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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 19, 2015 - 09:00pm PT
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But we had fun. It's April 18th and the North-West Coast (BC for Canadians) had been pretty dry and sunny recently. But work has been sub-optimal (other words edited out), and I haven't set hand to real rocksince early October. So:
Pick up Mark on a beautiful moring in Seattle:
There are worse destinations:
We were just going to top rope: But this looked so within my wheelhouse and easier than setting up a TR so I got my first lead of the year and in 6 months and it went OK.
We then setup top ropes on some other steeper and more challenging routes. I can't remember the name of the area, but it's early and towards the bottom of the canyon near Playground(?) rock. I'm not being coy, I'll come up with then name if pressed. We went there last fall and were creeped out and fled due to brown wasps disgorging from the cracks.
Pretty easy but gritty and rarely climbed routes did this to our out of shape hands (I know technique had all to do with it)
Then we speculated about doing Outer Space again and maybe a Gothic Basin rock trip. I'm achy but not injured, so life could be worse, but what I said about my job.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Apr 19, 2015 - 09:08pm PT
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but what I said about my job.
At least you got out for a day, so count your blessings. In the last eight months I've been lucky to get a couple of hours for a bike ride or a bit of weeding in the garden.
I decided to go out for a walk a couple of minutes ago, but it's pushing 85 degrees and 100% humidity in Hong Kong right now, so I turned around and went straight back into the hotel, back to my room, and back to work.
Edit: And I hope the cat survived. (That last photo...)
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Apr 20, 2015 - 06:57am PT
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if ever i found myself
wanted, i would find that
trail.
the one by the creek there.
it might be soon,
because i was swooning
this handsome gal at
the sin-bench the other
night....
i thought that i was just
making fun conversation
and some awkward laughter,
for she was playfully engaged.
she: "i'm trying to wrap my
head around balance transfers.."
he: "you should wrap your mouth
around my biological transfer."
and etc.
after she got her buzz
smoothed out
she told me that she'd never
had someone come on to her
like me.
"your's was the most pleasant
and welcome attack that I've
ever enjoyed."
and the she left.
i'm certain that she
informed the heat
of my 'attack'
and now i'm on the run.
i was considering the sea.
but i ain't no sailor,
surely the waves would
upset me,
so instead i'll hike your river,
unto.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Apr 20, 2015 - 07:35am PT
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I miss visits to Leavenworth. In the 1970's & early 80's, we'd fill a car with gear & people & drive about 285 miles from Moscow, ID to Leavenworth for climbing. Good times! (haven't been back since moving to S. Idaho in 1983).
Good times------Except maybe for this trip over an ice-glazed log on our way up to Colchuck for a winter ascent of it's north face.
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pc
climber
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Apr 20, 2015 - 08:03am PT
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Good going! It was a great weekend up here that's for sure. Alas, the garden claimed me. I did work on some climbing vegetables though...
pc
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 20, 2015 - 08:18am PT
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No such thing as a bad weekend in Leavenworth, Washington that is.
At first I thought yer first pic was at Midnight, but I'm relieved to see you're more sensible.
Next week you can go up there, eh? ;-)
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 21, 2015 - 08:26am PT
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I'm honored by the cast of the respondents.
This crag was called Central Park. I'm not sure that the climb itself was in the guide. It was short and the soft side of 5.8, and so a far cry from the routes on Midnight Rock.
w.r.t. Midnight Rock
Not long after I moved to Seattle, I did Beckey&Hornbein's Wild Traverse up on Midnight Rock. What a cool climb! From the start, one gets really good views of the awesome looking OW climbs Black Widow and Easter Overhang *. At the time I still fancied myself a better than decent offwidth climber, and I really really wanted to get back up there to try those two with the new-to-me wide cams.
Unfortunately or not, steady work, work-stress as well as too much time at the College Inn wreaked havoc with my fitness, and I never got back up to Black Widow and Easter Overhang.
Here's a link to a Cascade climbers photo by "olyclimber" of both Black Widow and Easter Overhang, check out the page at: http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/725891/ROTC_question
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Apr 21, 2015 - 12:13pm PT
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I'm envious, Darwin, but I have a strong likelihood of making it to the Valley on Saturday. Thanks for the posts and pictures.
John
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the goat
climber
north central WA
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Apr 21, 2015 - 02:23pm PT
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I've done Easter Overhang three times in my life, the first time was the hardest. Might have been the Robbins boots and 3" bongs that gave me trouble.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 26, 2015 - 08:16pm PT
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^ I'm in envious awe that you did that three times.
Sat April 25.
Given the mention of Midnight Rock: I feel compelled to mention: look you all, the best thing one could say about my climbing is that I really love doing it, and relative to my very modest abality, I'm not a bad leader. Really after winter up here we start at 5.6 or 5.7, or on something like last week I can just tell I can lead. At this point in the season, I doubt there is a climb on Midnight that I could lead.
This week was less sunny and did considerably headier climbs. Excuse the bit depth in the photos. I forgot my camera and fell back to the world's cheapest "smart phone" camera.
The drive up over Steven's Pass had us a little worried about conditions, but those of you have climbed on the east side of the Cascades have time and time again driven through pouring rain between Skykomish and Steven's Pass only to have to apply sun screen in Icicle Canyon.
Recently Mark and I have shared a progression through the climbing season: my lead head is better early on and we stick to slabs, even if run-out. By the end of the season I'm taking tension on steeper cracks that Mark lead. We're still in the slabs season, so we went to a new-for-us area: DUESL(DeepUndergroudScienceLab, no shit) Dome, with a (in keeping with the subject) stop at the humble The Geode.
Here's mark on neat looking but short gem on the Geode.
Always nice views from the upper north side of upper Icicle Canyon.
Mark
I might extract a frame from a movie (mp4) of Mark following the roof on a mostly slabby and mostly pretty ef'n run-out "5.7" Neutrino Bambino on DUESL . It's not quite as 5.7 as that last stemming pitch on the Yawn, but it had all too much lichen on it. We then top roped a 5.9 to the right of that with even more lichen. I had a really hard time with that, but eventually did get it clean.
the extracted first frame:
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Apr 30, 2015 - 06:10pm PT
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Hooray, Darwin!
Glad to hear you got out on the Leavenworth rock.
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Dave Davis
Social climber
Seattle, WA
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Easter is more hands and fist than ow. Where it gets wide there's a nice flake to grab inside. Anyway I think the rating in the current guide might scare people off a great and fairly moderate climb. Black Widow on the other hand is significantly harder and always gave me fits. Can't believe they get the same rating...
Loved Midnight, but clearly out of my league at this point of my life. Learned to climb in Leavenworth BITD and still enjoy going there when possible.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, Darwin...
wow, what a great trip share, thank you so much for thinking of us all...
aww, cute kitty, too...
and, wow, the snow road... glad you were safe, driving through all that...
loved all the photos...
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 3, 2015 - 09:07am PT
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Thanks for all the feedback. We stayed on the West Side and pushed the grades (NOT ;-) at Index. Boy it's nice not having to do the long drive home from Leavenworth. Corner Flash 5.7 and first pitch of Even Steven provide pretty good early season fist & hand crack practice for us at least. We'll probably search Leavenworth for more lower angle obscurities for our next local trip, though.
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StefanS
Trad climber
Leavenworth WA
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Hey Darwin
If Midnight Rock is still on your radar, I would recommend Flame linked to Apron. It ends up being three or four pitches of moderate climbing, with great views.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Darwin -- do you ever climb at Squamish? If you're looking for a place with boatloads of moderate climbing, Squamish is hard to beat. And not all that far from Seattle.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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playing it as it lies is a golf expression but if applied to climbing; whats is local and the shortest drive can be the better rock of choice, the best rock is the closest rock, as we get older.
Cheers and thanx for a fun ride . thanx for driving</;+D
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 19, 2015 - 06:35pm PT
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Midnight Rock is on the list for the end of the season after I get in shape and thanks for the pointer to the Flame/Apron link. My climbing partner has never been up there! I would love to go to Squamish again, but the boarder crossing and drive through Surrey makes me want to only do it when I have a little more time.
'''Accruing a carbon debt tangent''' ( but really I have cycled to work pretty much every day rain or shine over the last 22 years)
I like the "Play It As It Lies" reference, but last week I left warm and sunny Washington just in time for a short birthday/family visit to CA during/after the biggest snow storm of the year down there (in effing May! for F sake). Nonetheless, I had a really nice trip with good friends to the Eastside(Benton) and Lover's Leap and got a few pitches in. Coming down from Washington, the Sierra Nevada are such a trip w.r.t altitude.
Snowy Eastside May 10,2015
Adlai and Tony
Benton Crags
White Mountains(be still my heart)
Back to the regularly scheduled program:
Back in Washington last Saturday, I headed up for another trip to the DUSEL Dome area. It was a good day despite seeing two rattlers and me ending up with a tick embedded and going for my jugular. No sh#t, it was in my neck.
I'm tempted to claim that that Neutrino Bambino is the best moderate slab route anywhere, but I know that's wrong. It is pretty good for Leavenworth, though. It didn't feel nearly so heady leading it the second time. This would be a good route for those breaking into the 5.7 grade after only climbing in gyms. ;-) NOT! hehehe.
Bill was along as a third, so I was able to take some photos. We started up around the corner from DUSEL at Crowbar Crag. I saw a fair sized rattler (about 16") on the way up and we came across another baby one at the base of one of the climbs.
We thought this route, Horn of Plenty, was the best on this Crowbar Crag. Really nice route Viktor! We didn't do the more intimidating looking corner route to the right.
Baby rattler with no rattles yet!
Bill
Mark. Isn't there butt-shot thread?
moi, at the crag.
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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May 19, 2015 - 06:50pm PT
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I lead my first 5.4s, first 5.5s, first 5.6s, first 5.7s, first 5.8s, first 5.9s, first 5.10s, first multipitches and first alpine routes all on roadtrips to humble, sunny Leavenworth, starting 37 years ago. So I can dig it (and have been since you first posted a while back). Have fun!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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May 19, 2015 - 08:17pm PT
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Many fond memories of faux Bavaria. Lived there for a couple of years around 1980. As Tami said, Midnight Rock is worth the walk...not that anyone walks anymore.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 31, 2016 - 09:23am PT
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We have rain on the West Side
Humble little climbs for the early season. Even in Leavenworth, we did have to wait out the rain on this day.
(tilted frame alert!)
OK, so it's not a beautiful crack splitting the headwall of silver white granite. It is granite and I didn't tilt this frame, though.
(earlier sunny day)
You do have to take the time to put together your stylish climbing apparel
and always sit by the river at the end of the day.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 31, 2016 - 10:23am PT
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So, Darwin, should I not risk inflaming my revolutionary ardor by going
up the Icicle and looking at the mansions that have been built up there?
I hear there are quite a few and that they're not friendly to trespassers.
How far up do they go? I guess I could go onto Google Earth but I don't
want to risk throwing my monitor across the room.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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May 31, 2016 - 10:32am PT
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The Icicle was doomed from the moment they turned Leavenwrth into a faux Bavarion, faux art, tourist shopping mecca.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 31, 2016 - 10:45am PT
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Well, Jim, it was that for a long time while we were still able to camp anywhere along the
Icicle. Then they destroyed The Face-Climbing Boulder to widen the road. That was the
beginning of the end.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 31, 2016 - 02:09pm PT
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I should be more outraged by the building boom, but the climbers detract from my pleasure tons more than any buildings or property owners that I've run into. The whole part of the canyon below 8 Mile CG is a zoo with boulders and some climbers cars. I've run into one particularly dickheaded guide, too. Channelling my inner surfer, Mark and I have our secret spots, but then again we're happy to walk a bit and climb on stuff like:
You can't tell from the photo, but the tongue that he's climbing is actually clean.
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MisterE
Gym climber
Small Town with a Big Back Yard
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May 31, 2016 - 06:25pm PT
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Looking forward to climbing at 11worth this fall!
Little Bavaria is kind of cute, I have always thought - hard to get mad about.
Visiting family, and HAVE to take the wife up some classics at Castle Rock and, of course, Outer Space! Maybe hit Off Duty, as well...
Been 15 years - super excited!
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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May 31, 2016 - 09:38pm PT
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Nice to see this thread resurrected.
There is some fine climbing in the Leavenworth area, and, faux Bavaria aside, it's a fine setting.
But there's more than just climbing. More in fact than even extreme climbing. For those who are willing to push the boundaries of extreme zookeeping, Leavenworth is where it's all happening.
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MisterE
Gym climber
Small Town with a Big Back Yard
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May 31, 2016 - 10:32pm PT
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Nice, Ghost!
I have told the story before on a Washington Pass thread, but worth retelling via the goat pic.
My friend Mike and I were climbing the west face of NEWS fully hung over, and I was belaying Mike through the initial wake-you-up first pitch.
http://www.mountainproject.com/v/the-west-face/105847147
I look over and this puppy is hauling ass up the trail, no owner in sight and fixated on a point.
I follow the dog's line of sight and it is an OLD goat.
You know, the patchy, dreadlock ones - and he has the bead on the pup below.
"Watch me" drifts down from above...
Pfft. Mikey's got this, and check out the (good-sized) puppy finally getting to his objective!
Worst belay ever.
The old goat had moved out to a perch on a wedge of rock when the puppy came directly up the scree in full attack.
The dog reached the perch and lunged upward...
"This part is pretty hard, you got me good?"
"Fine, Man - you got this!"
The goat turned it's head quizzically towards the scrambling dog
coming towards his lone stance.
And as my friend climbed some pretty hard stuff (I would later find out),
I watched the goat pick the dog up perfectly between it's horns
and deftly flick it off
like some small annoyance
back down the slope it had charged so demonstrably up.
"OK, I think I am through the hard bit" from above.
The dog bellows off, the goat is unmoved. I am completely distracted.
And get my ass kicked following the pitch.
Later we could hear a lady following the yelping of the dog.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Eric, if you and Skip are coming to the PNW, I sense the potential for an 11worthfest. Keep us posted on your schedule.
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MisterE
Gym climber
Small Town with a Big Back Yard
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That would be so fun - thanks.
September 6-19th is the plan,
Be great to hook up with Wayno & co after a UW Wall sesh, as well? ;)
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BEA
climber
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Well, Jim, it was that for a long time while we were still able to camp anywhere along the
Icicle. Then they destroyed The Face-Climbing Boulder to widen the road. That was the
beginning of the end.
This:
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 1, 2017 - 02:20pm PT
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It' still possible to find completely empty crags up Icicle Canyon. Boy, Saturday was beautiful up there, with little bit of rain spitting, but not enough to keep us from climbing. The fall colors and sun glinting through the clouds had us musing about altered states of mind.
We returned through an extended effing torrential downpour in the westside foothills (e.g. Index).
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L
climber
Tiptoeing through the chilly waters of life
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This is such a wonderful thread that I somehow missed the first, second and third times it surfaced.
The photos are priceless, especially the end-of-day beer bottle one.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 13, 2018 - 10:52pm PT
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Another season.
First, he won't make the front page of ST, but I want to commorate the passing of Coach Chris. He graced the UW Rock, Index and Leavenworth campgrounds. I wasn't terribly close, but he was one of a kind.
I've not climbed so far this year. Still OMG it's beautiful and empty up at Leavenwoth now, at least mid-week. I didn't see a single snake, nor did a single tick suck my blood.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 13, 2018 - 11:19pm PT
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The revolution will not be televised, at least at 8 Mile Rock.
So, Darwin, even the snakes have given up on the Icicle? There was an 8 footer who
lived up by Givler’s Dome. Scared the loving bejeebus outta Weigelt. Dude ran all
the way down to the road screamin’ like like a school girl.
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Apr 14, 2018 - 07:59am PT
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Love me some Icicle Canyon! (My avatar pic is from up there, from X-C skiing last winter.)
Was thinking about Ghost's pic of Mari rapping down to the welcoming goat, and wondered what kinds of experiences y'all have had with them up there. The most number of "up close and personal" encounters I've had with them were up at the Pearly Gates routes. I find myself a little skiddish, after the full on agro-goats killed that poor hiker up at Hurricane Ridge. We had to suspend all our gear we weren't using at Pearly Gates so they wouldn't lick/eat our approach packs for the salt.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Apr 14, 2018 - 08:15am PT
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Nice morning experience. Sort of like a wake-me-up first pitch but without fear, until that last image brought some out of the past.
added:
Goats seem to like being around people.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Apr 14, 2018 - 07:26pm PT
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Was thinking about Ghost's pic of Mari rapping down to the welcoming goat, and wondered what kinds of experiences y'all have had with them up there. The most number of "up close and personal" encounters I've had with them were up at the Pearly Gates routes. I find myself a little skiddish, after the full on agro-goats killed that poor hiker up at Hurricane Ridge. We had to suspend all our gear we weren't using at Pearly Gates so they wouldn't lick/eat our approach packs for the salt.
That photo was from a day at the Pearly Gates. But, funny as it looks, it was the aftermath of a seriously frightening experience.
I think it was about fifteen years ago. Pearly Gates, a cliff band half-way up the trail from Leavenworth to Snow Creek Wall, had recently been developed, and we went up for a look at what was being trumpeted as a crack-climbing paradise.
The Snow Creek Wall goats are widely known for their human-tolerant behavior. Mostly it's nannies and kids looking for urine. Other than that, they don't interact with humans much -- or at least I haven't heard stories of anything other than them watching and waiting for the humans to pee. But at the Pearly Gates, we learned where the males hang out. I think we first met Lester in 2002. He was fully grown, but still young, and already pretty much the dominant goat dude at the Pearly Gates.
There were two other people there that day, a couple of young guys who had arrived before us. Lester checked us all out, at first from a reasonable distance. He'd come near for a look, but not closer than thirty or forty feet, then go back to browsing. After a while we assumed everything would be fine, but on his next check he became extremely aggressive. Mock charging the two young guys. Who promptly packed up and left. We stayed, but stopped doing much, and were prepared to leave. But Lester seemed to believe that he'd done his job, and lost interest. Wandered away, browsing as he went, but getting further and further from us.
So we started climbing again. It's mostly one-pitch routes, so one of us would be on the ground while the other climbed, then vice versa. Everything seemed fine, but a couple of hours later, with Mari half way up something, Lester came back. He didn't act aggressive, but he kept getting closer and closer, to the point where I could literally have reached out and touched his nose.
What you have to understand is that the creature whose nose I could have touched was twice my size, and had horns that... well, let's not go there. Suffice to say that I was thinking it might be time to become religious and hope that my death would not be too painful.
Of course as he got closer I had started yelling (_very_ quietly so as not to show any fear, or startle the goat) at Mari to plug something in and tie off, so that I could untie and move away if that's what Lester wanted. Or run away in blind panic. Or have Mari bring me up out of his reach.
But, before she could do anything, and as I was slowly turning to stone, he lay down at my feet, chewed his cud for a bit, then zoned out.
Yeah, went to sleep on the ground beside me.
What do you do? Since it seemed that we'd passed whatever test he felt determined who was welcome in his house, Mari continued climbing, and I continued praying. Eventually she reached the anchors, and set up a rap. Which was fine, until she was almost down and Lester woke up. More heart attacks for me, but it turned out we were still on his okay list, and all he wanted to do was say hi to Mari as she returned to the ground.
It was at that point that I finally unfroze enough to get out the camera. Photo repeated below:
But that was not the end of our friendship with Lester. We returned to the Pearly Gates six years later, and Lester was still running the place, but on that day he was well down the hill, hanging with a young buddy, and paying no attention to the humans fooling about on the rocks above.
So we did some climbing, and then, needing to pee, I dropped down into the boulders below the cliff. At which point I heard Mari calling "He's coming toward you!" I looked up just in time to see him falling out of the sky right on top of me. Except of course that he was aiming for the lip of the boulder above me so that he could get a better look. But from my perspective, it was more like he was going to land right on top of me.
This is not something I recommend for the faint of heart. Ten years later, I can classify it as Type II Fun, but at the time it was terrifying. Somehow I managed to get my camera out as I backed away...
And, just so you know that this isn't overhyped silliness, here's Lester at touching distance. This is the biggest goat I've ever seen. He was the size of a small horse, and those horns are...
You tell me how you would have felt about meeting him this close:
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 14, 2018 - 08:04pm PT
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In the Olympics (not those Olympics) I used to let them lick my sweaty legs. They knew
who the boss was so it was mainly a male bonding thang. Sometimes ya gotta be magnanimous.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Apr 14, 2018 - 08:46pm PT
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What do you do?
One idea which I have seen used effectively: pick up a big rock and throw it at the goat.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Apr 14, 2018 - 08:52pm PT
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One idea which I have seen used effectively: pick up a big rock and throw it at the goat.
There are few climbers I respect more than you Andy, but your suggestion about throwing rocks at a monster just a meter away from you is making me reconsider that.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 14, 2018 - 11:56pm PT
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WRT: "what can you do about the goats?"
Use them as an excuse to back-off. Anon-ST-studd and I were going up to do the more difficult start to Outer Space the first time he or I tried it. But there was mother goat and kid on the rock between us and the route. We figured if we started up, they would just outflank us back down and head off to the woods. The little "dears" kept climbing higher and and higher and we envisioned plummeting mammals. About the time rain drops started falling and thunder pealed, I said said "No T-man we can't drive them to their deaths!". We climbed it the next day.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Apr 15, 2018 - 07:56am PT
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Leavenworth- Love it. Probably the ONLY thing that would entice me to step foot back in Washington before the(eventual) Mother-in-law's funeral.
Goats- Yeah- YOu don't want to encourage them to hang out. Isn't there some park that is now stringently enforcing a "No-Selfie-With-The-Goats" and "NO-let-them-lick-you" rules after the goat attacks were getting out of hand?
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Apr 15, 2018 - 08:06am PT
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Those little suckers are pretty much a mass of solid muscle (much like myself) with sharp, pointy horns. Won't be throwing rocks at them any time soon...
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Apr 15, 2018 - 08:27am PT
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your suggestion about throwing rocks at a monster
Wasn't my idea.
I'm the one trying to keep the belay device between me and the goat.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 15, 2018 - 08:33am PT
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And you wonder why world peace is so elusive? Haven’t you knuckleheads tried talking to
those guys?
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Apr 16, 2018 - 06:45pm PT
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And you wonder why world peace is so elusive? Haven’t you knuckleheads tried talking to those guys?
Well, there are probably situations where talking to one of them could be the right thing to do. But then, in other situations, talking to one of them could get you killed.
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Apr 17, 2018 - 07:44am PT
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Great stuff. Climbed there back in Olden Times when I lived in Bellingham and during my many trips up into O' Canada. That goat shot of Prusik is classic. Doing the Beckey 5.9 on that was one of my great ascents right out of high school. The approach up from the Icicle was brutal!
BAd
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 2, 2018 - 09:56pm PT
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And here I though this was my own private vanity thread!?
Moving introduced goats from Olympic Peninsula back to the Cascades.
From Seattle times:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
OK, but if I'm lucky, I climb there (last weekend. no, it's not me crawling on a sidewalk. And not unlimited pro for we timid types):
and an expanded one of Mark
and it's been a beautiful fall after a horrendously smokey late summer.
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