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8th pitch was good. Takes good nuts at the end if you dig some of the pine needles out of the crack! http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6071/6044509087_09b5c1dbf4_z.jpg UpperEchelonP8 by bigmike1974 , on Flickr Overall, fun climb. A little more on the adventure side then some of the more popular routes,...

7th pitch was pretty mellow. Fun but easy..

UpperEchelonP7 by bigmike1974, on Flickr

We skipped pitch five and six because it was my partners first time up the chief and the 10d pitch killed him, but i got a photo of the start of 5. http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6187/6044508793_a5e3c8ebd3_z.jpg UpperEchelonP5 by bigmike1974 , on Flickr We were planning to check out the last two pit...

Pitch 4 seemed more like 5.9 especially with a little wetness. Seems this summer has been too wet and cold for the seepage to dry yet. It was a little runout between the piton and the bolt, a couple small tcu's will help. http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6188/6045057576_6e2133e150_z.jpg UpperEchelonP4...

Pitch 3 10d for me for sure and i'm 6'7! Managed to clip the bolt but had to aid the moves after that. Going back for this one! Awesome pitch!
Photo credit: PY Boivin

UpperEchelonP3Mike by bigmike1974, on Flickr

I finally took a crack at this one Saturday. I've done Ultimate countless times and wanted to try something new in that area. Pitch 1 5.8 seemed appropriate. Fun moves to get to the bolt. Pitch 2 10b seems more like it.. only a couple moves after the bolt though and then it eases http://farm7.static...

Hey Q7.

I talked to my buddy kyle about this post and he said "good karma comes to those who let faster parties pass them!"

Mike

Hey Eric, as long as you can get to the belay it's good enough for me. I'm just scrapping my way up most harder 10c/d's but the fact that I can do that, I find impressive since when I started I never imagined being able to accomplish that. I had to aid the crux on the 10d on Upper Echelon but I got ...

I finally got a chance to get on this today. Wow. Nice work Jeremy! The last time i was at Shannon there wasn't a soul in sight and the trail was all grown over. I climbed klahanie and cardhu crack and top roped dirty dicky and they were dirty! Well kalhanie was realitively clean but not squeaky cle...

Nick Ya apparently twins you clip as one rope together and halfs you don't want to do that cause it creates more forces. The other nice thing about halfs is less forces so sketchy pro is better too. Send me a pm maybe I can get out with you after work sometime next week. Mike ps +1 Bearbreeder that'...

How about it boys? Where is bruce's reply? Why no discussion? Certainly sounds like the pitch has changed for the worse since it's fa? How is this fair? I'm all for keeping the history and character if the fa intact, I consider routes like snake and merci me spicy, and fun. In this case though it so...

Hey Nick,

do you like twins or halfs and why?

Mike

My buddy and I got on this route last weekend. We decided on it last minute so I didn't have the topo handy but I thought I remembered it, and we were looking at the vague description in the mclane guide. We thought it started at bullethead ledge so we climbed Feeling Groovy 5.9 to get there. My par...

Oh yeah. I forgot to address the length question. 60m is definetly the norm around here and most pitches are setup for it. I only buy 70m ropes though, and the reason is more 35m pitches are starting to go up these days, and when you start stringing together pitches on multi's that extra 10m comes i...

Don't let the mec guy dissuade you fishy, doubles work great around here, there are lots of wandering pitches but everyone just slings everything and deals with the rope drag cause no one really knows how to use doubles, so they don't buy them. They are expensive too! You pay the same price for one ...