After buying up half of On Rope 1's store on Saturday, today Bill Hay, WildBill, and I headed off for a climb in the Mark Trail Wilderness for a climb in the "Two Mile" pine, a big white pine in which we climbed to over a hundred feet.



This was Bill Hay's first time for trying out an SRT entry pitch. I think he has been "sold". Now he needs to go back to On Rope 1 to get the rest of his own SRT gear!

The weather was awesomely beautiful, the tree was great, and the climb went off with no issues of any sort. Great day of climbing!

Looks a fine tree. Do you find that wild white pines in reasonably good shape don't have much pitch to bother you? That's been the case for woods pines I climb. Except for late summer when the new cones look like banana bunches and drip sap like a bad faucet, but that only gums up throwline, not so much the climbing rope.
-AJ