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| Dean | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | I think this peak was actually named for this Garfield  | |
| Posted Aug 22, 2005 11:13 pm | ||
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| Klenke | Untitled Comment | |
Hasn't voted | One would think, but the peak is too lean 'n chiseled to be named after that fat cat. So it was named after this fat cat instead:  | |
| Posted Aug 22, 2005 11:27 pm | ||
| Nelson | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | Fascinating mountain. Great page, photos, and anatomical route description. Most likely the only summitpost page that includes the word syzygy. | |
| Posted Aug 22, 2005 11:38 pm | ||
| Derek Franzen | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | Nice job; I didn't find any reference to the "Hazardous Enigma" in my early Climber's Guides, 1949 (revised) and 1961 editions. Don’t all climbs start from the Middle Fork Cascade River? | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2005 12:02 am | ||
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| Klenke | Untitled Comment | |
Hasn't voted | What a dummy you are. Of course the peak is in the Middle Fork Cascade River drainage. It's right there next to Clever Peak.... ...thanks for the correction. I thought I had fixed that...but I must have typed it in incorrectly the SECOND time too. In my 1973 edition of brown Beckey he says in first sentence for peak: "Garfield is a hazardous enigma." | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2005 12:05 am | ||
| Brian Jenkins | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | I was gonna say how do you know this peak wasn't named for the cartoon cat but looks like Dean beat me to it. Thanks for adding it. Looking forward to the route page for Infinite Bliss.................... Not too many mountain pages reference Judd Nelson and Steve Martin. But if you really want to be impressive, I dare you to work Moe Howard into your next page. | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2005 12:34 am | ||
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| Klenke | Untitled Comment | |
Hasn't voted | Someone who has done or even seen Infinite Bliss will have to put that route page up. Maybe Mr. Cash can and will. Or is that "will and can"? | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2005 12:42 am | ||
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| Brian Jenkins | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | I'm there if he needs a second......................... of course he'll be hauling me up the last few pitches. Maybe this is something Los Chalupas could pull me up?? | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2005 12:55 am | ||
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| Klenke | Untitled Comment | |
Hasn't voted | I think the upper pitches of Infinite Blister is 5.11 or harder. Some photos here. I agree it's territory for the Super-Duper Chalupa Troupe. | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2005 1:01 am | ||
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| Martin Cash | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | Infinite Bliss is IV+ 5.10B 23 pitches, but mostly low to mid fifth I've been told. There are only 3 5.10B pitches and only one of them is sustained at that grade, according to a friend of mine. | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2005 10:58 am | ||
| hkutuk | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | Nice page and addition! gotta love that lichen climbing :) | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2005 3:16 am | ||
| Martin Cash | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | Great page and photos Paul! | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2005 11:00 am | ||
| Gangolf Haub | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | syzygy? Don't even know how one would pronounce it. Paul, that's a great page. I was wondering where all the pics had gone - before I saw the route. Hard to believe you could tell even more. | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2005 3:42 pm | ||
| wildstar | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | Well done. | |
| Posted Aug 24, 2005 12:48 am | ||
| Johan Heersink | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | Nice page! | |
| Posted Aug 24, 2005 5:19 am | ||
| rpc | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | Usual high quality stuff (you know Paul, you could submit a shi**y page once in a while to spice things up and give people like me something to bit*h about ;) Sorry I did not catch this earlier! | |
| Posted Aug 24, 2005 8:18 pm | ||
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| Klenke | Untitled Comment | |
Hasn't voted | You want a s**ty page from me? Maybe next time. Now you can go climb Infinite Bliss and have a place to put the route description. | |
| Posted Aug 24, 2005 10:39 pm | ||
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| rpc | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | Paul, Is it that long sport route (20+pitches)? If so, it's not been chopped yet? ...maybe I'm totally off base here. | |
| Posted Aug 25, 2005 12:19 pm | ||
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| Klenke | Untitled Comment | |
Hasn't voted | Not chopped. Such acceptability of a BOLTED route in a designated Wilderness is up for debate. I'm opposed to such things, but others or not. Maybe in this regard I would not want to have an Infinite Bliss route page up on this mountain page. Question about Mt. Stone: Is any part of the initial approach trail/road bikable? If so, about how far could I bike it do you think? It gets steep after a while but the first mile or more seems pretty flat. | |
| Posted Aug 25, 2005 3:47 pm | ||
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| rpc | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | Yeah - not sure how I feel about a sport route in the wilderness either. No plans to check it out (for all I know it's over my head anyway) now. About Stone.....man, it's been a while! From what I recall, you start up this Putvin (????) trail and then cross an old logging road 15-30 minutes into the hike. This part might not have been too steep/rough but I can't be sure? After you cross the logging road, the trail takes off uphill more steeply I think. Eventually, there's some class 2+ sections on the trail. If I were to guess, I think a bike would not be that beneficial here - but I could be wrong (though even if you don't get to use it THAT much on the way up, it might be a fun downhill part of the way below the "class 2+" stuff?). Also, stash it carefully if you do take it as we saw a guy harvesting something off of that logging road (he was surprised, we were surprised...) - might be a popular area with - you know - stoners man! | |
| Posted Aug 25, 2005 4:39 pm | ||
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