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RyanD

climber

Squamish

Jun 27, 2014 - 01:14pm PT

Sick stuff altieboo!

Props on ur send of Luminance u posted a ways back too. My friend Charlie did the second or third of that one. I gave him a spot & it was terrifying, he made me build a gear anchor & I had to lean out over the pit ready to tension swing into a body check to knock him down in the pads if he popped, lol luckily he hiked it cause it was free send day.

Incredible, harrowing line that one is.

ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber

extraordinaire

Jun 29, 2014 - 10:18am PT

E Robinson

climber

Salinas, CA

Jun 29, 2014 - 10:59pm PT

RyanD

climber

Squamish

Jul 17, 2014 - 06:02pm PT

My friend Dave showed me a rad roof project yesterday that he cleaned up. Wow, so cool.

Jaybro

Social climber

Wolf City, Wyoming

Jul 17, 2014 - 07:11pm PT

The birthday boy on life without parole, more (& more serious) to follow.

RyanD

climber

Squamish

Jul 19, 2014 - 11:59am PT

Where's the rest of those Bday shots Jaybro??

And Jeremy, yes that problem would be worthy of export for sure, but would probably be easier if you and your brother just came up here and climbed it to avoid paying duty.

RyanD

climber

Squamish

Jul 20, 2014 - 08:26pm PT

So a few people have commented on some of my shots about the moss or cleaning process so here's some pics of the process to give you a bit of an idea about developing boulders around here.

So this face has 2 classic lines apparently, first climbed in 97 I think. Anyways we wanted to do them but it looked like they had gotten a little scruffy.

We set to work.

Nina and Kyle showed up and pitched in.

After a few hours we had this.

We cleaned it properly so the moss would not grow back, it also yielded 2 fun new problems. A easy but very high arête up the elephant trunk on the right & a fun high slab around the corner. Fun!

Then we got on this.

RyanD

climber

Squamish

Jul 20, 2014 - 08:40pm PT

I figured someone like you would say something like that Randisi & I could see how from a different perspective it could seem inappropriate. All I really can say is that you should come climb here and check out the forest and the treasures buried beneath the jungle.

Relic

Social climber

Weenie

Jul 20, 2014 - 08:46pm PT

It's like napalm.

Yup, yur gonna die.

The Call Of K2 Lou

Mountain climber

North Shore, BC

Jul 20, 2014 - 09:21pm PT

We cleaned it properly so the moss would not grow back

C'mon, it always grows back up here. If I didn't scrub it every few months, the top of my backyard boulder would have a growth that thick within 2 years.

drljefe

climber

El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson

Jul 20, 2014 - 09:22pm PT

Hey Ryan-
I hear all the boulders have already been scrubbed.....

IN HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111666

RyanD

climber

Squamish

Jul 20, 2014 - 09:49pm PT

Hey flip flop easy bud, have you ever climbed here? What do you know about local ethics and history of bouldering in Squamish? Have you done FAs here which required no cleaning?

People had asked me how we deal with the moss so I posted about it. This is how things are done here, It's a nice fantasy to think you can walk into a rainforest and find gleaming cubes of granite all ready to climb but that's not how it goes down. You guys should see the efforts that go into development for cragging and multipitch up this way, your fukkin head would probably explode.

As mentioned, come climb here. I'll even give you the tour, then form your opinion.

if you don't like it.

well........

I'll call the border and tell them you have a kilo of blow up your a*# ;-)

drljefe

climber

El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson

Jul 20, 2014 - 10:25pm PT

Randizzle, you ever been to the Milks?

Totally unclimbable if it weren't for the Squamish Boyz visiting in the off season. ;-)

Thanks Ryan.

yanqui

climber

Balcarce, Argentina

Jul 21, 2014 - 06:02am PT

It's amazing what the combination of an almost total lack of annual precipitation mixed with dry desert air can do with respect to cleaning moss and lichens off of boulders.

Flip Flop

Trad climber

Truckee, CA

Jul 21, 2014 - 07:12am PT

Of course, how naive, rainforests are secondary to your very important little ambitions. My bad.
Do you actually kill the animals yourself or just pretend that they moved away.

RyanD

climber

Squamish

Jul 21, 2014 - 09:51am PT

You could answer my questions flip flop, or you could carry on with grossly exaggerated, built for anonymous Internet forum user type assumptions like you seem to like to do. I was trying to be cool about it but you just want to speculate on something you know nothing about and call names?

Or you could post some climbing content on the climbing thread rather than making your first posts here inflammatory and trying to start an argument.

I'd be interested in a conversation or hearing how you develop boulder problems, but if that is how you want to be about then you can eat a giant bag of dicks.

You don't know sh#t about climbing up here.

I could make a wild assumption like you and say you don't know sh#t about climbing at all. My hunch is you have probably never developed a bouldering area or made contributions in the way of new routing at all, anywhere. But I don't know you so speculation like that just wouldn't be fair.

Anyways i'm going to go climbing now.

splitclimber

climber

Sonoma County

Jul 21, 2014 - 10:54am PT

this type of cleaning happens in many coastal environments. We have lots of moss at most of my local bouldering spots. Lots of hard work to clean, but there are no baby bunnies getting slaughtered, or salamanders or rare plants or epiphytes, only.......MOSS.

It just doesn't grow back as quick as in BC. :)