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MH2

Boulder climber

Andy Cairns

Dec 21, 2016 - 05:37pm PT

Thanks, Clint.

Bill Noble

climber

Golden BC

Dec 22, 2016 - 07:30am PT

Yes, thanks for that Clint. Yup, just purchased a scanner and now my whole world is turned around. Heh! Mebe I'll post photos right way around? That blue line should go a little higher for sure. A "little" higher and to the right.....oh, now you're scratch'in it.

Oplopanax

Mountain climber

The Deep Woods

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 22, 2016 - 10:30am PT

nice catch Clint.

Bill Noble

climber

Golden BC

Dec 23, 2016 - 02:12pm PT

Bill Noble

climber

Golden BC

Dec 23, 2016 - 02:13pm PT

Bill Noble

climber

Golden BC

Dec 23, 2016 - 02:14pm PT

Bill Noble

climber

Golden BC

Dec 23, 2016 - 02:16pm PT

Okay, so after conferring with the "last of the red hot lovers"...from the first belay ledge the traveled ground goes up the obvious corner, past the roofy section to a ledge just visible near the center of the photo. From the ledge Nick attempted to aid a tenuous thin vertical crack (A3+). We bailed. The following year ('87) he made about a half a pitch headway from the same ledge to be shut down by deteriorating rock (the belay being in the line of fire). There's a single bolt up there somewhere at the high point.

Bill Noble

climber

Golden BC

Dec 28, 2016 - 09:47am PT

Here's a couple of more beta photos from negatives recently found.

Bill Noble

climber

Golden BC

Dec 28, 2016 - 09:51am PT

Chinese Puzzle Wall right hand side.

healyje

Trad climber

Portland, Oregon

Dec 28, 2016 - 10:27am PT

Love roofs, but this reminds me of Canon in that 'a-60x60x60-block-might-easily-be-gone-tomorrow' sort of way.

MH2

Boulder climber

Andy Cairns

Dec 28, 2016 - 10:48am PT

True, though Cannon is slapdash compared to this precision Production & Delivery facility.

Mark MAFFE

climber

all the world's a climb

Oct 24, 2017 - 02:09am PT

Nice job Micro_Marc! Looks like a radical line you guys took up that wall and with what looks like some very quality rock to boot!

I did find a good pic from that early attempt with Fred Beckey and Steve Must and will post...Crazy memories of Canadian jaunts with Fred in those days... I seem to remember the laugh attacks spurred on by Fred's shenanigans while on the road/approach days more than the actual climbing itself. One thing I will never forget is that awestruck feeling, blown away by the sight of some of the places he took us to, relatively unknown areas that no other climbers were talking about. There are many gems in the greater Western Canada area...

Mark MAFFE

climber

all the world's a climb

Oct 24, 2017 - 02:12am PT

Oplopanax

Mountain climber

The Deep Woods

Topic Author's Reply - Oct 24, 2017 - 01:44pm PT

Because it was never noted here in this thread, here is the full history of the CPW (from Brette's AAJ article, as compiled from here and other sources)

"The wall has had five known attempts. In 1986 and ’87, Nick Jones, Bill Noble, and Kirt Sellers made two unsuccessful ground-up attempts on a line near the middle of the wall they called the Warlock. Then, in 1994, Fred Beckey, Mark Maffe, and Steve Must tried to climb the wall, but were stymied after the first two pitches. In 2000, Michael Crapo and Ben Demenech got a few pitches up and bailed due to loose blocks. Finally, Tony McLane and Dan Tetzlaff made an attempt in 2008 but took a scary gear-ripping fall on pitch one and bailed."

The Crapo/Demenech attempt line was closer to the Jones/Noble/Sellers and had intended to pass by the "Roman helmet" feature in the middle of the wall (double roofs with column that looks vaguely like a gladiator helmet). Still not sure whereabouts McLane and Tetzlaff got to.