Archive:Smith Rock Remembrance weekend 2011

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Introduction

Smith Rock State Park is the premier rockclimbing destination in Central Oregon and is famous worldwide as an early birth place of bolted sport climbing in North America. Climbing is on two primary volcanic rock types. The welded tuff of the main formations provides knobby and pocketed face and irregular crack climbs at all angles and all difficulties. The basalt columns of the upper and lower gorges provide steep splitter cracks and delicate bolted face climbs.

Fall and Spring are prime seasons, winter can be cold and snowy but manageable, summer is formidably hot.

Top-ropeable climbs are limited in number as most formations are more than 1/2 rope length high. However there are numerous quality bolted and traditionally protected climbs at easy grades for the beginner lead climber.

Date

November 10^th - 13^th, 2011 (Evening of the 10th until Sunday night or maybe even Monday night)

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Pre-Trip Meeting

Time and Location to be determined

Note: Come if

• You are carless
• You are a driver with space in your car
• You need directions on how to get there
• You have questions/need to find a partner.

Sign Up

1. Andrew Silversides (lead in the 10s, full rack, climbing for several years now)
2. Tobias Schuster (trad 9, sport 10, follow/toprope on easy 11, full rack)
3. Dominik Hofer (trad 10, sport higher, full gear rack, no rope)
4. Noriko Okamoto (no leading yet but willing to learn - seconding 5.9s, face10s, no rack, one anchor, top rope only rope)
5. Moos van Caspel (trad 11s, sport 12s, rope + full rack)
6. Greg Dennis (Used to lead 10s, but now I'm old and weak; have sport gear + rope; don't have rack or car)
7. Todd Mackenzie (Trad up to mid 5.10, sport up to 5.11-, have full rack and many ropes, have a grand cherokee)
8. Nick Matwyuk (Trad 8, second 9's, will have rack, no rope, not so grand cherkoee)

Cars

If you have space in your car, please post the spots. Passengers pay for gas. If you have a rope and/or rack, please indicate so that we can try and even out people with gear into cars with less gear (see below).

• Joe Schmo (3 spots) [NOT A REAL PERSON sport, snow tires, need one more standard driver, pack lightly it is just a compact hatch back] {9 am Thursday Morning New Westminster Sky Train Station - 8 am Sunday Morning Departure from Smith Rock}

• Todd Mackenzie (4 spots) [trad and any multipitches, all season tires, need one more standard driver] {4pm Thursday from 28th and Carnarvon - 12 am Sunday Morning Departure from Smith Rock}

Do not sign up in this vehicle without asking permission first. I also won't accept passengers until at least the beginning of November.

• Nick Matwyuk (5 spots) [trad and any multipitches, all season tires] {~4pm Thursday from Richmond - 12:00 Sunday Morning Departure from Smith Rock}

Do not sign up in this vehicle without asking permission first. I also won't accept passengers until at least the beginning of November.

1. Nick Matwyuk

Carless People

• Moos van Caspel
• Dominik Hofer
• Greg Dennis