Name that route by description PNW edition (#2)

Park Glacier on Baker?

Drederekwrote:

The bottom of the hogsback on mt hood is the only place I can recall seeing a forest of skis but we did hike up a ski run to get there. 

My 'quite warm' comment was in reference to the hogsback.

Looks like this might need a nudge.

There's a particular street in London which is synonymous with the provision of excellent but very expensive private healthcare - in much the same way that Wall Street is synonymous with .... er .... whatever it is they actually do in Wall Street; something to do with money, I think. One might assume it to be popular among London's Hells Angel community - although I've no idea whether it actually is.

Something to do with Harley? No idea what the route is though 

Anthony Hwrote:

Something to do with Harley? No idea what the route is though 

Harley .... Hells Angels .... HOGsback .... "the vehicles that one might expect to encounter at that location." ?

This is clearly a bit more difficult or obscure than I thought. Here's a cryptic clue to the location which uses a reference from outside the PNW, albeit in a well-known area:

"Wreckage infused with Tennessee hydrogen after retreating guy bails from Deuce's TNF 'line of '89' results in icy highway." A clue to this clue might be "look at the logo"!

Edit. Part of this supplementary clue refers to a wall route in Yosemite Valley which doesn't appear to be in any of the usual online databases, including MP. The 1993 Don Reid book includes the topo plus FA team and date. The 2005 SuperTopo only has the briefest mention on a topo at the point where it crosses another route. I've no idea whether it's in the Sloan book. It does appear though, both in a listing and as a slideshow, on the website of one of the FA team - who should be fairly easy to identify from the clue.

This one doesn't seem to be going anywhere; I'll try giving it a hefty push.

The part of the supplementary clue that gives the name of a Yosemite route is "Deuce's TNF 'line of '89' ". This breaks down thus:

Deuce = John Middendorf.

TNF = The North Face, which has a logo that depicts....Half Dome.

'line of '89' = a route put up in 1989.

Middendorf and Walt Shipley made the FA of Kali Yuga on Half Dome's NW Face in 1989; there's a slideshow of the ascent on his website. If we then edit the supplementary clue we get:

"Wreckage infused with Tennessee hydrogen after retreating guy bails from Kali Yuga results in icy highway."

Wreckage is an anagram clue. Tennessee and hydrogen have obvious abbreviations; use the shortest available. 'Retreating guy' is 'yug'. 'Bails from' should be obvious. If you solve the anagram you'll get the name of an 'icy highway' which should give you a clue to the location of the route you're looking for and the feature on it - cue 'Harley, Hells Angels, Hog' - where all the skis were stashed.

If anybody's really bored by now and would like to post up a new clue - be my guest and we can knock this one on the head!

Edit. Not Hairway to Stephen; wrong state, and the original clue isn't at all cryptic - just a bit lateral thinking. I'll leave it open; somebody might just do it.

I guess we need a knock in the head! I’ll guess Hairway to Stephen at Index and throw out a truly easy clue:

French guy nabs the tuffest prize 

Might as well lob in another prompt to mine. Has anybody solved the KALIAHTN anagram yet?

Blimey, Drederek; do you think there's been some sort of titanic event - which we were too engrossed in MP to notice - and we're the only ones left? I, too, thought your French guy clue was easy - and yet here we are, 24 hours later: crickets!

Hopefully most folks are enjoying the beautiful weather out there! I was too confuzzeled by Ignatius’ clues to even see Drederek’s.

To Bolt or Not To Be

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Do you know the meme of Logan’s shoe?

Hah! I wondered whether the weekend might have something to do with it; I wish I could join you. For the sake of my earlier suggestion - still 'hidden in plain sight' - I hope you need to add a couple of letter grades.

Logan's shoe? This sounds ominous - but no; never heard of it. Googling as we speak, but nothing yet that makes any sense.

Ignatius Piwrote:

Logan's shoe? This sounds ominous - but no; never heard of it. Googling as we speak, but nothing yet that makes any sense.

Hopefully it’s a valid attempt at flattery as it’s in your style. 

Garrett Genereuxwrote:

Hopefully it’s a valid attempt at flattery as it’s in your style. 

I'm indeed flattered - and also, of course, now under pressure; I need to work this out. I hope it's not rude - but if it is I probably deserve it!

Edit. Hah, yes! Does OG mean something? In which case the remainder is a bit rude. But well played!

Edit. No - I'm wrong; there's an 'n' in there. Back to the drawing board.

Just do it

MattBwrote:

Just do it

That’s it!

Meme - same in French 

Logan’s-> Slogan, shoe. Shoe slogan

JB Tribout with another FA at Smith 

Clue- if you're not good with scissors, you may need to break out the etriers for this route, on a big cliff that almost disappeared into the ocean

Garrett Genereuxwrote:

Meme - same in French 

Logan’s-> Slogan, shoe. Shoe slogan

JB Tribout with another FA at Smith 

Ah! Thanks; now I understand. Didn't realize you were offering another clue to the route; thought it was a deserved comment on my impatience! Had forgotten about the Nike connection - and as Tribout was with EB, although maybe no longer in 1992, that would probably have been as far as my narrow brain would have gone. [Did he get a Nike sponsorship?] But the combination of French guy and the 'toughest' pun were sufficient; I'd never even heard of tuff until Smith came onto the radar in the 1980s.

To Matt: just wondering about Sunshine Wall on Snowpatch - although that comes from a combination of vague clues that seem to point in that direction rather than from having spotted anything more precise!

Ignatius Piwrote:

Ah! Thanks; now I understand. Didn't realize you were offering another clue to the route; thought it was a deserved comment on my impatience! Had forgotten about the Nike connection - and as Tribout was with EB, although maybe no longer in 1992, that would probably have been as far as my narrow brain would have gone. [Did he get a Nike sponsorship?] But the combination of French guy and the 'toughest' pun were sufficient; I'd never even heard of tuff until Smith came onto the radar in the 1980s.

Oh no! Only as a reference to the route name-

Just Do It 

Garrett Genereuxwrote:

Oh no! Only as a reference to the route name-

Indeed. I nonetheless came up with the 'O G ***hole' anagram and thought it to be both rather clever and suitably rude! In my excitement it took a while to notice that it didn't actually work as I'd mislaid the 'n'. I suppose 'gaol shoes' would have been ok.