Hey Hot Cherry Bendover is for sale if any u OG's got an extra 3/4 mil layin around? It even comes with a house!
I don't think that house has been on the market recently. Are you getting it confused with the red house at the end of Plateau Dr. with a 20m cliff in the backyard?
Well I might as well flog this old nag some more. Here is a pic taken in 1962, with the route marked, also in 1962. The words were added recently to help Marc B with his new guide.
Original 1962 line of South Arete. The 1966 Math Crack Direct variation is also indicated.
Credit: hamie
Ryan, we didn't do the "sweet crack direct' as the crack on the right was easier. Max 5.4! The bolt referred to by MH was placed later, we used a bong at the top of that section. UF probably thought initially that he had made a FA because he did not see any pin scars. We only placed 4 pins in total, with 2 of those for belays. and 2 for pro including the bong. A single pin was deemed enough for a belay, or for a rappel. [Today some climbers spend more time setting up a station than they spend on the pitch! You need a PhD in mechanical engineering.] Of course we slung lotsa trunks, branches, roots and bushes instead.
When we reached Broadway there was a monster wind blowing [a Squamish wind]. We settled down on what is now called Memorial Ledge for a couple of hours, til it died down. We may have been the first people to visit that spot. Years later I remembered the ledge and the boulder, which coupled with the fact that Jim and I had spent some time there, all made it the obvious place for his plaque. Some time in the afternoon, when we were on Squamish Buttress we made vocal contact with Glenn and his brother Bob. They had just made the 2nd or 3rd ascent of Diedre.
8 or more years ago my friend Aaron Kristiansen [late of Castlegar, now of Squish] and a partner spent a few days cleaning SA, also thinking it was a Beckey route. He was really pissed to hear he had cleaned one of mine [and Jim's] by mistake! Thanks again, Aaron.
It's amazing what you can learn when you turn over a rock......
Happy Birthday to Fred!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EDIT Uploading this photo was chronically slow tonight. I almost gave up , but didn't want to disappoint everyone. Ha Ha.
Sorry to disappoint boys, but South Arete is a Baldwin/Mutch route, 1962. Glad that you enjoyed it.
BIG GRIN fer this. Okay so yeah, I'm a few hrs late and a few cents short but, hey, some of us work evenings. LOVELY SHOTS BEING POSTED !!!!
I have some HCBO pix but have to scan them. Will do it tomorrow if I have time. If not, then Sunday or later. This thread rocks the socks off the rest of the junk on the front page . Just sayin'.
Hamie, your stories/lessons kick ass here man. Very cool to get them from the source, I really liked the words about you & Jim Baldwin on Memorial ledge for the first time.
Pretty awesome to have so much climbing going on & awesome histories on all these routes we get to climb- oh & in January to boot! This thread has got a second wind for sure! Been really cool to meet a bunch of super squampians & get out on the rock these days.
Edit- holy moly Hamie! When was that photo taken? Look at how many trees are in st vitus!!
1959 is a typo by Marc B. Correct date is 1966.
Uncle Fred reported "Math Crack" in the 1967 AAJ, page 366. Info courtesy of MH.
On a positive note,you guys likely did the "Math Crack" variation anyhow, as it is slightly more direct. If so, you did a Beckey route.
Actually, it looks like Mclane's had it wrong for almost 30 years. Did no one ever notice this? Or did he just not care to change it??
Let us know!