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Trip: Spring Mountain, WA - Strait Creek Boogie, Rolling Thunder

 

Date: 9/4/2009

 

Trip Report:

The Fat Bastard, The non-Climbing Climber, and Mr. Abb's go to Spring Mt. WA, hitting the calm before the storm

 

The guide:

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The rock:

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1st Pitch Strait Creek Boogie styled by Mr. Abb's

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Second pitch nearly styled by Fat Bastard:

 

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The real Goat Nuts/Ball Jangler and Great Oogglie Booglies!, sweet steep 5.9 called Rolling Thunder, very steep and exposed right off the bat, no slab climbing here, second pitch 5.hard steep roof (not attempted or contemplated by us) awaits FA. 1st pitch follows clean crack and steep featured face next to arete, then pulls bulges on awsome fins:

 

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Great Jiggly Tittlies, the Fat Bastard lead this?

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Hey Fat Bastard!

 

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Steep roof/wall above (poor photo below) takes gear and is bolted awaits FA, Holy Sheep Shit!

 

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Rolling Thunder ascends the crack up to this face to the right of the arete, then over bulges past that:

 

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Gear Notes:

standard rack to 2.5" (TCUs and Tricams helpful)

 

Approach Notes:

Follow hanmans guide:

http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/892735/1

 

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  • 5 weeks later...

Yesterday (October 6, 2009) Jeremy the "the rope-gun Kid" from Everett Vertical World (belayed by fat, but continuing to slim-down, bastard) freed the very steep second pitch of Rolling Thunder after a short fall on the first attempt and a little scrubbing (i.e. removing large moss chunks from key holds. He gives it about 11a. This is not your mothers Darrington slab climb. Props to Mr. Greyell for bolting it. It is pretty clean, but a little more brushing would help. All bolted, but a red camalot is helpful for a the first piece above the belay. Head out left to first bolt, then traverse right, at the steep crux bulge, go up/slightly left (ignore the single bolt out right). Have fun.

Shapp

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I found one by searching trip reports in the archive and there was a link to the topo.

It printed out well but it is like 20 pages.

Here you go!

I could not get the link to work as a clickable link, but if you copy and paste the url it will work.

 

http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/download/Number/4074/filename/Spring%20Topos.pdf

 

 

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Bolting:

 

It is not in the wilderness area. However, please respect the ethic and style like the routes put up so far, now over 50 pitches. Use good natural gear placements where possible regardless if the pitch is mostly bolted or not.

 

If you put up a route, please pm Hanman with details for the historical record.

Thank you.

Shapp

 

Also bolting in the spring while naked is not recommended due to the massive amount of ticks that are present during that season.

 

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