|
rockforlife
Apr 18, 2007, 2:39 PM
Post #26 of 43
(3340 views)
Shortcut
Registered: May 14, 2002
Posts: 563
|
alpinismo_flujo wrote: Why does a place "suck" if your skills are not up to par with it?
|
|
|
|
|
scrapedape
Apr 18, 2007, 2:48 PM
Post #27 of 43
(3336 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Jun 24, 2004
Posts: 2392
|
alexmac wrote: scrapedape wrote: Yeah, yeah, I know the locals are going to get their panties in a bunch about this, but here's the truth: there are just no routes there in the easy to moderate range that offer the kind of wild exposure that I crave. And that is sad indeed! Wow, why not ask for limestone at a granite site, easy and wild exposure, try a bar .
Your posts have lately deteriorated from ignorant to incoherent. Did you end up on the wrong end of some rockfall or something?
|
|
|
|
|
alexmac
Apr 18, 2007, 2:53 PM
Post #28 of 43
(3329 views)
Shortcut
Registered: May 23, 2005
Posts: 550
|
scrapedape wrote: alexmac wrote: scrapedape wrote: Yeah, yeah, I know the locals are going to get their panties in a bunch about this, but here's the truth: there are just no routes there in the easy to moderate range that offer the kind of wild exposure that I crave. And that is sad indeed! Wow, why not ask for limestone at a granite site, easy and wild exposure, try a bar . Your posts have lately deteriorated from ignorant to incoherent. Did you end up on the wrong end of some rockfall or something?
Dude, not my problem, yours. I am not looking for a 5.1 with "wild explosure" to go climb. What your asking for is similar to expecting George Bush to have a brain.
|
|
|
|
|
scrapedape
Apr 18, 2007, 3:01 PM
Post #29 of 43
(3322 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Jun 24, 2004
Posts: 2392
|
Read what you wrote again. Tell me WTF it means. Try using standard English this time.
Are you trying to rile me up by insulting Bush? That would be funny!
|
|
|
|
|
alexmac
Apr 18, 2007, 3:04 PM
Post #30 of 43
(3318 views)
Shortcut
Registered: May 23, 2005
Posts: 550
|
scrapedape wrote: Read what you wrote again. Tell me WTF it means. Try using standard English this time. Are you trying to rile me up by insulting Bush? That would be funny!
Gezz, its pretty, simple your a ASS asking for thrills and excitement for no cost in work, so I was making a reference to something equally impossible. Being at a climb where its one time of stone and wanting that stone to transform to some other type of stone.
Do you want me to draw it in crayon for you ?
Saying Squamish sucks for the reasons you have given, is like saying Squamish sucks cause its not top roped.
Alex
(This post was edited by alexmac on Apr 18, 2007, 3:05 PM)
|
|
|
|
|
scrapedape
Apr 18, 2007, 4:52 PM
Post #31 of 43
(3296 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Jun 24, 2004
Posts: 2392
|
alexmac wrote: scrapedape wrote: Read what you wrote again. Tell me WTF it means. Try using standard English this time. Are you trying to rile me up by insulting Bush? That would be funny! Gezz, its pretty, simple your a ASS asking for thrills and excitement for no cost in work, so I was making a reference to something equally impossible. Being at a climb where its one time of stone and wanting that stone to transform to some other type of stone. Do you want me to draw it in crayon for you ? Saying Squamish sucks for the reasons you have given, is like saying Squamish sucks cause its not top roped. Alex
I love that I can make a post saying in effect, "Sorry I had to make an inflammatory post, but it's the only way I could get people to reply. I don't really mean what I wrote." Yet people still get worked up to the point of being unable to write a coherent sentence.
So, did you not bother reading through the thread before you replied, or is your reading comprehension just so bad that you completely missed my point?
(This post was edited by scrapedape on Apr 18, 2007, 4:53 PM)
|
|
|
|
|
scrapedape
Apr 30, 2007, 4:43 PM
Post #32 of 43
(3253 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Jun 24, 2004
Posts: 2392
|
Just got back from my trip to Vancouver and Squamish.
Wednesday - showers turned to rain. Hiked up to the base of Deidre in the wet. Got lunch and the rain stopped. Headed to Burgers & Fries, arrving just as the rain resumed. Climbed a couple of routes inthe rain. Slipped off a finger crack in the wet and sliced my fingers up.
Thursday - Rain. Drove up to Pemberton and down the Lillooet River.
Friday - Rain. Hiked up the Chief. Went to Vancouver and watched the Canucks game.
Saturday - Sunday - Gorgeous weather. Sunny and warm. Previously planned fishing trip, pissup, and general stag party debauchery. No climbing.
So all in all, not a lot of climbing, but lots of scoping of lines for future trips. I still can't say whether the climbing in Squamish is any good though.
|
|
|
|
|
alpie
Apr 30, 2007, 5:01 PM
Post #33 of 43
(3243 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Feb 22, 2006
Posts: 38
|
I'm a moderate trad climber - and instead of saying such places suck - I admire top end routes - and top end climbers - props to those the send em....
Quit Bitchin'
|
|
|
|
|
srwings
Apr 30, 2007, 5:25 PM
Post #34 of 43
(3227 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Jun 27, 2004
Posts: 247
|
scrapedape wrote: All right, thanks for the responses! I'll level with you all. I originally started this thread with the title "Squamish - Easy climbs with good exposure" and basically asked a straightforward question. No one batted an eye. It got a couple of replies, but then nothing. So after a day I figured maybe I had to spice things up to elicit some more responses... seems it worked. Though I now see that maybe there really aren't too many easy, exposed routes. Thanks for the suggestions that were offered though, and we'll try to hit them up when we're out there next week. And I'll reserve judgement on whether Squamish really sucks until after I get back.
Well done. I wish I had thought of this for some of my info posts. Maybe I'll just include 'sucks' in all future subject lines. 
Now might be a good time to add a caveat to your original post unless you are still trying to provoke reactions. Just a thought.
|
|
|
|
|
lovesclimbing
May 4, 2007, 12:23 AM
Post #35 of 43
(3189 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Jun 29, 2003
Posts: 551
|
I just prefer Limestone to granit, I still do the odd trip to squamish but its not my frist choice.
|
|
|
|
|
pasekmi
Jul 17, 2007, 7:40 PM
Post #36 of 43
(2980 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Jul 17, 2007
Posts: 1
|
Hey rockhead - your spelling is horrible.
pussy's should be spelled pussys
Your should be spelled You're
a few more.
|
|
|
|
|
gramps
Jul 17, 2007, 8:44 PM
Post #38 of 43
(2924 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Jun 22, 2004
Posts: 40
|
I just had my first trip out to Squamish, and it was climbing paradise for me. We had good weather, Fantastic rock and pro. There's plenty of vertical, exposed, moderate stuff of the single pitch variety. Granite doesn't normally lend itself to steep, moderate, multipitch though. Gotta climb harder for that.
There's plenty of exposure if you can bump up the difficulty a little, until then stick to Red Rocks or something similar if that's what you care about.
|
|
|
|
|
Climberguy88
Aug 7, 2007, 10:50 PM
Post #39 of 43
(2838 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Aug 5, 2007
Posts: 11
|
Learn how to climb, then try to tell me squamish sucks
|
|
|
|
|
glytch
Aug 7, 2007, 11:15 PM
Post #40 of 43
(2820 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Aug 29, 2006
Posts: 194
|
In reply to: Thanks for the suggestions that were offered though, and we'll try to hit them up when we're out there next week. And I'll reserve judgement on whether Squamish really sucks until after I get back.
Hilarious. Well played.
|
|
|
|
|
porkchop_express
May 8, 2008, 3:11 AM
Post #41 of 43
(2527 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Aug 18, 2006
Posts: 62
|
There's nothing inherently simplistic about the Gunks. Or bouldering for that matter. I wouldn't know if Squamish sucks or not because I've never been there, but I will be going in the summer because I'd like to find out. I don't expect it to suck or I wouldn't be driving thousands of miles to get there... Just wondering, how much time have you spent "hiking up" various climbs at the Gunks?
|
|
|
|
|
pentapitch
May 8, 2008, 3:35 AM
Post #42 of 43
(2515 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Mar 15, 2004
Posts: 36
|
1. until you lead EVERY pitch on the GRAND WALL cleanly, shut the F up
2. rain in squamish, gosh, how unsettling and surprising. every other 50 square acres in the Pacific Northwest is a garden of perfect climbing weather.
(This post was edited by pentapitch on May 8, 2008, 3:36 AM)
|
|
|
|
|
salamanizer
May 8, 2008, 5:40 AM
Post #43 of 43
(2458 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Jul 3, 2004
Posts: 879
|
pentapitch wrote: 1. until you lead EVERY pitch on the GRAND WALL cleanly, shut the F up 2. rain in squamish, gosh, how unsettling and surprising. every other 50 square acres in the Pacific Northwest is a garden of perfect climbing weather.
Pffft! Punter.
1) obviously you havn't bee following the year long conversation.
2) What???
No one's dissing Squamish here...
|
|
|
|
|
|
