decent(?) bolted route possibly hard 10 easy 11....not a fun hike, not good views, really nothing spectacular. I remember rapelling from the top to get to the routes....I also remembering seeing a big chunk or sharp rock with blood on it at the base of one very steep "project." Apparently several weeks before I was up there a couple of guys were climbing and the leader pulled the rock off the wall. The 50+ lb rock landed on his leg = compound fracture and a helicopter ride to the hospital. Â That was several years ago so who knows? Maybe the local developer up there has done more digging around but Eldorado of the NW??? I dunno about that. Quote
Peter_Puget Posted June 26, 2003 Author Posted June 26, 2003 Thanks. Spent a rainy day looking for the place got close but didn’t quite find it. I heard that there were several very overhanging almost roof-like routes there. DId you see those?  PP Quote
gapertimmy Posted June 26, 2003 Posted June 26, 2003 i like how peter-p rates his threads five stars. Quote
Eerie Posted June 26, 2003 Posted June 26, 2003 Yeah, they were near featureless though and any flakes would easily cruble off. Again, that was several years ago...if you've got the time on a rainy day may as well go for a little bit more adventuring. Quote
Peter_Puget Posted June 26, 2003 Author Posted June 26, 2003 Timmy - Truth in advertising! Â Eerie - Thanks for the info. On the approach did you go by an old tower? Quote
Eerie Posted June 26, 2003 Posted June 26, 2003 sorry, don't remember much about the approach other than it was on an old access/logging road with *at the time* a bunch of fallen trees and some dirt bike activity. You should just call Dallas Kloke up in Anacortes. He should be listed in the phone book and can probably tell you exactly how to get there. Quote
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