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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Can't you at least put some of those copper or nickle strips used to keep moss off house roofs along the top of those dripping mossfests up there?
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MH2
climber
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It was a frustrating evening trying to figure out why Invertigo sounded familiar but was not in any recent guide. Finally this morning I found the '92 guide. All 3 routes at left lower Malemute that go up to a roof and out right should be good. We did at least one of them but not Invertigo.
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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I don't think those strips do any good, although there's immaculately clean whiteness below some of the hydro towers that seems to have to do with metal ions.
JH got much the same effect with his power washer, and probably left the underlying crystals sharp or sharper than a wire brush would have
that said I wondered in the past about a bag of powdered zinc sulfate moss killer and what it would do if left on top of a cliff over the winter...
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Nathan in bondage
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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you gotta have the sixth sense of Ray charles to figure out the crystals on that finishing slab!
Like I could ever get to the finishing slab. That move half-way up where you lever your entire bodyweight off a spike digging into your calf muscle was like God telling me it was time to take up golf.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - May 7, 2014 - 01:42am PT
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Cool pic Ryan! Nice work Nathan!!
Dave- that description doesn't make it sound fun!! Lol
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Time to start thinking about summer in the alpine...
This little crag is outside Pemberton, just south of the Miller? Creek hydro project. Probably a two hour approach from the road to the intake. Talk to Innergex to get access.
As far as I know, totally untouched... looks like some nice buttress lines. Let me know if you check it out.
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MH2
climber
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good food for thought
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - May 8, 2014 - 01:05pm PT
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Ooooooooooooohhhh!! Dru puts up the carrot! Me want! Lol
That looks rad! Feel like a trip up to the sea to sky this summer?? ;)
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Hoser
climber
vancouver
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BTW, Meares island has just had a little sprucing up. Nothing as spectacular as the old growth cull of the old days but it should be enough to attract some more action on the handful of mega classics there. Getting up is easy now (no dirty 5.8 solo with a pack on anymore) and its now a nicely cultured garden up there.
Thanks
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sac
Trad climber
Sun Coast B.C.
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May 10, 2014 - 04:06pm PT
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re: scrubbing/scrubbers
This:
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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May 11, 2014 - 02:17am PT
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$4
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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May 11, 2014 - 02:35am PT
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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May 11, 2014 - 02:43am PT
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The belayer is about to yank the other guy's dentures out in the above pic?
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - May 11, 2014 - 04:24am PT
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Pet wall motherfvckers!!! Oh ya... Drunk dial!! Lol
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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May 11, 2014 - 09:41am PT
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It's an old sport climbing trick Todd. The less teeth you have, the less you weigh, the more you send. Works best with a grigri.
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harryhotdog
Social climber
north vancouver, B.C.
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May 11, 2014 - 12:05pm PT
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Perry, didn't I belay you on your send of "Last train to Hicksville" around 1990 or was it another face climb down there?
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MH2
climber
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May 11, 2014 - 02:37pm PT
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Nice rope action, Ryan.
Another threat to your teeth on that climb.
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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May 12, 2014 - 10:59am PT
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Although the $4 red-handled wire brush is great, and soooo much better than those crappy 99 cent store wooden brushes that you had to keep sawing the end off as the wires fell out,
"the yellow" (3rd from left in image above)
Is also desirable, because it is wider and hence cleans slabs much faster than the narrow magic red.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - May 12, 2014 - 11:03am PT
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Any leads on where to purchase an item like that Dru?
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SuperTopo on the Web
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Let us know!